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Leah Van Dale, formerly Carmella in WWE, revealed on today’s episode of “Page Six Radio” on SiriusXM that she and her husband, Corey Graves, turned down a reality TV show a couple of years ago.

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“We used to have a podcast called ‘Bear With Us,’ and it was just us just being ridiculous in our real life relationship and a company reached out to us, they wanted to do a reality show, so we had to go through WWE because we worked there,” Leah told hosts Ian Mohr, Danny Murphy, and Evan Real. “And because they have to have creative control of everything, unfortunately we can’t just do something on the side if everyone knows us as Corey and Carmella, so they got involved and then we did a short YouTube series called ‘Corey and Carmela,...

In April, WWE stars Carmella and Corey Graves announced they were expecting their second baby together. Now the wrestlers, whose real names are Leah Van Dale and Matt Polinsky respectively, have revealed the sex of their little one. “I’m just thrilled.”

The couple shared the news in an exclusive interview with People. It’s a boy! The Snatch founder expressed her excitement about giving her first baby, the couple’s son Dimitri, a baby brother. “I’m excited to give Dimitri a little brother. I really love being a boy mom, and I’m just thrilled. And I don’t have to buy any new clothes, which is amazing!” Their second son is due to arrive this fall.

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Leah opened up about revealing her baby’s sex quietly this time around. “We didn’t do anything crazy,...

WWE star Carmella and Corey Graves are growing their family! Carmella, whose real name is Leah Van Dale, took to Instagram to share that she and her husband are expecting their second baby together. “all in perfect time..”

The couple posted a video and images from a maternity photoshoot, set on a street with a vintage white car. For the photos, Leah wore a fitted white dress that hugged her baby bump while Corey was dressed in all black: a T-shirt and jeans. The former wrestler revealed when their baby is due in the caption writing, “our new chapter begins this fall.”

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The couple welcomed their first baby in November 2023, a son named Dimitri. Following giving birth to her first baby, the wrestler experienced foot drop, a childbirth complication, that causes pressure or damage on the nerves...

On Thursday April 3 2025, ABC broadcasts Tamron Hall!

Ripped From the Headlines Season 6 Episode 132 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Tamron Hall,” titled “Ripped From the Headlines,” promises to tackle important topics that many can relate to. This episode features former WWE star Leah Van Dale, who shares her personal journey of losing her job after becoming a mother. Leah’s story highlights the challenges many women face in balancing career and motherhood.

In this episode, Leah will discuss her new platform called “Snatch,” which aims to create a space for mothers to have open and honest conversations about their experiences. This initiative seeks to normalize discussions around the difficulties and pressures that come with being a mom, especially in the workplace. Leah’s insights are expected to resonate with many viewers who understand the struggle of navigating motherhood and career aspirations.

Joining Leah in this episode is Deborah Roberts, known...

Thursday’s “Tamron Hall” goes behind the headlines, starting with a daytime exclusive interview with former WWE star Leah Van Dale. Van Dale will discuss the controversial circumstances surrounding her departure from the WWE after giving birth, offering her perspective on a story that sparked much discussion about motherhood and career in professional wrestling. She’ll also […]

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Leah Van Dale, known as Carmella in WWE, showed fans how she likes to recharge. Pic credit: WWE/YouTube

WWE star Carmella showed fans one of her preferred ways of recharging as she continues to keep herself in fantastic shape and recover for the wrestling ring!

The 34-year-old wrestling star has been recovering from an injury that has kept her away from in-ring action for the past month. During her recovery, she’s enjoying the benefits of an infrared sauna.

On Tuesday, Carmella, real name Leah Van Dale, shared a video on her official Instagram set to the song Memories by Northernelg. At the start of the clip, she’s wearing a sleeveless black crop top along with some stylish ripped jeans and black boots.

However, she backs behind a curtain in front of the infrared sauna, then closes the curtain. In a reveal similar to an on-stage magic act,...

WWE Superstars Corey Graves and Carmella would not have been suited for the company’s “PG Era,” which ran from July 2008 to March 2014. Frankly, the couple may even have been too risqué for the “Attitude Era.”

Graves’ and Mella’s new 10-episode YouTube reality show, “Corey & Carmella,” is essentially all about their sex life, based on the trailer, which TheWrap can exclusively reveal. Like, literally from start to finish. It even includes a shot of their sex toys, which Graves says the WWE cameras “weren’t supposed to see any of this.”

Sure, Corey, sure.

Watch the trailer via the video above. In the preview clip, Corey and Carmella go house-hunting, which is pretty much just an analysis of all the places they can have sex. They seem to settle on the shower as the home’s main selling feature.

