{"id":263311,"date":"2018-12-11T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chris-ct-tamburello-grapples-with-intense-family-drama-before-wedding-in-mtv-special\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:18:13","slug":"chris-ct-tamburello-grapples-with-intense-family-drama-before-wedding-in-mtv-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chris-ct-tamburello-grapples-with-intense-family-drama-before-wedding-in-mtv-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris &#8220;CT&#8221; Tamburello Grapples With Intense Family Drama Before Wedding in MTV Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181111\/rs_600x600-181211191421-600-chris-ct-tamburello-mtv-wedding-special.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.406047516199\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.144708423326\">\n<p>Every family has its own drama, and that was on full display on MTV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Challenge: CT&#8217;s Getting Married<\/em>, which is a two-episode wedding special about the days leading up to\u00a0<strong>Chris &#8220;CT&#8221; Tamburello<\/strong>&#8216;s nuptials to\u00a0<strong>Lilianet &#8220;Lili&#8221; Solares.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CT and Lili <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/966720\/the-challenge-s-chris-ct-tamburello-and-lilianet-solares-are-married\" target=\"_blank\">tied the knot on Sept. 8<\/a>, although they had already exchanged &#8220;I Do&#8217;s&#8221; at a Coral Gables, Fla. courthouse in May. White family and friends were in attendance at the ceremony, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/3099086\/chris-ct-tamburello-married-challenge-final-reckoning\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> MTV News, it was not an easy road to get there.<\/p>\n<p>In the first part of\u00a0<em>CT&#8217;s Getting Married<\/em>, the reality star had a difficult time convincing his family to attend the wedding, especially his sister <strong>Vanessa<\/strong>. It put CT between a rock and a hard place because he hoped his family would come, but he also wanted to support Lili and her wedding needs. Lili asked her to be a bridesmaid but Vanessa didn&#8217;t immediately accept. She later called CT&#8217;s sister &#8220;a brat&#8221; who &#8220;gets whatever she wants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>The family tension goes back to when the couple first got engaged. CT revealed in the episode, &#8220;<span id=\"transcript5030350000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5030350000\">I proposed to Lili the night before\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5056380000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5056380000\">I left for another [season of the]\u00a0<em>Challenge<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5068730000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5068730000\">I didn&#8217;t tell my family that I was engaged,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5098090000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5098090000\">but I didn&#8217;t tell Lili that I didn&#8217;t tell them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5098090000\">CT competed on season 29 of the show called\u00a0<em>The Challenge: Invasion<\/em>, which aired in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>&#8220;<span id=\"transcript5245240000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5245240000\">Everybody&#8217;s pissed off at everybody else,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5266590000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5266590000\">and I think my dad&#8217;s genuinely hurt.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5281270000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5281270000\">I almost feel like he&#8217;s under the assumption\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5298960000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5298960000\">that me and Lili were going to do the wedding without them,&#8221; CT explained. &#8220;<span id=\"transcript5355350000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5355350000\">And now\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5361350000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5361350000\">I&#8217;m not exactly sure who&#8217;s gonna come to this wedding.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"transcript5380370000\" class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5380370000\">My father may or may not come, my sister, my mother.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5298960000\"><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5380370000\">CT ventured back to his hometown of Boston, but the journey didn&#8217;t end with many olive branches being extended. He said he hadn&#8217;t talked to his father since he proposed to Lili and there was &#8220;a lot of animosity&#8221; going on with family members.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5298960000\"><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5380370000\">The 38-year-old pleaded with his wife to make amends with his family, but she kept asking why she had to &#8220;be the better person&#8221; and reach out.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5298960000\"><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5380370000\">&#8220;This is my last chance to bring everybody together like it was when I was younger, when everybody was a happy family,&#8221; he appealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5298960000\"><span class=\"transcriptBlock\" data-ticks=\"5380370000\">&#8220;If my sister doesn&#8217;t come and my father doesn&#8217;t come, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever talk to them again,&#8221; he said in another overture to Lili. &#8220;I&#8217;m asking you to be the better person for me.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.929936305732\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.363057324841\">\n<p>The effort seemed short-lived because Lili explained while talking to her &#8220;bestie&#8221; that she &#8220;removed [Vanessa] from the guest list&#8221; at the wedding. However, a few moments later, Lili said Vanessa was back on the guest list but under one condition: &#8220;she needs to apologize and calm down.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want no drama at the wedding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some drama Lili could\u00a0<em>perhaps<\/em> prevent. When it comes to her and CT&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/826112\/surprise-mtv-s-chris-ct-tamburello-reveals-he-s-a-dad\" target=\"_blank\">nearly three-year-old son<\/a>\u00a0<strong>CJ<\/strong>, however, that&#8217;s a different story. At the very end of the episode, the camera cuts to CJ, who was running around the rehearsal dinner. He went near a pool of water and apparently didn&#8217;t heed his mother&#8217;s warning of &#8220;Don&#8217;t go in the water!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will the Tamburello family let bygones be byones? We&#8217;ll just have to wait until next week!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995619\/chris-ct-tamburello-grapples-with-intense-family-drama-before-wedding-in-mtv-special?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every family has its own drama, and that was on full display on MTV&#8217;s\u00a0The Challenge: CT&#8217;s Getting Married, which is a two-episode wedding special about the days leading up to\u00a0Chris &#8220;CT&#8221; Tamburello&#8216;s nuptials to\u00a0Lilianet &#8220;Lili&#8221; Solares. CT and Lili tied the knot on Sept. 8, although they had already exchanged &#8220;I Do&#8217;s&#8221; at a Coral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:30:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}