Kate Gosselin - The Vanity Fair Interview

Boo hoo! Let's all watch Kate Gosselin cry about her stupid hair cut. Who'd she get to do her hair anyway? Edward Scissorhands? (You know what I'm talking about, right? Remember the asymmetrical cuts he gave those women BACK IN 1990? Arghh. (NBC Images)"]

Please tell me that there is at least one other person out there who agrees that this whole Jon and Kate Gosselin thing is a big fat WHO GIVES A CRAP. In fact, I'm half-ashamed to be blogging about it on the Bodog Beat because I absolutely loathe their stupid reality TV show (I tried to watch an episode once but I couldn't make it past the first couple of minutes). Honestly, I would rather subject myself to a weekend marathon of Discovery Health's I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant and A&E's Hoarders than watch a single episode of that piece of crap TV show. GAH!!

But then there's this hideous side of me that really wants to understand WHY. Why do so many people care about these douchebags?

Read: The Unreal Rise of Jon and Kate Gosselin by Nancy Jo Sales.

At long last, VanityFair.com comes to my rescue. Now here's an investigative story that starts with the important questions, goes back in time to remind us how these people came to be in our faces 24/7 (in case you don't know, it's a sad story about a couple's struggles to feed, clothe and provide proper shelter for their children, blah, blah, blah) -- and then dives head first into the cesspool that has become Kate Gosselin's life -- all while following Kate around as the poor woman tries to get some shopping done at F.A.O. Schwarz in Manhattan, NY. I   mean really. She can't even leave her home-away-from-home at the Essex House hotel without being bombarded by paparazzi.

"I can tell you why probably Princess Diana died," Kate tells Vanity Fair. "Those flashes are blinding!"

Among so many other stupid things to come out of her mouth during this interview, that Kate Gosselin has the audacity to compare herself to Princess Diana -- is beyond reproach.

Anyway...

The Unreal Rise of Jon and Kate Gosselin by Nancy Jo Sales...

For her interview with Kate Gosselin of TLC's hugely popular Jon & Kate Plus Eight, VanityFair.com reporter Nancy Jo Sales does a little dirt digging and backtracking to gain a better understanding of the woman who has managed to hog valuable space on the covers of Hollywood's trashiest tabloids. It's essential reading for anyone who, like me, can't for the life of them figure out how it all went wrong.

And by "it" I mean us.

To start things off, Sales asks other media types -- like TMZ's Harvey Levin and Ginia Bellafante, TV critic at The New York Times -- how two average parents from America's pretzel and potato chip capital (rural Pennsylvania) with way too many kids managed to turn their life into a reality TV show en route to becoming the biggest celebrity story of the year?

Here's what Levin had to say:

"Watching a woman push a wagonful of kids up the street is just not interesting to me. But then when it started to unravel, it became interesting in a different way."

And here's how Bellafante sums it up:

"It became a show that was completely suited to a multi-platform world. You can't just watch Jon & Kate on television and understand it anymore. You have to participate in it on all these different levels—tabloids, news shows, talk shows, the blogosphere. Jon & Kate became unintentionally brilliant because it demanded so much other consumption to find out what was 'real.'"

And that's it. That's how and why we're all going to hell in a hand basket. Please. Someone. Anyone? Stop the madness that is Jon & Kate Plus Eight.

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