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Kandi Burruss spoke to PEOPLE about the advice she's given her daughter Riley, 23, about reality TV stardom

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• "Don't let them rewind no tapes on you," Kandi shared

• After making appearances alongside her mom in The Real Housewives of Atlanta over the years, Riley was cast in the premiere season of Bravo's Next Gen NYC

Kandi Burrussis sharing how she's prepared her daughterRiley Burrussfor reality TV stardom.

While stepping out toEssence's Black Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 12, theReal Housewives of Atlantaalum, 49, revealed the advice she gave Riley as she made a solo foray into reality TV. After making appearances alongside her mom onRHOAover the years, the 23-year-old was cast in Bravo'sNext Gen NYC, which aired its premiere season last year.

The show, which follows a group of friends in their 20s as they navigate life in New York City, features several other children ofHousewivesstars, includingKim Zolciak-Biermann's daughterAriana Biermann,Teresa Giudice's daughterGia GiudiceandMeredith Marks' sonBrooks Marks.

Sharing how she helped guide Riley through the experience, Kandi told PEOPLE, "Well, I just told her don't be on there [and] say anything that you ain't going to stand behind. You got to make sure you keep it honest on this show."

"And even if you say something they don't like, just own it and keep it pushing," she continued. "Don't let them rewind no tapes on you like how they do [with] people on the shows. We not doing that."

Kandi — who departedRHOAin 2024 after 14 seasons — said she told Riley that she's "got to keep it strong, confident, honest, and just... Hey, I know it's going to be crazy, but we'll deal with it as it comes."

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The& Julietshares Riley with her ex Russell Spencer. The 23-year-old graduated from New York University in May 2024 and then joined theNext Gen NYCcast.

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Kandi previously told PEOPLE that she was"scared" for her daughter to join the reality TV world.

"It's your baby, you know what I mean?" she said at the 2025 BET Awards. "People already be trying to say crazy stuff about my child online and other celebrity kids. When it's her out front, it's like really nothing I could do to shelter her."

"Because now it's really, all eyes are on you. It ain't about me," she continued. "You're not just catching a stray. It's like people can really just focus on you and say whatever they want to say, and for sure so I'm scared. Oh, Lord. I'm scared of what she gonna be doing on there, child."

While appearing on the Feb. 22 episode ofWatch What Happens Live, Kandi spoke about her financial support of Riley as she joked that the 23-year-old "runs through my pockets." She also revealed that she was still paying for her daughter's apartment.

"I mean, you know, she lives in New York in a two-bedroom in a nice building," Kandi told hostAndy Cohen.

When Cohen, 57, then asked if Riley had a roommate to fill up the second bedroom, Kandi simply replied, "No," and then poked fun at her daughter, who wants to be a lawyer, with the way she "argues her points."

"She was like, 'Mom, it's for my mental health,' " Kandi explained, adding, "I promise you, it was a whole thing."

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Nathan Lane is opening up about the improvisation that led to an iconic moment in The Lion King

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• The Broadway star, 70, shared that his improvised line even led to a song in the film

• Lane played the meerkat Timon in the 1994 Disney hit, which went on to become the highest-grossing movie of 1994 at the domestic box office

Nathan Laneis opening up about the improvisation that led to one of the most iconic moments inThe Lion King.

During an appearance onThe Viewon Thursday, March 12, the 70-year-old actor— who is set to star in a new Broadway production of Arthur Miller'sDeath of a Salesmanon April 9— spoke about working with one of the talk show's longtime hostsWhoopi Goldbergon the 1994 Disney hit, in which he played Timon, the meerkat, and Goldberg played the hyena Shenzi.

"Did you ad-lib any of that?" fellow host Sara Haines asked during the episode. "Because I get Nathan Lane from that character. And I mean that in the best way."

"Oh, sure!" the Broadway star responded, sharing candidly that he doesn't "really remember" exactly what he improvised during the recording process, but that there definitely "was some improv going on."

"But apparently, this was an ad-lib that I did, I said, 'What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?' And then they wrote a song around it," Lane revealed.

The writers were clearly thrilled with the added line, as they later created a short luau song for Timon, in which he wears a grass skirt and coconut bra while dancing to lure hyenas away.

