By Ann
Busybodies and invented drama abound in the world of Gosselin blogging. On our last thread, Blog Hawg, one of our posters commented,
“Some day we’ll turn on Jeopardy and hear, ‘Alex I’ll take What are the 12 Kate Gates to win please!'”
Surely we can help the future Jeopardy writers out by describing our favorite, most ridiculous “Kate Gates” that GASP! rocked the Gosselin Bloggin’ world. I’ll start with my favorite. Remember, you must phrase your answer in the form of a question. And the first clue is-
This drama broke out after one of the kids was tired and bored waiting for a morning interview of Kate and her eight. No, Jon was not there to help hydrate.
Please feel free to free to share your thoughts on all of the “Kate Gates.” 
That was a great comment Blog Hawg. Thanks for giving us an idea for a post since things are pretty quiet right now.
Ah I know – What is letting kids die-of-thirst-Gate?
But my favorite has to be:
What is boob-gate!
Great comment BH
I like Watergate the best, just because it is in every Modern American History textbook across the US. It’s just THAT important.
Boobgate, that’s an important one, too.
I’m gonna go with “She cleaned the fridge in the new house for way too long!” gate.
What is Gumgate?
Three grapes, 2 crackers, yog(h)urt and JuicyJuice in a sippy cup.
What is “Starve the kids to keep them small-gate”?
What is: take your kids furniture shopping and one gets constipation pains gate?
Answer: Impacted bowel gate.
Gumgate- also know as “Let’s-get-revenge-with-“Truth-Breeds-Hatred”-gate.”
What gate took place in the California Sequoias and was talked about for months and months?
Answer: pinecone gate
She had access to fertility drugs because she was a nurse, and/or she jumped Jon while having hyper-stimulated ovaries.
What is “Let’s have sextuplets for fun and profit-gate?
All together now !
♫♪♫On the 12 gates of Kate the haters gave to me ♫♪♫
On the first day of KateGate her haters made me swear
about a gummed up buddy bear
On the second day of KateGate her haters gave to me
2 sisters crying ♫♪♫
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the third day of KateGate her haters gave to me
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the fourth day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers ♫♪♫
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
ON the fifth day of KateGate her haters took from me
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the sixth day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions ♫♪♫
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the seventh day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the eighth day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Eight organic cows
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking ♫♪♫
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the ninth day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Nine botox stories
Eight organic cows
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the tenth day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Ten toes a polished
Nine botox stories
Eight organic cows ♫♪♫
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
On the eleventh day of KateGate her haters gave to me
Eleven Kates a danc’en ( ha, yeah I know! ) & a guest appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show!
Ten toes a polished
Nine botox stories
Eight organic cows
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
Finally on the twelfth day of KateGate the haters gave to me ♫♪♫
12 haters -a-leaping
Eleven Kates a danc’en ( ha, yeah I know! ) & a guest appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show!
Ten toes a polished
Nine botox stories
Eight organic cows
Seven kids a puking
Six chicks a clucking
Five golden blings
Four hair extensions
3 potty trainers
2 sisters STILL crying
and a gummed up buddy bear
Oh I didn’t even know about pinecone gate! I am a loser!
BlogHawg…LMAO! 😉
And let us never forget CUPCAKEGATE!
Who changed the locks on her front gate??
That would be Kate Gate.
I’m not very good at this game, but loved everybody’s. The song was too cute!! I see a hit on the way, Blowhawg, better copyright that.
What is Gumgate?~Darlene
Hi Darlene, Gumgate was the one where Jodi watched the kids and gave them gum. They weren’t supposed to have gum but they told they had it on the airplane. When they got home, Kate saw some gum on one of the boys socks and on Collin’s bear. She flipped and had a Kate type episode. Called Jodi on the phone while she was washing the bear and told her not to give them gum anymore. She threatened to throw away Collin’s bear. On the couch, she said how Jodi said (and she agreed) that even the simple things became complicated times 6.
