KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (90 page)

Kate blew off dance rehearsal this morning to have an egg hunt for the kids and to trump Jon. Jon had called her on Friday to discuss custody arrangements and he told Kate that he was planning to have an egg hunt for the kids in the yard. Kate didn’t have anything planned and was just going to bring the kids something “Eastery” from LA but when she found out about Jon’s egg hunt, she decided that she’d beat him to it and she went to Target last night to pick up supplies. She went all out, buying plastic eggs filled with candy, pretty baskets for the kids and baskets full of candy and toys for prizes.

Tony stayed in town last night because they were scheduled to dance this morning before leaving together for LA. Instead, when he got there, Kate told him that she decided to have an egghunt for the kids and they would make up the missed dance practice when they got to LA. Tony was pissed and sped off in his convertible, rather than staying and riding together in the limo to the airport with Kate and Steve like they did last week. Kate was overheard saying “He’ll get over it” after Tony left.

Steve and Gina and their two boys were at the house early and the boys came outside and hid all the eggs in the yard while the kids were kept under wraps in the house. Kate wanted to get the egg hunt over early so she could prepare for the trip but the paparazzi weren’t at the house yet so she delayed the hunt for an hour until the paps arrived. Kate had the tups all dressed up in matching outfits – obviously for a photo op to make herself look like a good mother since she went nowhere else with the kids today.

Kate’s rule is to always have the kids play behind the house when she doesn’t want them photographed by the paps. The back yard would have been a much better place to have the hunt but the paps can’t see back there. Kate treats the kids like pawns or worse yet, pets, playing with them only for the cameras. Once the pictures are taken, she turns them back over to the nannies.

Kate wanted the kids in matching outfits to look good for the magazines. It took almost an hour to get the kids ready because Kate wanted ribbons in the little girl’s hair and they had to look “perfect.” The little girls wore matching pink dresses while the boys wore brown shirts and shorts. Mady and Cara picked out their own outfits, with Cara wearing a blue
t-shirt over jean shorts and Mady wearing a pink sleeveless shirt over jean shorts. The kids were whining about wanting to go out and find eggs but Kate kept making excuses as to why they had to wait. Finally, the paparazzi arrived and coincidentally, the egg hunt started a few minutes later.

Kate gathered all the kids together up by the front door and gave them instructions before counting to three and saying go! The kids scattered in all directions searching for eggs, laughing and screaming as they ran from egg to egg, filling their baskets. There were eggs everywhere. Kate went all out for this photo op. She pretended to be having as much fun as the kids were, pumping her fist forcefully in the air every time one of the kids yelled “Mommy I found one, I found one!!” As soon as the kids found their eggs and plenty of pictures had been taken by the paps, the kids were shuffled back into the house where they stayed for the rest of the day.

Kate had pre-made ‘prize baskets’ for the kids that she bought at Target, sealed coldly in shrink wrap and containing a few wrapped pieces of candy and a stuffed toy. The kids were excited about them though so that’s all that matters.

Steve stayed out of sight for most of the time at the house, coming out to the car only once to bring something inside. Instead, Gina and the boys made more of an appearance with the kids and Kate, helping out with the hunt.

When the limo arrived at 12:30, Kate and Steve loaded up their bags and said goodbye to their families. Kate must have done her goodbyes inside because she came out alone and left without the kids in the yard this time. Gina and the boys stayed behind but left an hour later, leaving Judy alone at the house with the kids. The mean nanny came at 3 pm to relieve Judy and the kids were kept inside the rest of the day.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

• Kate didn’t return home to her children today, opting to go straight to New York for a TLC promo filming session on Thursday. Another day without parents for the kids.
  
• Paps and reporters ambush the kids at the bus stop this afternoon. Kids scared and hiding their faces.
  

Even though Kate was due back at the house today after being away from the kids since Saturday, Xxxxxxx said that she (Kate) was going to be in NYC on Thursday to film promo spots for TLC, along with the other stars of their shows for the upcoming season, and that there was a chance that she would go directly to New York, rather than return home. Well that’s exactly what Kate did. Went straight to NYC.

The only movement at the house today was Judy taking the kids to the bus stop in the morning and then returning in the afternoon to pick them up. Kate’s cleaning lady was also at the house for most of the morning, leaving several bags of trash out by the garage before leaving.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Thursday, April 8, 2010

• Kate spent the day in NYC – day 5 1/2 away from the kids this week.
  
• Two nannies sharing custody at the Gosselin house today and overnight tonight.
  
• DWTS judge Bruno Tonioli had tough words for Kate.
  

Kate opted to go from LA to New York, rather than go home and spend time with the kids yesterday. She was supposedly in New York at a secret location filming promo spots for TLC for her new shows next season, along with other TLC stars.

The last time she was at the house with the kids was Saturday afternoon before Easter.

The mean nanny stayed with the kids overnight and Judy came this morning to drive Mady and Cara to the bus stop. When she got back to the house at 7:20 am, she took over custody of the sextuplets and stayed with them at the house all day. They played outside on their bikes and scooters and took turns in the new big red ball. They miss Kate and keep asking when she’s coming home. They tried to call Kate for most of the day but Kate didn’t pick up. Kate finally called them at 5:30 pm to talk.

Judy left at 6:30 pm tonight, handing over custody once again to the mean nanny who will stay overnight.

(Source – online)

Dancing With the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli didn’t hold back when discussing Kate Gosselin’s
less-than-graceful moves
on Wednesday’s
Lopez Tonight
: “Kate is pretty dreadful. She’s crap,” he told host George Lopez.

