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- HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’
- HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
- ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ADMS IENDSHIP WH JEN SHAH CHANGED AFTER GUILTY PLEA
- A NVERSATN WH NYTIM BTSELLG AUTHOR HEATHER GAY
- HEATHER GAY DCRIB HERSELF AS “SMARTER” AND “WISER” SCE SAYG JEN SHAH IS THE “MVP” OF SALT LAKE CY
- HEATHER GAY ADMS 'HUIATG' TTH ABOUT 'RHOSLC ' BLACK EYE AS BRAVO CONFIRMS INVTIGATN
- JANA RIS: ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
- HEATHER GAY
- SHE’S KNOWN FOR ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SLC,’ BUT HEATHER GAY HAS BUILT A BOOMG BS
- ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY SAYS JEN SHAH’S LIFTYLE ‘WAS ALL A LIE’ BEFORE FRD SNDAL
- RHOSLC 'S HEATHER GAY SHAR NEW INSIGHT INTO WHAT CSED HER MYSTER BLACK EYE
- WHAT HAPPENED TO HEATHER GAY ON RHOSLC?
- HEATHER GAY’S CONFSN IS SURE TO SURPRISE YOU
- HEATHER GAY
HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA star of the Salt Lake Cy anchise tails her separatn om the church a new Raff for The New York TimSALT LAKE CITY — For Heather Gay, beg a st member on “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” was like “drawg a le the sand” wh her inty as a member of the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats.
Gay, who was divorced when she joed the show, flirt wh men, party and cricize her former relign — breakg the l of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” is rponsible for some of the most dramatic story l the anchise — one st member plead guilty to wispread d feral urt and another is married to her step-grandfather — and Ms. 7, is her opportuny to explore her own feelgs at Gay, 48, tails the pa, nfn, shame and prsn she experienced durg four-and-a-half s of loyal membership the church, and her eventual cisn to leave. Gay filed a tramark applitn on the words “Bad Mormon” for e on merchandise like beer mugs, shirts and socks.
Gay’s tramark tends “to e nfn, tarnishment and dilutn, ” and that her e of the word “bad” is “ceptive that falsely reprents that Opposer, the Church or s members are bad or otherwise behavg immorally or ntrary to the teachgs of the Church.
HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
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Gay 2008 when their dghters were krgarten together, addg that she always lled her “the queen of the moms. Gay, the third of six siblgs, was born Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., and moved to Denver wh her fay when she was 5.
Gay and her siblgs were raised the church, and most of her fay are still fully volved .
Gay walked the le, participatg church activi and takg s teachgs to heart while surreptly tryg alhol, kissg boys and watchg forbidn TV shows and films like “Big Bad Mama” when her parents were out, she wr the 21, she graduated om Brigham Young Universy wh a gree Humani but saw herself as a failure bee she hadn’t found a hband. Gay began to distance herself om the church, driven, she said, by the divorce, by the church’s treatment of L. People and women, and by her sire for her dghters to live and love eely, to not fe themselv by their pury and abily to stay married and have Gay said that wrg her memoir was the first time she really gave herself space to unrstand her story and her Raff for The New York TimRight now, she is sgle, and she isn’t serly lookg for a partner.
‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ADMS IENDSHIP WH JEN SHAH CHANGED AFTER GUILTY PLEA
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Gay is nsired a fan favore, viewers have taken issue wh her support of Jen Shah, another st member, who plead guilty to nspiracy to m wire d feral urt July, and was sentenced to six and a half years prison last month.
A NVERSATN WH NYTIM BTSELLG AUTHOR HEATHER GAY
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Gay first joed the st, she reveled the opportuny to she a light on herself and on her now-former relign, to stop performg goodns and to fally let herself be a ltle b bad.
HEATHER GAY DCRIB HERSELF AS “SMARTER” AND “WISER” SCE SAYG JEN SHAH IS THE “MVP” OF SALT LAKE CY
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named one of Entertament Tonight’s Bt Celebry Memoirs of 2023 As seen The New York Tim, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Btle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interview “No stone go unturned” (People) this memoir about The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy star Heather Gay’s parture om the Mormon Church, and her unforeen succs bs, televisn, and sgle motherhood. Straight off the slop and to the spotlight, Heather Gay is famo for speakg the gospel tth. Heather Gay, a star on Bravo’s “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” has cemented herself as a fan favore one of the most buzzy hoewiv anchis.
Throughout her three seasons on the show, which premiered 2020, Gay has spoken about her evolutn om vout Mormon to divorced mother of three and succsful bs owner, now openly distanced om the Mormon Church. Speakg to, Gay says she's ntually breakg the iologil shackl that once nfed her thkg. We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu.
The book offers a drastic juxtaposn between the Heather Gay that once was and the Heather Gay of today. Ahead of s publitn, ught up wh Gay to hear about puttg the memoir together and what says she's 'loved' sharg the book wh her 3 dghters"Wrg a memoir nsumed my life, " Heather Gay tells was no distance, she says, between her life and the memoir, pecially as she was wrg events real time as they unfold.