Great song Bloghawg. Everybody Sing… ♫♪♫On the 12 gates of Kate the haters gave to me ♫♪♫
On the first day of KateGate her haters made me swear
about a gummed up buddy bear
Watergate is my fave. So overblown. Kate asked for something to drink for the kids. She tried to give Mady a drink but her cue came. She had to take a sip to get ready.
Get over it. Waiting a few minutes for a drink is not drama.
Sigh, there should be real game show about Gosselin trivia. We’d all clean-up. 🙂 I have so much useless info in my head about the Gs.
Pineconegate was indeed epically stupid, but my vote is always going to have to go to Cupcakegate. Wherein a mother makes the radical and earth-shaking choice to deny her kids dessert because they have not finished their dinner. Lives are ruined (ruined, I tell you!) as a result, and the video evidence is pored over with as much intensity as the Zapruder film to determine how much Hannah ate, and when she ate it.
Lily said: I have so much useless info in my head about the Gs.
But Lily, some of it’s useful in the fight against good and evil in Gosselinland 🙂
What is the Corn Maze gate? When the GOsselin children only got to spend 20 minutes at the Corn Maze.
Of course, this stands in contrast to …
What is hours in Party City Gate? When the Gosselin had to spend hours filming in a costume store right before Halloween.
Of course, will the haters be happy that the children only had to film 20 minutes after ranting about filming for hours earlier in the week. Nada. It will be how horrible that the kids didn’t get to roast hotdogs and marshmallows with the locals. I am guessing they won’t think … maybe the kids had a Halloween party to go to or maybe they wanted to hang around at home or maybe they have done enough Corn Mazes and roasting of marshmellows not to be interested.
Werny Gal is reporting that she looked into Kate’s eyes and they are brown. I always thought Kate had blue/grey eyes. Does anyone know?
Paige said: maybe the kids had a Halloween party to go to or maybe they wanted to hang around at home or maybe they have done enough Corn Mazes and roasting of marshmellows not to be interested.
This is exactly what I was thinking when readying that story and her eyes look green to me.
I am guessing they left early because of Werny Gal aka nosy neighbor following them. If you look at her pictures you see her following the pap car on the way out. Also Chris the INF pap recognized her from hanging around the front of the Gosselin house. Creepy.
My two favorite gates were Vodka gate and smoke gate. Vodka gate, Kate was making dinner, and had a bottle of cooking wine to use in the dinner and they swore it was vodka, and she was drinking it. They went on and on (and on) about the fact that she put it in a low cupboard (how dare she keep her non-vodka in a low cupboard!). The smoke gate the most recent trip to NC, where jibberjabbers became the voice of reason to the increasing craziness over at 15 minutes.
where jibberjabbers became the voice of reason to the increasing craziness over at 15 minutes- Erin Kate
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Blog Hawg- too funny!
Corn Maze gate-
That was a win-win for the haters no matter what happened-
1. Kate and kids don’t go = those poor kids never have any fun and they won’t get to do a maze like 2% of the children in America! OR
2. Kate and kids go and stay for all of the activities offered, drawing attention of the people there = that famewhore worked her children to death just so she can be seen OR
3. Kate and the kids go and stay for the maze and leave when people start noticing = that famewhore only works them then makes them leave and they can’t do anything fun after she works them OR
4. Kate and the kids rent the place to film without others there = that famewhore thinks she is something special and her kids are way past their cute stage and no one in Wernersville even cares about them except to wish they would disappear.
*Bonus points!
Children playing with crew, smiling and laughing = children wishing they could have fun.
Kate seriously prompting good behavior = Kate is a dictator.
Off topic, but do we get Fat Beautiful Turkeys for our next pictures. You know, we love to strut our stuff!!! Just asking~~~~~~~~~~, LOL
The Bates Motel Sign really sends a good chill tho!!!!!!
