KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (18 page)

The next day, I was back at the house
working, when I noticed in the trash can out front, the very same gift bag that the lady left for Kate. I picked it out of the trash and wasn’t surprised to see that the beautiful hand-carved blocks were still in the bag, along with a letter from the lady. The envelope was opened, and the letter was torn in half. This is what the letter that Kate tore in half and threw away said:

Dear Kate –

I made this gift not knowing who to give it to.

Then it came to me – You!

We all need these 3 in our life.

Friends – during times of trouble in one’s life, this is a test of who your real/true friends are.

Family – is next. Unfortunately, some have betrayed you. We can’t choose our family. We are born into one.

Faith – is at the top. Our friends will leave us, our family will disappoint us but one thing for sure, God will never leave us or forsake us.

Kate, Happy Thanksgiving. May the Lord be with you.

Take care & God Bless!

S.

Kate has gladly accepted many gifts of monetary value from fans and well wishers. Some wooden blocks were obviously not worthy of her. So f
ans, in the future, please send Kate only things that she can really use. Cash, checks or gift cards are preferred, even if they’re only to Starbucks.

As a postscript, I liked the blocks and the words on them, and the
nice woman who had created them as a labor of love, so I brought them home and gave them to my mother. She doesn’t know the backstory, and she keeps them proudly displayed on her piano for everyone to see.

MEDIOCRE

In September of 2011, Kate opened her mouth once again without thinking and set off yet another firestorm of controversy. While being interviewed on the
Today
show, Matt Lauer asked Kate about Jon’s comments to
Radar Online
, in which he said that he was “very relieved” that his little ones would finally be out of the limelight since
Kate Plus Ei8ht
was canceled. Kate said that she holds herself to higher expectations as a provider than her ex-husband, and stated:

“It’s a situation where Jon may be accepting of
mediocre
for his kids and working a regular job…I want the best for my kids and the best opportunities, not unlike every parent. I think that to be a good parent is to work as hard as you can and give them the best opportunities in life, and this has provided that.”

So to Kate, regular people who don’t have jobs on television are simply mediocre. Yes, Kate pretty much told us all that we’re simply mediocre for going to our pathetic 9-to-5 jobs every day to give our children a good life. Apparently, in Kate’s world, you have to be on television making millions of dollars to provide a good life for your children.

In one brief moment, without her longtime publicist
, Laurie Goldberg, putting words in her mouth on a daily basis, Kate managed to upset and alienate her core audience – the working moms. As usual, she had to immediately backpedal on her ignorant comment because of the negative backlash, so she took to Twitter to “set the record straight.” The first tweet below was Kate’s response to a fan who asked her about her “mediocre” comment. She followed that first tweet with a clarification tweet moments later. It would appear that Kate was given a talking point to address her unfortunate remark, because she basically copied and pasted her response … except for changing the “and” in her first tweet to “&” in her second tweet.

not what I meant.. – I meant this job is not a career acc 2 jon but tv is 4 me and is hard but will prov best opps 4 my kids vs nursing!

2clarify re ‘mediocre’ – I meant this job is not a career acc 2 jon but tv is 4 me & is hard but will prov best opps 4 my kids vs nursing!

I wonder where periodic blogging for a little-known coupon website would fall on Kate’s list of mediocre jobs.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT PREDATOR BEHIND THE
COMPUTER

In October of 2011, there was more trouble in Gosselin/TLC paradise when it was revealed that an editor named Bill Blankinship, who worked for a company called Serious Robots, which does editing work for Figure 8 Films, was arrested and charged with ten counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor (distribution of child pornography). Blankinship worked as an editor for
Jon & Kate Plus 8
,
17 Kids and Counting
, and
Table for 12
,
among other projects
.

As usual, Kate was in her own little world and had no idea that anything was even going on until one of her t
weeties alerted her. When informed about Blankinship, this was Kate’s response on Twitter:

NEVER HEARD OF HIM!

Instead of expressing shock and outrage that someone who had access to film footage of her children was charged with this terrible crime, she acted oblivious to the gravity of the situation. But after a few days of ignoring the matter, and after hearing Jon’s statement to
Star
magazine expressing his concern and outrage, Kate finally thought of a response. It was a lie, of course, but it was, nonetheless, a response. It was her way of trumping Jon’s concern over the issue … that Kate knew absolutely nothing about.

Re news issue at hand, I’m dealing w it properly. Serves 0 purpose2run2 tabs esp w/o all facts.not helpful 2 any1…other than 2 make quick $.

Kate then followed that up with this tweet in response to the hundreds of tweets she was receiving on the subject:

Just because you don’t see and hear what I’m doing about it, doesn’t mean I’m ignoring the issue… I’m not!

IT’S ALL THE KIDS’ FAULT

In January of 2012, on the Dr. Drew television show, Kate pretty much blamed her children for being the reason she can’t find another man.

Dr. Drew: How about you, do you have a love life?

Kate: “No, too busy, I think a lot of my friends who are being constructive, or trying, say gosh, who are you gonna meet that’s um, gonna be able to deal with eight kids and my answer is always, if they can deal with eight kids in our situation, they probably will be the person. It’ll sort of prove it.”

Yes, Kate. Your eight wonderful children are the reason no man wants anything to do with you. It couldn’t possibly be due to the fact that you are mean and nasty and that you very publicly humiliated, emasculated
, disparaged and denigrated your first husband.

On the topic of finding a man, one of her followers sent this tweet:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 My Mama always said it’s nice to have a man, but also know how to stand…on your own.. :)

agreed! I won’t know how to act if/when I ever don’t have to stand totally on my own anymore….;)

It’s rather amusing that Katie Irene Gosselin
wrote the words, “if/when I ever don’t have to stand totally on my own anymore.” Kate Gosselin went from being taken care of by her parents…

To being taken care of by her boyfriends and their parents…

To being taken care of by Jon and his wealthy father…

To being taken care of by TLC/Discovery Communications…

To being taken care of by her manager..
.

To being taken care of by her children.

Even today, she’s still being directed and shuttled around by her road manager/bodyguard, Steve Neild, and she still has nannies and babysitters at home to take care of the kids for her, as well as people to clean her house and cook her family’s meals. She does NOTHING on her own for her kids. And she never did.

EVERYBODY LOVES KATE

One of Kate’s rabid, lunatic Twitter buddies tweeted that she needed some new haters because the “old ones are starting to like me. :)” Kate tweeted back:

lol. My same challenge. Meet me in person then try to hate me... Doesn't work! Real is real. Made up/hear say doesn't match ME!

Well, I have met Kate in person, and I have read her personal thoughts, and I have seen what only a handful of people have ever seen. So I think I can say with some authority that Kate has made it very easy for people to find her unlikeable.

Since 2009, I have met and interviewed literally hundreds of people who have met or worked with Kate, or have known her in some capacity – not fans who only see her on television or read her tweets. I have yet to find
one person
to say one single nice thing about her. Not one single thing.

Everyone who was EVER a part of Kate Gosselin’s life, except for
her children who can’t leave and the few people like Steve Neild who are still getting paid to be around her, ran far away because they absolutely, positively, couldn’t stand being around her. How long will it be before her eight kids follow?