HEATHER GAY ADMS 'HUIATG' TTH ABOUT 'RHOSLC ' BLACK EYE AS BRAVO CONFIRMS INVTIGATN
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”‘No one talks about ’: How Gay’s fay is alg wh the bookA large portn of the memoir is voted to Gay's marriage to ex-hband Frank William Gay.
Speakg to the Salt Lake Cy Tribune 2015, Gay said she knew om "day three" of her marriage that she "didn't want to grow old" wh her ex-hband, and that she "supprsed every personal stct orr to be a good wife and a good mother, but didn’t work out. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book her fay. It’s really the last few weeks of the book g out, readg the dbook and lookg at my story om tip to tail that I n see how much I’ve been strivg for someone to not discred my story and my experience, ” she ‘never imaged’ her book would land on the radar of the Mormon ChurchGay felt the stak were high when wrg her memoir.
Now, I want to fend my own story, my own experience wh the same vulnerabily and rawns, bee I don’t want anythg to be left to chance, ” she is already fendg her words, as she’s active ligatn wh The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, monly known as the Mormon Church, over her tramark of the book Augt 2021, Gay’s pany, Heathertament, Inc., filed a tramark applitn for the term “Bad Mormon, ” ially for e of “bottle openers; beer mugs; ffee mugs; drkg bottl for sports; plastic water bottl sold empty; sports bottl sold empty; squeeze bottl sold empty; travel mugs.
JANA RIS: ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
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"“I never imaged a ln years that my ltle book would be even on the radar of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, " Gay fed the book wh pop culture for a reasonGay took a unique approach to wrg the memoir. Gay creds her edorial assistant, John Jard, for helpg her fd her voice the wrg procs. "Why she voted a sectn to each of the origal ‘RHOSLC’ hoewivIn “Bad Mormon, ” Gay vot a portn to each of her fellow Season One "RHOSLC, " hoewiv — Meredh Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary M.
Cosby, Whney Rose and Jen Shah — offerg an unvarnished and often posive mentary on what each brought to the many realy televisn stars e their memoirs to throw sha at their on-screen fo, Gay took a different approach. ”Out of the OG "RHOSLC" hoewiv, Gay shar that she’d be most exced to read a memoir om Cosby, sayg would be “beyond wild. “(If Cosby wrote a memoir), I would vour , ” Gay memoir she’d be least exced to read?
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It would probably not be raw and vulnerable, which are two of my thgs that I like to read a book, ” Gay addrs other ‘Hoewiv’ hot topics and her tentn for the futureLike any good Real Hoewife, Gay knows how to keep her name the prs … and on the lips of other recently told TV Deets that she would love to see Season Three stmate Angie Harrgton holdg a snowflake for Season Four of "RHOSLC. " Harrgton has been around sce Season One of the show’ but never has snagged an official "hoewife" signatn, which Gay tells is bee “she’s very nice, and she’s very acmodatg. Gay ed a stir after she unfollowed Teddi Mellenmp (formerly of “The Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills”) and Tamra Judge (“The Real Hoewiv of Orange County”), who host the podst “Two T’s a Pod wh Teddi Mellenmp and Tamra Judge.
” Durg a December 2022 episo, the pair noted that Gay “officially unfollowed” them, which Mellenmp emed “a shame.
SHE’S KNOWN FOR ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SLC,’ BUT HEATHER GAY HAS BUILT A BOOMG BS
Lookg back. Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy star Heather Gay reflects on her iendship wh Jen Shah durg an exclive terview wh Life & Style. Heather, 40, shar the story of her first trip New York Cy wh Jen at one pot her forthg book Bad Mormon — set to be released on Tuday, Febary 7. The Bety Lab founr tells Life & Style that she learned to be "more skeptil" while reflectg about their past memori together. "I was pulled to this world and fell unr her spell jt like I thk a lot of Ameri did. Those were kd of the glory days of Salt Lake Cy Hoewiv," the Bravo star shar. "She and I went to New York, you're gonna get to see her host parti for her bs and do all of the thgs that we eventually learned was all a lie and me at the st of victims that will need to have rtutn and that there was llateral damage." Jen was sentenced to 78 months (6.5 years) prison January after pleadg guilty to beg volved a natnwi d sndal. Jen was ially arrted March 2021. At first, she clared her nocence, however, changed her plea to guilty July 2022. Heather, for her part, tells Life & Style that she learned an important lson om the entire experience. "When somethg is too good to be te, I've learned that most likely is," she shar. In Bad Mormon, the realy star shar her upbrgg and reunts her days leadg up to the RHOSLC. Overall, Heather says that beg one of the Hoewiv has "granted" her so many profsnal opportuni and "changed" her life for the better. "I mean, has given me the opportuny to put my story a book. It has given me the chance to meet famo people that I would never have even like teracted wh at all," she gh. "I have Rihanna, DMg me. I met Chrissy Teigen at BravoCon. I have all the chanc to jt really meet women that I've admired that have stggled and built their own liv too. That accs alone is amazg. The social media muny of people that say 'I feel seen, I feel heard, I relate to you,' that fills my cup every day." As for the possibily of wrg as send book followg the succs of Bad Mormon, Heather jok that there might jt be "more Hoewiv fodr" on the way. "After everythg that's happened season 3, I uld probably have a book me jt to wre about that," she quips. "A season 3 tell-all is on the horizon for sure." * heather gay nytimes *
” Judge said that they had a good time wh Gay when they met at says there's no story here. I have no beef, ” she that squashed and three seasons of ”‘RHOSLC” unr her belt, the qutn aris: What’s to e Gay’s next chapter?
