KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (94 page)

lol. Overboard? I'm actually scaling back this year...I go overboard for every holiday and birthday... The nature of a mom!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Still filling eggs Kate?:)

yes. Then onto Easter baskets… Almost done!:) yay!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I have just read that you have 1100/1200 eggs …that will keep the ADULTS occupy for a while haha xx kids can chill out xx

oh yeah- always takes way longer to hide than to find. Why is that? :)

….and with that, good night to all! What a long fun day! As for tomorrow, I better rest quick! Hoppy Easter!
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The link Kate posted in this last tweet was to a photo of her Easter baskets on the dining room table. Kate had made it sound like she had created the most incredible baskets in the history of Easter basket making. The photo showed them to be nothing special; really very mediocre at best for a woman nearing 40 who claims to be super at everything she does. Her tweeties were absolutely amazed, though, and gave her an A++++ grade for her effort. Well, at least the kids got baskets.

Things got far more interesting on Easter Sunday. This is Kate’s version of how Easter day went:

4.8.12 (Easter Sunday)

Home fr church (wonderful Easter celebration!) now let the candy,lunch&egg hunting begin! Excitement in air- Feels like Christmas here….;)

And so the eggs were filled (well, last night) hidden, hunted, emptied and returned to the bin within two hours!
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…it’s all over!The last of r guests hav gone, house is still in partial disarray,all r well fed,very well candied (includingmommy!)& happy

Now that you’ve read Kate’s version of Easter, I will tell you what really happened on the Gosselin’s 2012 Easter Sunday. I can do this because I was there, at Kate Gosselin’s house, watching the events unfold.

Just as she had promoted on Twitter for a week, Kate did take the kids to church on Easter Sunday. I watched and photographed them as they entered and exited the building. Despite online rumors that they left church early, the Gosselins stayed inside the church through the entire service and exited with the rest of the huge crowd.

As she was leaving the parking lot, Kate stopped her van to take a photo of a donkey that was tied up behind the church. She posted the photo to prove to the Twitter world that she actually did make it to Easter services. One thing strikes me as very funny about her Twitter photo of the donkey. If you look in Kate’s side mirror, you can see my car directly behind hers. At the time I couldn’t figure out why she was stopping and holding up traffic. I thought she saw me and was coming back to confront me. Nope. Just a routine snapshot of a jackass.

After Easter mass and the donkey photography, Kate drove straight back home. I had fully expected to see the Gosselin yard covered in Easter eggs placed there by a “helper” while Kate and the kids were at church. I just knew that Kate wouldn’t be doing the menial job of placing the eggs in the yard herself. She’s just too lazy. But when we got back to the house, the yard was bare. Where were the 1100-1200 Easter eggs? And if they weren’t there now, how long would it take for Kate to scatter them around?

This was a real bummer to me because here I was, wasting my Easter Sunday watching Kate Gosselin while my own family was at home enjoying their day without me. I did break away at 11:45 to head home so I could help my wife put eggs in our yard for our own egg hunt. The kids had a great time. Each of our three kids got 27 eggs and that seemed more than enough to make them happy. I took tons of photos and video of the great fun my kids were having, but I just had to see for myself what 1200 colored eggs looked like for ten children, so I raced back to Kate’s house and took my place among the trees with the pap. And there we sat – the pap and I. Sitting in the bushes in the chilly air, waiting for something to happen. Anything. On Easter Sunday. Lame, I know.

Up to this point, all we got to see were the three boys walking down to the barn to take care of the chickens. Their chore. They walked down at exactly 11 AM and stayed until 11:30. They looked so happy to be out of the house and doing what little boys should be doing – playing around the outside of the barn and just enjoying being outside.

Meanwhile, back at the house, Kate had company. I photographed a happy couple wandering around outside. I didn’t recognize them, but I later identified them as Kate’s stylist Deanna from New York City and Deanna’s boyfriend/husband/companion? Take your pick.

Several hours went by, and the only activity we saw was what appeared to be a family portrait sitting being set up by the front of the house. Deanna’s boyfriend/husband/companion spent 30 minutes moving several potted plants around so they were “just right” for the photos. Pretty boring stuff. This took place between 3 and 4 PM. After the photo shoot, the kids were allowed to play outside for a bit for the first time that day. They rode their scooters for a few minutes, and then the excitement started.

At 4:15 PM, two SUVs arrived at the Gosselin compound. Within minutes, two strangers – an Asian man and a Caucasian woman – emerged from the vehicles with a large storage tub filled with plastic Easter eggs. (Apparently, the Easter Bunny drives an SUV. Who knew?) The strangers transferred the eggs from the tub into white garbage bags, then carried the garbage bags around the property, scattering the eggs for the upcoming egg hunt.

I showed Jon some photos that I took of the two strangers, thinking that the Asian man was a family member or friend of the family, but he had no idea who they were. He had never seen them before.

The fact that strangers delivered and scattered Easter eggs around the yard meant that Kate never even had the plastic Easter eggs at her house, so her entire week’s worth of tweets about filling Easter eggs was yet another whopper of a Kate Gosselin lie. Once again, Kate did nothing…yet she had spent a week on Twitter telling everyone how hard she was working to prepare for the holiday.

