KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (87 page)

These are my notes from all day, every day, during the
Dancing With The Stars
days at the Gosselin house.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

March 4 & 5, 2010

• Kate has been away from her kids for two weeks.
  
• After Jon left on Sunday, the kids have been with nannies and sitters all week while Kate is seeking fame.
  

Kate hasn’t seen her kids since Saturday, February 20
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. She left the house at 6 am on Sunday morning. Jon took over custody at 7:30 am that day. Jon left the house and kids on Sunday, February 28
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so the kids have been without either parent all week. They’ve been with Judy and various babysitters and helpers.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

March 6, 2010

• Kate arrived home sometime overnight on Friday night. She and Steve went to Maryland from NYC in a limo.
  
• Judy the nanny arrived at 11:15 on Saturday morning to relieve Kate of her parental duties.
  
• Two DWTS people arrived at the Gosselin house just before 11:30.
  
• Tony the dance partner arrived at 11:35, driving himself in his Porsche
  Carrera.
  
• The kids played outside most of the day with nannies while Kate and Tony rehearsed in the basement.
  
• The two DWTS staffers left the house at 6:30 pm. Tony and a second nanny where still there at 8:45 pm when I got removed from the street by police.
  
• Tony is staying at the Homewood Suites where Kate stayed often – not in the apartment above the garage.
  
• Dance rehearsal resumed at 8 am today (Sunday) with Judy at the house taking care of the kids.
  

Kate arrived back home sometime overnight on Friday night. She left NYC with Steve Neild in a limo at 11:30 am on Friday and I’m speculating that they had to go to Maryland first to drop Steve off and for Kate to pick up her car. I don’t know what they did between NYC and Kate arriving back home.

The kids would normally be in bed at 9 pm on a Friday night so I’m guessing that Kate didn’t see them until they woke up on Saturday morning, usually around 7 am. That gave Kate only a few hours to get reacquainted with them before handing them over to Judy who arrived at the house at 11:15 am.

A few minutes before 11:30 am, a white rental car with Mass. plates came to the house with two people in it. A twenty-something blonde got out of the driver’s side and went to the front door to ring the bell while a dark-haired twenty-something guy stayed in the passenger seat waiting. Kate came to the front door wearing a skin-tight, light blue tank top and directed them to go around the house and enter through the basement entrance. The blonde went back to the car to grab her things and the guy and they went inside through the back door. I’m guessing one was a DWTS staffer who brought music and the other, probably the guy since he stayed inside the car and acted like a primadonna was perhaps a dance instructor or choreographer. They brought a few bags with them and a rolling suitcase. Inside the bags I could see (through binoculars) a box of triscuits, some Starbucks bottled coffee drinks and some iHome products. iHome is audio equipment for plugging an iPod into. They went inside and weren’t seen again until they left at 6:30 p.m.

Ten minutes later at 11:35 am, Tony the dance partner arrived in his black Porsche
Carrera. He went to the front door and Kate welcomed him inside the house with a hug and a huge smile. (the other two got sent around the outside of the house. Kate must think they’re not important to her.)

A minute later Tony came back outside to grab a bag from his trunk. He was wearing a long sleeve, skin-tight white shirt and tight black pants with bright white socks. He had no shoes on. (Kate made him take off his shoes) He hurried to the car and back in the house with his cargo.

Just before Noon, all eight kids and Judy came outside to play. They were allowed to play in front of the house where they could be seen and photographed. This was strange because Kate has been going out of her way to make sure the kids were hidden around back, out of the view of the paparazzi. For the next three and a half hours, the kids were outside playing in the cold. They didn’t seem to mind though. Half of them had their coats off and Judy was carrying them around. They played lacrosse, rode bikes, scooters and played various other games with each other.

At 3 pm, a new nanny that I don’t know came to the house to take over for Judy. They both stayed outside with the kids for twenty minutes and then Judy tried to get them to come inside by announcing “snack time, come inside”. That got six of the eight running but Aaden and Joel wanted nothing to do with it. They just stopped and stared back at Judy as she was trying to get them to go in. Their defiance lasted another two minutes until Judy yelled “your mom said to get in the house.” That did the trick. They ran inside.

The kids were inside for 45 minutes and then back out to play until dark. None of the dance group made an appearance outside all day.

The two staffers left the property at 6:30 pm. Tony and the other nanny stayed at the house until well into the darkness. At 8:45 pm the police finally told me to leave the front of the property and that made it impossible for me to know when anyone else left because there are several ways to exit. I kept driving by the house but Kate had all the lights off up by the front door and garage and it’s 100 yards from the fence to the house so you couldn’t see anything.

I checked Austin’s several times throughout the night to see if they ducked out for a bite to eat and I also drove by the house to make sure that Tony wasn’t staying in the apartment above the garage. I was pretty sure he wouldn’t be up there because I was in there a week ago with Jon and it’s filled with Jon’s crap and it’s a mess.

I found Tony’s car in the parking lot of the Homewood Suites at Midnight so we know where he’s staying.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

March 7, 2010

• The nanny arrived at 6:30 am to help Kate with the kids.
  
• Tony and the crew arrived at 7:30 am to begin rehearsal.
  
• Rehearsal wrapped at Noon and Tony left town.
  
• Kate left the kids crying with a new, mean nanny at 12:20 to go tanning.
  
• Kate came home an hour later for five minutes and left again with Leah and Colin to go to Dick’s Sporting Goods.
  
• Kate left the kids again to go to Target – which is connected to Dick’s where she was a short time ago.
  
• Kids totally ignored new, mean nanny when she gave them instructions.
  