Later, Carmella, the “Princess of Staten Island,” asks Graves if...

Baring it all. On today's episode of Just the Sip, Total Divas star and WWE superstar Carmella (born Leah Van Dale) got candid about having a relationship in the public eye. As fans surely know, Carmella and boyfriend Corey Graves (born Matthew Polinsky) have launched a new podcast, titled Bare With Us, where they candidly discuss relationship issues. Most recently, after one candid Instagram live, the couple made headlines when Corey compared their sex life to that of pandas in captivity. "[He] made it seem like he didn't want to mate with me in quarantine," Carmella told podcast host Justin Sylvester. "And he didn't realize it was coming out of his mouth, that is was like...

In today’s TV News Roundup, Apple TV Plus announced the premiere date for “Little Voice,” and Netflix released a trailer for Season 5 of “Queer Eye.”

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Apple TV Plus has announced that its upcoming series “Little Voice” will debut on the streamer on July 10. The series follows a talented performer (Brittany O’Grady) struggling to fulfill her dreams in New York. The series features original music by Sara Bareilles and is produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Bareilles, Jessie Nelson and Ben Stephenson serve as executive producers. See a first look at the new series above.

TNT has announced the second season of “The Alienist” will premiere on July 26 at 9 p.m. The new season, titled “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” sees stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning returning to play investigators caught up in a murder mystery in...

WWE Superstar Carmella is a former Laker Girl and New England Patriots cheerleader, so she’s pretty good on her feet. With her legs, she’s deadly.

Ahead of Fox’s “SmackDown” on Friday and Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view on the WWE Network, TheWrap asked Mella (whose real name is Leah Van Dale) to (moon)walk us through the development of her “Code of Silence” submission maneuver.

“Well, I’m one of the smaller girls in all of the divisions — even when I was in Nxt, which is when I came up with that — so it’s something like, what could I do?” she told TheWrap. “I can’t do a power move. I’m not able to pick every woman on the roster up and be able to do something with them.”

“So what could we do that is believable?” continued Carmella, who is billed at 5’5”. “And really,...

WWE Superstar Carmella is the moon-walking, trash-talking princess of Staten Island, a character complete with the accent, colorful makeup, big hair, gaudy jewelry and all. But the real woman behind the wrestler, Leah Van Dale, is very much a Massachusetts girl.

Van Dale, the daughter of former WWF jobber (a perennial-loser gig that the business now refers to as “enhancement talent”) Paul Van Dale, hails from Spencer, Massachusetts, is a UMass Dartmouth alum, and a former New England Patriots cheerleader.

So how did someone very much from Boston Red Sox country come to represent a very different — yet equally distinctive — borough around New York Yankees land? Former Laker Girl Van Dale, who has the distinction of being WWE’s first Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match winner, walked TheWrap through that process.

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Lana lets loose!  On this week's episode of Total Divas, Lana is getting on everyone's nerves. Well, mostly Nattie Neidhart's, but things take a turn for the worse when Lana insults the ladies promo skills.  "Before people start coming at me with my bad wrestling, besides Carmella here who can actually cut a good promo...they should probably go and get an acting class," Lana tells the other ladies.  While Nattie is quick to hold her tongue, Nia Jax don't play that way. "Lana is lucky that Nattie's nice but it's a different game when it comes to me. I don't play nice," Nia says before giving Lana a piece of her mind.  "When I'm...

Chateau Marmiz is opening its doors to a few more WWE stars. In this clip from Wednesday's all-new episode of Total Divas, Maryse and The Miz show off their Hollywood pad to wrestlers, Carmella and Big Cass. "Maryse really wants to make this special for you guys, she took it up a little notch," the Miz gushed. Complete with a taco truck and a new California King bed, the mansion is ready for a WWE slumber party, if you don't mind sleeping outside that is. To accommodate the big man that is Big Cass, Maryse custom-ordered a California King mattress just for Carmella and Cass' visit to the Chateau. The only problem? The bed doesn't fit in the house. "So, what I did is call...

Carmella is a force to be reckoned with!  In this preview from Wednesday's new Total Divas, fans get to know Carmella, one of the show's newest cast members. "My name is Carmella and I'm the moonwalking, trash-talking princess of Staten Island," Carmella says. "I come from a big Italian family and I grew up around wrestling. My dad was a wrestler for the WWE in the early '90s but he didn't quite make it. I just really love performing, I was a dancer since I was three years old. I was in Nxt for about a little over two years and then I was drafted to SmackDown Live and now I can say I'm the first-ever Miss Money in the Bank." Impressive, no?!