Happy 37th Birthday, Kate Gosselin!

What do Lady Gaga and Kate Gosselin have in common?

Probably not much, but…

Both are celebrating their birthdays today! The reality-TV mom turns 37, while the pop superstar is 26.

“My kids often remind me how old I’m getting with comments like, ‘You were born in 1975, Mom?!!’” Gosselin writes in her latest blog post for CouponCabin.com. “‘Wow, that was a loooong time ago! It was last century!’”

“Mady has repeatedly announced, ‘You’re 37 with no wrinkles,’ as if reminding me of my new age AND that wrinkles are around the corner is a NICE thing to say!” she continues. “I told her to get her eyes checked because I, in fact, have plenty of wrinkles!”

As for birthday gifts, Gosselin writes, “My kids each hand made me an adorable card and hid them under their beds until they couldn’t stand it anymore. They’ve already presented them to me a bit early and I LOVE each cute little creation!”

“Happy Birthday to me. Now if only this extra year could be traded to someone who is looking for an extra one…I’d give it to you for a really great deal! Any takers?”

Here’s to another great year, Kate!

Kate Gosselin: Coke or Pepsi?

Kate Gosselin often takes to her Twitter account to talk with her fans. Often, fans ask her questions and Kate answers. Sometimes, the questions are about rumors, asking Kate to clear them. Other times, fans asks some more trivial questions, but Kate is always true to her fans and she answers!

Last night, she was asked the utmost important questions: Coke or Pepsi? Sure, it seems silly, but the Coke/Pepsi war has gone on for quite sometime. There are blind taste tests conducted from time to time, but typically, the results are split down the middle, despite many people being dedicated to one brand.

So, which does Kate Gosselin prefer?

Gosselin tweeted, “coke hands down. I only drink a rare diet coke, never pepsi.”

Though typically the numbers are split, coke seems to have a slight edge when it comes to preference.

Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi?

 

 

Kate Gosselin Has Big Surprises for Kids

Kate Gosselin is planning some big surprises for Mady and Cara’s birthday party on Saturday! The mom of eight is a busy bee trying to get some things done while her brood is in school today.

“Good day all! Busy day doing surprise stuff! Can’t elaborate but having kid fun! Will check in when I can. Miss you all (Twitter still giving fits),” Kate tweeted Friday mid-morning.

It sounds like Kate Gosselin is planning some special things for all of her kids. It’s hard to throw a party for the twins and to not include the six little ones—or at least have something fun planned that they can be a part of. If you have watched their TLC show, Kate Plus 8, you probably know that every birthday party has fun for all. Kate hasn’t revealed what she has in store for the twins’ special day, but you can be sure it’s going to be loads of fun.

Unfortunately this is going to be a birthday party that viewers and fans won’t be able to watch. Hopefully Kate will blog about it and post some photos!

 

 

Kate Gosselin Goes 88 MPH, Pays Fine

Kate Gosselin was clocked driving 88 miles per hour in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but she had an excellent excuse for the officer who stopped her. She was hurrying to get home to her kids.

According to a report from the York Daily Record, the mom of eight and former star of TLC’s reality show Kate Plus Eight could have told the officer she was on her way to Mars because he ticketed her just the same.

It seems the speeding incident took place back in August, but just made the local Pennsylvania news on Monday. According to a traffic docket that was filed District Judge Rodney Hartman’s office, Kate Gosselin pleaded guilty to speeding. She was traveling north on Route 222, near Route 897, in Brecknock Township, Pennsylvania.

It was a state police officer in Ephrata, Pennsylvania who pulled Kate Gosselin over, after detecting her speed of 88 miles per hour on radar. So what do you think of the excuse she gave the nice officer? Was she really hurrying to get back home to the eight little Gosselin children, or was she simply driving with a lead foot at 1:37 in the morning?

