Monday, June 13, 2016

Instagram Recycling and Video of a PETA Visit to the NSAL

Howard Stern's large backroom staff must have a hard time coming up with new material for the 12 hours of radio they do each week.  Although the creative meetings have led to comedy gold such as "Flat Ronnie" and "Ronnie the Robot", the show is still filled with stale, recycled bits, including impersonators of Presidential candidates, dreadful phony calls, parody songs about a 'hot' 60 year old overweight newswoman and Howard's fake Viet Nam war stories.

Howard's wife Beth has also done her share of recycling - on Instagram, where she has posted thousands of pictures over the years.

As we have seen before, some recurring themes of Beth Stern's Instagram account involved posting pictures of herself in revealing attire in order to please some "kittenposthaters" and also showing the foster kittens when they just happen to be near her fancy shoes and purses.

Here are a few more ideas which have been recycled over the years in the many thousands of her Instagram pictures:

Beth Has to Pee (aka Too Much Information)

For some reason, fostering kittens interferes with Beth's ability to use one of the many bathrooms in the Sterns' mansion in Southampton, although it's a good thing that Beth has her phone close by to capture the amazing moment for her followers.

Beth's followers lap this up as if it's original almost every time, even though she's posted a number of these pictures, complete with unusual hashtags, over the years:

January 2016 - #ihavetopee

October 2015 - #havetopee

September 2015

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

August 2015 - Foster cat Peter Parker causing trouble


June 2015 - Has to pee

March 2015 - Yoda won't let Beth pee in peace

March 2015 - Picture with the late Apple the cat


January 2015 - Bella jumps on Beth's lap #yesmyphonewaswithme

October 2014 - I have to pee

Meditating Beth 

Howard Stern has been a big fan (big fan) of Transcendental Meditation for years, and Beth has taken up this practice as well.  Unfortunately, some of her meditation sessions are interrupted by the darn cats and kittens, but luckily she is able to get a picture for her followers.  Beth is also providing some handy tips on TM with these informative posts, as it's not common knowledge that one is supposed to keep a phone handy while lying down to meditate and an untrained observer may have mistaken her meditation for a nap.

May 2016 - Meditating with "bellaboo"

April 2016 - Wakes up from TM with a 'cat bum' in her face

April 2016 - A 'kitty toot' wakes Beth from her meditation

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

November 2015 - Trying to meditate. #nothappening #TM  https://www.instagram.com/p/-Chb93IfIx/

October 2015 - Yoda interrupts a meditation session

NSAL Mentioned in a PETA Video

Beth is the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League and it is the source of many of the foster kittens that have been featured in her social media pictures.

The NSAL is not shy about describing its 'no kill' status but as shown in  this PETA video below, the no kill shelter concept may not be as great as the name sounds and PETA is in favor of open admission shelters.

A PETA article from a few years ago (which contains a long list of disturbing stories about mistreatment of animals) explains the issue that PETA has with no kill shelters, and the basic concept seems to be:

 (1) there are only so many animals that are going to get adopted from shelters,

 (2) the no kill shelters fill up and they essentially leave others with the dirty work of having to put down animals that don't get adopted, and

 (3) because people are turned away from these no kill shelters, they often are left with no choice but to abandon their pets or end up giving them to places which mistreat them.

In the video below, the caption is "(s)lamming the door in the faces of needy homeless animals makes intake and euthanasia statistics sound favorable but lets animals down." 

The video features people being turned away at various shelters, and the crew visits the NSAL headquarters in Port Washington, NY at the 8:18 mark.  The NSAL person says that they only will accept animals that were originally adopted from the NSAL (?) and that 'a lot' of the animals that the NSAL places get returned to the shelter - the video closes with the line "no kill can mean no help for the neediest of animals."