Snickers,
Ha! No the Thanksgiving avatar is kind of mild. But you can have any avatar you would like. Go here http://en.gravatar.com/. Follow the directions to upload the picture of your choice after signing up. Make sure you use the email address that you use when you sign into our site. Sometimes it takes 24 hours to appear.
I like Paige’s avatar. I signed up for a fat beautiful turkey!
On Kates eye color, I really don’t care. but it reminded me of the song “Don’t It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue. Been singing that all day. Crazy how things come to mind.
Paige says:
October 31, 2010 at 4:30 am
Werny Gal is reporting that she looked into Kate’s eyes and they are brown. I always thought Kate had blue/grey eyes. Does anyone know?
I didn’t know, Paige, but I know someone who does, Mom of KT. I asked her via FB. She said the whole family has green eyes. And she added don’t forget to VOTE on Tuesday. 🙂
Thanks Ann. I imagine Kate’s eyes reflect colors she is wearing and around her.
Erin Kate, I had forgotten all about vodka gate. That was a good one.
Ann, glad that’s settled. 🙂 So funny, I never pictured that fact as something that would be inspected.
Ann, so happy you solved eye-color-gate through THE only one who counts! (Yes, VOTE…please don’t sit this one out!)
There are different shades of green. Mine always look green. Like dollar bill$, lol.
It is kind of odd that the eye color was part of the post. Now it looks like the NN wasn’t close enough to see (or hear) what she claimed- when it may only mean that she is getting old and doesn’t see as well as she used to, lol. I know my eye sight is getting worse! Or it may be that Kate was wearing something that made her eyes look brown. Or the NN is making things up? It wouldn’t be the first time she was wrong- that’s for sure! Who knows?
Soup/water gate: When Kate used filtered water to make her soup.
Oven gate: When Kate’s ceramic oven top broke & she had a new stove replaced “gasp” the same day!
New fridge gate: When Kate replaced the fridge (that she spent hours cleaning) w/a new fridge.
Hmmm, maybe TLC sent a decoy family because they knew NN was going to be there. Or perhaps she was just following the wrong woman around.
And let’s not forget,”She- was- wearing-that-little-yellow -jacket- and-open-toed-pumps-she’s-not-dressed- like-a-real- mom-gate.
Soup/water gate: When Kate used filtered water to make her soup.
I love that one. I reference it a lot as being one of the most silly. So frickin ridiculous.
Not-dressed-as-a-real-mom-gate! The gate that keeps on giving!
The original Watergate- How dare she use that high-falutin’ water jug???
So much nonsense…
too bad she didn’t look into Kate’s eyes and get turned to stone!! That would have shown her not to stalk people.
Paige-My dad’s eyes were sort of a gray/green and tended to pick up whatever color he was wearing.
Let us never forget boob-gate: the obsessional examination of photos of Kate to try to find PROOF of what they KNOW: that Kate has had a boob job. Of course this requires ignoring the fact that a woman is hardly likely to try to conceal having breast implants when she has already had abdominoplasty (“tummy tuck”) on national TV and give the audience a view of her before and after tummy and who discussed with her surgeon whether she needed breast work done to, like the abodiminoplasty, to correct the effects of having a sextuplet pregnancy
OMG BlogHawg, that song is funny!
The Gate that I can think of Wooden Spoon Gate.
Haters accusing Kate of beating the kids with a wooden spoon because she had one in the door of her car. Freakin’, crazy, stupid haters.
I have another…what is McDonalds-gate? when kate said she doesn’t feed the kids junk food yet on the Utah trip they showed McDonald bags.
What is Gumgate?~Darlene
I feel so ditzy for explaining Gumgate to you. I thought you were asking and was wondering why you would. I forgot the answer was to be in form of a question. 🙂
Have I won the “Airhead Award” yet?
Bloghawg- love the song!
I would like to ammend my previous answer.
* Showing extreme favoritism to Leah and Hannah, Kate forced poor Alexis to sleep in the basement. *
What is Dungeon Gate!
