Kate has a plan for winning DWTS. The kind of plan a narcissist needs when she can't dance.
Can't you just hear her excuse once she flunks out? "A certain someone who I bullied into continuing our phony marriage for months on end because I wanted fame and money more than I wanted to be a healthy and honest role model for my children who will remain unnamed because I am too much of a class act to publicly throw my children's father under the bus made me lose."
This couldn't possibly be about wanting that DWTS winner bonus, could it?
Here's a novel idea, Kate: How about just practicing as hard as you can, performing to the best of your ability during the live shows, and then either being thankful you're safe for another week or accepting it gracefully if you're voted off, the way any reasonable, and mature adult would do?
Because if you win by soliciting oodles of telephone votes instead of actually winning by fair and honest competition, you haven't really won, just like we as honest and responsible role models teach our children, right?
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Werny Gal, I get such a kick out of your take on this.
I don't watch reality shows, but I can't help but be exposed to them in so I have enough of an inkling to enjoy your posts.
Thanks Leah, you're such a sweeite and it's always great to hear from you. I DO get a little snarky here, don't I? I have to make up for other areas of my life where I am normally more appropriate and well-behaved. :)
How much effort do you think Kate will really make in this? I think she'll start out strong, but if she feels she's in over her head I can see an injury on the horizon or something that will explain away a less than stellar performance.
That's an interesting question, itsabout. When she was on Jimmie Kimmel Live the other night she said she'd been practicing with her co-dancer in her basement for three days, and usually by then the amateurs are moaning and groaning about how out of shape they are and how much pain they're in. Yet she was all smiley with nary a care in the world. She did say she can't dance, and that she plans to win, but she didn't say anything about how hard it was. Maybe it was the "I'll just look cute and all the moms across the country will vote for me because they love me representing them" delusion setting in.
Werny gal, actually, Kate said she had been practicing for three days but she didn't say it was in her basement. They didn't install that dance floor in her home until a few days after Jimmy Kimmel. Kate was still in NYC as of yesterday.
She also has a women's expo coming up and the View next week. I seriously doubt her time at "home" is going to be spent tucking kids into bed and correcting homework.
(sorry for the snark. I'm sick with a terrible cold and feel bitter...lol)
Bitter- thats a great way to describe the people who make up these crazy scenarios regarding Kate.
Thanks for the clarification mommyinca, I stand corrected.
WG, I hope I didn't come across snarky at you at all. That was not my intention at all. I really appreciate your blog and respect your work as a therapist.
I just wanted to point out that while it seems as though Kate will be home practicing, in reality, she won't be "available" to her children at a time when they seem to truly need her.
I have no problem with Kate making money. I understand that she needs to generate an income. I can also understand getting a taste of fame and fortune and not wanting to give it up. However, considering the situation, I do take issue with Kate's talking out both sides of her mouth. If she wants fame and fortune, fine. But don't try to say that you're doing it all for your children. That gets my blood boiling.
No Probby at all, MIC. I'm totally with you on this one but even if I weren't you're welcome to your opinion. That's what keeps it interesting around here!And yes, in real life I'm a therapist, but on this blog I'm just another mom like everyone else, who happens to live in Wernersville. I'm sure we all agree that nothing is more important than the welfare of children, and that's what this blog is really all about. It's a serious subject, but it's okay to have fun too, so I say Snark Away! :)
Kate Gosselin is living the dream now---a manipulator who is working with an industry that manipulates the viewers to make money. I normally don't care much about "celebrities" and their branding, but this situation is troubling because of the marketing of children (perhaps the number born deliberately created) by a couple of schemers. Hopefully now that the children are no longer cute babies, they won't be forced to work on camera again but as long as TLC stands behind Kate, she'll keep popping up on TV.
All the clebrities on the show ask their fans to vote for them. Kate is just doing what they all do.
She also seems like the type who will work very hard.
I say at least give her a chance before you start criticizing her.
Fair is fair.
Give her a chance at what? If it's customary for all dancers to ask their fans for votes then why can't we vote for our favorite like everyone else? I'm not a Kate fan and I won't be voting for her. I'm sure her fans will vote for her whether she's the best dancer or not. Yes, fair is fair. It sounds like the judges are the only ones voting on dancing ability.
Werny Gal, I'd sure like some insight from a local as to why the paps are still following Kate around shopping at Target, tanning salon, etc. It seems Radaronline insists on publishing these boring pictures so they or TLC must be paying these guys to keep her name out there. You ever hear much about who these paps are? Is it the town's consensus that the Gosselins are a freak show no longer welcomed?
