I really couldn't have given less of a shit about the show “Jon and Kate Plus 8” until I started seeing all the stories about Jon getting his booze on and riding the grope-and-grind train with a bunch of college co-eds.
Sounds scandalous and vulturey, I know, but as I've written before, I find other people's drama to be sometimes entertaining. Drama in my own life, I can live without, but there's something cathartic and intriguing about watching reality TV drama unfold. That's why I watch so many shows like “Rock of Love,” “Daisy of Love,” “For the Love of Ray J” and other reality slug-and-smooch fests.
In part it's because the people ask to be made a spectacle. They ask for it. Therefore I find it morally completely fine to enjoy watching the human dramas messily unfold.
That's where all the scandal about Jon and Kate breaks a little bit to the left. The relationship drama isn't taking place on screen (although some would argue that all their bickering on camera is what is leading to it, and therefore it is taking place on screen, etc.) but it's intriguing to see the car wreck all the same.
It's not surprising either, if you've watched the show.
For one thing, I'm not going to tell you to watch the show. It's REALLY friggin' boring for the most part. I mean REALLY boring. I don't know why it's got such high ratings. I can't stand to watch more than a few minutes while channel surfing until I've got to give it the heave ho.
For another thing, it seems like all these people do is bicker. Bicker bicker bicker bicker bicker bicker bicker. Go figure that there'd be some sort of marital strife OFF CAMERA when seemingly that's all there is ON CAMERA.
That said, I don't condone infidelity. I'm not a cheater and I don't endorse it.
BUT...
When you put yourself in the position Jon and Kate have, willingly put yourself in a position where your marital problems are ripped open and displayed for all to see, then it's inevitable that the siren skanks and free-trim-seeking slimeballs are gonna come lurkin' about lookin' to hook-up with no strings - especially since the stories of their hook-ups can then be sold to the tabloids and entertainment press.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that Kate's been cattin' around behind Jon's back too, only in a much more clandestine way.
Either way, if there is another season on J&K+8, it could be a really, really juicy one. Especially if more of these infidelity stories hit the press. And particularly if stories about Kate's infidelity start hitting as well.
All the more so if she's been cheating with Ray J or Bret Michaels.
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Sean Leary's recent and current projects include the alt-rock "Spinal Tap" comedy film "Your Favorite Band" (www.yourfavoritebandthefilm.com), the award-winning short story collection "Every Number Is Lucky To Someone" (available in bookstores nationwide and on Amazon.com) and an upcoming memoir "Get That Baby A Coke: My Life As A Freak Magnet."
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