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.
Kate was in the house with the tups and the mean nanny. Jon also refers to her as the ‘spy nanny’ because she reports his every move back to Kate and makes sure Jon knows this. She’s very confrontational with him.
At exactly 1 pm, Kate came out with her wash basket in hand followed by the little girls who were yelling at her not to go. Leah yelled “where are you going mommyyyyyyy?!” and Kate kept walking and simply responded coldly but loudly, “I’ll be right back.” Kate’s important reason for walking out on her children today after seeing them so briefly? Planet Nails & Tans for her weekly mani/pedi. To be fair, today it was only an hour instead of her usual ninety minutes.
She came out of Planet Nails at 2:15 and raced back to the house and got there at 2:30, just a few minutes before a blue Neon was pulling in with Mady and Cara in the back seat, returning from the lacrosse game. Kate jumped out of the Sprinter and went straight in the house, leaving the kids outside with the spy nanny. She came back out five minutes later to talk to the lacrosse lady and pretend to give a shit about her kids, knowing the paps were there shooting.
While she was standing outside talking, the kids were just aimlessly wandering around the driveway. One of the little girls walked over to Kate and wrapped her arms around Kate’s legs to give her a big hug and she didn’t want to let go. It’s so quiet on that property and the wind was blowing toward us and it was easy to hear her say “I don’t want you to go mommy.”
At 2:49, the black limo SUV arrived at
the house and Steve Neild got out and carried a black duffle bag into the house. Kate followed him inside and a minute later he came back out carrying Kate’s red suitcases. He really does do everything for her. Strangely, after loading Kate’s bags into the limo, Steve went back in the house and brought the same black dufflebag back out and put it in the limo. Not sure what that’s about.
Kate stood by the limo talking to the spy nanny and Steve, and the kids came to her to say goodbye – not the other way around. Mady was down by the Crooked Houses and Cara yelled to her “Mady, mommy’s leaving!” and Mady walked back up to Kate to say goodbye. Kate leaned down to give all the little kids a group hug – to save time I guess – when she noticed Colin standing there crying. It was heartbreaking. She picked him up and gave him a big, long hug. I couldn’t hear what she said to him but she was talking quietly to him. He hugged her very tightly and only let go when she put him back down with the other kids.
With that, Kate and Steve got in the limo and drove off at exactly 2:58 pm, leaving the kids behind once again, wandering around the yard looking sad. If I did the math correctly, Kate had a little over two hours today that she could have spent doing anything with the kids, but in that time, I’m sure she needed to do some packing for the trip.
KATE’S DWTS LIES
Kate takes breaks from dancing rehearsals to spend time with the kids.
Kate never stops dancing to play with or spend any time at all with the kids. The only time she stops dancing for the kids’ sake is when she has to go upstairs to yell at them for yelling down to the basement to get her attention.
Kate has been working hard and practicing her heart out for DWTS.
Kate has devoted less and less time to rehearsing since week one and it certainly shows in her performances. Tony has become totally frustrated with her and has pretty much given up any hope of teaching Kate to dance. He just wants this nightmare to be over. As for Kate? She was just in it for the paycheck and seems to have lost interest now that she has her two new shows to focus on. She got a large bonus for making it through as far as she did and that’s all she wanted.
Kate told the world that when she’s away from the kids, Jon is at home with them.
Jon is only allowed at the house on certain days and if he can’t make it to the house at exactly the time when he’s scheduled to be there, Kate punishes him by canceling his custody all together. He flew from Utah to Pennsylvania and his flight was delayed and he told Kate over the phone that he would be late getting there and she told him “if you can’t be here when it’s your custody time, don’t bother coming at all.”
Kate will only be away from the kids doing DWTS from Sunday to Tuesday.
The reality is that Kate leaves the house on Saturday, early afternoons and doesn’t return, sometimes for six days.
Kate says the kids are thrilled to be filming again but Xxxxxxx says otherwise. She told me Friday that Kate spun it to the kids so that it sounds exciting and not like work. She told them that they would be taking great vacations and going on exciting adventures. What kid wouldn’t be happy to hear that news? Mady and Cara unfortunately don’t share in the tup’s excitement. They both threw a fit and were yelling and crying. They don’t want to film again. They hate the idea of having their private lives on television for their friends and everyone else to see. They’re at the age where they get embarrassed easily and worry about what their friends at school will say.
Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Kate and the kids arrived home today after almost a week in LA.
Kate left with Steve for NYC after 15 minutes at the house.
