Quick Hits: Kate Gosselin, Youth Pitcher Injuries & Sticky-Fingered Kids
Jon + Kate Not So-Great
As difficult as she’s been making it, I’m starting to feel badly for Kate Gosselin, from Jon “Hey I’m only 32 and for dates” & Kate Plus 8.
I’ve already written about how disappointing and breathtakingly difficult it must’ve been for Jon and Kate Gosselin to have their marriage crumble in front of national television cameras for a reality show whose producers seek to get the best ratings, not take care of a family in trouble.
Soon after they announced that they were divorcing, my feelings of melancholy for both Kate and Jon started to shift. It had a lot to do with the photos and footage of Jon cavorting with several different twentysomething gals late into the evenings, one of whom is the daughter of the cosmetic surgeon who gave Kate her tummy tuck in the first season of Jon & Kate.
Then Kate decided to provide an exclusive interview to the Today Show, and the program exploited Kate’s pain, seemingly trying to goad her into crying. (Wrote about it here.) Following the interview, anonymous NBC staffers complained to the Chicago Sun-Times about Kate’s behavior following the interview, saying, “We get virtually all of the world’s biggest egos coming through here. But Kate was one of the most unpleasant I’ve seen in working here for many years.”
I now wish that this family would simply cease providing interviews to anyone and just pull up the draw bridge to protect those eight young kids and, frankly, themselves. I wish they’d stop providing fodder for anyone to write about, live their lives as quietly as possible. Aside from doing the TLC show — payment for which is likely providing the family with the funds to put those eight kids through college — I wish Jon and Kate would just stop talking about their impending divorce and love lives and just focus on providing TLC with footage of raising eight kids, not on tabloid sideshow trash.
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