Dancing for Dough?

So the big news this news cycle isn’t the earthquakes in Haiti or Chile. It isn’t about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The headlines are about Kate Gosselin joining the cast of Dancing with the Stars.

Really, people?

I was talking to a friend of mine about it tonight and I instantly got “Kate” (as her single moniker is now known) confused with the “Octomom.” I guess I just can’t keep my reality TV stars straight (ummm... my bad… I guess).

A Big Brood… So What?

Now, I grew up surrounded around Irish Catholic families and they were breeders, let me tell you. We were surrounded by multiple “Mc’s…” and “Murphy’s” and “O’[insert remaining name here—]. Kids were literally coming out of the woodwork (and apparently their mother’s vaginas every 11 months or so).

There was no reality TV show. There were no book tours. There were no gossip newsstand headlines. There were just a lot of kids. Tons of them. In every grade. On every playground.

So, I don’t understand how these shows like ”Jon & Kate Plus Eight,” “19 Kids and Counting” (what are they up to by the way now…20? 21?) are so popular? When did watching these kids run around, learn to eat, poop and cry become rating bonanzas?
I’m sorry, but if I had 18 Kids … I would go AWOL just to save my sanity. I'm pretty sure my mother would’ve headed for the hills too—just to save her sanity. The woman was barely sane raising three kids—especially with what we put her through!

Dancing for Dough?

Now I understand “Kate” needs to put all those kids through college. I understand if she wanted her own reality show. Ok, at least she’d around her kids while they would be filming. But she went on TV and said she would be “commuting” from eastern Pennsylvania to LA in order to compete on the show.

That’s not commuting. That’s insanity.

She made the decision to leave her kids to build her ego. To cash in on her reality fame. She says she wants to be a role model for her kids. Seriously? Then why don't you try staying home and raising them?

But then I thought, if “Jon” were to do it, would there be as much of a backlash? Absolutely not.

Maybe “Jon” will actually stay home to raise his kids alone. Now that would be a reality TV show I’d watch.