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

by Robert Hoffman

  What a wonderful wkend!The Lichtfield road race was HARD but fun&running w Rod Dixon was a wonderful honor! Thx Lichtfield! We love u all!

  And, I must add much thanks2the town of Lichtfield,Ct 4 ur hospitality,&4welcoming our family!We were honored2b a part of a ur trad events!

  thank you for your kind words! We SO loved being a part of such a wonderful Lichtfield tradition! Such kind wonderful ppl!

  I enjoyed ur 'neck of the (beautiful) woods' so much that we'd love 2 make it a tradition 2 visit Lichtfield each yr 4 events!:)

  Kate had four cracks at spelling correctly the name of the “beautiful” Connecticut town she ran in. She got it wrong all four times. For the next time, just in case she’s reading this, it’s Litchfield. Litchfield, Connecticut. This tweetie spelled it correctly:

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Litchfield race times are always determined by the weather and it's .9 longer than a 10k so a 1:08 is a great time!

  The more Kate tries to use words that make her sound intelligent, the more they highlight her ignorance:

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Rain here on the sunshine coast near Australia Zoo too!!

  I find ‘rain on the sunshine coast’ to be an Oxy moron? Is it just me?? Lol!

  Yes. It is just you, Kate. The rest of us know that oxymoron is one word. You also didn’t need to capitalize the “O” either. You actually added a corner to your corner cutting.

  you can’t see good when it’s raining outside? Don’t let surroundings determine your attitude! :) have a good rainy am! :)

  You can’t see WELL when it’s raining either.

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 big ‘G’ on God! (:

  I know. Twitter has done it to me—pet peeve of mine too. Sorry..So disrespectful :( bad me.

  She somehow managed to capitalize four letters in that tweet, though. Just not the “G” in God.

  Kate isn’t just a poor speller, she’s plain lazy. With her iPhone in her hand 24/7, she has access to a world of information. Any question she has can be answered with the press of a button or two. On March 19, 2012, Kate was tweeting about the new season of Dancing With The Stars, which was starting that night. She had to insert herself into the story to remind everyone that SHE, you know, was on DWTS.

  I woke up feeling NERVES.. For all DWTS contestants!!! First dance is tonight! Eeek! Good luck all! Have FUN!!!

  ….getting my pjs on &ready2watch @dwts! SO happy 2b sitting on my sofa w/ my girls watching¬ vomiting from nerves back stage!:)

  I’m loving the dancing on @DWTS this season already! So glad I don’t have to dance tho! Happy on my sofa! Lol #dwts

  But then, Kate’s ignorance and laziness reared their ugly heads once again. One of her tweeties had to point out to her that she was using an incorrect Twitter name for Dancing With The Stars.

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Kate, just so you know, when you tweet”@DWTS” it’s not an account that has anything to do with Dancing With The Stars!

  what is their @ thingy then?

  Kate can’t be bothered to look up the official Twitter account for DWTS, so she asked her tweetie to do it for her. It turns out that Kate was actually tweeting to an account called DeathWalksTheStreets, which included some offensive tweets containing profanity.

  THE SKINNY ON PLAGIARISM

  Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the “wrongful appropriation,” “close imitation,” or “purloining and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions,” and the representation of them as one’s own original work.

  In February of 2012, having no publicist to control her words for her, Kate once again put her foot in her mouth when she made a potentially dangerous tweet to her many impressionable teenage “tweeties.”

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Man! I wish! Getting ther but not quite there yet. But I don’t know what you’re talking about; you look AMAZING!!!

  I’d agree with u if I was on your profile pic :) keep working…’Nothing tastes as good as thin feels’ :) 1 of my many mottos!

  Not only is Kate ignorant and unintelligent, she has never had a single original thought of her own and has been plagiarizing other people’s thoughts and works for years. This plagiarized comment by Kate – who has five impressionable daughters and mostly young teenage girls as Twitter followers – was one that even she should have known to keep to herself. Not Kate. She was so proud of it too; until the online backlash hit her. Again.

