{"id":279610,"date":"2025-11-13T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279610\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:03:10","slug":"rhoslc-star-mary-cosby-subject-of-tlc-investigative-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279610\/","title":{"rendered":"‘RHOSLC’\u00a0Star Mary Cosby Subject of TLC Investigative Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTLC<\/a> has set a new investigative series around The Real Housewives<\/a> of Salt Lake City\u00a0star Mary Cosby.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-part docuseries, titled The Cult of the Real Housewife, looks into Faith Temple\u00a0Pentecostal Church, the church Cosby shares with her husband, Robert Cosby Sr. <\/p>\n

\n\tPer the logline, the series \u201cunpacks\u00a0the allegations behind the headlines, revealing the darker and more unsettling truth about the church.\u201d Ex-congregants speak out for the first time in the series, including long-standing pillars of Faith Temple, the Enoch family,\u00a0to provide\u00a0\u201cdeeply person and disturbing\u00a0accounts from family members,\u201d including Mary\u2019s\u00a0sister, Denise Jefferson\u00a0Okinada, and Mary\u2019s cousin,\u00a0Dan Cosby, along with his wife, Kim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s more from TLC: \u201cThe Cult of the Real Housewife traces the dramatic rise of Faith Temple from its founding by the beloved Rosemary \u2018Mama\u2019 Cosby, grandmother of Mary Cosby, to her passing, the controversial transfer of leadership, and her husband\u2019s marriage to Mary. This hotly contested bequeathment pushed Faith Temple into a controversial, new era. \u2026 [The series] pulls back the salacious headlines and social media takes to dive deeper and unpack one of the most enduring mysteries at the core of the scandal: how have Mary and Robert Cosby Sr. managed to avoid accountability for so long?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe docuseries also\u00a0features\u00a0investigative\u00a0journalists and bloggers\u00a0who have reported on the story, as well as\u00a0a leading cult expert, and boasts access to recordings of \u201ccontroversial sermons\u201d delivered by Mary and Robert Cosby Sr., as well as extensive archival from the early days of Faith Temple.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cult of the Real Housewife hails from the directors of discovery+\u2019s\u00a0House of Hammer<\/a>, which explored the accusations of sexual assault and cannibalism fantasies against actor Armie Hammer, and is directed and produced by Elli Hakami and Julian P. Hobbs for TLC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series premieres Jan. 1 from 8-11 p.m. on TLC, streaming the next day on HBO Max & discovery+.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cult of the Real Housewife follows TLC\u2019s recent investigative series Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed, which examined allegations of abuse, exploitation and celebrity influence.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter has reached out to a rep for Cosby, as well as Bravo<\/a>, home to Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, which is currently airing its sixth season<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TLC has set a new investigative series around The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City\u00a0star Mary Cosby. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2109,49,48,75,5020,75675,43305,348],"class_list":["post-279610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bravo","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-real-housewives","tag-the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city","tag-tlc","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}