The TV shows “Teen Mom” and “Teen Mom 2″ are getting a soundtrack — and no, it won’t consist of lullabies.

Instead, the soundtrack “Teen Mom” features the songs from emerging acts featured on the hit MTV shows. Proceeds from now until July 17 will benefit The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. It’s being released Tuesday on iTunes.

Joe Cuello, senior vice president of creative music integration at MTV, says this is the first time MTV has used a series soundtrack to “promote and support a cause.”

The hit shows document the plight of several young women as they deal with the hardships of young motherhood and more.

Guilty? The law says yes. But her hair looked fabulous.

I love “Snapped,” or as I sometimes called it, “Crazy Beyotches,” Oxygen’s pulpy documentary series about women who snap (get it?) and kill or attempt to kill somebody. It’s usually short, full of punchy interviews, great editing and twists and turns that make you go “What? Did that really happen?” I love it so much that in my occasional stand-up act I joke that it makes my husband a little nervous. (“He says ‘Gee, honey, I hope we never wind up on that show’ and I say ‘We would never be on that show….They would never trace it back to me…More peas? No?’”)

So I was extra-excited for Sunday night’s premiere of one of the most mind-blowing homegrown murder-for-hire plots I’ve heard of – the Dalia Dippolito case. You remember – the gym bunny convicted of hiring someone to kill her hapless husband, caught giving the performance of all performances on a police tape pretending to be distraught when notified of his “death.” Because he wasn’t dead. Whoops.

The episode is not only interesting because of the weird details, like the tape of her convincing her would-be accomplice to smile while she’s making “sure, sure” that he can get a gun, or because it’s local. It provides the inspired commentary of not one but two of my former Palm Beach Post colleagues, court reporter extraordinaire Susan Spencer-Wendel and police reporter turned Boynton Beach Police public information officer Stephanie Slater. Susan, you might know, has resigned to deal with the effects of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, while Stephanie’s been working with the police for a while.

Fun fact: “Working with the police” is my family’s metaphor for being detained by the authorities for an extended period on an involuntary basis…as in the hoosgow. Which is where Dalia, she of the pouty lips and awesome “I’m a widdle lamb” innocent eyes, will be headed if her appeal of her conviction doesn’t pan out (she’s currently on house arrest).  I had followed the case, perhaps like all of you, but there were some tidbits that were delicious:

- The tape of Dalia’s reaction to her husband’s “death,” where she quite clearly asks several times to see the body. Police take this as evidence that she wants confirmation that her deal, and subsequent inheritance from her hubby, has come through. Of course, she could have just been in shock but…the tape of her setting things up with an undercover cop posing as a hitman says “Liar, liar, surgically enhanced boobs on fire.”

- The unexpectedly hilarious tape of post-arrest Dalia, who, as Susan says, is completely delusional in her denial of the plot, even as police explain she’s been recorded planning it. In a shocking twist that tells me that someone at Boynton Beach Police has watched a lot of “Perry Mason,” we see her lay eyes on Michael, who she’s been told was dead. She keeps saying “Come here! Come here!,” to which he responds something like “Sister, please.” It reminded me of those Scooby Doo cartoons when Scoobs and the gang are fleeing from the villain of the week, who holds out a spindly evil arm and says “Come back here!” Yeah Evil Guy, and wife who’ve I just seen on tape plotting to kill me. That’s gonna happen.

- The fact that Mike Dippiito agreed to be on the show, despite his admittedly shady past and apparently poor character judgement. He’s kinda funny. I feel bad for him that his wife tried to kill him. But weirdly he seems to be taking it in stride.

Did you see it? What did you think? And if your spouse was caught on tape planning your death, would you be in a documentary about it?

Bachelor host Chris Harrison has been intimately involved in some of the biggest hookups and breakups in pop culture. From Trista and Ryan’s eight-year marriage to Jake and Vienna’s tabloid-fueled split, Harrison knows that while love may be easy to find on a fantasy TV date, it’s not easy to keep.

Harrison, 40, talked to Parade.com about the Jan. 2 premiere of The Bachelor with Ben Flajnik (ABC, 8 p.m. ET). Plus, how he’s changing things up with a new hosting gig on the heartfelt game show, You Deserve It.

