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Mormon Wives’ Demi and Husband Bret Poke Fun at Fruity Pebbles Drama

Maravi Post Reporter

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Demi Engemann and husband Bret are feeling a little fruity!

The reality television stars poked fun at the recent social media furor created by costar Jessi Ngatikaura earlier this week when the hairstylist revealed the meaning behind the couple’s “fruity pebbles” sex story from season 1.

In a new social media video posted on Instagram and TikTok on Wednesday, November 26, Demi, 30, and Bret, 47, appeared to flick through a mock magazine exposing the couple’s sex secret.

Demi created a front cover featuring an image of Jessi, 33, and the words, “Breaking news” and “Jessi exposes what ‘fruity pebbles’ means.”

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In the clip, Demi shows the magazine to her husband and mouths, “Did you see this?” as Bret, who is sipping a dubiously-colored drink, mouths back, “Yup.” Demi then shrugs and dives into a bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal.

“Petitioning to change the title to Secret Lives of Kinky Wives 👀🥣 stay tuned…,” Demi captioned her Instagram post.

On Tuesday, November 25, Jessi put Demi and Bret’s love life on blast when she revealed in an Instagram Stories video the secret behind the “fruity pebbles” mystery from Mormon Wives season 1. (During the inaugural season, Whitney Leavitt pulled a prank on Demi by presenting her with a box filled with Fruity Pebbles. It was then explained that Demi and Bret engaged in a sexual experience related in some way to the cereal, though they didn’t share more details.)

“Since she wants to be petty and be an asshole, I think I am just going to go ahead and say that grandpa Bret likes to drink her piss like it is dirty soda,” Jessi alleged in her Instagram video. “He gulps it down like water. And that is what fruity pebbles means.”

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Later on Tuesday, Demi issued a statement addressing Jessi’s claims via her own Instagram Stories.

“What my husband and I did one time behind closed doors was a consensual and private experience in our marriage,” Demi wrote. “I won’t let a private act between my husband and I be a distraction from a serious act that I did not consent to.”

“It’s very telling that she’s choosing to break story line and bring it up now, only after her own affair has come to light,” Demi continued. “This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to shift attention away from her own behavior.”

Demi continued to have fun with the cereal-themed innuendo on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, sharing a picture of her husband at the grocery store with a shopping cart filled with boxes of Fruity Pebbles.

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“Just getting the Thanksgiving essentials,” she wrote over the picture.

Over on TikTok, Demi defended her use of humor to address the situation, despite calling the sexual encounter a “private act” in her earlier statement.

“‘Something private between me and my husband,’” one person commented on her TikTok, referring to her statement. Demi responded, “You act like I’m the one that leaked it 😂 nothing left to do but own it.”

Another person asked, “Grandpa bret, are we really doing this again? I know it is not that good, damn,” referring to the sex act, to which Demi responded, “One and done 🤣 I think…👀”

Former friends Demi and Jessi’s friendship exploded during season 2 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and only turned more vicious in the third season, which premiered on November 13. The pair have been going back-and-forth on social media since the latest episodes dropped.

Hulu recently announced that Mormon Wives has been renewed for a fourth season, consisting of 20 episodes.

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Breaking News: Egypt president el-Sissi to run for a third term

Maravi Post Reporter

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Monday confirmed he will run for a new term in elections scheduled for December.

The president announced his candidacy at the end of a three-day national conference called the “Story of Homeland” attended by the country’s leading politicians and broadcast by Egypt’s Extra News television channel, which has close ties to Egyptian security agencies.

“I have decided to nominate myself to you to complete the dream of a new presidential term,” el-Sissi said as the conference’s attendees cheered and clapped.

Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days on December 10-12, with a runoff on Jan. 8-10 if no candidate secures more than 50% of the vote.

“I promise you, god willing, that it will be an extension of our common quest for the sake of Egypt and its people,” el-Sissi said.

Egypt’s presidential election will take place in December, rather than in the spring of 2024 as the Constitution allows, a deadline shortened by economic considerations in the country caught between inflation and devaluation, according to observers.

El-Sissi enters the race as the clear favorite.  He will be running at a time when purchasing power is steadily eroding in this country of 105 million inhabitants: inflation is running at 40%, the 50% devaluation in recent months has pushed up the price of goods.

A handful of contenders

A handful of politicians have already announced their bids to run for the country’s highest post, but none poses a serious challenge to el-Sissi, who has ruled the country since 2014 and has faced criticism from the West over his country’s human rights record. Among the challengers is Ahmed Altantawy, a former lawmaker and critic of the current government.

Candidacies must be submitted in October, the election campaign will run from November 9 to 29, and Egyptian expatriates will vote from December 1 to 3.

El-Sissi, a former defense minister, led the military overthrow of the elected president in 2013 amid street protests against his one-year rule. Since then, authorities have launched a major crackdown on dissent.

Thousands of government critics have been silenced or jailed, mainly Islamists but also many prominent secular activists, including many of those behind the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

He was first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2018 for a second four-year term. Constitutional amendments, passed in a referendum in 2019, added two years to his second term, and allowed him to run for a third, six-year term.s

Source: Africanews