• Kate got home at 4:45 but the nanny stayed until 6 pm.
  
• Kate spoke to pap she hates for first time in 8 months. I’m sure it’s in her DWTS contract to be affable.
  

Judy the nanny arrived at the house at 6:30 am to help Kate get the kids up and ready for the day. Tony was at the Homewood Suites until he left for Kate’s house at 7:15am. He and the crew arrived at 7:30 am to begin rehearsing for the day.

Judy had the kids outside playing – in front of the house again for most of the morning. They sporadically ducked inside for potty breaks but were outside the rest of the time. At Noon, rehearsal wrapped and Tony and the crew left for the day and Judy was relieved by the new, mean nanny. She even looks mean and the kids hate her.

Kate came outside at 12:20, having not spent any time with the kids all morning, and she was about to get in her car when the little girls started yelling and crying for her to stay. I’m a good distance from the house but it’s dead quiet out there and it was very easy to here the conversation. The little girls yelled “Mommy, why do you have to gooooooo?!! When will we see yooooooou?!” And Kate said “I’ll be back soon” and she got in the car and drove off.

I was certain that she was leaving her kids at home for a DWTS emergency or something very important but guess where she went? Wait for it. TANNING! She saw her kids for a few minutes today and left them with a new nanny to go tanning.

The minute Kate drove down the driveway, the mean nanny yelled at the kids to get in the house. They wanted to stay outside playing and she yelled at them again to get in the house. After a second refusal, she started counting to 5. I have no idea what happens when you get to five but the kids obviously do because that made them jump and she gathered them up in a group on the front steps and marched them inside. After that, I went and joined the pap at the tanning salon where Kate stayed inside for an extra fifteen minutes. She usually does a half hour but today it was forty-five minutes. For the first time in eight months, Kate responded to the paparazzi (that she hates with a passion) when he asked her a question. I told him before hand that I thought she would say something if he asked a DWTS question, guessing that it’s built into her contract in some way. Sure enough, when he asked her something about how well she thinks she’ll do, her response was “you’ll have to wait and see.” And with that, the pap was so thrown by her uttering a syllable that he backed himself right into the tanning salon in front of her while walking and taking pictures and video. Funny.

After tanning, Kate drove the twenty minutes back to the house where she stayed for less than five minutes as she picked up Leah and Colin and drove right back down the same way she came and went to the Target shopping center and went into Dick’s Sporting Goods. She was inside for about 15 minutes looking at Under Armour brand workout clothing. Tony was wearing Under Armour yesterday and he may have recommended it to her to keep her muscles warm and loose. I couldn’t see what she ended up buying but that’s all she looked at and came out with a bag.

On the way to the car the kids were looking at the pap taking their picture and Kate said to them “Don’t worry. They know who you are but you’re safe with me.”

After they got in the car, Kate sat in the parking space for fifteen minutes reading something she had in her lap.

They drove back to the house and Kate went inside and five minutes later, the new, mean nanny came back out with all eight kids. After playing for about an hour, the nanny told the kids to put their bikes in the garage. She told them again and then a third time, getting absolutely no response at all from the kids. They were within twenty feet of her and just completely ignored her. That made her mad but Kate was in the house so she just went and got the bikes herself and put them away while the kids continued to play in their Crooked Houses. The kids all went inside with the nanny at 3.

Sure enough, at 3:15, Kate came out and got in the car and left – AGAIN. This time she drove to the exact same place as before and went into Target – which is right next to Dick’s in the strip mall. She spent forty-five minutes inside shopping and came out pushing her shopping cart, looking fabulous in tight white pants, high heels, a bright blue top and crazy, white-framed sunglasses. She had several bags and I could see that she bought a bunch of bottles of some kind of juice and she put them in a cooler in the back of the Land Cruiser. She also bought a toaster oven. After loading the car, the ass-kissing pap took her shopping cart for her so she wouldn’t have to walk it twenty feet to the cart rack.

I’m trying not to judge her, but it looks like she’s looking for any excuse at all to leave the house and get away from her kids.

She got back to the house around 4:45 and went inside. The kids were all inside when she got home. All was quiet but the nanny stayed at the house until 6 pm when I guess Kate finally called it a day.

Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• Kate left for NYC at 7am
  
• Nannies watched the kids while Kate was away – Again
  
• Kate and Steve Neild arrived at the Essex House hotel
  
• Kate and Steve took a taxi to Ted
  Gibson’s for Kate’s new hairdo
  
• Tony joined Kate and Steve at Ted Gibson’s before going out to dinner with Kate at Nobu
  
• After Nobu, Kate and Steve returned to the Essex House.
  

Judy arrived at the house at 6 am to take over parenting duties for Kate who was preparing to leave for an overnight trip to New York. Judy and the new, mean nanny would be rotating with a third nanny while Kate was away.

Kate and Steve arrived at the Essex House around 10 am and checked in. Steve helped Kate with her bags and followed her into the hotel.

They stayed inside until 12:30pm when they came out and jumped into a taxi and drove to Ted Gibson’s salon on 5
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ave. Steve escorted Kate inside for her extension-removal appointment with Ted’s team.

While Kate was upstairs in the salon getting worked on by a team of stylists, Steve came outside and stood watch over the paparazzi who were nearby trying to get pictures. All they could see from across the street was the top of Kate’s head and several people working on her. Steve stood around the building and paced back and forth, taking the time to have small talk with the paps.

At 6:30 pm, Tony arrived at Ted Gibson’s to meet Kate. He was inside for an hour waiting before the group of Kate, Tony, Ted, Steve and another guy came outside at 7:30 and got into a taxi van to head to Nobu for an 8:00 dinner reservation.