  

There doesn't appear to be any easy way to fix to this, but in the meantime, another problem is still in search of a solution - after three years, the Stern show is still asking fans for money to help build Bianca's Furry Friends in this tweet from last week, this time in the form of an auction to sit in on the Stern show and the latest bid as of this date is $25,000.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Bianca's Furry Friends - 2016 Update

Unlike the former Howard 101 show Back Office Radio, the blog is back from a hiatus with an update on the favorite charity project of Howard Stern and Beth Stern - the Bianca's Furry Friends addition to the North Shore Animal League ("NSAL") headquarters in Port Washington, New York, as well as information about the somewhat clandestine Bianca's Furry Friends Foundation, which appears to be separate from the NSAL.

History

Animal lovers have been waiting for years for this project to get started - it resembles the plot of an early Seinfeld episode in which Jerry, Elaine and George were waiting for a table in a Chinese Restaurant - each time they would ask the maitre d' about the status of their table, he would tell them that it would be ready in five or ten minutes.

Similarly, it seems like the NSAL and its spokesperson, Beth Stern, continue to tell folks that the 14,000 square foot addition (with an estimated cost of $7 million) will be breaking ground "next spring" or at some other time in the near future, but it never seems to get started.

Timeline Recap

For those who don't recall the exact timeline, here is a quick overview (see last year's post for more details):

May 2013 - initial announcement of the master plan for Bianca's Furry Friends

May 2014 - Beth and an NSAL executive state that Bianca's Furry Friends is expected to break ground "next spring" (i.e. spring 2015)

January 2015 - Beth announces that they are "3/4 of the way there", with no estimate of when it will get started (the NSAL financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014 show that there were about $4.25 million of assets restricted for use to fund BFF):




Spring 2015 - estimated start date mentioned in 2014 passes without anything happening

Subsequent Developments

Since the blog post in March 2015, there have been a few more developments regarding Bianca's Furry Friends, none of which involve the commencement of any actual construction:

November 2015 - another year, another NSAL gala with proceeds going to Bianca's Furry Friends.  Beth dropped a couple of nuggets about BFF while promoting the gala, and told Newsday that they were trying to raise the "final $1 million" to get the project funded and said in another interview with HNGN that:

   ""Bianca's Furry Friends, yes, that's going to break ground right after the new year," Ostrosky Stern told HNGN."

As the gala was only a few months ago, no one knows how much money it raised.  However, the NSAL's Form 990 for 2014 indicated that the amount of 2014 gala proceeds (gross, not net of expenses) was around $356K - this was down, way down, from the $610K of proceeds from the 2013 gala (see last year's blog post for details); hopefully this trend, unlike the ratings slide during Howard's tenure on America's Got Talent, didn't continue for 2015.



December 2015 - Another Yoda Book

For the second straight year, Beth, along with illustrator Devin Crane and "contributor" K.A. Alistir, released another children's book about her purebred Persian cat and her share of the proceeds would again benefit Bianca's Furry Friends.  This year's installment was titled Yoda Gets a Buddy and as of this date, one website estimates its Amazon sales at less than 1,000 copies.  Beth's share of the proceeds from the Amazon sales may not even cover the cost of one of the animal activist's fancy leather purses let alone the somewhat expensive NSAL kitten play palace.

February 2016 - Kitten Bowl

For the third straight year Beth appeared on the Hallmark Channel's Kitten Bowl and she was trotting around to promote the event (unfortunately, ratings were a dismal 0.2, less than a third of the 0.7 rating of Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl and the Kitten Bowl finished well out of the top 100 cable shows of the day).

She also discussed the status of Bianca's Furry Friends in some interviews.

In a WebMD interview, Beth once again broke out her statement that she has no "human children" and said that they will break ground early this year:

""I don't have human children," she says, "so this is my purpose. .... Howard and I are working on a 14,000-square-foot expansion of North Shore's existing shelter, called Bianca's Furry Friends. The space will allow the cats to live cage-free until they're adopted. Friends have been so supportive -- Billy Joel donated over a million dollars, and Rachael Ray presented me with a $500,000 check on her show. We'll break ground early this year."

