Experienced “reality” show performer, Kate Gosselin, is not giving up on the easy money to be made from parading her life in front of the cameras… even if it means the continuation of damaging her eight children.
Kate signed on to swap lives with another “celebrity” mom, ultra-intellectual Kendra Wilkinson Baskett, for ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap”… according to ROL, Kate’s eight were not pleased with the experience, they were traumatized.
“I’m not sure how much more psychological damage Kate can do to these poor children, but she sure looks like she’s willing to sink to new depths to get her face back on television,” Hoffman wrote of the reality star, whose celebrity considerably dried up after TLC discontinued her TV series. ”
NOTE: Why would ABC even approach Kate Gosselin to participate in ANY of their shows after her disastrous, demeaning (for Tony Dovolani) debacle on “DancingWithTheStars”??? IMO, ABC shoulda approached OctoMom to swap with KatieIrene… now THAT would be something to watch!!
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From CarbolicSmoke:
How did they not see this coming?
NOTE: Never agreed with the decision to permit Oscar to compete in the Olympics. Soon anyone who wants to compete in the O-lympics will be permitted. WHY this guy is being described as an “Olympic HERO” on various media sources is a mystery. He kinda reminds ya of one of the Housewives!!
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Do you have some financial difficulties? Need something? Just ask big-hearted Charlie Sheen! That’s how a Florida teen got his therapy dog!!
From Bradenton.com:
A Marti family friend in Eau Claire asked Sheen for $6,000 to cover therapy dog training, and Sheen wired $10,000 on Thursday.
Sheen said he found it impossible not to help after getting the request and he likes to “pay it forward.”
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Holy crap!! The story about the ex-mayor of San Diego gets more horrifying… in a “what the hell was she thinking!?” way.
Maureen O’Connor willingly gave the casinos gambled away not one THOUSAND… not one MILLION… but ONE BILLION… yes, one BILLION, with a “B” dollars!
A B-I-L-L-I-O-N $$$$$$!!!!
From ABCNews:
Maureen O’Connor was a physical education teacher who won a seat on the San Diego City Council when she was only 25 years old, later winning two terms as the city’s first female mayor as she charmed voters with a populist flair.
But her rapid rise was matched by her fall, culminating Thursday when she acknowledged in federal court that she took $2.1 million from her late husband’s charitable foundation during a decade-long gambling spree in which she won — and lost — more than $1 billion.
O’Connor pleaded not guilty to a money laundering charge in an agreement with the Justice Department that defers prosecution for two years while she tries to repay the foundation and receives treatment for gambling.
O’Connor, 66, once had a personal fortune that her attorney estimated between $40 million and $50 million, inherited from her husband of 17 years, Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box Inc. fast-food chain. She is now virtually broke, living with a sister. At a news conference, she said she always intended to repay the foundation and appeared to blame her behavior on a brain tumor that was diagnosed in 2011.
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Yes, we got interested in another “reality” realm… this one started the whole “let’s find some gold” genre!
“GoldRush” will end it’s second season next Friday on the DiscoveryChannel at 9 pm. The next to last episode is tonight…
Will Todd Hoffmann ever find that frickin’ gold??? Will Todd cause another mechanical meltdown? Will Todd ever call the creator/designer of that frickin’ super trommel and get his money back???
All burning questions, which will certainly cause producer, Christo (short for Christopher… how ingenious!) Doyle to string out at least ten more “never before seen” episodes of the frickin’ show!!
We’re hopin’ that lil Parker finds that ‘glory hole’ gold! Especially for his grandfather, John!
That horrible Kate Gosselin is hardly a ‘celebrity’. I thought she went away for good, sadly she did not.
Kate should give it up. She’s just another plastic face. Hopefully this post will go through haven’t seen quite a few of mine in awhile.
Kate G , talk about someone that comes across as a stick in the mud, bossy type. I don’t have anything for Jon but you wonder if he didn’t almost feel like the show helped him escape. You could tell how unhappy the guy was & how she kept trying to make everything look perfect. I think alot of these reality show marriages end when people watch themselves & realize how much unhappiness they were putting up with or when others who see the truth question them about it. I think Kate had a hard time letting go of control. Glad she’s fallen out of the spotlight to some degree.
I wonder if Kate Gosselin read Kendra’s memoir that contains a very graphic description of the group sex she had with Hugh Hefner. I’m sorry I ever saw this descripton online – and read it – because it is not an easy image to get out of one’s head. Doesn’t Jon Gosselin have to sign off on this kind of thing? I thought he was intent of keeping his kids of TV.
I wonder how much she’ll try to sue for??? Another idiot thinking she was a ‘star’ who would last forever making tons of money, wasted it on foolishness, plastic surgery, material things, and now probably doesn’t have a dime to her name. Why do these people not realize how fleeting fame is, especially untalented fifteen minute ones, and put some of their money aside to provide for their family for life? That pathetic woman has had more money in the short time she was on tv, than I’ve had probably my entire life….and she pissed it all away! BooHoo….I guess the government will pay for a place for her and her children to live and food to eat, but how will she maintain those surgeries for her face?
She could take some tips from this Tampa mom and get somebody to take responsibility. Damn right!
Omg… Sooooo ashamed to be from Tampa right now. Well living here. This is VERY common on a slightly smaller level.
I like Kendra. I liked her when she began on “The Girls Next Door”. All 3 girls were endearing. I didn’t read her book. It was graphic? I assumed it was all smoke and mirrors (about Hef) and it wasn’t really an orgie like he’d like people to believe. Now I’ll have to look it up online or read her book. I can’t see how Kate’s kids would be “traumatized” from being with Kendra. Kendra seems like a loving, doting parent.
