Gladys Knight’s divorce from her ex-husband record manager Barry Hankerson devastated their son, Shanga, she said in her memoir. At 11 years old, he weighed 320 pounds. Knight may have believed he’d recovered from that childhood trauma, but years later, Hankerson is accused of running the restaurants that carry his mother’s name into financial ruin, […]

NBC has cooked up the next dose of reality TV with “America’s Next Great Restaurant,” a new show that will eliminate contestants each week, in true reality dramatic form, leaving the winner as the last restaurateur standing. The prize? Their dining concept turned into a national restaurant chain. With the premiere of “America’s Next Great […]