In a Newsday article, Beth said:

"We are over $7 million, and that means we are ready to break ground,” she said. “We are waiting, I believe, on one more permit and as soon as we get that permit we are ready to go. So I’m thinking that within the next couple of months we are breaking ground, and my dream will finally come true."

Based on that claim, it sounds like the NSAL must have received that "final $1 million" that Beth mentioned in the November 2015 interview with Newsday, although it sounds like the ground breaking date may now be pushed back to April 2016.

Beth also mentioned in another article that Bianca's Furry Friends is "15,000 square feet" (up from the original 14,000 square feet?) and that they're "just waiting on permits".

Separate Foundation

As mentioned before on this blog, Beth is affiliated with a separate charity called the Bianca's Furry Friends Foundation.

Information about this foundation is fairly scarce, as the foundation does not appear to have a website and has not filed its initial Form 990 with the IRS, but a number of documents are available for the public to view online on a database of charities maintained by the New York attorney general.

These filings reveal that:

  (1) the President of the foundation is one Beth Ostrosky Stern,

  (2) the foundation was formed in January 2014 and first began maintaining assets in New York in May 2014 (interesting that this was near the time of the Billy Joel concert when he donated proceeds from a show to Bianca's Furry Friends), and



  (3) the foundation received over $270,000 of contributions through December 31, 2014 and it received its first donation in May 2014 - a check for $250K; this is a nice chunk of change for a foundation which hasn't received much (if any) public discussion. 




It is a bit odd that Beth Stern has never specifically mentioned this separate foundation, which has now been in existence for over 2 years.  Many of the devoted followers of her Instagram account who enjoy the many pictures of cats she posts each day might pony up some money to fund this foundation.

Hopefully the assets held by the foundation may be used to help fund the NSAL addition (maybe to help with the filing costs for the permits that Beth mentioned in her recent interviews).  In the meantime, it is just one more unknown regarding Bianca's Furry Friends, in addition to the moving target date of when the NSAL addition will finally break ground.
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

September to Remember for Howard Stern

Many conspiracy theorists were worried about ominous events happening in September and although none of these led to the demise of the Western world (shocker), it was not a good month for 61 year old radio host Howard Stern.  Some of the Stern-related highlights/lowlights of the month included:

Hitting It Out of the Park on Sirius/XM

Rebel radio was back on Sirius/XM for a whopping nine shows during the month of September.  The show had 12 guests during the month, including one who was over 80 years old (Carol Burnett).  Guest demographics looked like this:

  One straight man - Adam Carolla
  Two gay men - Neil Patrick Harris and Andy Cohen
  Nine women - Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Jewel, Pamela Anderson, Beverly Johnson, Cindy Crawford and Emily Blunt

It is a joke to see out of touch media types describe Stern as a "shock jock" in 2015 when he trots out a lineup of guests like this, which makes the Stern channels look like the satellite radio love child of the View and Sirius/XM's OutQ channel.

End of the Line for America's Judge

Howard ended his 4 year run as a judge on America's Got Talent last month, but he didn't exactly leave on a high note.

The rating in the key demo for the finale was the lowest in AGT history and overall, the season had its worst ratings ever.  The show will be moving back to Los Angeles next year and it will be interesting to see whether ratings improve without the power of Stern.

At least AGT made Howard a a tribute video and fans also learned of another of Howard's long list of inventions in his crazy skit with a bunch of kids:



Radar Online, Artie and Marci Turk

In August, a Page Six article in the New York Post mentioned how Stern channels' COO Marci Turk was behind the now-PC image of Howard and the show (although some are more inclined to believe Stern is the reason for his own "evolution" and Marci is just a minion who helps him get things done on the channels).