  The quote, “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels,” is a slight variation on an actual quote from supermodel Kate Moss, who was also criticized for it a few years ago. If Kate had researched the quote before blurting it out to the world, she would have found this:

  “Kate Moss, the model, has been accused of encouraging teenage girls to become anorexic after claiming she lives by the motto: “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

  Critics condemned Moss’s comments, saying that, as a role model to millions of girls and young women, they could lead to more instances of eating disorders.”

  Kate changed the word “skinny” to “thin” and made the quote her own. While telling us that she’s not into plagiarism, she of course, took someone else’s quote without attributing it to that person.

  THANK YOU, MOMMY!

  Kate is constantly putting words in her kid’s mouths in an effort to make complete strangers, whom she doesn’t and really shouldn’t even care about, think she’s a great mother. She is always talking about how much her children thank her for absolutely EVERYTHING and they’re constantly “SHRIEKING” for joy about everything Kate does! Oh, mommy, thank you for that grape! Oh, mommy, thank you for making me sit on the rug stripe to watch a movie! Baloney.

  When Kate bought the kids new bikes, she wrote on her web blog that they were “Such thankful amazing kids!” She said she received “four thousand thank-you’s” “every hour on the hour for two days from all 8.”

  In a Couponcabin.com blog that Kate wrote about her Thanksgiving meal, she said “a chorus of eight ‘Yummy, mommy!’ makes it totally worth it.”

  Here is Kate tweeting about how thankful the kids are that she brought Shoka back from the breeder after she had vanquished him:

  that was a memory filled day! My kids STILL thank me for him EVERY day, no lie. Nearly a year later:)

  (“No lie”? Hmmm. Again with that? And does anyone truly believe that the kids thank her every single day for bringing Shoka back?)

  In this tweet, Kate just can’t help but throw Jon under the bus again:

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Latest rumor that kids says they want to live with their daddy! Because..U are mean! LOL I know U want to address that one!

  we all wish hewould tak them more than 4d/mo but doesn’t.they have fun there but def love living w me/here. So happy here!

  I have watched every television show Kate Gosselin has ever been involved in, and I know the kids personally. I know she’s a horrible mother. Her tweeting and blogging to the contrary isn’t going to change that fact. She can’t rewrite history. She may have gotten used to reality being written for her, but she can’t change reality to suit her, no matter how hard she tries. And she sure does continue to try. Now in addition to eight children, one dog and every single person who has ever met her being absolutely head over heals in love with her, Kate Gosselin has now brought home a pet bird named Zorro who just can’t get enough of her.

  In the last few days, I SWEAR I’ve heard Zorro repeat ‘love you’ & just now I said ‘thank you (bc he kissed my cheek) &he repeated me! #WOW

  TMI

  The Gosselin children have absolutely zero privacy in their lives. Their mother blogs and tweets intimate details of their lives to anyone who’s interested. In addition to her intrusive fans who clamor for every tidbit of information about her and her children, this audience of Twitter strangers almost certainly includes possible pedophiles, mentally unbalanced persons, or others who might do her family harm.

  Kate has no boundaries when it comes to what she will tweet or say abou
t her kids during interviews. She must never consider that her children will most surely be teased at school because of the personal information she offers to the world. Setting aside the fact that it’s disrespectful and intrusive, it is just plain stupid and dangerous for a parent to be telling complete strangers where she will be taking her very famous children at any given time of the day. It is even worse when she tweets that she is out somewhere and her children are home alone.

  There are hundreds of examples of Kate tweeting about what she and/or her kids are doing. These just scratch the surface:

  Good eve! Kids and I are going out 2 dinner! Rare treat! Every1 is excited—including me=no clean up!Yay! Rarely eat out unless traveling!

  …a lovely revelation from my kids amaz dentist:all 6 need 2c @readingorthodontics UM,life is abt2get REAL crazy Omg! Dr Nat,here we come!

  Shuttling Mady back &forth to final weekend of play practice…She has her 1st part in school play ‘Alice in Wonderland’ SO proud mom here!

