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Bravo Greenlights Reality Show With B Smith’s Husband & Mistress!!
Bravo has just greenlit a new reality show star legendary Black model B Smith, her husband Dan Gasby, and his mistress Alex Lerner.
According to an EXTREMELY RELIABLE insider, former Real Housewives Of Atlanta producer Carlos King has signed on to produce a reality show for Dan, B, and Alex – and Bravo has already GREENLIT THE PROJECT.
The show, the snitch tells MTO News, will follow the life of B Smith, Dan and Alex- and will focus on, “The fabulous life of Alex and Dan, and how they lovingly take care of B Smith.”
Dan and his new mistress Alex will reportedly live the high life – splitting their time between NYC and The Hamptons. And B Smith will be “lovingly cared for” by the couple.
Producer/creator Carlos King is known for bringing the BEST reality shows on television – all of his shows are FULL of drama and VERY messy.
B. Smith, 69, was a millionaire, a top model, a restauranteur, and a TV personality – many referred to her as the Black Martha Stewart. But her life took a turn for the worse 10 years ago, when she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Since then, her husband of 27 years, Dan Gasby, a former TV executive, has been caring for her. In 2016, the couple wrote a book about the early stages of Alzheimer’s titled “Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer’s.”
Last year Dan Gasby, 64, did something that many think is unthinkable. He started openly carrying on a relationship with a White woman, 53-year-old Alex Lerner .
All the while, his wife B Smith continues to deteriorate mentally.
Many fans of B. Smith are upset with what Dan and Alex are doing. The fans believe that it is disrespectful for Dan to openly date his girlfriend and constantly post to his social media images of the girlfriend and B. Smith as she battles her heartbreaking disease.
The show, we’re told, will explore those issues.
This is an MTO News EXCLUSIVE report.
Via: https://mtonews.com/bravo-greenlights-reality-show-with-b-smiths-husband-mistress
B. Smith’s husband speaks out about girlfriend controversy: ‘It spun out of control’
Article via TODAY
Dan Gasby opened up about the reason he thinks the backlash has been so intense after he revealed he has a girlfriend while his wife battles Alzheimer’s.
Dan Gasby says he believes race plays a role in the backlash he received after revealing that he is in a relationship with another woman while caring for his ailing wife, model and restaurateur B. Smith, who has Alzheimer’s disease.
Gasby, 64, who is African-American, revealed in December that he and Alex Lerner, 53, who is white, were in a romantic relationship, sparking an angry response from B. Smith fans. Gasby said he has even received death threats.
“The 800-pound gorilla in this situation is she’s white,” Gasby told Al Roker on TODAY Wednesday.
“In other words, if Alex were black, you don’t think that…” Al said.
“Nah,” Gasby said. “Not at all. I’m not supposed to be conscripted to somebody because of their race.”
Gasby also responded to criticism about why he made his relationship with Lerner public rather than just keeping it private as he cares for his 69-year-old wife, who was diagnosed in 2013 with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
“Because that’s what Barbara asked me to do, to talk about it,” he said. “It spun out of control to ‘I’m having an affair. This woman, because of who she is, is taking B’s money. We’re abusing B. B wouldn’t want this.’ These people have never even talked to B.”
Gasby and his wife – whose full name is Barbara Smith – spent the time after her diagnosis spreading awareness of the disease and speaking about the challenges of living with it. B. Smith is a former fashion model who had a nationally-syndicated television show, “B. Smith With Style,” owned multiple restaurants, and frequently appeared as a guest on TODAY.
Her initial diagnosis was a crushing blow for the couple, who are going on 27 years of marriage.
“It was like chewing glass,” Gasby said. “She said to me one day, ‘Dan, I feel broken, like there’s something not right.’ And then I started to notice things were becoming more repetitive. I had an inkling, but I wouldn’t believe that it could be something as devastating, as catastrophic, as Alzheimer’s.”
Gasby said he fought depression and loneliness in the years following his wife’s diagnosis until he met Lerner, who was caring for her dying father, who also had Alzheimer’s disease.
“Taking care of someone like B, even having someone who is taking care of her periodically…the weight of every minute of the day is a blanket on you,” he said. “And (Lerner) was funny. The most important thing, she was kind. And we became friends, and that friendship got closer and closer.”
Lerner admitted she was hesitant to enter in a relationship with Gasby given the circumstances.
“But after a while, I understood, or it seemed to me, as if I had met a man who has a child,” Lerner said on TODAY. “In a sense that B. is now very child-like. And his responsibilities are almost those of a single father. Like, really being there 24/7. Taking care of every and all of her needs.”