Aunt Jodi and Kevin have more to say. (Read below but there is video on RadarOnline.)
Kate Gosselin, the highfalutin matriarch of TLC's hit show Jon and Kate Plus 8, shows more interest in her fame as a TV personality, speaker and author than she does as a mother, her brother and sister-in-law said in an explosive new interview exclusively on RadarOnline.com.
Kevin Krieder, the 32-year-old brother of the reality TV mom, said that his sister has a selfish agenda focused more on boosting her career than her family. He said that the show's depiction of Kate as a do-it-all mother who cooks and cleans is "all for the cameras," and the reality TV couple's claim that they are raising their family all by themselves is a "snow job."
Jodi, who was also prominently featured in early episodes of the show, said it takes the work of many to take care of the children, and Kate is too busy to pitch in unless the red light is on.
"Kate is very good at designating jobs," her sister-in-law, Jodi Krieder said. "As the years have gone on, Kate has become the designator to the people that have those jobs going on."
The Krieders said they have not talked to the Gosselins in more than a year.
The fallout, according to Kevin, came over money. He said that members of the production crew told them that TLC was planning on compensating the Krieders, a fact which drove Kate ballistic and led to the family rift. They said that Kate is obsessive over control.
"It's a very sad situation," Jodi said. "This is going to affect these children terribly, if she goes for a divorce. I think right now Kate is very lost and very blinded by her actions and what she is doing -- [she] is not being a mother that is nurturing and hands on."
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According to People Magazine, Kate wasn't even home for Mother's Day! She was in New York . . . talking to People Magazine! WFT?!?
She really throws Jon under the bus in the article. She implies that he is lazy and that she does everything (speaking at events withhout him, moving to a new house, etc.) to make him happy.
Jon, the time to bury Kate in the press is NOW. Face your fans, admit your faults, but open the truth floodgates about Kate wide open. You'll gain tremendous respect, leverage, support and sympathy while leaving her on the defensive and looking pathetic. If you confirm that she's a fraud, you'll block any chance for her plans (future books, TV, etc.) to materialize. THAT would hit her where it hurts.
Love your blog.
Here are my thoughts about Kate: In the past few weeks we've seen lots of pictures of her out in public. She looks the best she's ever looked in her life-slim, tan, toned, chic. Considerably more sophisticated looking than she's ever looked on the show. She's clearly outgrown that Korean Shlomo, who daily appears more sulky and passive and stuck in a time warp. (Does he have any grown up clothes? any long pants with no pockets on the sides? any shoes besides sneakers?)
Kate's clearly the more ambitious, dynamic, most driven of the two. She's looking to the future, when the children are going to be gone to school, when they arent cute anymore (I've been finding them pretty tiresome for a long time, myself). They've been taking lots of trips but there are only so many they can take. Desperation has set in-that's the only explanation for that dreadful, hollow renewal of the vows show in Hawaii. The focus of the show has evolved to be more about Jon and Kate than the children, I think.
Anyway, she likes the all the trappings of celebrity, the travel, the attention, the money. She's developed a lot of poise on tv and public speaking engagements. Why shouldnt she pursue other opportunities for herself? They could reduce filming the children to occasional specials (thus no longer exploiting the children, as critics charge), she'd be earning a nice living to support them all-certainly Jon isnt going to-and it would permit them all to move forward in their lives.
So I think that's what's going to happen. Currently things are getting out of control in the press. Kate needs to shut up and get home and cooperate with Jon on some damage control. I think the marriage is over and has been for a while. I dont think the fans are going to swallow any more phoniness from them.
Going to be interesting to see how they resolve all this.
Keep on snarkin'
Anna-
good take on this, only problem is Kate wont reduce filming of the kids. In this week's EW, she said that she owes it to people to continue filming the kids. She says (once again) she has 'no choice' and people want to see them. Then TLC is quoted in the article that they have a multiyr contract. These kids are doomed.
No choice, hunh?
I do believe Kate Gosselin is in love with herself as a media celebrity and would wither up and die if they went off the air.
Guess she thinks millions of viewers would lay siege to her doors if she and Jon took the kids off the air, demanding that they continue the show.
I think a large part of the negative press is due to the fact that people sense something rotten at the core there, that reports of each of them having affairs may or may not be true, but that there is something essentially phoney about the way they present themselves on the show.
Season 5 should be interesting. If what we've read-that Kate told Jon 6 months ago that "it is over" is true, it's going to be fascinating to see how it all plays out.
Another problem is that it seems to me that the two older children are increasingly resentful and sulky about being on tv. I could be wrong about this; I may have read more into that terrible renewal of the vows show than is there. But it seemed to me that all of them were tense and irritable and on edge. What do you think?
Hi anna,
I think you've got great points. The twins don't want to be on tv. Kate wants to be the celebrity whore. Jon doesn't and is acting out. I don't think either of them are any better than the other. I don't want either of them to become the martyr. They need to grow up.
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