Artie Lange and John Melendez spoke about this on Artie's podcast and Artie joked about only being able to see Howard if he was tending bar at Jennifer Aniston's next wedding or if he went to a meeting of the Ellen DeGeneres fan club.  This got Stern to discuss their takes on his radio show, subsequent podcast discussions by Artie and a series of stories by Adam Levy on Radar Online, including articles on September 16, September 29, and September 30.

This exchange fueled lots of discussion on social media about Howard's treatment of Artie after his stint on the show ended and more talk about Marci Turk.  Although Howard acknowledged Marci Turk for her work on the amazing birthday bash in 2014, he has not wanted to discuss her too much on his radio show and dropped regular caller Hanzi after he mentioned the life coach turned COO of the Stern channels.

Eventually, Artie tried to downplay any tension with Howard and went so far as to say that Stern is still doing great radio in 2015

Whalerock Industries - Kardashian App Downloads Dropping

Earlier this year Whalerock Industries announced that it was going to be developing digital media hubs for Howard Stern as well as other celebrities.

The Kardashian sisters rolled out their Whalerock apps earlier this month, and while they were initially making all kinds of subscriber gains during the initial free seven day trial period, that buzz died down pretty quickly.

According to the Tech Crunch article mentioned above, "unfortunately for the celeb sisters, when the media buzz wore off, so did their App Store downloads. And that means revenue projections have been dropping as well.

Kim and Khloé’s apps were tanking by Tuesday, September 23rd as the paid service kicked off. Kylie’s app hung onto a spot in the top 50 for a time, however.

But by Sunday, September 27th, the decline continued. Kylie’s app is now on its way out of the top 200 Overall, at No. 172.

Apparently many subscribers downloaded the Kardashian apps during the initial free trial, but very few were converted into paying subscribers and downloads were down."

Although the Kardashians are annoying, they are more popular than Stern, so this initial report isn't a good sign for Howard's Whalerock app - HowardTV failed in 2013 and one can't imagine many people signing up to pay for a few long, painful interviews by Stern each month and stale replays of bits that have been repeated on satellite many times.

Kittens, Kittens and More Kittens

As refugees flood across the borders of European countries, Howard has a continuing crisis of his own - another month of cats from the North Shore Animal League invading his mansion in the Hamptons.

Last month, Beth Stern, with plenty of free time on her hands, posted pictures of 10 new cats that the Sterns are fostering in their Southampton crib and 3 of them are vision-impaired (which seems to be Beth's new thing as she readies her social media fans for the new book about a blind cat):

Yogi
Cucumber
Raisin
Potato
Maggie
Rainbow one-eyed 7 year old cat
Milly needs to see eye specialist
Donut
Otter
Wilson (blind)

Fans are still waiting to see if Howard will re-sign with Sirius/XM after his contract expires this year or move on to some other unknown venture - the only things people know for sure is that there are less than 30 live Stern shows for the rest of 2015 and that Beth Stern will go on a media blitz once her new cat book is released in December.  Good times!
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

New Book for Beth Stern - Who's Your Buddy

Mayday, mayday - calling illustrator Devin Crane and contributor K.A. Alistir, your services may again be required for another book from New York Times best-selling author Beth Stern.  Five star reviewers better get ready for this book as well.

Fans of Ms. Stern were probably rejoicing yesterday as she announced that she has another book deal from Simon & Schuster:


This book will feature Buddy, a blind cat that Beth is fostering and it apparently came to fruition in a matter of weeks, as Beth first mentioned Buddy on June 6, 2015.

Seeing an author like Beth get a book deal so quickly must be frustrating for some other children's book authors who spend time working on their craft, waiting forever to hear back from publishers and attending conferences to improve their skills.

Perhaps these people should post tasteful pictures of themselves on Twitter to help establish credibility as a children's book author, as Beth did on the same day that she announced the new Buddy book:


As noted above, Beth indicated that her share of the proceeds from this new book will be going to the NSAL and Bianca's Furry Friends, which of course still hasn't been fully funded as of this date. 