I can’t believe that woman won and lost a totally of 1 Billion dollars. She has a gambling problem.
I can’t believe it either buck…. Billion, what ever happened to a million here and there… And on slot machines… That’s a lot of pennies! I. Don’t care she needs to go to jail… But she won’t, they never do…
I live in San Diego and I consider our former mayor’s problem to be greed. Plain and simple. I have known several former co-workers that gambled their money away every payday. They were ALL very greedy and manipulative people.
Ya think? lol. Although I admired Blade Runner, just as I admire any person with a disability that goes on to push themselves to greatness instead of wallowing (which I admittedly would probably do) I was a little upset that he was allowed to compete in the Olympics because of the technology of those blades. They are not feet, and they could possibly give him an advantage. I didn’t think that was fair and I still don’t. It’s kina the same thing as playing tennis in the Olympics with a bionic arm imho. And that poor girl. By all accounts she was an angel on earth. Beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. I don’t get it. As for Kate Gosselin, what a horrible mother she is. Let that be a lesson to all of these fame whores. One day she was the darling of the papparazzi, and the next day… poof…. Kate who? She and Adrienne have a lot in common. They both treated their husbands with contempt and look what it got them. I don’t think Adrienne will be next year and I do think Adrienne tried to get her fired. What Brandi glandville forgets is that it was a group effort. Nobody wanted her back. By the way, it is interesting that Brandi’s “book” will not be distributed in book stores, only on Amazon. The book stores passed on it. I think they are tired of housewive drivel. I hope Caroline’s book is treated the same way. It has got to be just as bad and a thousand
times more boring. Maybe the housewives (Me-ho) will get the hint. Nobody in the real world gives a rats ass about your dumb books. I predict a book for Jacqueline next. Living with an autistic child and how bird seed and black water changed his life.
Not a fair trade for 8 kids versus 1 but you get a husband too boot.The octomom swap would be more interesting for 2 single women with kids.Kate is so good @ couponing cough cough and handling kids lets see her handle Octomom’s large family. She would lose her cool day 1.Kendra struggles to stay relevant too.
I loved the octomom idea too! They both deserve eachother!
I wouldn’t wish Kate Gosslin on anyone but it WOULD be entertaining to see her swap with June BooBoo. Kate’s head would explode. Not sure what would freak her out the most… sketti or pigs crappin on tables. Kate had a dang near conniption that one time over pumpkin guts on a folding card table in the garage so …. wee doggies. let da games begin. Let her holler at Sugarbear just once in a ToysRus the way she did Jon and see how fast Honey Boo Boo whoops her up side the head with a big ole dose of “no one talks to my daddy like that! ”
Momma Boo Boo vs. Mama Gossling gets my vote! It’s like 2 opposites… but parallels of craziness!
That I would have watched in a heart beat.
I’d watch that…it would be more entertaining then anything on tv.. You better watch out Made, someone’s going to steal your idea, and make a (BILLION) dollars!
Gotta say I am surprised by the Oscar comments. Do you have some inside info that we don’t know?
I’m undecided about him having been in the Olympics, but wasn’t he just charged yesterday with the murder of his young girlfriend???
Charged, yes. I read that it was an accidental shooting. Very sad regardless.
Yes, very sad.
He’s just been charged with premeditated murder, a couple of old girlfriends have come forward about his abusive violent nature, saying “Oscar isn’t who you think he is”. There are so many guys out there who are successful but super damaged and ppl think they’re great but behind closed doors lurks the most heinous of evils. I don’t know how they get away with a double life, and no one ever listens to the girls.
Now PT has the same sort of rage like oscar, she lashes out differently.
perceptive ppl can see behind that evil smirk and sinister eyes of hers. if PT lost the other leg shed be capable of taking it to the next level of murder too.
That said,I feel badly for the GF and for what lies ahead for Oscar, after all he’d overcome and now this
You’d be surprised at who could be capable of murder. We just went thru the trial of the murder of our nephew, and his wife murdered him. You just never know!
I know done, wretched woman, so happy you got the just verdict for your family
Thanks, Girlfriend. Good to know she’s finally in jail where she belongs!
Done, I am so sorry!! What a terrible thing to be dealt with. What a brave thing to share. I have dealt with something similar and it is earth shattering. Love to you and yours!
Thank you, Richmond! Same to you.
That is some accident, if it is true. Four shots through a door. If you had the intruder cornered in the bathroom why not call 911? (Or whatever you call in South Africa)
Yea gessie why not call 911?
I bet Jon Gosselin signed on for the kids to do the show. Hes not much better than Kate.
Kate=Octomom. Really, there’s no difference between the two.
Octomom and Kate are getting boring. Someone needs to give birth to nine babies soon.
Ouch! Holy crap, BSL! Nine?! No… I don’t even think that’s possible for cats.
No
You’re right.
BSL…Take a bow! Jay Leno actually stole your comment from this morning…..imagine if the people on Carnival were actually hit by the meteor after their bad luck on the cruise! We all know it was your original comment!
What?! Hahaha!
BSL: Congratulations!!! We all know everybody reads SH!! LOL!!!! TFC!! SH
Jay Leno is famous for stealing other people’s material. douche.
Yes he did!…..with some graphics. We best call Jay’s people to get yer credits….and wait….our besty, Jimmy Fallon comes on next….bet something along your creative line will be referenced! Team BSL!
Right? He could’ve given BSL a shout out. A lil what, what… Somethin. Geez
I frickin’ hate it when some frickin’ douchebag wastes one beeeelllion frickin’ dollars!!
Kate should be in psychiatric therapy. She has to be one of the most despicable people around.
She’s hopeless let’s save the therapy for her kids I”m afraid their going to need it!