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Jon Gosselin and Kate Gosselin of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and Buddy Valastro of TLC's "Cake Boss" attend Discovery Upfront at Jazz at Lincoln Center April 2, 2009 in New York City. Amy Sussman/WireImage for Discovery CommunicationsUs Magazine
At one point in the show, Kate complained that her life was "just so hard" due to media attention and pressures on her marriage.
"Is it really, Kate?" sniped the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik. "Tell that to a family in which the breadwinner has just lost her or his job, you silly, self-absorbed fool."
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New Jersey's Star Ledger also calls out Kate for her hypocrisy over the paparazzi. In a voiceover on Monday's premiere, she says that she tells her kids to call the paparazzi "the P-people" because "I don't want them going to school being like, 'Well, the paparazzi is following us, like, that's so creepy.'"
Says the Star Ledger: "What's creepy is having your children followed around by a camera crew. Any camera crew. Period. It's exploitation, whatever cutesy name you want to give it."
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly notes that Kate made it a point to say she was "alone" about six times on Monday's premiere. (At one point on the show, she complained that "Jon decided he needed a weekend off," so she had to organize the 5-year-old sextuplets' birthday party by herself.)
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Says EW: "You just wanted to say, 'We get it! You feel you're the Wronged Woman! Aren't you savvy enough by now to know you're not winning us over?' This was especially true when she noted that 'all of a sudden, your kids are calling you your babysitter's name.' I could almost hear millions of viewers shouting, 'So stay home!'"
Sarah Kickler Kelber of The Baltimore Sun also takes aim at Jon -- who clearly did not want to be on the show -- for not opening up about his marital problems. On the show, he denies cheating on his wife but vaguely apologizes for his "actions."
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"It would be so much clearer if they would just say their version of what happened," Kelber writes. "This is just more complicated than it needs to be. It's not like they aren't used to sharing the details of their lives, you know? We saw Jon's hair-transplant surgery as it happened, and Kate recovering from her tummy tuck, and the kids going through potty training. Most of that was probably too much information, but now we aren't quite getting enough."
What was most evident after Monday's premiere is that the tone on the TLC show has changed. The Philadelphia Enquirer even goes as far as to declare that the show is "adding up to disaster."
Zurawik of The Sun echoes that sentiment.
"For all the nasty and stupid reality shows I have seen over the years, I have to say this one did leave me feeling like I was looking in on something that I shouldn't be watching," he writes.
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"What I saw was two people in over their heads, with one of them trying in her incredible arrogance to act like she knew what she was doing -- and an off-camera voice playing the melodrama of these lives for all it was worth," says Zurawik. "The kids mostly got lost in all of that."
Says EW's Tucker, "It's going to be interesting to see how the series settles back into its weekly half-hours of family outings and squabbles -- to see if that's even possible."
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JacobShut up already! For crying out loud, you people get annoying! Has anyone here (including the media) ever heard of a little bit of privacy? The three-feet personal space? Sheesh! For crying out loud, SHUT UP AND LEAVE THEM ALONE!report abuseposted November 14, 2009 5:24 PM PST
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JacobShut up already! For crying out loud, you people get annoying! Has anyone here (including the media) ever heard of a little bit of privacy? The three-feet personal space? Sheesh! For crying out loud, SHUT UP AND LEAVE THEM ALONE!report abuseposted November 14, 2009 5:24 PM PST
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JacobShut up already! For crying out loud, you people get annoying! Has anyone here (including the media) ever heard of a little bit of privacy? The three-feet personal space? Sheesh! For crying out loud, SHUT UP AND LEAVE THEM ALONE!report abuseposted November 14, 2009 5:24 PM PST
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phil bWhy does anyone .. ANYONE.... care about this drivel? I just have no interest in this or about any other reality show.....REALITY ????? ... What a laugh! Anyone who watches this crap has less of a brain than the people on the shows!report abuseposted October 23, 2009 10:14 PM PDT
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tara sPeople have you forgotten that Jon had affairs while he was married. Jon is on display with other woman like he is a teenager. If Kate has something to hide, it's hidden.. we do not see her out with other men. Jon's fling even told everyone that he was a scum bag.. Kate, she maybe controlling and have issues, look at Jon now, any questions! Who is flaunting money, dinner at thereport abuseposted October 6, 2009 4:43 PM PDT
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Jon and Kate are not the only family with kids profiting from being on T.V. How about the Duggar's who have 20 kids and counting and Little People Big World. They are all profiting off of their family being on T.V. Kate is bossy & demanding, John got sick of it. He should have ended it instead of sneaking around. He is a fat lazy piece of s--- and not worthy of what a father shreport abuseposted October 6, 2009 10:33 AM PDT
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Gretta Von TrappCome on tlc drop the show before it get worse. Im sure you can find another show to give money to. Kate makes me sick, who knows what she is filling her kids heads with. If she tells her kids to aim a gun toward the p. people on a recent trip on a battleship, then ask where is the button to fire, what else is she installing in those little kids minds!!! The kids already saw how she treated Jon.report abuseposted September 9, 2009 6:43 PM PDT
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JamieDoesn't matter who is at fault at this point. Kate didn't just become a %@!*# from the show. You can tell she was like this before she was even married. Jon was a passive guy and husband to begin with (his own fault for being that way) who got tired of dealing with the show and Kate's idea of trying to show America that she had the best marriage and children. They both needreport abuseposted August 18, 2009 10:53 AM PDT
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JamieDoesn't matter who is at fault at this point. Kate didn't just become a %@!*# from the show. You can tell she was like this before she was even married. Jon was a passive guy and husband to begin with (his own fault for being that way) who got tired of dealing with the show and Kate's idea of trying to show America that she had the best marriage and children. They both needreport abuseposted August 18, 2009 10:53 AM PDT
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Kiki53Oh my god People look at Jon!! Run's off with someone Kate trusted as a new Friend's Daughter.They set KATE up,we got u.It helped are practice by getting on TV and are Daughter got a rich Man,So they think .JON SHOWED HIS TRUE COLORS,SMOKEING,DRINKING,PERICED EARS,BUT HATES HIS TATOOS.I am sure that this will help Kate she knows were she went wrong,doesnt lie about it.Big hug toreport abuseposted July 12, 2009 4:31 PM PDT
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