Let me start this blog post with the following statement ... I do not like Jon or Kate Gosselin. You know, the "celebrity" couple who had that TLC show "Jon & Kate Plus 8." Oh, TLC, you witty, witty name creators you!
These people are only a celebrity couple because she has the ability to carry and birth multiple children at a time and/or he has super sperm (with a little help from some fertility drugs). Pretty creepy. I think celebrities should be celebrities because they have some talent and not because they were cast for a reality show but perhaps I should leave THAT for another day.
As you may or may not know, Jon and Kate recently split up. Apparently he was sleeping with at least one chick who could have been the nanny for his litter of children. Not that Kate is the nicest person to get along with in the world (so it's been rumored) ... she's a diva who allegedly ignores her children for a good portion of the time, demands free stuff, etc., etc.
But here's what really ticks me off. Shortly after the pair split up, Jon went to "live it up" with his freakishly young gal-pals (perhaps these young ladies enjoy his hair plugs - which he only has as a result of Kate's ability to get freebies on demand). He hobnobbed in Vegas, hung out with the illustrious Michael Lohan (the lowlife father to Lindsay Lohan), requested and is receiving alimony, and was very VERY visibly missing from his children's lives. He apparently went on a ski trip, left the kids with a nanny who he didn't know very well, and stayed out until 3 AM getting hammered at a local bar. What a classy guy!
In a new twist, because Kate is participating on "Dancing With The Stars," and travelling a lot to LA to film the show (the litter resides in the state of Pennsylvania), Jon has decided to file suit against his former wife to try and get full custody.
Kate is a provider. She gets free trips, free clothes, etc., for her children. She writes books that people apparently read. She negotiated with the TLC folks and has another installment of her show, now titled "Kate Plus 8." This woman (personality aside) can clearly get shit done and would appear to be able to negotiate with the best of them. The best Jon Gosselin managed to do was to pick up some free Ed Hardy swag, thus ruining the brand for the rest of society (an act for which he shall never be forgiven), and mopes around pathetically enough to get alimony payments from his wife. And this asshole is now claiming she is an "absentee parent" (even though she practices for the show at home and travels to LA once a week) and he should be awarded full custody. There are parents who travel MANY more days of the week than that for work, leaving their children in the hands of capable caretakers/nannies, and aren't declared "absentee parents."
All of that aside, it is clear to me that Kate has some inner desire to be famous and I can't really tell if she's using the kids to get to that goal or not. It is also clear to me that Jon is doing just about whatever he can to cling to the spotlight, and I think this new lawsuit against Kate is evidence of that.
What is also clear to me is that, somewhere along the way, both of these parents lost sight of what is truly important. And that would be THE CHILDREN. There are 8 little kids out there who are tracked by the paparazzi, filmed by a TLC camera crew constantly to make up the episodes for their reality show, and who don't get a lot of time to spend with their parents one on one because their parents are too busy worrying about themselves. It's hard enough to pay the right amount of individual attention to a clan of kids that large without all of the other nonsense in their lives, but neither parent seems to give a damn. And I think that is just really, really sad.
- The Incident
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