Kate Gosselin didn’t appear in court to take care of the speeding charges, opting instead to mail in her fine of $174. Now that she’s unemployed (her reality show Kate Plus Eight was canceled by the TLC network), she probably wishes she had that money back.

Is there a moral to this story? Ask Kate Gosselin. She might tell you it was worth it to have gotten home to her children a minute or two sooner than she would have, had she been driving within the normal speed limit. But the time she was detained while being ticketed likely made up for that.

Is there a good side to this story of Mama Gosselin speeding? Yes, there is. At least those eight children weren’t in the car with her.

 

 

Kate Gosselin wants to return to TV

Kate Gosselin’s reality show doesn’t end until tonight, but the “Kate Plus 8″ star is already talking about a return to television.

The TV personality said during an interview on the “Today” show that the finale is “the end of an era,” and that the show’s fans are “devastated.”

“There is sadness, because it’s the end of an era,” Gosselin told Matt Lauer. “I feel sad for my kids because of all of the opportunities that they’re now questioning. … I feel sad for fans, because they’re devastated. They’re saying, you know, you’re the neighbor moving far away and we won’t see you again. But there’s also fear because this has been, although maybe not my career, it has been the start essentially of my career and my job and the way I’ve been providing for my kids for six years. And so you know, it is a little scary.”

The mom of twins and sextuplets added that she hopes TV will continue to be part of her life.

“I think at this point, the best opportunity for all of us would be me continuing on TV as a way to provide for my kids,” she said. “Something that’s exciting and challenging for me has been TV, and I wouldn’t be opposed to it.”

And she’s not opposed to putting her kids back on the small screen, either.

“You know, if the right thing came along, I think we are all still in (agreement) with it,” she said, adding, “I’m sure you will see my kids again at some point.”

Kate Gosselin — Official Family Party Commemorating Show’s End

Kate Gosselin is planning an official family party to commemorate the end of their reality show, Kate Plus Eight. She recently blogged about the upcoming party plans on her new website, KatePlusMy8.com.

According to a report from Babble, Kate indicated that the party would be held on Saturday evening at the family’s home in Pennsylvania. She is even planning to serve a cake that reads, “Job Well Done, Kate + 8.”

Cake and ice cream are on the menu, as are a barrage of memories the family will reminisce about together. Kate has always been big on family parties, so it’s not a huge surprise that she’ll throw one to celebrate the end of the show.

Of course, despite the party plans, Kate Gosselin certainly isn’t celebrating the fact that she is no longer gainfully employed. She now has to figure out a way to support her eight kids—supplemented by Jon Gosselin’s child support payments, of course—and still live in the manner to which they’ve all grown accustomed. That’s not going to be easy, Kate!

Kate Gosselin closes the blog on her website by saying, “It’s been a long 6 years… one that needs a good old-fashioned family bonding celebration… Don’t you think?”

So what do you think Kate Gosselin’s next move might be? Once the cake and ice cream are all eaten up and the party hats are put away, what will the new mood be in the Gosselin household? It would be nice if Kate would consider downsizing. Then she could possibly afford to do the occasional TV talk show, and the kids could learn to live a fairly normal life.

So you think that might even remotely be a consideration of Kate Gosselin’s?

Kate Gosselin

Make no mistake, Kate Gosselin wouldn’t mind being back on TV. The reality star made that clear this morning on “Today.”

Kate, whose TLC show “Kate Plus 8” ends tonight, assured Matt Lauer, “I’m sure you will see my kids again at some point.”

“If the right thing came along, I think we’re still in [agreement] with it,” the mom of eight said of going back on the air with her brood.

 

And while “there is some relief,” Kate admits of ending her six-year filming stint, “there is [also] sadness, because it’s the end of an era.”

In the wake of her show’s cancellation, the famous mom is also concerned for her “devastated” fans.

Kate, who rose to fame with husband Jon Gosselin on the series “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” quickly became a tabloid staple when the couple’s marriage unraveled in 2009.

