Is there really no thread about the Gosselins of John and Kate Plus Eight?

How is this possible?

I, for one, have always been freaked out by this show, freaked out by Kate, and very, very concerned for the children.

What say you all?

DISCLAIMER: I will totally understand if this thread goes nowhere.

I, for one, have always been freaked out by this show, freaked out by Kate, and very, very concerned for the children.

Yep!

u know, all of a sudden she's everywhere.

i had no idea who she was. i guess i don't like flip channels enough.

she looks like a monkey kind of, and family reality shows are fucked.

Her hair is what really frightens me.

I know a couple named Jon and Kate. They have heard of this show.

The main thing I have ever known/noticed about this show is that Jon is apparently not allowed to speak. There are long interview sections where she talks and talks and then he starts to mention something and she yells at him. I have even seen one bit in which he's not speaking at all and she turns and yells at him for breathing too distractingly while she speaks. Mostly he seemed to have developed this completely checked-out unmoving blank stare into the distance.

So when whatever news occurred re: his cheating on her, I must admit that I was like one billion percent unsurprised

legally speaking, putting kids on a show like this might be "okay", but ethically i think it's scraping the bottom of the barrel

http://i39.tinypic.com/sbpibq.jpg

http://blog.imperfectparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gosselin_mom_sm.jpg

umm that's kind of mesmerizing, but their body language is weird or something

XP

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2009/05/kate-gosselin-b2.jpg

I can only manage to watch the summaries of this on the various Soup, Dish, etc. shows.

But then again I'm ADDICTED to Real Housewives Of New Jersey

I watched this show until the middle of last season when I couldn't take it anymore. John maybe made some questionable "choices" in the bars sans-wedding ring, but for season after season I feel like Kate has become more obsessive, controlling and abusive. And in the midst of this John quits his job, which I think is a key factor in all of this. He goes from being mr. IT with a career coming home to his family and making a TV show to being all about the TV show while mom goes and travels around to promote books, then she comes home and yells at him for breathing wrong.

The guy is like, younger than me. I'm just saying I empathize. And for a few seasons, he was a very likeable guy. Pretty funny and down to earth.

Except when they start talking about Jesus and teaching the kids about 9-11 so they understand why we're in Iraq.

And if we really want to dish...in the early seasons Kate's brother and sister-in-law would come over and help with the kids and help with home projects and such, then they suddenly disappeared. Word was that Kate didn't think they should get paid for their time on the show. Now they're going to the tabloids saying the kids are being exploited.

The whole thing is fucked but kinda amazing it a post-modern/reality sense regarding the fact that we've all watched this family fall apart. Not some contrived Bachelor bullshit or anything, but real people you've been following for however many years, going through this on TV.

Anyway, they say they're doing it for the sake of the children...I know 8 college funds can be a lot, but you'd think they have enough money now. For the children they should now maybe experience what it's like to not have a camera around, and for the sake of their children, their marriage and other family relationships, they really should just end it asap, because it's just rubber-necking from now on...

My mom is way into this show (I've never seen it) and she talks about it all the time. I started to see them on the covers of all the supermarket tabloids and figured she'd be all bummed but she's actually more into the cheating scandal shit than she ever was into the plain old "oh crap we've got tons of babies" angle. Knowing my mom this shouldn't have surprised me.

Yeah, I was getting my haircut the other day and the lady cutting hair next to me said that Kate's hair has "reached Jennifer Aniston level" in terms of people walking in off the street and requesting it. Egads.

http://www.cockatoos-training.com/z_images/cockatoo_3.JPG

I only watch TLC's midget shows - The Little Couple, etc.

^^ its good to have standards

x-post - There is more than one midget show?

I've only seen seen a couple episodes of this show but those freaking kids, my God they're adorable.

That lady's hair is pretty scary and confusing though.

That hair looks really expensive. All the office ladies are wearing it.

I was getting my haircut the other day and the lady cutting hair next to me said that Kate's hair has "reached Jennifer Aniston level" in terms of people walking in off the street and requesting it. Egads.

