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‘Multiple’ happenings on reality television
If Kate and Jon Gosselin’s crumbling marriage leads to the cancellation of their TLC reality show (will you be watching tonight?) we all have something else to look forward to: the Associated Press is reporting that Nadya Suleman has inked a deal to star in her own television gig.
A production company has signed the “Octomom” (who, in addition to her six other children, gave birth to six boys and two girls in January) to a documentary-style show “less intrusive than a reality TV type of program.”
The show hasn’t yet been sold to an American television network. TLC (home of “Jon & Kate Plus 8”) had expressed interest in working with Sulemon following the octuplets’ births but, according to Entertainment Weekly, the backlash against the idea on the cable network’s message boards led TLC to reconsider.
Netherlands production company Eyeworks “came up with this idea, presented (it) to her and she liked it because she’ll get to use a camera and do some of the filming herself,” Sulemon’s lawyer told The Associated Press.
Well, yeah, that explains it. It would be a shame to let the logistics and rigors of raising fourteen kids under the age of 7 as a single mother get in the way of some fun videography — everybody needs a creative outlet!
I haven’t heard of any possible titles being floated for the show, so let me suggest the one of the following — Eyeworks, take your pick:
Eight Isn’t Enough
The More, The Scarier
Ocean’s 14 (hey, she lives in California — there’s gotta’ be a body of water around there somewhere)
The Young and the Restless (whoops, already taken!)
Almost 16 Candles
Fertility Bites
Can’t wait, but hate Jon & Kate? WEtv, home of “Platinum Weddings” and “Women Behind Bars,” debuts “Raising Sextuplets” June 11 at 9 p.m. The show chronicles the lives of proud parents Jenny (TCU grad!) and Bryan Masche, and their babies Savannah Jane, Bailey Elizabeth, Grant William, Cole Robert, Molli Grace and Blake Nickolas.
Jenny describes the “multiples” experience on the WE site:
“The great joy of raising sextuplets is definitely the six smiling faces calling out ‘mama, dada,’ the twelve little feet running toward you and the twelve little arms around your neck hugging you! Six little mouths to kiss and six little ones to cuddle… the amount of love we experience for the six of them is sometimes incomprehensible, and we feel our hearts may burst!”
Don’t worry, Jenny. Should that happen, there’ll be plenty of camera men, wardrobe folks, boom mic operators and other crew members around to dial 911.
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