Kate Gosselin: My kids are "sobbing" without the cameras

**word** · December 9th, 2009, 05:42 AM

Kate Gosselin says her eight children aren't doing so well now that they're no longer in front of the cameras.
"They cried in the van on the way home from school the other day. I finally admitted to them, they kept asking, 'Where's the camera crew? Where's the camera crew? We miss them.' And I said, 'Our show is over.' ...Eight sobbing kids driving home from school," Kate, 34, says on Barbara Walters' The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009, airing Wednesday on ABC.
The show, Jon & Kate Plus 8, recently ended its two-year run.
In September, TLC made the shocking announcement that as of Nov. 2, Jon Gosselin would no longer appear on the reality series and that the program would be re-titled Kate Plus 8.
But the plan got axed after Jon objected to his kids appearing on TV, claiming that he had an "epiphany" that the show was exploiting his children.
Kate disagrees, telling Walters that Jon ended the show "because he could."
Says Kate, "Unless you live in my house and, and see how everything that we have done with the show has been such a great experience, you can't speak."
To this day, her kids -- 9-year-old twins Mady and Cara and 5-year-old sextuplets Hannah, Leah, Alexis, Joel, Aaden and Collin -- "watch DVDs of our show and it's family memories to them," she says.
When Walters asked if she was scared, Gosselin nodded.
"Yes, I don't think I would be sane if I wasn't," she says. "I have a lot of responsibility."
Kate's days in front of the camera are far from over.
She is slated to do a new talk show next spring.
Still, she says she doesn't consider herself a star.
Gosselin tells Walters she's "a mom, first, always, foremost."
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**sparkly** · December 9th, 2009, 05:49 AM

They're sobbing because it's the only form of attention they're getting at home. Mommy is off on business trips making millions of dollars off them, while Daddy is an Ed Hardy wearing douche who left to go screw his barely legal girlfriend.

**Novice** · December 9th, 2009, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by sparkly

They're sobbing because it's the only form of attention they're getting at home. Mommy is off on business trips making millions of dollars off them, while Daddy is an Ed Hardy wearing douche who left to go screw his barely legal girlfriend.

Yup

Originally Posted by word

Says Kate, "Unless you live in my house and, and see how everything that we have done with the show has been such a great experience, you can't speak."

Does that even make sense?

**Chilly Willy** · December 9th, 2009, 06:55 AM

Kate please. We all know you're the one who's crying.

**WhateverLolaWants** · December 9th, 2009, 06:58 AM

They're no longer getting any attention from a group of adults who became intrinsic in their lives. That is why they are upset. Kids can also get pretty upset when you don't buy them a pet horse. If children were in charge of what they needed...

When they grow up and realize how you exploited them, asswipe, the will wonder how in the hell you justified it to yourself.

**Sundance** · December 9th, 2009, 07:23 AM

This is not gonna get you another show Kate. Time's up. Buh bye!

**Nightdragon** · December 9th, 2009, 07:44 AM

Bitch please.

**mrs.v** · December 9th, 2009, 07:48 AM

They will get over it.

**Mel1973** · December 9th, 2009, 07:49 AM

Pics or it didn't happen... oh wait, oops cameras are gone... boohoohooo

**BBDSP** · December 9th, 2009, 08:22 AM

Kate misses the trips and the perks. Maybe is projecting her own crying onto the kids.

Though I do agree that the kids are used to having those camera and production people, who probably feel like extended family to them, around. They will get used to it.

The kids are dealing with a lot of change in their lives and that is difficult. Kate, since you are the parent they apparently live with most of the time, then you need to be a caring hands-on mommy and help your kids make the adjustment.

They are lucky to have hours and hours of 'home movies' that most parents are too busy to make. Unfortunately, if the kids watch those too much they will figure out what assholes both their parents are.

**darksithbunny** · December 9th, 2009, 08:27 AM

I think she misses the nanny camera guys.

**Chilly Willy** · December 9th, 2009, 08:47 AM

The kids probaly thought the camera was their mom.

**MontanaMama** · December 9th, 2009, 09:02 AM

If the kids are crying because the cameras are gone, that's totally fucked up. If they are crying because the adults behind the cameras who interacted with them for most of their lives are suddenly not there and there is no explanation, that's fairly easy to resolve. Invite the crew over for a non-taped thank-you, let the kids interact with them and explain the abrupt changes in their lives.

**bellini** · December 9th, 2009, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by darksithbunny

I think she misses the nanny camera guys.

No doubt! I bet she had the camera people and crew do lots of little things for her.

I know she must read the what's written on the internet. You'd think she'd lose her Possum 'do. Seriously it is so ridiculous.

May she slowly fade into obscurity and take her douchebag ex with her.

**Mel1973** · December 9th, 2009, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by bellini

No doubt! I bet she had the camera people and crew do lots of little things for her.

I know she must read the what's written on the internet. You'd think she'd lose her Possum 'do. Seriously it is so ridiculous.

May she slowly fade into obscurity and take her douchebag ex with her.

NO, I need her to fade quickly