Just Keep Smiling Jon, Or ELSE!

Looks like Jon and Kate plus 8 will be returning for another grueling fifth season. Their first new episode will air May 25th, plus a green speical airing on April 19th. Oh joy, rapture.

Kate Gosselin was recently seen at a book signing in a California Barnes and Noble. Yes, she is on her second book. *puke*

Her first book was on the NY Times Best Seller list. Really? What, are people bored out of their freakin’ minds??? I truly can’t picture myself ever being that bored.

As reported by Hollywood Insider

“Hundreds of Jon and Kate Plus 8 fans converged on a three-story Barnes and Noble store in Glendale, Calif., Tuesday to meet series star Kate Gosselin, who is crisscrossing the country to promote her second book, “Eight Little Faces: A Mom’s Journey”.

The bookstore, about eight miles outside of Los Angeles, was the first stop in Gosselin’s multi-city tour (she’ll be in Huntington Beach, Fresno, and San Francisco later this week), and close to 400 people waited for hours to get a brief audience with TLC’s famous mother of eight.”

Oh hells no! 400 people, waiting hours to see that shrew Kate?
Again, did these “fans” not have hair to wash or socks to sort that day???

I’m guessing Mr. Mom Jon was probably home with the brood, that or their army of paid assistants. Kate’s new book called Eight Little Faces: A Mom’s Journey, should be called Pimp Out My Family and Throw Hubby Under The Bus.

Forgive me, but I can’t understand why people who managed to make a small fortune exploiting their family, would continue to “whore” themselves out for the almighty dollar at the risk of their family becoming psychologically scarred and permanently dysfunctional. These people need CPS, not more reality tv. It’s perverse what Kate and Jon are doing to their children and their marriage.

Considering Kate and Jon are supposedly such avid bible thumpers (didn’t they give their kids action bible figures for Christmas one year?) has the vice “greed” not entered their biblical vocabulary?Perhaps they missed the Sunday sermonL “Thou Shall Not Pimp Thy Family Out”.

One would also think that John would have liked to keep whatever was left of his spine (and manhood), but I guess come May…it’s back to jelly fish mode.

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True story:  So I’m sitting in here working on the computer and my kids are watching Celebrity Apprentice.  All of a sudden I hear, “What?  What is that?  Mom!”  Never a good sign.  So I ask what the deal is.

“Who is Perris Hilton?

What?  Who?  What are they talking about?

“Perris Hilton?  Peeris Hilton?  Something Hilton?”

Huh?  My kids have lost it.  They’re talking about Paris Hilton, although I am not sure why she would be on Celebrity Apprentice…not this early anyway.  Give it a few years.  I can’t wait.  But my kids are hollering again.

“No, not Paris…something All Media, All Media Something?  It’s not a girl, it’s a guy!”

So at this point I decide to go check out what the heck is going on.  They rewind the DVR and I see…it’s Perez Hilton!  Or at least I think it is!  What?

[SPOILER LERT]

Apparently the teams had to create a viral video for ALL Small and Mighty detergent, and apparently both teams did epic fail (although the Jesse James video was funny if you cut out the last ten seconds or so, with the cursing and stuff, and changed the title).  It seems that the Trumpinator decided that Perez Hilton was the one he would choose for the obligatory FOT (Friend Of Trump) round of shameless butt-kissing and self-promotion (otherwise known as the Guest Judge).  But when I saw Perez, I was all like WOAH!  DOOD!

What did he do to his teeth?  He paid off his car making fun of Hilary Duff’s Chiclet horse teeth veneers, but those pearly whites he’s sporting now have nothing on her former chompers.  I don’t know if they are fakies or just a super whitening treatment gone bad (he does have pretty big teeth), but they seriously look odd.  And while it’s a great thing that his pink/yellow/orange/blue/plaid hairdo is gone, that mannequin curlicue thing he’s sporting now is hardly a step in the right direction.

And what was he doing on there anyway?  He used to do a lot of blogging, but rumor has it that he doesn’t even write his own copy any more, other than the occasional self-promoting vlog.  Now, he’s just famous for being famous, not for actually doing too much of anything really important…not sure if having his own birthday party counts.  Why do people care what he says any more?  It looks like Perez has fallen victim to the very celebrity foibles he once lampooned.  Here’s an earlier picture, for comparison:

Oh, by the way, Clint Black is a moron.  I never thought so, until now.  What an idiot.  I’ll be surprised if he has any fans left after this show.  You’re no Trace Adkins, bud.