So sick and wrong.

It's awful. What is that spiky crap at the back?

hair

but but . . . WHY?! It's disturbingly bad.

my 6th grade math teacher had hair like that, in 1995

Yeah - it's very mid-90s.

http://www.mtv.com/content/ontv/movieawards/2008/images/flipbooks/2008-red-carpet/christian-soriano-55038844.jpg

http://www.retroland.com/retrotalk/userfiles/oldmikescore.jpg

it's like those two hairstyles had a baby that ran away from home and is currently squatting on Kate's head

It would be awesome if Kate ran off with Mike Score.

That would be a great reality show: awful hair and clown sex.

This might be the end result:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_xd9TCSIbfMY/R-GDIzeCGfI/AAAAAAAAA4U/m46Zf_LTpt0/s400/ronald-mcdonald-is-arrested-in.jpg

If that is a clown car and she has 8 kids, then, hold on, I don't understand the internet meme anymore.

(just in case)

http://i44.tinypic.com/i74vnp.jpg

totally unsurprised that this lady's greed to have as many kids as possible also manifests as greed for money and control. congrats on being paid to be totally awful parents, would that other bad parents had the opportunity

The most remarkable thing about the show is watching the mounting resentment and hatred John develops for Kate as the series progresses; IIRC the show started out with her edited in a sympathetic light but that changed pdq.

Wait until you find out about Octomom's reality show. (the octuplet lady who wants to look like Angelina Jolie)

yeah, we know; Kate's already badmouthing her and Nadia is firing back etc etc barf

Octomom is a completely different personality disorder imo

narcissistic vs dependent, imo

one is "acceptably" crazy, one if "point and laugh" crazy.

this woman doesn't seem like as big a bitch as everyone claims she is to me. can you imagine having eight kids? we have one and act like bigger assholes that these people (okay we don't cheat on each other, but still).

than. than these people.

It's not a 24/7 webcam, it's a TV show - program makers choose what to show and how. Viewers all think they have their opinions, but based on what? (this is true about everything on TV, including politics, obviously, but we all forget this all the time)

if i know anything the field producers are really "befriending" them both and getting them to confide, probably providing them with a little free alcohol as well to loosen them up, and then editing it to make them look a little worse or--if the story calls for it--a little better than they are. still, oughta be a law about putting kids on reality tv shows. as in, don't do it.

this woman doesn't seem like as big a bitch as everyone claims she is to me. can you imagine having eight kids? we have one and act like bigger assholes that these people (okay we don't cheat on each other, but still).

I could understand a couple with eight (or fewer) children being mutually cranky and short-fused and impatient with one another, but seriously, so far as I can tell this dude is barely allowed to speak? She will be telling a long story about something that happened to him and then bar him from contributing. I don't know their lives or where that comes from or anything, but that has gotta be a pretty pits-y level of a relationship when you just stare at a wall like you're repressing thoughts of strangling your wife and then she's like GOD do you have to breathe so loud over there

She has her own page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Gosselin
but his redirects to the show's page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Gosselin

that is symptomatic of our culture's diminishing respect for the role of fatherhood that Dan Quayle warned us about

you guys are bizarre

I don't watch the show, jeff, so I'm not invested in not seeing dude with a punchable face and who is sponsored by an ugly clothing company not get beaten in a bar fight.

not

so many violent people in san francisco

It's true.

can someone check to see if jeff (lowercase j) is sockpuppet

can someone beat me to death in a bar fight

i'm the smug guy wearing affliction brand clothing

Kate in blue bikini on her driveway : I'm sticking with my prediction that the show will turn into a "who'll be the new daddy" thing. If they can't think of anything even lower, that is.

Jeez - it's just a parent spanking her kid. But no, Front Page News!

http://whybenormal.today.com/files/2009/06/kate-gosselin-spanking-leah.jpg

ts: ed hardy vs affliction

ps still gazing in wonder at The Shirt. Does it have cunning faux sleeves or is it, like a set?