The paps are following them around because they get paid for it! :) Right now, since things are slow, I doubt the rags have their own photogs scouting the scene. It is probably freelance photogs hoping for a great shot that will net them thousands of dollars. Kate's being on DWTS has probably brought them more into the public eye again, at least temporarily, so that makes pictures more valuable right now. But those general daily kind of photos won't net the photogs nearly as much as shots of Jon sneaking the babysitter into his apartment over the garage or him leaving a bar with a Reading schoolteacher. Ahhh, those were the days of glory for the paps! :)
IMO the locals don't give a rip about any of it. Kate has never been a part of the local community. The kids go to an expensive private school elsewhere (of course, where else would Kate's kids go?) and she has no local friends that I know of. She's alientated anyone who ever tried to be her friend from everything I've heard and have recounted in previous blog entires. Jon has friends because he grew up around here, and he seems to have very loyal friends and he in return is a loyal friend. Unlike Kate who has done things like co-wrote a book with a friend (okay, the friend actually wrote most of it) and then after it was written wanted to claim all the credit (and all the money) for it herself. Then she cut that friend out of her life, the same way she has all the friends who helped her with the babies years ago. As far as I know she has no local friends. She's more concerned with being what she thinks is successful than making or keeping friends...I guess it depends on your definition of success, right?
Here's Al Walentis's take on Kate on DWTS.
http://www.greaterreadingonline.com/al-walentis/2010/3/2/kate-gosselin-is-the-new-tom-delay.html
So this is actually a paying gig? I thought maybe they donated the money to a charity! Yikes!
Have you heard anything about where Jon may be residing in the area, Werny Gal?
I think he's still in the garage aprartment, but I'll poke around and see if I can find out anything else. Hard to imagine him having an apartment anywhere w/o the paps making a fuss about it.
Kate doing a show for money for charity, NDM? When she needs to feed her starving babies!!! :) :) :)
Thanks for the insight. So now the question is why does she continue to live in PA if her goal is to be a "star"? Family and friends mean nothing to her. Jon means nothing to her. The only explanation I can think of is that you mentioned the expensive private school---I guess whatever deal she is getting on tuition is too good to pass up. I've read that the kids were going for free or at some ridiculously low rate. So all this talk of not staying away from the kids for a long time because she is a "super mom" is a bunch of you-know-what. It's all about continuing to squeeze money out of her children into her pocket.
I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right, Rose. My suspicion is that she's not going to stay here long. She has no reason to. And I'm sure she'd have no compunctions about moving the kids away from Jon. Sure, he let Little Willie out to play too often and too much in public, but he obviously loves his kids and they need their dad. I hope she considers their needs before moving.
Kate...consider the kids needs? I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
Preesi has the covers of this weeks tabloid magazines posted. Here are some of the titles. Kate has most of the cover of People Mag:
Us Weekly - "Kate Gosselin Fame Over Family"
Star Magazine - "Cougar Kate's Hot Date - Her Sexy Night with Married Man!"
In Touch Weekly - "Kate Fame Over Family!"
People Magazine - "Why Can't A Mom Have Fun?" " The Dancing with the Stars newcomer insists she can balance fame and family. 'You say I'm a bad mom, it destroys me'
Do you think she'll turn all the magazines over when she takes the kids to the store. Sorry, but Kate is just pathetic and such a hypocrite.
Jon needs to get to court and get residential custody. If he is living in the garage apt. then he's probably seeing the kids quite often isn't he? These people are nuts! Nothing makes sense.
Yes, Kate tries to find an aisle w/o magazines, or she turns them over. But this time she can't blame the covers on Jon, can she? Yes, Jon sees the kids all the time. I think his days are still Friday - Sunday and he can often be seen outside with them if the weather's nice. Even when he was out making headlines he was always actively involved on his days, which are three out of seven. The only difference that I know of between him being there and Kate being there is that he sleeps in his apartment while she still sleeps in the house. And frankly, who can blame him? For months and months he went along with the marriage sham just to please her until he couldn't stand it anymore. If I were him I'd want my own space too.
You aren't saying they live in the house (Kate)/apt. (Jon) all the time are you? Aren't they on the property only when it's their visitation time? I guess I'm confused. It doesn't really matter but I just assumed as with most divorces that when it's not your visitation you aren't around where the kids are. Meaning Jon and Kate would each have a second residence outside of the kids home.
Oh, now I see what you're saying about the living arrangement. I think Jon lost his NYC apartment but let me check obn that and get back to you. And I think Kate has an apartment down south in the same community as the bodyguard's family, but let me verify and get back to you.