[ff to 53:32 for the Perez segment]

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Some of you may not know who Jade Goody is; I didn’t either until I started reading the British papers a couple of years ago.

She was a working-class girl who shot to fame and fortune by just being herself on the UK version of Big Brother, and she died on Sunday (UK’s Mother’s Day) at the young age of 27 from cervical cancer:

Jade’s young sons awoke on Mothering Sunday to the heartbreaking news she had died in the night.

Five year-old Bobby and his brother Freddie, four, were told by their father Jeff Brazier that ‘mummy has gone to heaven’.

Her mother Jackiey, husband Jack, 21, and close friend Kevin Adams were by her bedside when she slipped away.

According to Mr [Max] Clifford she has been heavily sedated throughout most of her final week in a bid to control the pain.

‘In recent days she slipped deeper and deeper into unconsciousness,’ he said. ‘The last 24 hours she has been pretty much in a coma.” [...]

Jade discovered she had cervical cancer last August while taking part in the Indian version of Big Brother. She was told the disease had spread to her bowel and liver and was terminal in January.

Even by her own account, she wasn’t a very bright girl (she once said, ““I am intelligent but I let myself down because I can’t speak properly or spell,” and thought Rio de Janeiro was a soccer player), but the public could not get enough of her.  Her career in the spotlight had many ups and downs, and Jade was embroiled in a racial scandal when she returned to the BB house and became involved in bullying Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.  She and Miss Shetty had later spoken and patched things up (she flew to the UK in hopes of seeing Jade before she died, but Jade was too ill), and Jade agreed to go on the Indian version of the show to try and restore some of her image, but not before Jade took a beating in the press and saw her once-lucrative career start to dry up.

Once she arrived in India and began filming the series, she had only been in the house for two days when she received the news that she had cervical cancer and was to return to the UK immediately for treatment.  However, even after a hysterectomy and aggressive treatment for the disease over the course of several months, Jade was told that her cancer was terminal and there was nothing left the doctors could do.

She had starred in other reality television shows about her life; but in a unique twist, she decided to sell the rights to her wedding (her new husband had his police curfew lifted for the night so he could be there) and other events concerning her last days in an attempt to put aside money for the care of her two young sons and has paid their school tuition until they are sixteen.  She could have splurged on herself, but that wasn’t Jade…it was all about her sons:

JADE’S sons have been left financially secure with a £4million legacy from their mum.

She was raised in the back streets of Bermondsey, South East London. Her dad Andrew was a drug addict and jailbird.

But she was always determined to succeed — and Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, are guaranteed a better start in life than she had.

She once said: “I’ve always wanted my family to have what I never could, no matter what it might cost.

“I wanted to get Bobby into a private school. It costs over two grand a term, but I was willing to put all my savings into giving my kids a good education.”

Jade had four separate procedures to remove abnormal cells, but ignored the last two letters asking her to return:

Jade Goody ignored a letter warning her she needed to have abnormal cells removed from her cervix because she was too scared to go back to hospital.

The 27-year-old Big Brother star, who is now fighting advanced cervical cancer, had already had three abnormal smear tests and after each had endured an operation to remove the cells.

But after her fourth abnormal smear she ignored a letter telling her to return to hospital, instead hoping it would go away on its own.

‘When I heard I had more abnormal cells I thought, “this is the fourth time I’ve been told I need to have the same operation now,’ she told Heat Magazine.

‘Once you have them burnt off they shouldn’t come back, I was too scared.’

It was only after the mother-of-two collapsed from blood loss on August 5, for the fourth time in four years, that she realised she couldn’t ignore her condition.

‘The doctors were doing tests for my blood loss - but they seemed unclear about what it could be. It was then that I was told I must have another operation on the dodgy cells on my cervix.

‘They’d sent a letter to me ages ago telling me I needed to go in, but I’d been too scared to do anything about it.’

Jade’s first had an abnormal smear test when she was just 16.