"But you know, Ernie Sabella, who plays Pumbaa...we would record early in the mornings, and we were doingGuys and Dollsat the time on Broadway," Lane continued. "And to amuse me, he would make fart noises while doing his lines [demonstrates blowing into his hand to make a fart noise]. And I would laugh."

"Then they put it in the movie andthey made Pumbaa the first flatulent character in a Disney film," he joked.

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Speaking toEntertainment Weeklyin 2024, Lane and Sabella spoke about how their meerkat and warthog characters were created specifically for them during the audition process.

Lane told the outlet that the pair "improvised a bit and had a lot of fun" while auditioning for the three low-level villain roles, but figured they hadn't landed any part in the movie until Disney reached out and said they wanted to write new characters tailor-made for the duo.

"They said they were developing these new characters called Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and a warthog, for us," Lane said, "and that we would be the comic relief in this Shakespearean tale of lions."

The pair also spoke about the origins of the warthog's farting, which Sabella admitted was a way to entertain Lane "and to get the ball rolling" after a long weekend of Broadway performances.

"I just started making these sounds as he was reading his lines. He kept laughing, going, 'Don't do that, don't do that.' I said, 'I'll stop' — and then I kept doing it," he said. "That's the story of how Pumbaa became the first and only Disney character with flatulence."

The Lion King —which also starred Goldberg, Jeremy Irons,Matthew Broderick,James Earl Jones,Rowan Atkinsonand more — went on to become the highest-grossing movie of 1994 at thedomestic box officeand is still a beloved family film decades later.

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AUSTIN —Dwyane Wadeis a basketball star, a philanthropist and father of atransgender daughter, Zaya. He's been outspoken in his support for the 18-year-old, and amid an increasingly hostile environment forLGBTQ+ rights,he's walking the walk. He executive produced a documentary called "The Dads," which premiered March 14 at SXSW.

It chronicles a group of fathers of transgender and gender-expansive children over the course of a year at retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota, where they bond over their shared experience. The United States has roughly 2.8 million transgender people, according to theWilliams Institute. That's less than 1% of the country's population.

If the title "The Dads" sounds familiar, that's because it comes from the Emmy Award-winning 2023 Netflix short of the same name. This follow-up feature documentary's tone shifted to one of anger and frustration as these dads grappled with the fallout of PresidentDonald Trump's reelection to the White House and theSupreme Court decisionthat upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Some dads of trans and nonbinary kids asked themselves the question: Is it better to stay in the country and fight for my kid, or pack my bags?

"Sometimes you think you're alone on the journey of life, a lot, especially in this,"Wadesaid of what drew him to the project. "I thought I was alone, and then I realized there's other dads out there. There's other dads of color out there. You just never know the community."

Satisfaction withLGBTQ+ acceptancehas ticked down in the United States after climbing for a decade amid debates aboutgender-affirming careandtransgender athletes.

"We need to understand what the human toll is on these families. All of these laws, all of this misinformation, all of this hate, and they are the antidote," director Luchina Fisher added of the titular dads. "They are showing what unconditional love looks like in action."

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The choice to be a part of the documentary was "a no-brainer" for Wade. "I'm so glad we did it," he adds, "because it needs even more uplifting today than it did yesterday."

Wade has choice words for anyone – from parents having trouble accepting their trans kids, to the Trump administration – who don't understand his perspective.

"I always keep it simple," he said, "I think everything in our world can be solved with a four-letter word called love. That's what I lead with. That's what I try to give to every human being, every person that I meet. We all are in this world trying to figure it out. No one has the answers to it. We got a lot of questions. We don't have all the answers. I don't subscribe to anything or anyone trying to treat someone less than."

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Wade knows that everyone in this world has their "own uniqueness." "That's the beauty in this world, is that we all are not the same. I I dislike the ones who try to make us all be the same, because that's just impossible."

Fisher had a few words for the administration directly: "Watch the film. Please see what this is costing families. No one should have to choose between country and family. These dads are patriots. They just want to protect their families like other fathers, and they're doing the best that they can. We need everybody, allies, to stand up for these families so that they can live and let their kids flourish and thrive just like other families."

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