Tough reviews aside, the outspoken Italian admitted the mom of eight is “a tough cookie” for facing all the criticism. “She gets it in the face, she comes back and she tries to get better,” he said. “[But] it doesn’t really work.”

Tonioli also said Gosselin, who
has squabbled
with partner Tony Dovolani, turns the show into “our own disaster movie” on a daily basis. “2012 is nothing compared to the catastrophe she produces,” he said.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Friday, April 9, 2010

• Kate hasn’t seen the kids since last Saturday, but rather than picking them up at the bus this afternoon, she went ……TANNING with Tony.
  
• Kate is leaving again for LA tomorrow late morning. Not exactly the Sunday to Tuesday night that she told the world before DWTS started.
  

Kate has been away from home and the kids since last Saturday afternoon and she got home sometime overnight last night but didn’t take them to the bus stop this morning, which means she probably slept in and didn’t see them this morning. Judy took the kids to the bus stop this morning so Kate could get some rest before dance rehearsal. So after six days away from the kids, you’d think that Kate would be anxious to see them and do anything to be with them, right? Well at the very same time that Judy was waiting at the bus stop to pick up the kids this afternoon, Kate opted instead to ……GO TANNING! She and Tony jumped in his Porsche SUV and went to Kate’s salon for a thirty-minute session. Tony didn’t tan today. He just waited patiently in the lobby for her while she went in the back for a spray tan.

Kate is leaving again for LA early tomorrow so hopefully she’ll manage to squeeze in some quality time with her kids before then. Before DWTS started, she came out and told the world she would be with them all the time while practicing at the house and only be away from them from Sunday night to Wednesday morning – taking the redeye back from LA on Tuesday night. It certainly hasn’t worked out that way.

Kate didn’t even bother picking up her car at the Toyota dealership where she has it stored because she’s leaving again so soon tomorrow. Jon is due back at the house for custody around 3 pm Saturday.

Tony stopped at Starbucks to pick up some coffee for the group at 10:45 am and was at the house at 11:05 – going in through the basement entrance. The paps jokingly call it the service entrance now.

Two male DWTS crew guys were at the house in a gold car at 10:50 and went inside carrying some equipment bags.

Judy left the house at 3:19 pm for the bus stop in the Sprinter van to get the kids. I figured Kate and Tony would use the extra time to practice but the DWTS crew left the house fifteen minutes later, which means the dancing had stopped for the day. At 3:45, Tony and Kate came out and jumped in Tony’s black Porsche SUV and headed down toward the bus stop. I was sure that they were going to give us an elaborate photo op of the two of them being so happy together and getting the kids and big, dramatic hugs and kisses etc. which would have been the smart, fake, Kate Gosselin thing to do. Instead they chose to go tanning. Kate has become so totally consumed with her career that she thought tanning would be a better choice than seeing her kids home from school.

When they got to the tanning salon, the paps were there shooting and they both put on their happy faces but they ran from the car to the salon. Kate even tried to cover her face.

After thirty minutes inside, Kate came out of the back, grabbed Tony and they literally ran back to the car, both smiling once again and Kate looking into the video camera and saying “I’m late! I’m late!” to the pap.

They got back to the house at 4:45 and Tony just dropped her off and left. He waved to the paps as he drove out of the front gate. Judy stayed for another 30 minutes and left Kate alone with her kids at 5:15 pm. That should give them about four hours of quality time for the week before Kate jumps back into dance mode Saturday morning.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Saturday, April 10, 2010

• Kate and Tony rehearsed today at the house, and Tony left immediately after they were finished, looking like he was happy to get out of there.
  
• Steve arrived at the house in the limo today and left with Kate soon after.
  
• Kate saw the kids briefly before leaving once again for LA.
  
• Kate leaves an itinerary for Jon when she lets him have custody, making him handle the doctor’s appointments and shoe-shopping while she jets off to LA.
  

Kate emails an itinerary to Jon of what he has to do with the kids when he’s there. She always has him take the kids to the doctor and for haircuts when he’s at the house because she’s too busy to do it herself. This weekend’s list: Mady and Cara have an appointment with the dermatologist on Monday and The “little kids” need shoes.

Tony and the DWTS crew arrived early today to start dancing at 6:30 am. Carla was at the house with the kids and I’m guessing Kate was dancing before they even woke up today, as they usually sleep late on Saturday and Sunday, usually til 7 or 7:30am.

Carla brought the kids outside to play at 9:30 and parked herself in a chair up by the garage while the kids rode their bikes, scooters and just generally ran around. The kids were having a great time playing but Carla got too cold and ended playtime after only fifteen minutes. The kids were visibly upset and yelling that they wanted to stay outside but she made them go in. Cries of “we want to stay outside!” could be heard down at the fence.

In the short time that they were outside, Carla sat in a chair reading Kate’s new book. She made sure it was visible to the paparazzi. Every moment of these people’s lives are carefully orchestrated for maximum media exposure. It’s all an illusion.

At 10:15, Carla loaded up Mady and Cara in her white minivan (that Jon and Kate gave her) and they left the property. They were brought back to the house by a hulking
lady I haven’t seen before. They had their lacrosse sticks so we thought they had a practice but Jon later told me that they had a lacrosse game today.

DWTS rehearsal wrapped at 11 am and Tony got right out of there, unlike the first week when he stayed around to talk and they all left for the airport together. He looked like he was happy that they were finished. This may have been the last time Tony has to put up with Kate’s crap on her home turf. According to the paps it was very unusual for Tony to leave so abruptly. He always takes the time to interact with the paps on the way out of the property. He totally blew them off today which was strange because they were yelling “Good luck Tony” and things like that. He just wanted to be done with this it looked like.