It is interesting that Beth has not mentioned that there is now a charity called Biancas Furry Friends Foundation.  This new Biancas Furry Friends Foundation received its tax-exempt status in 2015 - it has a different tax identification number than the NSAL but it is unclear whether there is some relationship between the two charities.

One can only imagine how this upcoming masterpiece will read - here's one guess of the storyline:

Scene 1 - Yoda is sad as Beth, rocking a stylish hat, leaves to deliver a foster kitten to its new home (and pose for an Instagram picture with the "forever family" adopting said kitten)

Scene 2 - Yoda is happy as Beth comes home and steps out of the limo with a fresh batch of foster kittens

Scene 3 - foster kittens cause trouble in the Sterns' mansion and Yoda springs into action, getting the kittens out of the animal activist's closet which is filled with expensive leather goods

Scene 4 - Yoda is confused as to why Buddy isn't behaving - "foster mom, what's the deal with Buddy?"  Beth tells Yoda that Buddy has "sad eyes" and cannot see.

Scene 5 - Buddy has to go to the hospital and Yoda thinks "foster kittens cured my sad heart, why can't they fix Buddy's eyes?"

Scene 6 - Buddy comes home and Yoda is confused as to why Beth has a bunch of balloons for a blind cat

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

Scene 7 - even though Buddy cannot see, he becomes Yoda's sidekick - together forever!!

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

This book should provide Beth Stern fans with more chances to see her on TV, as well as a few choice book signings - perhaps an encore at the Costco in Riverhead, NY.  If they're lucky, maybe Robin Quivers will again record an audio version of this book.  With all the money that this book will raise, maybe Bianca's Furry Friends may get started before the next Presidential election in 2016.
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Sick Cousin of Howard Stern Had to Set Up a Crowdfunding Website

On his June 1, 2015 satellite radio program, an exhausted Howard Stern spoke about how he attended a memorial service for his cousin Stacy, who died late last year and who Howard described as a fun guy.  Howard managed to attend even though his week of judging on America's Got Talent was very grueling and he claimed that "they work him really hard".

To be fair, if the judging involved horrid acts such as the one below, perhaps Howard has a valid point about being tired of watching such nonsense:



There is another side note to the story that Stern did not get to during his jam-packed show, which featured another riveting interview of Melissa McCarthy - Howard's cousin Stacy Gerber had to ask for money on a Gofundme website, as he had to close down his catering business after getting sick.

On the web page, Stacy's spouse said "[w]e have had to close our catering business that Stacy started over thirty years ago, creating closing costs and lessening our income significantly.  We also will be incurring hospital bills and rehab fees."

This appears to be the same cousin that Howard has spoken about on his radio show over the years, and an article about Stacy's 2009 marriage mentioned that Howard was his cousin.  In addition, a woman who looks like Beth Stern appears in one of the wedding pictures and a scroll down the list of donors to Stacy's Gofundme website showed the names of Howard's daughter and sister.  They were able to raise about $13,000, which is short of the $100,000 target (and is also less than the cost of some of the expensive leather purses that animal advocate Beth Stern often carries).

A story from last year indicated that medical bankruptcy accounts for a majority of the personal bankruptcies in the United States, and apparently even those with very rich relatives feel the effects of medical costs and the resulting loss of income after becoming sick.

In the meantime, fans of the Stern show should not forget that Bianca's Furry Friends still needs their money to help save lives (of cats).
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Favorite Howard Stern AGT Moments

Howard Stern is back to further tarnish his legacy by returning to serve as a judge on NBC's summer filler show, America's Got Talent.  Season 10 of AGT got off to a shaky start, as for some reason, the millions of Stern fans failed to tune in and the show had its lowest-rated premiere ever, scoring a weak 2.6 in the key 18-49 demo. 

