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		<title>Newly-Engaged ‘Big Rich Texas’ Star Leslie Birkland Reveals Sky High Wedding Dream, Talks Honey Boo Boo (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Big Rich Texas star Leslie Birkland has big plans for her upcoming wedding to beau Rip Mason &#8212; but it might take a bit of arm-twisting. Birkland’s dream, it turns out, is to get married off-ground. “The issue is that I have to convince my guy Rip to get married on an airplane,” the TV...<span class="more"><a href="http://www.celebuzz.com/2012-12-06/newly-engaged-big-rich-texas-leslie-birkland-reveals-sky-high-wedding-dream-talks-honey-boo-boo-exclusive-video-interview/">Read&#160;more&#187;</a></span><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/30/Leslie-Birkland-Override-120312-600x450.jpg" class="cmp-image" style="width:600px;" alt="" width="600" height="450"/><br/><p><em>Big Rich Texas</em> star <strong><a href="http://celebuzz.com/news/leslie-birkland" target="_blank">Leslie Birkland</a></strong> has big plans for her upcoming wedding to beau <strong>Rip Mason</strong> &#8212; but it might take a bit of arm-twisting.</p>
<p>Birkland’s dream, it turns out, is to get married off-ground.</p>
<p>“The issue is that I have to convince my guy Rip to get married on an airplane,” the TV star told <strong><a href="http://celebuzz.com" target="_blank">Celebuzz</a></strong> last week.</p>
<p>“We’ll just circle like four states and then we can say we got married in four states at one time, and then we’ll land and just have a wonderful reception.”</p>
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<p>Birkland, who became engaged on Nov. 21, said that in planning her wedding so far, she’s far from being a bridezilla.</p>
<p>“I am very conservative, other than the plane and four state thing,” she joked.</p>
<p>Birkland, a former beauty pageant contestant and current pageant coach, also had a few words for advice for America’s most talked about pageant contestant these days: <strong><a href="http://celebuzz.com/news/honey-boo-boo" target="_blank">Honey Boo Boo</a></strong>.</p>
<p>“She’s definitely a natural, so she needs to go to the natural pageant, the ones where it just shows a lot of personality,” she said.</p>
<p>“Honey Boo Boo is having a blast. She’s having a good time, she’s actually how pageant girls should be . . . she’s just being herself, she’s not shy, she can talk in front of people, in front of the cameras. So I love what Honey Boo Boo’s doing.”</p>
<p><em>Big Rich Texas</em> airs Sundays at 8PM ET on Style.</p>
<p><strong><em>For more of our chat with Leslie Birkland, check out the video, above. </em></strong></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Big Rich Texas&#8217; Star Leslie Birkland Gets Engaged (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Howard</dc:creator>
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Leslie Birkland, the star of Style Network&#8217;s hit show Big Rich Texas, is getting married, she has confirmed exclusively to Celebuzz. Birkland&#8217;s boyfriend Rip Mason proposed to her Wednesday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. &#8220;Leslie is truly overjoyed with her engagement and excited about their future together. While faced with incredible obstacles this season, Rip...<span class="more"><a href="http://www.celebuzz.com/2012-11-24/big-rich-texas-star-leslie-birkland-gets-engaged-exclusive/">Read&#160;more&#187;</a></span><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://cdn04.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/24/Leslie-Birkland-Rip-Mason-Big-Rich-Texas-600x450.jpg" class="cmp-image" style="width:600px;" alt="" width="600" height="450"/><br/><p><strong>Leslie Birkland</strong>, the star of Style Network&#8217;s hit show <em>Big Rich Texas</em>, is getting married, she has confirmed exclusively to <strong><a href="http://www.celebuzz.com" target="_blank">Celebuzz</a></strong>.</p>
<p>Birkland&#8217;s boyfriend <strong>Rip Mason</strong> proposed to her Wednesday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif.</p>
<p>&#8220;Leslie is truly overjoyed with her engagement and excited about their future together. While faced with incredible obstacles this season, Rip remained supportive and completely devoted,&#8221; a spokesperson for Birkland, <strong>Dominic Friesen</strong>, revealed in a statement.</p>
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<p>The couple is wasting little time planning their big day.</p>
<p>The pair will exchange vows in June at the Four Seasons Hotel on Maui, the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands, the rep confirmed. The will continue to maintain residences in both both Dallas, Texas and Southern California, he added.</p>
<p>Birkland has been dating Mason over the past two seasons of the show.</p>
<p>Prior to joining the cast of <em>Big Rich Texas</em>, Birkland competed in her first Mrs. Washington America Pageant in 1992. Since then, she has competed in various beauty pageants and become professional pageant coach.</p>
<p>Birkland joined the cast of the Style Network program, which aired its first episode in July of 2011.</p>
<p>Currently in their third season, the docu-reality series chronicles the glamorous lives of five Dallas women and their privileged daughters.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Big Rich Texas&#8217; Star Bon Blossman Talks Rebellious Daughters, Dishes on Season 3 (EXCLUSIVE Q&amp;A)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bernberg</dc:creator>