‘Even before I was sexually active, I had to have pre-cancerous cells removed. And that nearly traumatised me for life, it was so painful.’

After collapsing in August Jade was warned that she could be facing a terminal illness, but she decided to go ahead with her trip to India. She reasoned that the £100,000 fee would be needed to raise her two young sons if she fell ill.

Jade’s life was not easy nor was it pretty, and it was often cringe-worthy and maddening, but it was real.  Truth be told, she wasn’t the brightest, nor the smartest, nor the prettiest, and her life was often a series of one embarassing blunders after another.  In many ways, it was a textbook example of the horrible things that happen to a naive person thrust into an unforgiving spotlight shone by a world ready to devour its wounded.

But Jade had the last word, by taking her ill begotten fame and turning it around into a vehicle for getting cancer screenings in the public eye.  If nothing else, Jade’s choice to chronicle her struggle with cancer in the ever-present lens of the camera serves to remind us that nobody is immune to cancer.  This isn’t just a problem dealt with by the old or infirm, or a far-off event that may or may not happen to us when we reach a “certain age”; it strikes the young and healthy as well, and often without warnings or with easily-rationalized symptoms.  It should serve as a wake-up call to women that we need to take care of our bodies, that we need to be diligent with screenings and follow-ups and doctor appointments.  There are no other reliable ways of screening for these types of cancer, and a few moments of embarrassment and discomfort is worth it.

I normally detest “reality” contestants, but in this case her reality was so real that it hammered home a very important point.  So…in honor of Jade, I am going to call and make an appointment with my doctor for a checkup of all things female.  It’s time…I’ve put it off long enough.  And I urge any woman out there reading to do the same…it is the best way to honor her memory.

“I could b*tch about dying young,” she said in her last days, “but at the end of the day, I can look back on my life and be proud of what I have achieved.”

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Well, if you’ve ever seen your dream of modeling quashed by the fact that you’re too short AND you happened to be caught up in a riot that took place when an overheating car was mistaken for a car bomb which of course caused models to start beating up on each other, now’s your chance.  After the stampede on Saturday, show diva Tyra Banks vowed that the show will go on:

“To all the `Top Model’ hopefuls who were affected by the New York casting, we are doing everything we can to make sure that ALL the girls who weren’t seen, get an opportunity to audition — we’ll update you on our plans very soon,” Banks said in a statement issued Monday by the CW network.

So just what started the frenzy in the first place?

“The producer of the show didn’t notify the NYPD, so there were no cops specifically assigned there,” a police official told the New York Daily News about the lack of a police presence at the event. “They needed to alert the police before the event.”

New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg also weighed in on the situation and seemed to imply that police had not been properly informed of the large crowd of auditioners that were going to be present:

“If you’re going to have an event where there’s the remotest chance that the crowd is going to be bigger than you expect … call the precinct and make sure they know,” he told the Daily News in a Monday report. [...]

The wild scene occurred outside Manhattan’s Park Central New York Hotel — where the casting call for the CW reality modeling competition was being held — on Saturday after hundreds of people began running from the scene after a car began smoking in the street near the crowd of waiting auditioners that were packing the sidewalks outside the hotel.

According to eyewitnesses, the stampede began after false rumors that the vehicle contained a bomb began circulating through the crowd.

“People were really freaking out about the smoke,” Sedrick Myrtil, the overheated car’s 21-year-old driver, told the Daily News. “There was pandemonium, and the cops got really upset about my car.”

Two people were sent to the hospital while four other declined treatment for injuries. Additionally, two women and a man were arrested for disorderly conduct while the audition was shut down by police as well.

With the casting call, which was only open to women who were 5′7 or shorter, canceled, some of the girls who had waited on the line for their chance to get onto the show are now asking for a second casting call to be scheduled so they can get a second chance at stardom.

“I want Tyra to realize that we were cheated, and it wasn’t fair,” auditioner Babyann Hernandez told the Daily News. “I’m tired, angry, hurt, confused, and I didn’t even get to try out.”

Maybe I could have cut that last part out, but come on…Babyann?  I had to use that.  I mean srsly.  You would too, and you know it.

Okay, people, let’s all stop and take a deep breath and calm down a minute.  I just have one thing to say:  You’d be working with Tyra Banks.  The woman who said this:

“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,” says Tyra.