Kate tweets photos of every minor thing she and her kids are doing during the day. She once tweeted photos of a bag of flour that she bought, and she tweeted a photo of a bunch of towels that she folded. She thinks these photos prove to everyone what a wonderful mother she is and how hard she works. With all of her photo sharing, how is it possible that she failed to tweet one single photo of the actual stuffing of the 1200 Easter eggs that she said she herself filled full of candy and other surprises? Was it that she couldn’t take pictures because the eggs were filled elsewhere and brought to the house at 4:15 PM on Easter Sunday by complete strangers?

During the hour that the two strangers were meticulously placing the eggs, Kate tweeted a photo of a glass of red wine from inside the house, while the kids were once again being entertained by strangers. So Kate’s exhausting Easter preparations consisted of her hiring a company to set up and orchestrate an Easter egg hunt for her children while she stayed inside and drank wine? Kate never once set foot outside of the house to watch the kids during the egg hunt. Not once. The strangers even took pictures of the Gosselin kids collecting the Easter eggs, so that was another annoyance Kate didn’t have to bother with either. I guess that was part of the “egg hunt package.”

If you were following along at home via Twitter, you would probably have assumed that the egg hunt took place right after church and that Kate was unwinding with a glass of wine later in the day after all of her hard work. In reality, the egg hunt didn’t start until 5:15 PM, and it was over by 5:45 PM. It took 30 minutes for the kids to pick up 1200 eggs scattered around 23 acres. By 6:00 PM, Kate put a photo on Twitter of the Easter eggs packed up back in the storage tub.

Meanwhile, questions arose on Twitter about the pap pictures from the Easter egg hunt. Deanna, the newest self-appointed defender of Kate, decided to ‘clear things up’ about who took the photos. She tweeted:

I was there on Easter &there was a pap that drove by and took pics during hunt

Um,yes,1camera was mine.The guy in the pap photo is a family member of a kid at EEhunt--he has a short lens-not pap

When Deanna mentioned “The guy in the pap photo,” she was talking about the stranger who placed the eggs in the yard and who was also taking pictures of the kids. If we are to believe Deanna that “The guy in the pap photo is a family member of a kid at EEhunt-,” here is a question to ponder. If you brought a child to an Easter egg hunt at a “friend’s” house, would your friend expect you to volunteer to spend an entire hour walking around a 23-acre property individually hand-placing more than 1000 plastic eggs, while your friend sat inside the house drinking wine? No friend of mine would.

As I said, I was there. And I took pictures. I photographed this so-called “friend” and his partner placing the eggs around the yard for more than an hour while Deanna was inside with Kate. I took several hundred photos with a 500-mm lens, so I was very much up close up and personal to the action.

Kate claimed on Twitter that she had absolutely no idea that a pap was there taking pictures. Someone tweeted Deanna asking her about this:

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How were you able to see the pap & Kate couldn't? Said she didn't notice a pap.

Deanna answered:

I didn't see the
pap,but can tell where he was on the road based on pics.He drove by

That was a lie. Deanna was outright lying when she said “I didn’t see the pap.” I took a nice, clear photo of Deanna and her man smiling and pointing DIRECTLY INTO MY LENS as I stood across the street. Someone sent this tweet calling her out and questioning her story:

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this is why ppl call BS. You say a pap drove by then u say u didn't see one. Sounds fishy.

Deanna then tried to extricate herself from her lies by responding that there’s a single spot on the road where the paps can drive by and see in the yard only for a second:

There is a curve of the road where the paps drive by &can c into the yard 4 a second.im not a fan of paps:(

I was not driving back and forth on the road shooting from a single spot. There were no trees in front of me. The Easter eggs were placed in the only area of the property where the paps actually CAN just stand there and take as many pictures as they want. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why the Easter eggs were placed in that exact area. Kate had tweeted about the Easter egg hunt for an entire week, basically inviting the paps to show up to take pictures of her kids enjoying the fabulous egg hunt she was putting together.

If Kate wanted to protect her children from the lone paparazzo and me, she wouldn’t have had the eggs placed around the only part of her property that gives a crystal-clear view of the action. She would have had the eggs placed only on the right side of the house, behind the house, or better yet, in the HUGE horse paddock behind the house where nobody could ever see. I was back in that area many times before the divorce, riding motorcycles, cooking out and walking in the woods. It’s completely private. But that’s not what Kate wanted. Sorry, Deanna. We’re not buying your lies.

Of all Kate’s lies and misdirections about her Easter preparations, one particular Twitter exchange sums up the most important part of this Easter story. In the span of two weeks of tweeting about the Easter holiday – the absolute most important day on the Christian calendar – Kate never once mentioned one word about the true meaning of Easter or expressed any sentiment about the solemn days leading up to Easter Sunday. This tweet (in bold) is Kate Gosselin’s only mention of Good Friday, the day on which Christians believe Jesus carried his cross, was crucified and died for our sins:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8
Good Friday to u Kate & Kids & to all the world!!!

aww. You too. I was born on Good Friday… 37 long years ago lol..

It’s nice to know that Good Friday is so important because it was the day Kate was born. Happy Easter, Gosselin kids.