<p>I’m thinking that we need to change the title of this thread. Maybe it should read John and Kate +8 forgetaboutthem. How times have changed.</p>
<p>I didn’t watch the last “new” episode-episode two-- on Monday. On purpose. But the first new episode of the year broke records as 10 million watched. And episode two broke that as 11.5 million watched. Ugh. The train wreck is only picking up speed. All the publicity is great for ratings. Not great for the kids…This show is not going anywhere if TLC can help it.</p>
<p>I think Jon needs a job on a crab boat. Sister station Discovery can hire him on as a deck hand on Deadliest Catch. He wont’t have time to wander…Hows that for cross covering shows!</p>
<p>Read in US magazine, that people on Bald Head Island ratted her out, basically everywhere, one ratted her out on the beach, that she was hanging with the bodyguard and not with the kids when the cameras wereen’t running. One ratted her out at the pool where she yelled at one of the kids telling them they are dead if she gets wet, one at the store, because she talks about in a preview that the girls got shark teeth, but it was the nanny that was with the girls not her.</p>
<p>Why would they need to get him an apt, supposedly he is staying in the apartment over the garage. There is no apt large enough for him to get that Kate would approve of for divorce/custody reasons. It would have to be at least 4 bdrms, and I don’t know of any 4 bdrm apartments. Plus she even said a woah is me, we are carrying 2 mtgs since the other hasn’t sold. He could move back into the old house.</p>
<p>I’ve only seen this show a couple times, and just recently.</p>
<p>My question-- where do the older children go to school? With cameras following the parents everywhere this would be very disruptive. It’s probably off limits to the film crew, but what about the paparazzi? They have absolutely no sense of decency. It made me sick to see them surrounding those little kids. They have no qualms about coming in waaay too close, firing unsolicited questions, etc. There should be laws against them!! It’s no wonder that every so often a celebrity ends up slugging one. Reason to think very hard before wishing for fame, or a reality show.</p>
<p>The older ones go (or went) to a private “day” school in a neighboring county. It would be a long bus ride (over an hour) but other families from the area send their kids there.</p>
<p>I don’t think the paparazzi is as prevalent or as unwelcome as Kate wants you to believe.</p>
<p>The first show this season did show the paparazzi “stalking” them and it was worse than I would have guessed. I did not watch the second show. I think Jon needs and apartment for him. While he may stay in the apt over the garage to be near the kids, sounds like he wants a pad for himself to get away to.</p>
<p>I also though living in the old house if it had not sold was an idea.</p>
<p>Why would they have two mortgages if they have earned over $6.2 million on the show alone to date? Seems like they would have just paid for the new house, or at least just paid off the old house until it sells. They are wealthy by any criteria.</p>
<p>J & K surely have tax advisors, paying off he mtg, means that they use up their liquid asstes, plus, if there is a loan, they get to write off the Int and Taxes, which lowers the tax bill, same with the new home. It is all about deductions and write offs.</p>
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are you talking about the birthday party? If so - I tell you that was odd. The “paparazzi” were forewared. I know right where that party took place and it was in a rural location about 15 miles from their home. No one would have stumbled upon it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was staged.
Contrary to popular belief the paparazzi are not permanently staked outside the Gosselin home.</p>
<p>JustAMom, I found that odd, too, in addition to the decision to have the party in a public park. If they’re so worried about paparazzi, why on earth wouldn’t they have had the party at their home, which has grounds large enough to ensure privacy.</p>
<p>It was not a public park but a private club. They have a pool and water park and they have a picnic area for parties, wedding receptions etc.
It is very out of the way and not easy to find.</p>
<p>Ah, well, I guess that makes more sense, although with that beautiful house and property they have, I still don’t quite understand why they wouldn’t have done it at home.</p>
<p>Because of you all, I actually watched an old episode (the Gymboree one). I don’t understand what the interest is.</p>
<p>All I can see is Kate as,before the birthday party, as The Queen of Hearts in Disney’s" Alice in Wonderland", singing “Painting the Roses Red”! Assuming that the paint was dry on the flowers, Kate probably chose to have the party elsewhere so as not to have to permit “commoners” through the gates of the palace- and if it was at a private club, there would be “peons” paid to clean up after them.</p>
<p>One would have to assume that paying for the house was no hardship.They didn’t even go back to “clean up” and look through the old house until 6 months after the move (saw that episode during the last “marathon” while I was cleaning my closet), and sure enough, sitting there, abandoned in an empty, unheated house ( the kids were complaining that it was cold in there) was Cara’s piano. They had abandoned it- after they got an episode about music lessons out of it though… As far as where Jon is going to live-maybe they will bring in construction crews from another show to make over the outbuilding on the property- the one that Jon is always telling the kids to stay out of because of the “horse poop”, not that more piles of something similar would be noticed among all of the lies being told around there!</p>
<p>I saw a segment on J&K on the later morning news yesterday. They were talking about how what is sad about reality TV is that people are watching other people live their lives insteading of having a life of their own. Instead of throwing a barbeque for a bunch of people they are watching other people’s BBQ on TV. I watch these shows some on my down time but I definitely still have a life!<br>
But I was struck by the comments, it is an interesting way to look at reality TV. There are obviously large segments of the population who watch it.</p>
<p>Actually, I thought that the “Papparazzi” was very discreet at the party…they were way off and weren’t harassing anyone. I fail to see how Kate can get upset about people photographing them when she has a film crew standing next to her! Is she upset because she won’t get a cut of the royalties?</p>
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<p>Isn’t that true of ALL TV, not just reality TV? Part of what gives entertainment its value is it’s a diversion from our lives. Reality or fiction, we watch the Gosselins and the Brady Bunch because - on some level - we think it is fun to do so. </p>
<p>Or, as the guys from hulu tell us, it’s because they’re turning our brains to mush. ;)</p>
<p>Check out “American Chopper” this coming Thursday night. Apparently, Jon has commissioned them to build him a bike!</p>
<p>^^This guy is in his mid-30s? I think he’s having a mid-life crisis, a little early…</p>
<p>no, I think this is “cross selling”</p>
<p>Is this the next Jon and Kate plus 8?</p>
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