I don't need to go to Preesi to read the magazine scans, but it appears that People, once again, is shrilling pro-Kate.
I, too, heard the rumor that she had bought a condo near the bodyguard but in a different area than the one she was busted on by the magazines. I was always amazed that she "disappeared" during Jon's time with the kids when they were separated. Sure, there was a picture of her at a local hotel, but I believe that was a set-up because folks were questioning where her hidey-hole was. I normally am not a conspiracy theorist, but TLC is in complete control of her.
I believe that, that TLC is in complete control of this entire family. How could it be otherwise since the Gosselins are the brand that TLC is paying for. I think Jon hates it, obviously because he tried to break his family away, but Kate loves it because they give her everything she wants. It's shameful what TLC is doing to this family and I think they're trying to coverup a lot of what's happened, especially child labor claims. I would like nothing better than to see them get busted some day and some laws get passed because of it.
I am totally with you gals on this. I think TLC feeds Kate's narcisism and endless need for financial security, and of course she feeds them more income. Jon dared to speak out and now he's been tossed away like a useless rag. It's one big superficial ball of dysfunction, and the kids are just blowing around in everyone else's breezes. Kate is really delusional if she thinks being in the public eye will in any way be good for those kids. They could keep their house and go back to normal living any time. Their income was about $3 million a year and they could've even paid cash for their house or had it paid off within a year, but living high on the hog got too normal to them. Now the kids are going to pay for all this being special, unique, entitled. Future therapists, drug dealers and assorted pimps, here they come.
Oh, I fogot to say that Jon has been staying with his new girlfriend in Utah when he's not home with the kids, but he has said he'll be looking for housing here. He hasn't stayed in his apartment in NYC since the break in but he has to pay rent on it until his lease runs out in July.
Thanks, Werny Gal. I'm glad he's looking for something closer to home, but I'm also glad he still has the relationship if that's what they both want. It's good to know he's staying under the radar with it. After all that's gone on in the past I'm sure he probably wants to keep it quiet but I wonder how much of that has to do with TLC keeping a lid on it as well?
Werny Gal,
How do you know that Jon hasn't been in the NYC apartment? How do you know Kate has an apartment near the bodyguard? How do you know Jon has visitation Fri-Sun? I wonder how this has all been kept silent everywhere else on the net but you know it? The gals at another blog "broke" some stories like the house and Jon's sportscar. But they haven't published any of this?
Thanks,
Mocha
Hi Mocha and thanks for visiting. Earlier today I emailed a friend who has a mutual friend with Jon and got the info about Jon's current whereabouts from him, so I feel it's pretty accurate. I don't know why others know or report what they do, and today was the first day I've bought tabs in over a month, so I'm way behind on that gossip. All I know is what I hear locally. But it was reported widely at the time of the divorce settlement that Jon's days are Thurs - Sunday and Kate's are Mon-Wed. That's what the big hubbub was about a few months ago when the police were called when Kate tried to enter the property on Jon's days and he wouldn't let her in (after she heard about the babysitter being in his apartment over the garage.) If it helps, I do try to be very accurate and I don't write things unless I am very sure of them. I do sometimes interject my opinion, but as far as facts go, I really try to keep them straight and I'm not into making things up for drama. In fact, that kind of thing really gets on my nerves :) and you can get that on any blog. But my blog is from Wernersville and I do my best to keep it honest.
Thanks Wernygal,
I trust your "Jon source", since it sounds accurate. How about Kate? It was denied that she had an apartment down there, and the story died. Most reports I've read are that she stays locally at a hotel near the home. If Jon gets weekends, and Kate is always at Target on weekends, she'd have to be somewhere neaby, I'd think. What do you think?
Thanks,
Mocha
It's possible. She's stayed at the Day's Inn which led me to think she was paying for it, because if TLC was paying for it she would've chosen a more upscale hotel. And I'm sure she doesn't have an apartment here because the whole world would know if she did.
What is your take on the entire situation, mocha? And are you aware of the unfortunate death of Corey Haim?
Yes, I am aware of Corey Haim's sad death. I don't really care for the comparison to the Gosselin kids. I am a much more positive person by nature and hope for the best for all 8. One can never say for sure what drove CH to abuse drugs. Fame certainly could have a huge factor. I always suspect the Hollywood "scene" + access to a ton of money (made as a child star) is usually the culprit, though.
In that light, I support the Gosselins' decision to keep their kids in a small, private school in Little Town, PA. It seems like it's got good people, like their neighbor Werny Gal. :) I think they are more likely to experience fewer pressures than in a glamorous "be seen or die" town like Hollywood or even NYC.
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