And then sent contestants on ANTM to Amsterdam to pose in a shop window and let male judges decide who was best at “selling herself”…because nothing says “high self-esteem” like posing in an Amsterdam window.  This, after many episodes on her syndicated talk show about the emotional trauma faced by those women and girls caught up in the world of prostitution.  How about a show about the emotional trauma faced by those caught up in the world of Tyra?

By the way, if you watch the video clip all the way to the end, you’ll be rewarded. You know that whole self-esteem thing Tyra said above? I think I just got a boost, because while I’m not model material at least I can put sentences together coherently. “Yeah, ummm, pick me, because, um, I like didn’t start, um, the riot or nothin’, um, like, so, yeah [hairflip].”

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Well, if you’ve ever seen your dream of modeling quashed by the fact that you’re too short AND you happened to be caught up in a riot that took place when an overheating car was mistaken for a car bomb which of course caused models to start beating up on each other, now’s your chance.  After the stampede on Saturday, show diva Tyra Banks vowed that the show will go on:

“To all the `Top Model’ hopefuls who were affected by the New York casting, we are doing everything we can to make sure that ALL the girls who weren’t seen, get an opportunity to audition — we’ll update you on our plans very soon,” Banks said in a statement issued Monday by the CW network.

So just what started the frenzy in the first place?

“The producer of the show didn’t notify the NYPD, so there were no cops specifically assigned there,” a police official told the New York Daily News about the lack of a police presence at the event. “They needed to alert the police before the event.”

New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg also weighed in on the situation and seemed to imply that police had not been properly informed of the large crowd of auditioners that were going to be present:

“If you’re going to have an event where there’s the remotest chance that the crowd is going to be bigger than you expect … call the precinct and make sure they know,” he told the Daily News in a Monday report. [...]

The wild scene occurred outside Manhattan’s Park Central New York Hotel — where the casting call for the CW reality modeling competition was being held — on Saturday after hundreds of people began running from the scene after a car began smoking in the street near the crowd of waiting auditioners that were packing the sidewalks outside the hotel.

According to eyewitnesses, the stampede began after false rumors that the vehicle contained a bomb began circulating through the crowd.

“People were really freaking out about the smoke,” Sedrick Myrtil, the overheated car’s 21-year-old driver, told the Daily News. “There was pandemonium, and the cops got really upset about my car.”

Two people were sent to the hospital while four other declined treatment for injuries. Additionally, two women and a man were arrested for disorderly conduct while the audition was shut down by police as well.

With the casting call, which was only open to women who were 5′7 or shorter, canceled, some of the girls who had waited on the line for their chance to get onto the show are now asking for a second casting call to be scheduled so they can get a second chance at stardom.

“I want Tyra to realize that we were cheated, and it wasn’t fair,” auditioner Babyann Hernandez told the Daily News. “I’m tired, angry, hurt, confused, and I didn’t even get to try out.”

Maybe I could have cut that last part out, but come on…Babyann?  I had to use that.  I mean srsly.  You would too, and you know it.

Okay, people, let’s all stop and take a deep breath and calm down a minute.  I just have one thing to say:  You’d be working with Tyra Banks.  The woman who said this:

“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,” says Tyra.

And then sent contestants on ANTM to Amsterdam to pose in a shop window and let male judges decide who was best at “selling herself”…because nothing says “high self-esteem” like posing in an Amsterdam window.  This, after many episodes on her syndicated talk show about the emotional trauma faced by those women and girls caught up in the world of prostitution.  How about a show about the emotional trauma faced by those caught up in the world of Tyra?

By the way, if you watch the video clip all the way to the end, you’ll be rewarded. You know that whole self-esteem thing Tyra said above? I think I just got a boost, because while I’m not model material at least I can put sentences together coherently. “Yeah, ummm, pick me, because, um, I like didn’t start, um, the riot or nothin’, um, like, so, yeah [hairflip].”

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It seems that all is not well in Gosselinland.  Jon Gosselin, dad of twins and sextuplets and long-suffering husband of shrewish Kate, apparently has been seen and photographed supposedly visiting a bar and, according to Star magazine, this isn’t an isolated incident:

On TV, he is a harried father of eight with a wife who is constantly on his case, so it’s not surprising that Jon Gosselin needs to blow off some steam.