Kate and the eight kids arrived back home in PA today after almost a week in LA. At 10:15am, two limos arrived at the house. A limo bus was carrying Kate, Steve and Kate’s BFF Jaime and the kids. They were followed by a second limo that would take Kate and Steve to NYC a few minutes later. Judy was at the house when they arrived and she came outside to greet them. All the kids ran to her and gave her big hugs like you would expect a mother to get. Judy spends more time with them than Kate so their bond is very strong. Kate went inside the house with Judy while Steve and the limo driver brought the luggage in the house. The kids looked tired from the trip and happy to be back home. After fifteen minutes inside, Kate and Steve came out and got in the second limo and left for NYC. Kate’s master schedule says DWTS and I know they’re going to be on Regis tomorrow.
Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting
Friday, May 21, 2010
Kate hasn’t seen the kids since last Sunday when they left Orlando.
Kate hasn’t seen her kids since last Sunday when they left Orlando and returned home. Kate went directly to LA with Steve Neild to prepare for DWTS while a second bodyguard accompanied the kids back to Pennsylvania.
Kate tried to dispel any rumors of her being hated by the cast and crew of Dancing With The Stars every chance she got, in print and in television interviews. She was always quick to tell everyone how much she and Tony liked each other and how they got along so wonderfully. She told the Today show’s Meredith Vieira that she “loved” her cast mates. She said, “Most of them I will stay in touch with, from the hair, to make-up, to cast, crew and dancers. It’s like a big family unit.”
Kate’s dancing partner Tony Dovolani appears to be one of the nicest, classiest, most mellow persons on Earth, who wouldn’t say a bad word about anyone. Or almost anyone. Even Tony couldn’t stand to be around Kate Gosselin for one second longer than he had to.
On March 29, 2012, Tony Dovolani and his partner from Season 14, Martina Navratilova, were being interviewed by Anderson Cooper when Anderson brought up Kate and all of her drama on DWTS. Here’s what Tony had to say:
Cooper: “I remember watching her dance, I’m still traumatized by that experience.”
Dovolani: “Wait, wait wait. Anderson, did you just call it dance? We didn’t dance.”
Cooper: “It’s true. I don’t know what it was. Did you have to take a long vacation after that experience Tony?”
Dovolani: “There was a lot of therapy involved.”
That was it – a few seconds of cute little banter. No harm done. Tony was responding to Anderson Cooper by stating the obvious and making a joke. But Kate is starved for attention, so instead of laughing it off, she created a mountain out of a molehill and felt compelled to respond. She took advantage of her position as a blogger on a coupon website – a site intended to help people save money – to “set the record straight” by posting an inappropriate and thin-skinned rebuttal:
Kate Responds to Anderson Cooper & Tony Dovolani
Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by Kate G
Oh, geez. Tony was joking around. It was a cute exchange that lasted about 10 seconds, and then it was over. Kate is so very thin-skinned at arbitrary times. It seems that she is only willing to laugh at herself when there are cameras around to capture her image.
There were reports that Brad Garrett said terrible things about Kate in jest during his comedy routine in Las Vegas in March 2012, and Kate was seated in the front row just a few feet away. The photo online shows Kate and Steve Neild laughing hysterically, and Kate tweeted several times about how funny the show and Brad, in particular, was.
So why the hurt feelings and righteous indignation regarding Tony Dovolani, Kate’s former dance instructor, who is a two-time World Champion dancer, and who, by all accounts, is one of the most humble, personable, classy and obviously gifted dance instructors on the planet?
Kate’s number one obsessed fan, who often deletes her tweets immediately so people can’t discuss them, told Kate that she would have done better on DWTS with a different partner than Tony, and said that if she had the right teacher, she would have gone much farther on the show. This is how Kate responded:
@lol! I've been told that a few times. So funny...
Please forgive this personal note to Kate: We all saw you “dance,” Kate. Jesus, himself, cou
ld have been your dance instructor and you still would have sucked.
In August of 2012, Tony Dovolani was being interviewed by Fox 5 Las Vegas and had even more uncharacteristically critical words to say about Kate. When the interviewer asked Tony if he and Kate were still besties, Tony rolled his eyes and head, looked to be in pain, and said, “Oh Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!”
Interviewer: I always feel sorry for you because of all the seasons, I feel you got the all-time hardest partner in Kate Gosselin.
Tony: Well I can tell you how they paired me up, I mean whoever fails the psychiatric evaluation I tend to get them or physical evaluation and every once in awhile someone slips through like Melissa or Stacy.
Tony went on to add, “I wasn’t her husband, I was her teacher and you have to be nice to me and she wasn’t.”
It looks like Kate lied about her “wonderful” relationship with Tony. It also looks like Kate can no longer blame her abysmal failure at dancing on Tony being a bad teacher. On November 27, 2012, in Season 15 of Dancing With The Stars, Tony Dovolani finally captured the coveted mirror ball trophy with his hard-working, pleasant and appreciative partner, Melissa Rycroft.
HOLIDAYS, STAYCATION AND CRUISE, OH MY
“I need to look at, ‘what’s best for the kids?
What’s best for the kids?’
That is what I say to myself constantly.”
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