In an attempt to generate some buzz earlier this year, the NBC creative geniuses made a video of the top 10 moments from Howard's three prior seasons on the amazing show.



At least Howard was showcased in this top 10 video, as he was left out of David Letterman's final top 10 list earlier this month.

The AGT video had some odd clips of Howard dancing with other men, kissing Howie Mandel and pulling a card out of some magician's ass - what a wild man!

It's a shame that the clip couldn't have shown more of Judge Stern's antics on the show, as well as promoting it - here are a few other classic moments from Howard's time on AGT:

Samba Audition

In addition to dancing with the shirtless men in the AGT promotional clip, Howard nearly lowered himself onto the face of a young contestant during a samba sequence in the Chicago auditions a few years ago - Howie Mandel had to offer himself up as bait to get Stern away from the young kid (starts around 1:50)



Robin, Everyone Loves it When I Pretend to Like Men

Howard kissed Howie Mandel in the AGT promo video, laid down on top of Nick Cannon in an AGT teaser video and recently broke out the lame schtick again when he tried to kiss David Letterman in his final appearance.

He also danced the salsa with Howie (around the 3:40 mark) in the video below:



However, the show better make sure to keep women from getting too close to Howard - in 2013 he was scrambling to get away when that yucky girl Heidi Klum tried to kiss him, both on the Today show (at around the 2:50 mark), as well as on Extra.

More Great Acts

Howard claimed that he was on AGT to help find great acts and talent. Apparently this included the Olate Dogs (which won the first season with America's judge).

Howard also got a chance to judge "talent" like a gentleman whose skill was getting kicked in the groin as well as a squirrel on water skis:



Family-Friendly Howard

In 2015, there are still some articles which describe Howard as outrageous, apparently written by folks who no longer listen to the show and think that Howard is the same guy who wished cancer on people and thought that gay people could be "cured" by reading his buddy Dr. John Sarno's book.

These days, the former shock jock is instead drawing pretty paintings of flowers:

Some people who are suspicious may think that Howard is merely tracing these wonderful drawings, as the masterpiece shown above looks very similar to a stock picture found online.

Howard also uses AGT to attempt to create an evolved public image and just a few days ago, Mr. Outrageous was seen on the kids channel Sprout with some chicken puppet character (at around the 2:48 mark):



Hopefully for Howard the AGT ratings will improve for the next show, as the NBA finals don't start until later in the week.  At least with the AGT ratings bar set so low from last season, the PR team at NBC will have an easier time spinning any bad AGT ratings in 2015 and Howard can create more classic moments for next year's AGT promo video.
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Kittens, Shoes and Purses

Although Beth Stern was named to Entertainment Tonight's "Power Women of New York" list in 2013, she somehow manages to find the time to post numerous photos each day to social media, usually of (1) a cat, (2) an old photo of herself (though for some odd reason, none from her European modeling days), or (3) a selfie with a cat, often with the powerful woman laying down on the floor in the middle of her busy day.

In a recent interview with Biography, Beth indicated that she uses her social media accounts to spotlight the kittens that she fosters from the North Shore Animal League ("NSAL"):

  "In the animal welfare community, there's a time of the year known as “kitten season,” the period between March and November when the greatest number of kittens are born.  It's a tough, stressful time for shelters everywhere.  So as kitten season approaches every spring, I help local municipal shelters by taking those kittens who are in danger of being euthanized, due to overcrowding and the enormous numbers of cats and kittens inundating shelters.  ....

  Meanwhile, my husband talks about the fosters on his radio show and I post daily pictures on my Instagram site. Social media are amazing tools for getting the word out!"

One has to wonder how much good this actually does - if there are lots of adoptable kittens at animal shelters, an individual who wants to adopt a kitten could easily go to the NSAL or another shelter and adopt one.  If one is only inspired to adopt a cat due to a "celebrity" using kitten pictures to get attention, will that make for a good long-term home?   A few examples:

In October 2014, Beth took a one-eyed foster cat named Apollo home and renamed him Ace - the comments to her Instagram picture indicated that someone had previously asked about adopting the cat BEFORE Beth turned him in to a photo prop:


A video posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

   From the comments: 

   User monkandbean: "is this 'Apollo'? We inquired about adopting him. Is he still in need of a forever home?"