And in recent weeks, the star of the TLC reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8 has been doing just that — slipping away from his new $1.3 million mansion to party the night away with a bevy of college cuties!

The father of twins and sextuplets has been living it up in Huntingdon, Pa., where his mom resides. He turned up uninvited at a Feb. 6 party thrown by Juniata College seniors Erin Albert and Mariel Little — and ended up playing the drinking game beer pong with members of the women’s volleyball team!

Of course, you can find out More! Juicy! Details! when you pick up the latest edition of the rag (and I emphasize that it is a tabloid).  But here’s a sneak peek:

According to the Magazine, Jon–who along with Kate and the rest of his brood recently moved into a $1.3 million dollar mansion in Pennsylvania–recently crashed a party at Juniata College in nearby Huntington, PA and played beer pong with members of the women’s volleyball team.

The following night he apparently went to a nearby sports bar, again with members of the women’s volleyball team and allegedly made out with a number of them.

The Magazine quotes a witness at the bar as saying:

“He was dirty dancing with several of them, making out, kissing them on their necks and mouths. I thought it was rather surprising for a father with his wife and so many kids at home to be acting like this. He was all over one girl, a long-haired blonde who’s nearly 6 feet tall. He left with several of the girls, including her.”

Jon is also said to be frequenting other bars close to his home, even spending Valentine’s Day away from Kate. Supposedly, he’s even tried to pick up women while out with his mother.

The details may or may not be true.  The story behind the photo?

According to a user on a Jon and Kate fan club thing on a baby site, Jon was at a bar in her town recently:

“So i live like 15 mins away from the town j and k used to live in. Well my friend was at the bar this weekend and saw jon at the bar. She said he was with some girl she didnt know, and he was buying all these girls drinks. I dont know how true this is, but if it is im gonna be really upset. I really hope he want cheating!”

Jon, for his part, has this to say about that:

In a statement issued through his rep, Jon says: “It is certainly hurtful for people to spread rumors and lies about us. It certainly makes me reluctant to live my life like the average person would. This has made it very clear that the simplest innocent gesture — such as taking a picture with a fan, can be taken out of context.

“As you can see on the show, I am not perfect, but I am a part of a loving family and couple.”

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An open letter, written over ten years ago, but which still resonates today, perhaps more than ever:

Dear Bobbi and Kenny,

If we emerge momentarily from the privacy we have sought all our adult lives, it is only to send a message to the McCaughey family. We three would like you to know we feel a natural affinity and tenderness for your children. We hope your children receive more respect than we did. Their fate should be no different from that of other children. Multiple births should not be confused with entertainment, nor should they be an opportunity to sell products.

Our lives have been ruined by the exploitation we suffered at the hands of the government of Ontario, our place of birth. We were displayed as a curiosity three times a day for millions of tourists. To this day we receive letters from all over the world. To all those who have expressed their support in light of the abuse we have endured, we say thank you. And to those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children, we say beware.

We sincerely hope a lesson will be learned from examining how our lives were forever altered by our childhood experience. If this letter changes the course of events for these newborns, then perhaps our lives will have served a higher purpose.

Sincerely, Annette, Cecile and Yvonne Dionne

I am not holding these parents up as an example, the letter itself is what is important.  That letter was written by the surviving Dionne Quintuplets to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey, themselves parents of septuplets born in 1997.

Google the Dionne Quints; they lived their early lives literally in a fishbowl, a predecessor to today’s reality television, and the exploitation of these children has stayed with them all their lives.  Whoring out your child’s personal moments to the highest bidding john is reprehensible.  I’m going to be very interested to see just what happens to children who grow up with a camera shoved in their faces and a producer making up their “reality”.

Just a thought:  Animals have more laws protecting them on television show sets than young children do when their family hits it big on reality TV.  Reality television is a gold mine for networks and producers because they can get around pesky things like child labor laws and regulating the working conditions and hours of children, especially young children.

Children should be allowed to grow up safe and secure in their own reality, not the “reality” made up by producers.  They should have the freedom to experience highs and lows, joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, triumphs and embarrassment, without the whole world scrutinizing them.