  …GM all…I’m heading to pediatrician later 2day w/ a sick child instead of 2church… They r all upset that we aren’t going! Me 2! :(:(

  Mady is using word ‘tragic’ repeatedly in Mad Libs..Says ‘tragic- its my favorite word!’ ….. I would have guessed ‘dramatic’ was her fave!

  ….headed back home w/ my Hannah&her double ear infections…quick stop at pharmacy 1st &we will b all fixed up!

  Busy day!Hannag is on the mend,ran 10mi, made it meatball subs w/ ground chicken(of course!) & homemade rolls, played,showered&2 bed we go…

  GM all! Up early for play practice & densist appts…mommy shuttle bus is on duty! Gotta get every1 fed& out the door! …catch u later!

  Hannah is great!Ear infections didn’t slow her playing down at all;just ‘mom my ear hurts’ every once in awhile!She’s all good!

  Mady is ?'ing my antibiotic knowledge-Me:'I'm a nurse u no' Mady:'yeah,but u haven't been in the dr industry 4awhile so I'm just checking!'

  Bliss is..Sitting in a movie theatre w my 11 yr olds on either side of me,munching away on popcorn waiting 4 the HungerGames 2 begin….

  Mady is putting on a quick 'one woman show' and then we are all going to sleep... Long weekend of fun! Monday is on its way... Zzzzzzzz..GN!

  I just said 2 kids:’We have surprise guests again tomorrow!’ Kids started guessing..Aadens 1st guess, excitedly: ‘THE (film) CREW!!’:(

  C, M & I had a sleepover in my rm last pm…I’ve been awake for 3hrs now..they r STILL sleeping soundly..the word ‘preteen’ comes 2 mind..

  Just back from running,in kitchen making protein shake.Joel walks in ‘So,how was the run?’Do I suddenly hav adult children? Aw,he’s so old!

  …&just said GN 2 my cara on the phone..She gives great big sis care 2her bros/sisters while they r visiting their dads..warms my heart!

  Kate doesn’t just give a blow-by-blow of what the children are doing, she tweets pictures of what they are doing. Here are some examples:

  Ok. This is one cute sight! They are thrilled to ‘snap’ peas! And I am thrilled to have the help! http://t.co/BwtcTYxD

  http://t.co/J4PZZkWF Check out K8s Kids… New artwork posted that is too darn cute to miss! Can’t wait to hear what you think!

  Posting first VIDEO ever! Leah’s hidden talent that even I didn’t know about!!! She can snap her toes! Can you? http://t.co/C50bNS2y

  go to my website http://t.co/QzYScyU8 lots of recent pics there! Enjoy!

  Here was our afternoon entertainment…girls pedicures! Mady cleaned&I clipped&painted! So fun! http://t.co/70CuEkWB

  Even some of Kate’s fans/followers/haters are smart enough to see the danger in Kate tweeting every detail of the family’s lives to complete strangers.

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Not a good idea that you tweet about when u r going to be away from your house. It’s not safe to inform fans & nonfans.

  On June 8, 2012, Kate tweeted that her children were going to be in Litchfield, Connecticut, for a running event that coming weekend. She posted a link to a website that provided every detail of where and when she and her children would be in public so anyone with good or bad intentions could find them.

  So excited!My kids and I are running TOGETHER this weekend in a KIDSMARATHON run! Starting to pack! We are ready2run! http://t.co/kf3BFLeE

  Kate sharing this information about her children’s whereabouts is in stark contrast to what she does when she travels with her bodyguard and without the kids. In those situations, she remains silent about her plans and destination until AFTER the event is over, for her own safety. Here’s a tweet that Kate responded to on the subject of safety:

  xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Was ample media on the opening. People have learned 2 help Kate stay under radar until she gets where’s she’s going.

  yep. You’re correct. Important for my safety. :)

  KATE’S TWITTER GUARDIAN

  Well, what do you know? Right on the heels of the online Gosselin critics discussing the fact that Kate has no friends who aren’t paid to deal/work with her, guess who suddenly jumped into the Twitter fracas? Why, it’s Deanna, the Stylist.