On the toughest part about hosting The Bachelor.
“I guess what I find the most challenging is just keeping up with our Bachelor or Bachelorette and staying in tune with them emotionally and trying to say and do the right things for them and be a friend. I’m a host, but more importantly, I feel like I’m a friend.”

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An Arkansas woman who stars on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting” has suffered a miscarriage after announcing she was expecting her 20th child.

Jim Bob Duggar said in a statement that he and his wife, Michelle, were told at a doctor’s appointment Thursday morning that she had miscarried. He says she is resting comfortably at home and asked for privacy.

Michelle Duggar announced last month she was expecting her 20th child in April and had said she wasn’t worried, despite the premature birth of their youngest child two years ago. She said last month that she had made it through the first trimester safely.

The reality show chronicles the family’s home life. The couple has said they don’t use birth control.

Patti Stanger is not one for mincing words. The star of Bravo’s “The Millionaire Matchmaker” is famous for telling it how she sees it, and there’s very little question how she feels about – about how society has emasculated men, how gentlemen prefer blonds, brunettes and pretty much anyone who’s not a redhead, and how sex before monogamy dooms a serious relationship.

So she’s not kidding around when she assures you that the last three shows of the season, an episode where the very outspoken matchmaker becomes the matchmakee, and the two-part  reunion show hosted by Bravo exec and “Watch What Happens Live” host Andy Cohen, feature “the most exciting thing that will ever happen on Bravo.”

Perhaps you didn’t hear her.

“The ending is the biggest twist we’ve ever had,” Stanger says. “‘The Bachelor”s got nothing on it. I cry. And I never cry on network televiion. I’m not Kyle or Bethany and Jill. But if you bring up anything to do with my personal life, or being adopted or looking for my birth parents, I start bawling. I cry my eyes out.”

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Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott have a new baby girl.

Spelling gave birth to daughter Hattie Margaret McDermott on Monday.

The couple confirmed the news over their Twitter accounts, saying the baby is “gorgeous” and the family is “so happy.”

Spelling and McDermott already have two children together, Liam and Stella. McDermott also has a son from a previous marriage.

The birth was first reported by Life & Style magazine.

Spelling wed McDermott in 2006 after meeting on the set of a TV movie.

The couple plans to introduce their new baby on the premiere of the sixth season of their reality show, “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.” It airs Nov. 29 at 10pm ET/PT on Oxygen.

FORT LAUDERDALE—
Contracts for four Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies who appear on “Police Women of Broward County” reality TV show were turned over to a Broward County judge Monday for his review.

The side deals with the deputies are being sought by the Broward public defender and the state attorney.

At issue is whether the women are being paid to “manufacture arrests” that may appear on the TV show, and whether show business is influencing them while they’re enforcing the law, Assistant Public Defender Gordon Weekes Jr. says.
There are seven cases in which he says the contracts are an issue.

“We’re inching closer,” Weekes said after Discovery Communications gave the contracts to Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes. Discovery owns TLC, the network that has aired two seasons of “Police Women of Broward County.”

Weekes still wants his colleagues to also be able to review the deputies’ deals.

Assistant state attorney Jeff Marcus had subpoenaed the deputies’ contracts, and on Monday, the company complied with the subpoena. The state is legally required to provide all evidence in the possession of law enforcement that is favorable to the defense.

Discovery Communications had previously tried to keep the deals confidential, citing trade secrets in a highly competitive industry.

The corporation has said in court documents that the women are not paid for the type or quantity of arrests they make on the show.

The Sheriff’s Office has said their employees are paid by the reality TV show for their off-duty time, though the deputies appear in episodes while in uniform and on the job, using county equipment and vehicles.

Dana McElroy, one of Discovery’s lawyers, argued before the judge that confidential terms of the contract do not shed any light on any possible motives that are suggested by the public defender. She also argued that it was not relevant how much the deputies were being paid.

“So in other words if there is an expert witness, you can ask, ‘Well, aren’t you getting paid?’ but you can’t ask them how much?” Haimes said to McElroy. “I don’t think that’s ever the case.”

Haimes asked the lawyers to return Sept. 8 to continue their arguments. At that time, he is also scheduled to review Weeke’s request that the court find one of the deputies, Detective Andrea Penoyer, in contempt for not answering questions about the reality TV show during a deposition.

LTrischitta@Tribune.com or 954-356-4233