It looks like the red sleeves are sewn in...I'd imagine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4wy6-Rt7w&

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x311/vainilla_sky/ontd/jon-gosselin-new-nanny-02.jpg

I'll bet he's a cool dad. You know he's gonna let those kids drink on their monthly visits.

He just looks like a complete douchebag.

He looks like he's about three sad steps away from becoming a Juggalo.

he looks like a tub of lard

I can't even handle this asshole. I've never watched the show btw but he's everywhere now since the divorce and just looks like a bigger asshole with every single picture:

Vroom vroom here comes the douchemobile:

http://i26.tinypic.com/125krko.jpg

even though I don't watch the show anymore and he's got some annoying christian/patriotic republican ideas going on, I will defend him again. On the show he was often funny while his wife was shrill and emasculating. He lost his 20s to 8 kids and reality TV and now he's like "fuck it, permanent spring break".

on the other hand...

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/38038875.html

Vroom vroom here comes the douchemobile:

Thank you. I had a nice fit of childish LOLs at that. :)

I only read the Story Highlights and that was enough to know I didn't want to read the rest.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/08/10/kate.gosselin.ring/index.html

yawn

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/08/jon-gosselin-goes-off-on-kate-police-called/

I can't find a better thread to post this in and didn't think it merited a new thread, but holy shit: the Octomom Special on Fox was really something.

Thread rename request?

Kate Plus 8

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/09/29/kate-plus-8-jon-gosselin-exits-reality-show.aspx

But of course:

“Jon Gosselin unequivocally believes that his children's continued participation in your client's television production is detrimental to his children,” Heller wrote to TLC in a letter obtained by “ET.” “Accordingly, Jon expects that your client will cease and desist from any and all further production which includes his eight children."

Oh for dumb.

wtf is wrong with people btw?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/28/jon.gosselin.girlfriend/index.html

They must have crystal meth in the water or something.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/28/jon.gosselin.girlfriend/story.jon.gosselin.mantrum.gi.jpg

"Spiders! Aiiigh! Get 'em off me get 'em off me!"

I thought the revive would be about this.

I am okay with the existence of this show as long as both of them and anyone who watches is sterilized. Or if we can just delete Earth immediately after it's done airing.

'when i love someone i would never hurt them'

no, she'd just go tell the world about what a fuckup they are and air all their relationship dirty-laundry.

Confusing. Can't they all just live in one big house and be like "Jon, Kate, Nadya and Hailey + 22" so I can follow what's going on?

never watched that show but yeah they sure take a lot of place on tv, i managed to notice them too often at any rate and that just motivated me to ask here if anyone caught them when they were just a one shot "soft news" segment one evening? i did and i was like o_0 at them: i remember the girl playfully asking the camera if they wanted to see her stomach, since everybody asked. i was expecting to see "a miracle", but there was no miracle. her stomach was a mad wreck and she was wearing special elastic underpants up to under her breasts to hold that in place. i remember the guy flatly said her body is ruined so sex is over. felt i had to write that, lol. "Our epoch is not very glorious."

'MANTRUMS'

this has really gone too far

http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/photo_galleries/regular_galleries/372-jon-gosselin-yoga/photos/1257457920_jon-gosselin-4.jpg

http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/photo_galleries/regular_galleries/372-jon-gosselin-yoga/photos/1257458020_jon-gosselin-6.jpg

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How to make an octuplet, part one, stretching?

what

Well done, young grasshopper. (Surely not doing this kind of thing just because he's asian?)

why because he look fat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5kjRj_css

http://i33.tinypic.com/s41hqp.jpg

The Boondock Shits

Man, if Jon could call up Michael Lohan and get all three of them in the room together...

we could, I don't know, flood the room or something

Have them stage No Exit

i just love the look on his face. it says so many things.

"have 8 babies by me, baby, be a multi-millionaire"

this is the only thread on which the "Octomom" was discussed - I just want to say that living with a pregnant lady and seeing what it's like to have one baby inside of you has made me appreciate how fucking insane a person would have to be to want to have EIGHT BABIES inside of them. like, just imagine walking around with EIGHT PEOPLE inside of your body.