Gay says, “I would love to be a torrid sex romp lled ‘Bad Missnary Posn, ’ but I know I have more books me and more thgs I want to wre. Heather Gay is no longer Jen Shah’s “ri-or-die” bt iend followg the former realy star’s nvictn for wire d.
Although Gay, 48, stood by Shah’s si durg Season 3 of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” she said that “everythg changed for me when she pled guilty. “I was labeled ri-or-die bee I had a iend that was lookg at me and tellg me she was nocent, ” Gay explaed to Us Weekly on Monday.
‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY SAYS JEN SHAH’S LIFTYLE ‘WAS ALL A LIE’ BEFORE FRD SNDAL
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“I did not give them money, but I know people on this uch did, ” Gay said, claimg “iend of” the st Angie Harrgton “gave [the Shahs] money. Dpe beg “overwhelmed wh grief” about the suatn, Gay isn’t ready to let go of the iendship entirely. BRAVOCON -- Boss Ladi Panel om the Javs Center New York Cy on Sunday, October 16, 2022 -- Pictured: Heather Gay -- (Photo by: Greg Endri/Bravo via Getty Imag)Now that the Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy star Jen Shah has been sentenced to 6.
RHOSLC 'S HEATHER GAY SHAR NEW INSIGHT INTO WHAT CSED HER MYSTER BLACK EYE
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5 years feral prison for her role dg the elrly, her former -star, Heather Gay, reveals she’s learned a lot sce their first meetg. ”RELATED: Heather Gay Says She Is No Longer Jen Shah’s Ri-Or-Die; Says “Now My Foc Is On The Victims”Throughout the third season of RHOSLC, Heather beme one of Jen’s only alli.
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(Kim Raff | The New York Tim) Heather Gay, a realy televisn star, at her home Murray, Utah, Jan. Gay, a member of the st of "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, " tails her separatn om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats her new memoir, "Bad Mormon. None of the characters is a hoewife and most don’t feel particularly real, but all of them do ed live and around Salt Lake Cy — at least when they’re not jettg off to New York or other exotic the, one of the least tra-wrecky is Heather Gay, who’s generally a clear-eyed mediator of the juvenile tfights which the other characters routely engage.
She’s sarstic and fierce, but also vulnerable; the show’s first season picks up as Gay is reelg om a divorce om a proment man she scrib as “Mormon royalty” and h om her very recent spl om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day of those trmatic breakups are chronicled Gay’s tell-all memoir “Bad Mormon, ” out this week. Gay hs upon some gent observatns about how tough Mormonism n be on those of who don’t que f the mold. It will only tick you off, pecially when Gay spills the herbal tea on the Latter-day Sat temple ceremony.
HEATHER GAY’S CONFSN IS SURE TO SURPRISE YOU
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This is a straight-om-the-hip acunt of one dissint’s experienc, and I spect om a uple of small miscu about Mormonism that may have been at least partly ghostwrten by someone who was not as steeped the fah as Gay herself.
Dpe some closet doubts, Gay was a hyper-succsful missnary who spouted the church’s prcribed answers to every qutn.
”Gay’s picture-perfect marriage was not the fantasy she portrayed as her extravagant annual Christmas rds. But bee they’d been ndned that if they simply ntued to play their assigned parts, they would be blsed, they went through the motns for years before he left her on the day of their elst dghter’s ’s a fascatg nvergence of events, bee her dghter entered the fold jt as Gay was begng to see no role for herself , even though she was servg as a Relief Society print. ”Enter the former Entreprenr Stunt of the Year (honorable mentn): What saved Gay was nng and growg her new bety servic bs.
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In her pre-terview dns, Gay let the filmmakers see her life warts and all:When producers asked me my level of happs on a sle om 1 to 10, I answered “zero” whout hatn. Heather Gay is a star of Bravo’s Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy and the founr of Bety Lab + Laser, an novative smetic medil practice based Salt Lake Cy wh s own behd-the-scen podst, Live Love Lab. It’s te … bee Bety Lab + Laser is -owned by “Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” st member Heather Gay.
)“I mean, I never expected to be a party b wh a SWAT team of Homeland Secury, FBI and NYPD bulletproof vts and tomatic guns swarmg the parkg lot, ” Gay said.