Think about this…if someone came up to you and offered you a million dollars for your child, would you take it?  Would you want cameras following your child around, knowing that footage would be broadcast to the world, no matter what they were doing?  Would you take money for it?

[just my opinions, not representative of everyone's opinions]

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Glosslip was asked to comment on ABC’s reality show “Wife Swap”, specifically the episodes featuring the Long/Stephens-Fowler families.

To be fair, neither k nor I watch “Wife Swap”, we are above this type of reality show, we only watch sophisticated TV like “American Idol” and “Rock of Love” (I was channeling my inner Fowler), but if we are anything, we are accommodating. So with my task in hand, I went off to research what all the uproar is about.

Apparently, the San Francisco based Fowler family embody all the worst stereotypes which exist about the snobby, uber-educated, organic-munching, latte-drinking Range Rover driving set.

The show’s theme is to pair up mismatched families for a week by swapping wives/mothers with the hopes that an “Odd Couple” type of hilarity will ensue. Unfortunately, ABC got more than they bargained for with the Long/Stephens-Fowler match up.

Here’s a synopsis of the show from Reality Roll Call:

“Long/Stephens-Fowler” A mid-western family whose lives revolve around the “American Way” of fast food, 4X4s and paintball, swaps lives with a big city family focused on education, the environment and keeping their bodies healthy and trim, on “Wife Swap,” TONIGHT (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on ABC .

The Longs from Missouri are a patriotic, all-American family who live for paint ball. Wife Gayla (37) is just one of the boys on the paint ball field, but at home she is happy to take care of all the household chores, which husband Alan has deemed “skirt work.” When Alan (38) is not wreaking havoc with his four wild and crazy boys — Cody (15), Coltan (10), Clayton (8) and Cameron (4) — he serves as the mayor of their 55-person town. The Longs are proud of their Midwestern roots and consider their lifestyle the “American way.” Corn dogs and fast food are staples in their home, and their exercise comes from riding ATVs. Alan and Gayla want their kids to have fun; education and the environment can take a backseat.

Meanwhile, the Fowler family from Northern California consider themselves “citizens of the world.” They strive for excellence in both mind and body. Life coach and certified weight-loss hypnotherapist Rene (43) and British-born environmental entrepreneur Stephen (49) raise their children, Juliette (11) and James (8), to be both health and environmentally conscious. With a diet of strictly organic food and weekends spent doing “family fitness activities,” the kids admit they can’t remember the last time they had a French fry. Domestics are taken care of by a housekeeper, as that is regarded as a necessity in the Stephens-Fowler set. In order to ensure acceptance to an Ivy League school, they push their kids to excel in highbrow activities such as music, fencing and speaking foreign languages. Both children attend a bilingual school and have already visited over 12 countries.

Several of the videos for this episode have been removed due to copyright infringement, but I was lucky to find these still up on up YouTube. Enjoy them while you can, because if the fury over Stephen Fowler’s behavior continues, it won’t be long until they are all pulled to protect the not-so-innocent.

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Glosslip was asked to comment on ABC’s reality show “Wife Swap”, specifically the episodes featuring the Long/Stephens-Fowler families.

To be fair, neither k nor I watch “Wife Swap”, we are above this type of reality show, we only watch sophisticated TV like “American Idol” and “Rock of Love” (I was channeling my inner Fowler), but if we are anything, we are accommodating. So with my task in hand, I went off to research what all the uproar is about.

Apparently, the San Francisco based Fowler family embody all the worst stereotypes which exist about the snobby, uber-educated, organic-munching, latte-drinking Range Rover driving set.

The show’s theme is to pair up mismatched families for a week by swapping wives/mothers with the hopes that an “Odd Couple” type of hilarity will ensue. Unfortunately, ABC got more than they bargained for with the Long/Stephens-Fowler match up.

Here’s a synopsis of the show from Reality Roll Call:

“Long/Stephens-Fowler” A mid-western family whose lives revolve around the “American Way” of fast food, 4X4s and paintball, swaps lives with a big city family focused on education, the environment and keeping their bodies healthy and trim, on “Wife Swap,” TONIGHT (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on ABC .

