Gratuitous: Jon & Kate Separate

 

Photo Credit: TLC

I am so over the coverage of this train-wreck of a family but, here I go anyway: seems tough-as-nails Kate Gosselin breaks her silence on the Today Show with Meredith Vieira.  

For the first time, Kate speaks candidly — including admitting that she still has love for her womanizing, pot-belly, media-whore of a soon-to-be-ex-husband Jon Gosselin (well, at least, the Jon she once knew!) She also confesses she still keeps her wedding ring on so that the kids won’t be upset when she didn’t have on the “married-to-daddy ring”.

 

The stars of Jon & Kate Plus Eight have been amid a media storm ever since the rumblings of there being “trouble in paradise”.  Truth is, most viewers could see their foundation fraying from early into the first season.  

Kate has been called everything from a ball-buster to a crazie but quickly Jon has become the person-to-hate, as he hangs out with the likes of Michael Lohan (the consummate father-opportunist); has trysts with numerous women; continues to subject the viewing public to his penchant for donning fashions by Ed Hardy.  The latter I think is the biggest offense of them all! 

This all conspires to be a hot I-want-to-call-child-services mess.  There is not only one child amid all of this drama; there are EIGHT!  Ugh.  Come on, guys, get your selfish heads out your asses and think about the kids!

And if I see one more installment of Jon neglecting his children in the background while he panders to whatever media outlet is camped outside his door, I am going to throw up.  At least, Kate is being a bit more subtle about it all!

File under: was it worth it, guys?!?! 

Gratuitous: Blog Strikethroughs!

Here’s another installment of what I deem really annoying gratuitous!  OK, so I love punctuation.  I have been known to use one too many ellipses (the three dot thing… for my not-so-inclined folks) and an errant semicolon here and there but there are just way too many bloggers abusing the whole strikethrough thing.  I know many of them think it’s funny and so avante-garde cool.  But not really!

So let’s keep to a minimum please!

File under: Ahhhhhh!

Gratuitous: “Addicted to Beauty” ads

Photo Credit: Oxygen

I am going to start a new feature called G-R-A-T-U-I-T-O-U-S for the overrated and over-saturated fare.

The inaugural inductee would have to be the ads for the new Oxygen show called Addicted to Beauty.  Nope, I haven’t a clue what this show is about but I am guessing a) it is a reality series b) it is about surgery-0bsessed one-dimensional people.

Anyway, if I see one more ad for this show — be it on the bus, train platform, or taped to the inseam of my pants — I am going to hurl!  Seriously STOP!

File under: it is probably going to suck but I am going to watch it anyway because I am a reality-tv addict!

Adam Lambert gay? No!!!!!

Rolling Stone has released a sneak peak of its most highly-anticipated article featuring American Idol runner-up, Adam Lambert.  In it, he says he is in fact… wait… wait… wait for it… G-A-Y.  Stunner, I know!  I mean the shots of his beaming boyfriend in the audience during the competition and the hoards of pictures of him in varying states of drag-dress truly aren’t enough.  We need to hear it from the horse’s mouth and dedicate a cover story to it!  It’s the only thing left!

Sequin jackets aside, I think Lambert is actually a very talented singer and if he has some great songs in his corner, I think he should be a major success.  It’s sad that the issue of his sexuality has clouded much else but I don’t know if I expected much else.  What I can appreciate is that he is willing to set it straight that he is “proud” and readily “embraces” his sexuality!  Kudos to you, Adam.  I know a lot of celebrities who should do the same.

Does anyone else think his voice is reminiscent of Axl Rose?  I was waiting all season for him to sing a Guns N’ Roses’ song then I remembered that Rose probably would never give clearance for any of his songs on A.I.  Though we did get to see Lambert with Slash.  I guess that’s as close as we are going to get.

File under gratuitous outings.