And Jon Gosselin isn’t as enthusiastic as his ex about putting his kids in the limelight. “I don’t think it’s healthy for them,” he told Larry King during the divorce.

“Reality TV is not a career,” Jon said in an interview with RumorFix.com. He implored Kate: “Get back to a normal life – a simple life.”

Looks like Kate won’t be heeding that advice.

“Jon may [accept what's] mediocre for his kids,” she said of his comments. “I want the best for my kids.”

And reality TV, Kate believes, may provide “the best opportunities available” for her famous little ones.

Do you agree? Should Kate and her eight return to the small screen? And if not, what do you think she could do next?

Kate Gosselin Scared As She Faces Unemployment

Kate Gosselin has faced a lot of things head-on and in a relatively fearless manner. She gave birth to sextuplets–which would send most mothers into life-long therapy. She also went through a bitter and very public divorce. Now she admits, however, that the prospect of being unemployed is one thing that really scares her.

According to a report from Starpulse.com, Kate says, “I’m really scared. I’m freaking out. Big time. My kids weren’t ready. Nobody was. I’ve never quit a job in my life without having something else lined up. This has been ended for me on a moment’s notice. I don’t know what’s next.”

Kate Gosselin worked as a labor and delivery nurse in a Pennsylvania hospital. Husband Jon was a network engineer. They had twins Mady and Cara and then the sextuplets came along. Their births, along with an impressive contract with TLC, catapulted them into a life before the cameras, but also one that afforded them many of the luxuries they’d only dreamed of before.

Now those dreams, along with many of the luxuries to which they’ve become accustomed, could become distant memories. Kate is divorced now, and her latest TLC show Kate Plus Eight has been canceled. Poor ratings left the network with no other choice than to pull the proverbial plug. However that plug represents far more than simply the end to a weekly television show.

Kate Gosselin couldn’t possibly make the kind of money she has grown accustomed to if she returned to nursing. And she doesn’t have any other marketable skills. Her only real hope is to land something else in the television circuit–but exactly how many people find her to be truly entertaining?

So now Kate Gosselin is scared–and well she should be. She claims that one of the first reactions the kids had after learning that the show was canceled was, “No more fun trips?”

Those fun trips would be among many things the Gosselin gang might have no more of if Kate doesn’t land some type of job paying close to what she made from TLC.

“I told them I will work my fingers to the bone to make sure that they can stay here and go to their school. There are no guarantees in life for anyone, but they know that I’m giving it my best shot,” Kate says.

So what do you think will wind up happening to Kate and her eight children? Will she land another TV contract that allows them to continue living the lifestyle to which they’ve become quite comfortably accustomed? Or will she be forced to sell the house, pull the kids out of private school and return to nursing?

The next few weeks and months will be crucial to the survival of the Gosselin family–as the TV world has come to know them. What does the future hold for this single mom with eight children?

Should Kate Gosselin perhaps have been better prepared for this kind of crisis?

 

 

Kate Gosselin pic – August 8, 2011

TV personality Kate Gosselin enters a Midtown Manhattan office building on August 8, 2011 in New York City.

Kate Gosselin Heading to ‘The Talk’ After Cancellation

Kate Gosselin’s world has been turned upside down since news broke that her TLC reality show Kate Plus 8 had been canceled. But now the reality star is heading back to television as one of the handful of gabby ladies on the aptly named CBS show The Talk.

The Talk, which boasts a View-like ladies-only roundtable discussion, has reached out to Kate, offering her a temporary stint on the show alongside the likes of Sharon Osbourne and Sara Gilbert. Kate should be a perfect fit for the show, which proudly traffics in gossip and encourages a fair bit of on-air arguing. As anyone who has seen Sarah Palin’s Alaska can remember (see video below), Kate isn’t one to idly sit by when something bugs her.

This is the second big personality heading to The Talk. The show recently signed Kris Jenner to cover for Osbourne while she leaves the show on vacation.