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Like the city they call home, the women of Big Rich Texas, which airs on Style Sundays at 8/7 c, have BIG opinions about pretty much everything. To prove it, Celebuzz spoke with Bon Blossman, one of the show’s most opinionated stars, about dealing with a rebellious daughter, the difference between Dallas and Los Angeles, and...<span class="more"><a href="http://www.celebuzz.com/2012-10-05/big-rich-texas-star-bon-blossman-talks-rebellious-daughters-dishes-on-season-3-exclusive-qa/">Read&#160;more&#187;</a></span><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://cdn02.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/05/big-rich-t-591x450.png" class="cmp-image" style="width:591px;" alt="" /><br/><p>Like the city they call home, the women of <em>Big Rich Texas</em>, which airs on Style Sundays at 8/7 c, have BIG opinions about pretty much everything.</p>
<p>To prove it, <a href="http://www.celebuzz.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Celebuzz</strong> </a>spoke with <strong>Bon Blossman</strong>, one of the show’s most opinionated stars, about dealing with a rebellious daughter, the difference between Dallas and Los Angeles, and how the upcoming third season of the show is going to be the wildest yet.</p>
<p><em>Find out Bon&#8217;s thoughts and get the inside scoop on the new season of Big Rich Texas.</em></p>
<p><strong><span id="more-12347122"></span>Celebuzz: Having spent time in both cities, what are some the differences between Dallas and LA?</strong><br />
<strong>Bon Blossman:</strong> To me, people are more high-energy in LA than in Dallas, where things move at a slower pace. And I feel like I see more natural looking hair and make-up in Los Angeles. Just more dressed down looks than you’ll see in DFW where, in Dallas, we get dressed up to go the grocery store or the mall!  We’re more laid back in Texas, but we get dressed up more.</p>
<p><strong>CB: Is there anything you would change about living in Dallas? Anything you find limiting?<br />
BB: </strong>Just in the past year, Dallas has become more of a destination for the film and television industry. For someone who wants to be in TV or movies, living in Dallas would have been seen as limiting as recently as a year ago. But now with all the reality TV shows, the <em>Dallas</em> reboot and other shows, Dallas is starting to look a lot like a second Hollywood.</p>
<p><strong>CB: Your daughter seems to be a crossroads in her life.  Is there anything unexpected you’ve learned about having a child return to the nest in her early twenties.<br />
BB:</strong> Whitney is a 100 percent rebel. She gets that from me no doubt. I think when you over-parent a rebellious child, they will tend to rebel even more. So now that’s she older, I’ve become her friend because that’s really the only thing I can do to remain in her life. So, I switched to “friend mode” from “mom mode.&#8221;  There’s just no traditional way to parent her.</p>
<p>I was overly strict when she was younger, which may have been why she rebelled when she was 18. Since she didn’t really rebel until she was 18, I believe that her attitude &#8212; which you’ve see can be horrible at times &#8212; shouldn’t necessarily be a reflection of me. But my daughter is also one of the most dear people I have ever known &#8212; despite being a firecracker &#8212; you saw her put the gum in my drink, right? But I try to get her right back. We’re both adults after all.</p>
<p><strong>CB: Anything special we can expect this season?</strong><br />
<strong>BB:</strong> This is the most highly dramatic season ever. The producers were literally having to constantly chase all the things that were happening. Especially towards the end of the season, there are some unbelievable and shocking things that happened – it’s still blowing my mind that what happened actually happened. Leslie and I aren’t friends anymore and never will be ever again.  She has done some unforgivable things to my family.</p>
<p>Everything that happened just spiraled so quickly. If we scripted this, we couldn’t have written it this good. People always say to me “Y’all are scripted” and I say, “I WISH we were!”</p>
<p>We take a trip to New Orleans which was out of control – and things pretty much just get nuts from there.</p>
<p><strong>CB: How has being on the show really changed your life, for better or worse?</strong><br />
<strong>BB:</strong> For the worse, I’ve never been tied up in court for half a year. I don’t even know what I’m being sued for anymore. The positive, though, is that I have met so many awesome people all over the world because of the show and I wouldn’t change that for the world.</p>
<p>The mother-daughters pairs of <em><a href="http://www.mystyle.com/tv-shows/big-rich-texas/" target="_blank">Big Rich Texas</a></em> know a thing or two about the spotlight.  The new season of their hit show promises more conflict and power struggles than ever.</p>
<p>See a <a href="http://www.mystyle.com/tv-shows/big-rich-texas/videos/detail.jsp?player=firstLook" target="_blank">10-minute preview</a> of what&#8217;s to come this season on <em>Big Rich Texas</em> and don&#8217;t forget to tune in Sunday at 8/7c!</p>
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