  Beth replied "yes! Formerly Apollo. Can email me at ****@gmail.com. Going through potential applications now"

It seems that this foster cat could have been adopted without being renamed and having to pose for a video for Beth.

Note:  in the video above, caring Beth asks the one-eyed cat "where's your eye?"

Recently, there was another foster failure - Beth, as usual, posed for a picture with the new "forever family" of two foster kittens.

However, said kittens were back at Beth's Southampton estate within a week after the new adoptive mom somehow discovered that she was allergic to cats - one would have expected that the NSAL and Beth would have checked out the prospective owner more thoroughly before placing the kittens with that family. 

The foster kittens also provide another side benefit - while posting pictures of them, Beth can show off her expensive goods and not appear too gauche, as the cute cats provide a cover story if anyone wonders why she posted the picture.

Just in the first quarter of 2015, more than a dozen of Beth's pictures show the kittens in 'candid' shots with her leather purses and shoes or otherwise styling in the Sterns' fancy cribs.  Fans of Beth may have trouble keeping up with the dizzying number of photos that she posts each day, so here is a quick summary with links to some of these recent pictures:

March 2015:

Lollipop on a shelf in a sea of expensive pink purses

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

Lollipop with purses again

Lollipop with Jimmy Choo shoes

Lollipop with Beth's shoe

Lollipop surrounded by Beth's shoes

February 2015:

Bluebell enjoying a view from the Sterns' Manhattan apartment

Bluebell with purses and shoes

Bluebell near the shoe closet

Bluebell in giant closet with drawers

Bluebell in front of a few pairs of giant shoes

January 2015:

Calliope in front of Jimmy Choos

A video posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

Hazel and another foster with a shoe (only one giant shoe in the picture)

Kittens with Beth in front of lighted shoe cubbies

Harvey with a giant gold shoe collection

Harvey behind Jimmy Choo and Gucci gunboats

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on
 

Beth's followers usually just comment on the cute kitten but do not ask why the animal activist has such a large collection of leather goods.
Design Expert

Although HGTV hired Beth to host the horrible one season and done "Mom Caves" show, it appears that the decor of her expensive mansion leaves a bit to be desired, as she has plastered the walls and furniture with many framed pictures of herself.  Over the years, a number of Beth's pictures 'just happen' to catch the Sterns' cats in front of a framed picture of herself:

February 2015 - Beth with Charlie Chunk in front of a huge framed picture of Beth and Howard

February 2015 - Picture of Leon Bear in front of a Happy Wife, Happy Life sign and a framed photo of Beth

A photo posted by Beth Stern (@bethostern) on

It appears that Beth made a special effort to crop one of her brothers out of this framed picture, which looks like it's from the classic Boys Visit the Hamptons video.

January 2015 - Harvey between two framed pictures of Beth

January 2015 - Bella in front of wall with giant pictures of Beth's horrible magazine covers

September 2014 - Yoda with a framed picture of Beth and Bianca in background

July 2014 - Robin Ophelia foster cat in front of framed picture of Beth and Howard

May 2014 - Yoda next to a picture of Howard and Beth

Lest anyone forget, Beth also has a "traveling collection" of framed pictures of herself, which she broke out in a photo from Howard's AGT dressing room in July 2012:
Beth cleverly included a picture of Robin to make it seem like it was not all about her, but she forgot to include any pictures of family man Howard's three daughters - oops. 

With only another Hallmark kitten baseball special called the Paw Star Game coming up in July, fans and followers of Beth should brace themselves for a continued barrage of kitten pictures for the foreseeable future.
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