The Longs from Missouri are a patriotic, all-American family who live for paint ball. Wife Gayla (37) is just one of the boys on the paint ball field, but at home she is happy to take care of all the household chores, which husband Alan has deemed “skirt work.” When Alan (38) is not wreaking havoc with his four wild and crazy boys — Cody (15), Coltan (10), Clayton (8) and Cameron (4) — he serves as the mayor of their 55-person town. The Longs are proud of their Midwestern roots and consider their lifestyle the “American way.” Corn dogs and fast food are staples in their home, and their exercise comes from riding ATVs. Alan and Gayla want their kids to have fun; education and the environment can take a backseat.

Meanwhile, the Fowler family from Northern California consider themselves “citizens of the world.” They strive for excellence in both mind and body. Life coach and certified weight-loss hypnotherapist Rene (43) and British-born environmental entrepreneur Stephen (49) raise their children, Juliette (11) and James (8), to be both health and environmentally conscious. With a diet of strictly organic food and weekends spent doing “family fitness activities,” the kids admit they can’t remember the last time they had a French fry. Domestics are taken care of by a housekeeper, as that is regarded as a necessity in the Stephens-Fowler set. In order to ensure acceptance to an Ivy League school, they push their kids to excel in highbrow activities such as music, fencing and speaking foreign languages. Both children attend a bilingual school and have already visited over 12 countries.

Several of the videos for this episode have been removed due to copyright infringement, but I was lucky to find these still up on up YouTube. Enjoy them while you can, because if the fury over Stephen Fowler’s behavior continues, it won’t be long until they are all pulled to protect the not-so-innocent.

Videos after the jump:

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Glosslip was asked to comment on ABC’s reality show “Wife Swap”, specifically the episodes featuring the Long/Stephens-Fowler families.

To be fair, neither k nor I watch “Wife Swap”, we are above this type of reality show, we only watch sophisticated TV like “American Idol” and “Rock of Love” (I was channeling my inner Fowler), but if we are anything, we are accommodating. So with my task in hand, I went off to research what all the uproar is about.

Apparently, the San Francisco based Fowler family embody all the worst stereotypes which exist about the snobby, uber-educated, organic-munching, latte-drinking Range Rover driving set.

The show’s theme is to pair up mismatched families for a week by swapping wives/mothers with the hopes that an “Odd Couple” type of hilarity will ensue. Unfortunately, ABC got more than they bargained for with the Long/Stephens-Fowler match up.

Here’s a synopsis of the show from Reality Roll Call:

“Long/Stephens-Fowler” A mid-western family whose lives revolve around the “American Way” of fast food, 4X4s and paintball, swaps lives with a big city family focused on education, the environment and keeping their bodies healthy and trim, on “Wife Swap,” TONIGHT (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on ABC .

The Longs from Missouri are a patriotic, all-American family who live for paint ball. Wife Gayla (37) is just one of the boys on the paint ball field, but at home she is happy to take care of all the household chores, which husband Alan has deemed “skirt work.” When Alan (38) is not wreaking havoc with his four wild and crazy boys — Cody (15), Coltan (10), Clayton (8) and Cameron (4) — he serves as the mayor of their 55-person town. The Longs are proud of their Midwestern roots and consider their lifestyle the “American way.” Corn dogs and fast food are staples in their home, and their exercise comes from riding ATVs. Alan and Gayla want their kids to have fun; education and the environment can take a backseat.

Meanwhile, the Fowler family from Northern California consider themselves “citizens of the world.” They strive for excellence in both mind and body. Life coach and certified weight-loss hypnotherapist Rene (43) and British-born environmental entrepreneur Stephen (49) raise their children, Juliette (11) and James (8), to be both health and environmentally conscious. With a diet of strictly organic food and weekends spent doing “family fitness activities,” the kids admit they can’t remember the last time they had a French fry. Domestics are taken care of by a housekeeper, as that is regarded as a necessity in the Stephens-Fowler set. In order to ensure acceptance to an Ivy League school, they push their kids to excel in highbrow activities such as music, fencing and speaking foreign languages. Both children attend a bilingual school and have already visited over 12 countries.

Several of the videos for this episode have been removed due to copyright infringement, but I was lucky to find these still up on up YouTube. Enjoy them while you can, because if the fury over Stephen Fowler’s behavior continues, it won’t be long until they are all pulled to protect the not-so-innocent.

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