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The Gosselins have been another of my guilty pleasures ever since my husband, flicking channels one night after a day of moving house with a six-month old, a two-year-old and a five-year-old, came across Jon attempting to put all six toddlers into ski suits and we settled in for a good bout of schadenfreude. I resisted their pull last season as the marriage imploded (just too prurient) but I can watch Kate parent her eight on her own with only a few qualms—and who could resist the fabulous juxtaposition of two cultural trends that is the spectacle of Kate Plus Eight … getting chickens?
Because, of course, I want chickens. I envision them pecking around the yard, the kids caring for them and gathering up the fresh eggs, us adding an element of responsibility and authenticity to the kids’ world–and listening to Kate as she tells the camera how she thinks the chickens will add to their lives, I hear all my chicken dreams reflected back to me. But I live in rural New Hampshire, and I have plenty of friends with chickens. I already know that, like so much else in the Gosselins’ heavily planned but so often gone awry lives, chickens aren’t likely to live up to their bucolic promise. Continue reading »
There’s a big headline over at Us Weekly that’s intended to make Jon Gosselin look bad. For the first time ever, it had the opposite effect.
Turns out Jon and Kate Gosselin finally are in the same boat as the rest of us – just with eight kids and oodles of dollars earned pimping said kids to the world. They have to split their holidays. Continue reading »
Leave it to previous producers of “Cheaters” and the “Jerry Springer Show” to bring us what may be the ultimate trash reality grab for money: “Jon-Kate=Jon + Octomom” .
The drama being played out for the viewing public on Jon and Kate Plus 8 has just had a bizarre confluence with another oddity of the celebrity parenting sideshow. In speaking with Radar Online, the Octomom, Nadya Suleman, admitted that she thinks Jon Gosselin is hot and that she has a bit of a crush on him. Given his divorce from Kate, Jon is actually available, pending any break-ups with the bimbo of the week.
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A year ago, there was hearty helping of parents who wanted to BE Jon and Kate. Today – no one would touch them with a ten-foot pole.
So what about the kids? Not the Gosselin kids . . . YOUR kids. Continue reading »
They’re halfway there! TLC’s head honcho officially announced they’ll be dumping Jon Gosselin from Jon and Kate Plus Eight.
From here on out, the show will be known as Kate Plus Eight. Anyone else wonder if they kept her because they couldn’t risk losing the rhyme? Continue reading »
Big news! Jon and Kate Gosselin have announced they’re not talking to the media anymore. So does this mean they’re also not talking to cameras trained on their every movement? Continue reading »
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