In last Wednesday's Fox TV “special” Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage, Nadya Suleman takes potshots at Jon N Kate Plus 8's Jon-less, down-on-her-luck Kate Gosselin.
“It's so staged,” Octomom said of tabloid pictures of Gosselin in a bikini on the beach. “She's doing it to get people to take pictures of her. … I feel like it's cheating [to get a tummy-tuck]. It's her choice. If she has enough money to fix herself, let her. I have a better shape, though. I'm sorry, no offense to her. I'm not as attention-seeking.”
The real smackdown came with the release of the national television ratings, and once again La Habra's biggest celebrity got the best of Gosselin.
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The Nielsen service says 4.2 million viewers watched Octomom and her 14 kids compared to 3 million for Jon N Kate Plus 8 (Minus Jon?). Of course, both litter-producers were smoked by America's Got Talent, which drew a whopping 10 million viewers that night.
As for critical acclaim, the New York Times
said Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage “failed to produce a second's worth of contrarian evidence that
Nadya Suleman isn't a self-obsessed, publicity-driven lunatic.”
But the best comment came from someone commenting to Nikki Dowling's anti-Octomom post on the celebrity gossip site TheFrisky.com: “I've never regretted the fact that we cancelled cable,” wrote “bravo287.”
If you really must see this train wreck, it's up on Hulu
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