  Deanna inserted herself into the forefront of a great war being waged by Kate’s fans to defend her against the “haters.” How Deanna got tangled in Kate’s web is anyone’s guess. Maybe she was excited to rub elbows with a D-list celebrity. Or maybe she is just as intellectually challenged as Kate. Whatever the reason, Deanna has become Kate’s new best friend, and her vocal protector on Twitter. The obvious question for Deanna that keeps playing over and over is, “WHY DO YOU SPEND SO MUCH TIME ONLINE ENGAGING THE HATERS ON TWITTER?”

  Not only does Deanna defend Kate, she lies while doing it. Either she has more in common with Kate than I thought, or she is truly naïve and ignorant about what Kate does. I skimmed Deanna’s 24-hour tweet-fest and found a couple of lies without really even trying, so I’m going to assume that much of what Deanna says on Twitter about the Gosselins are either big, fat lies, or misunderstanding of fact. All these next tweets are from Deanna.

  When a tweeter asked Deanna if Kate is happy, Deanna replied:

  @xxxxx @xxxxx @kateplusmy8 Yes, Kate is happy& she is sweet! I don't get all of the hate at all!!

  @xxxxx @xxxxx @kateplusmy8 No lies here! Why don't you want people to know that Kate is nice and the kids r happy???

  (Apparently, Deanna is afflicted with the same “No lies” syndrome as Kate, where she lies but says she’s not lying.)

  @ xxxxx @ xxxxx @kateplusmy8 are you angry bc I am crushing your tabloid view of the family? Y so mean?

  @xxxxx @ xxxxx @kateplusmy8 Reality shows are created situations that can show a persons worst moments.

  What? Reality shows are “created situations?” Not Kate’s reality shows, Deanna! Kate said her shows were the most realist reality shows out there, remember?! There just happened to be a great bunch of dads with cameras taking home movies of Kate and the kids, who just happened to be going about their daily business, running in and out of frame, living their lives. REMEMBER?

  If Deanna is going to defend Kate, she’d better brush up on Kate’s history. Amongst all Deanna’s tweets defending Kate, I found this bizarre statement:

  @xxxxx @xxxxx the kids tell me they love Kate and talk lovingly about her. How do you know them???

  Why would 7-year-old kids tell a friend, a stranger, or anyone, that they love their mom and they “talk lovingly about her?” Oh, that’s right. THEY WOULDN’T! Kids don’t think like that. Kids are self-involved creatures who are trying to figure life out for themselves. I’ve been around the Gosselin kids a lot and, oddly enough, they’ve never come close to articulating anything remotely similar to those thoughts. They have, however, voiced many, many, many complaints about their mother.

  Deanna was undaunted in her quest to protect Kate’s good name. When someone tweeted to Deanna saying that she needed to accept that “KATE went on national TV and was a rude nasty person,” Deanna responded:

  @xxxxx @xxxxx So you saw her on a TV sho
w and I see her carry in 20 bags of groceries and hug her kids. We base opinions on different things.

  Deanna said she has seen Kate carry in 20 bags of groceries. Deanna said she has seen Kate hug her kids. Well, there you go. Color me corrected. Those are clearly signs that Kate is a great mother. Those things obviously prove beyond any doubt that Kate is not a rude and nasty person. Right.

  I have never seen Kate carry 20 bags of groceries into the house. I can’t remember a single instance in all the time that I followed and watched Kate, and in all the pap photos I have seen of Kate, where she has ever carried more than a few bags of groceries. I’ve also never seen Kate hug any of her kids, except when she had to for her fake reality shows.

  Deanna lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; I live 10 minutes from Kate’s house and have shopped at the same grocery store as Kate. I’ve seen Deanna at Kate’s house twice. She’s definitely not a fixture at the Gosselin compound, so I don’t know what she is basing her observations on.