TVGuide.com Expands Popular Celebrity Blog Line-up, Broadening TV Fans' Relationships to Favorite Shows

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TVGuide.com, the leading online community for entertainment fans, announced today the expansion of its popular celebrity blog feature with the introduction of an exclusive new blog by Regina Taylor, star of the hit CBS military drama The Unit.

“Last Thanksgiving was the first one without my mother. I'm an only child. Single. Born and raised in Texas. West Dallas Projects. Flatland. Wide open sky. I had been living in New York for over twenty years when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer”

From sitcoms to dramas to reality shows, TVGuide.com’s celebrity blogs span the range of some of TV’s most popular new and returning shows and allow fans to interact with celebrities by posting comments and questions.

In Ms. Taylor’s new weekly blog, she will give fans a unique look inside the complex mind and motives of her character, Molly Blane, wife of covert U.S. Special Forces’ operative Jonas (Dennis Haysbert). How does she cope with her husband's double life? How does she make her unconventional marriage work when he is gone for stretches of time with another woman who plays his “cover wife?”

In her debut post she writes: “There is this wall between Unit husband and wife. He can never share what goes on when he's away. Where he's been or with whom or how he spends his days- typical parts of sharing in a typical marriage run counter to this life. He lives other lives when he's gone and so does she. She knows that to ‘go there’ means to fall into an abyss of questions, doubts, fears. Will he return? Will we recognize each other when he returns?”

She adds, “Molly stands on the tested foundation of a long marriage. She wants him to come back safe. She has to trust he will come back however he comes back.”

Taylor also shares intimate details about her personal life, including her journey as an actress and the lessons she learned from her dying mother.

“Last Thanksgiving was the first one without my mother. I'm an only child. Single. Born and raised in Texas. West Dallas Projects. Flatland. Wide open sky. I had been living in New York for over twenty years when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer,” she writes. “Moved back home five years ago to be with her. In her last years she taught me how to garden. She tended her garden daily without fail. She taught me to clear the bed and plan in my mind’s eye how things might grow in season as I planted. Patience. Each season a new adventure. Each day a new opportunity to succeed or fail and to use the failure to learn and grow stronger with Patience. She gave me an understanding of seasons.”

Other current celebrity blogs on TVGuide.com include:

The Office’s Kate Flannery (“Meredith”)
Men in Trees’ Emily Bergl (“Annie”)
Prison Break’s Wade Williams (“Bellick”)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s Michael Maloney and Paul DiMeo (designers)
10 Items or Less' John Lehr ("Leslie")
Attack of the Show's Olivia Munn (host)

"Our blogs are a great forum for celebrities to not only reach a huge audience of dedicated TV fans eager to get inside scoop on the making of their favorite shows, but to also publicly showcase their appealing personalities, talents and life stories in a way they may never have been able to before," said Daniel Manu, editorial director of TVGuide.com.

Taylor’s blog can be found at blogs.tvguide.com/taylor.

With more than 3.5 million unique users each month, TVGuide.com is the leading online authority for on-screen entertainment guidance. The site features customizable TV listings, best-in-class entertainment search functionality, robust community features and the ability to personalize the site for each user’s preferences. The site’s extensive video guidance features include a contextual media player, daily online video recommendations, movie and DVD reviews, and the ability to buy movie tickets online.

TVGuide.com is a product of Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASDAQ: GMST).

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