Dang – I’m going to have to think of some more! LOL! Dungeon Gate is HILARIOUS, Samantha!
Ooooh, oooh, “DRESSER KNOB GATE!” Remember that one? Ha!
Yes, Nancy!”Well someone did it because I’m holding it!”
In that moment, Kate reminded me of myself in similar situations with my daughter.
Book Gate: a plot to deny that Beth Carlson participated in the writing of “Multiple Blessings” even though her name was on the freakin cover!
Milk Gate: See Grape Gate. Kate and the kids visited an organic farm and the kids drank a lot of milk. I believe Kate casually mentioned that the kids don’t a lot of milk on a regular basis? The nutters had several of the sextuplets diagnosed with rickets before the episode even aired a second time……
There’s also “Everyone Kate ever met in her entire life is either afraid of her or has signed a confidentiality agreement and that’s why they won’t tell us how awful she really is-gate”.
Anya-Don’t forget that the plot re: Beth is so fiendish that Kate shared the copyright with Beth in order to conceal her attempts to deny Beth credit 🙂
Great comment BlogHawg and your Partridge in a Pear Tree song, too.
Very good Jeopardy post and graphic! Brought a smile to the face! 🙂
I didn’t realize there were so many gates…
This is a funny and educational thread. There are lots of gates. Mine involves Kate but not the kids.
What controversy had people claiming a diva-like Kate was trying to mess with the employment of her professional partner?
Kate-Wants-Tony-Fired-gate.
Thanks everyone! It was a team effort. LOL I saw that comment and thought that would make a great thread and knew Ann could write it up better than I could. I am just teaching myself how to use photoshop and this was my first project. Ann made the little blue “Kate Gates” and I figured out how to slide it in to that picture. Kate’s head shot on the gate too. I bet there are a lot of experts here that can use photoshop in their sleep.
Corn Maze Gate-
What do the pap and stalker pictures prove? That the kids film a reality TV show? Yes. So?
Retakes? No.
Blocking? No.
Scripts to memorize? No.
Invading privacy? Yes. But THAT would be the NN invading the privacy of the kids, Kate, and the crew, without their consent.
She’s a creeper.
Ann, would be nice to see a new thread on this topic!! Creepy would not be my word for the NN, but~~~~~~~~~~I would not say what comes to mind.
Love the new site!! The gates were great!!
Ann, ITA. What did WG prove? Nothing. Her biggest stretch to get at Kate is that G kids didn’t have a lot of time at the maze. Does she think that on the show, they’re going to say they spent hours and hours at the maze?
Your right Lily, she proved that she is nothing but a snoop for the latest scoop. The backlash she has received over this, will show here that what she did was wrong, but of course being a child advocate she had to be where TLC and the family was filming. I’m sure Kate and her attorneys will be looking into this issue as putting the info out on the net before she even went there puts Kate and her children in danger. What was she thinking. I am appalled by Mother’s who would do this kind of stuff.
Oh just remembered -What is : Kate should not continue to earn money because the state has already paid for the childrens college?
I do wonder how many years a busy body has to put in stalking a family to earn enough “field” credits to qualify as a “child advocate” ?
Apparently, WB believes that she can determine that, although the the kids played games at the maze, that this was done so that they would APPEAR to be having fun. WG with her superpowers could determine that they weren’t rally having fun (she’s actually commenting in the comments secton of the INFDaily article on the corn maze).
Lily, I will share the airhead award with you.
I have another one…I don’t think this one was mentioned yet…What is fake renew vows-gate? When Kate wanted a free trip to Hawaii!!
‘Airhead’ award? Who had relatives living in Hawaii that had NEVER met the Gosselin children & their mother?
When playfully describing the boys as icky!
What is Kate dislikes her son’s-gate.
Melting icecream, hot cranky kids and a frazzled mom.
What is Disneygate?
VIP treatment at Disney=DisneyGate 2