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Not sure why I remember this, but Her Majesty was working at a dialysis center during the first special and episodes. I also recall reading that she has an LPN, not an RN. I would guess that she would earn less than someone with an RN. I have always disliked her, and it just got worse the longer it went on. I remember saing to Mr. Long Island, they make you get a license to own a dog, but any shrieking bitch can have a baby-or eight.

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I don't see how Kate could sign away the rights of an adult. In other words, I don't believe you can sign a contract for your child that will bind them into adulthood. That doesn't make a lick of sense.

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I think there have been cases where minors have "disaffirmed" contracts their parents made.

Wasn't this show the impetus for child labour laws (applying to reality TV) in Pennsylvania? I don't know much about the show, but I'm sure I read that somewhere. (Edit: see it's been mentioned. For some reason I thought it happened years ago!)

I never watched the show just a few clips, but Jon and Kate both seemed like psychos to me. Then again, were they like that to begin with? 8 children would probably make me go mad and shout all the time.

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This news just in. PA is passing the Jon and Kate Law. Now we need to work on Arkansas to protect the Duggarlings.

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I did all my acting in Australia, so I don't know if that changes things, but I DO know there just aren't laws out there to protect kids in non-scripted TV shows outside California so I wouldn't be surprised if the contracts Kate signed for the kids will be legally binding unless they signed them in CA. I hope they do sue and get out of them. They have an unhealthy reliance on filming/TV attention if Kate and the older girls' responses to the ending of the TV show are anything to go for.

Omg, now I want to know who you are...

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Even worse, during one of those scenes (the potty chairs outside on the driveway), Collin was obviously uncomfortable w/ the lack of privacy, and Jon even commented (laughingly) on the fact that Collin wasn't comfortable. Those kids didn't have a chance...

Even worse, one of the editors has been charged with possessing child pornography.

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Even worse, one of the editors has been charged with possessing child pornography.

I feel so bad for the Gosselin children. They're the ones that have to suffer because of choices their parents made.

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Kate is an RN but does not have a degree just a dipolma. She attended a 2 year program at a local hospital not a community college. If she wanted to advance in her career she would need to take classes to get an associates degree RN and then move on to a BSN or whatever she wanted to do. I know several people that did these hospital RN programs and make a fine living. Kate was a labor and delivery nurse first and then was a dialysis nurse when the 6 came along. Somehow when the 6 were babies she was able to find night and weekend shifts to work but now that they are in school , she has a babysitter and Jon watches then she can't find the time? I remember several former patients getting interviewed saying they were less then thrilled with Kate as a nurse.

The only nursing job Kate wants to take is if they let her be on a show like The Doctors. If you have ever read her twitter advice or seen how she takes care of her kids medical needs(she knew one of the kids had strep and waited 3+ days to take her to the dr because it was to hard) I would not want to her to be advising the public. I don't think her dipolma program and 2 years of experience qualify her as a tv expert but I bet she thinks she is and that she deserves a job like that.

The editor that was charged with child porn, also editted 19 kids, table for 12 and sister wives. Jon said there was tons of footage of the kids bathing, potty training and changing that never makes the show but that editor could have seen. Jon spoke out about the editor and the charges, Kate remained silent. I guess that is the one good thing about the Duggars I'm sure they have never let any of the kids be filmed bathing or changing clothes.

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Omg, now I want to know who you are...

Trust me, you wouldn't know who I am and you probably haven't seen anything I've been in. The film I was in did get an oscar, but it was obscure and Australian and I had maybe 10 minutes of total screentime. Most of the work I did was voice overs for radio commercials and radio plays (which was good, steady work, to be fair). The cartoon I did for Nick was definitely not one of their big ones (a lot of people haven't even heard of it, it was The Wild Thornberries), and my (tiny) part in it ended up completely cut anyway. I quit when I was 16/17 and have steadfastly avoided cameras ever since. So, yeah. It's not like I'm secretly "somebody" lol.

I didn't know about the child porn charges. That is truly horrifying. Surely, you would think that would be a wakeup call for these stupid, exploitative parents?! These people are around their kids, and many times they are alone with them, completely unsupervised. Enough abuse goes on on 'legitimate' sets with child actors (like the poor girl from the TV sitcom 'Hey Dad') without stupid fame-seeking attention whore parents throwing opportunities their way.

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Trust me, you wouldn't know who I am and you probably haven't seen anything I've been in. The film I was in did get an oscar, but it was obscure and Australian and I had maybe 10 minutes of total screentime. Most of the work I did was voice overs for radio commercials and radio plays (which was good, steady work, to be fair). The cartoon I did for Nick was definitely not one of their big ones (a lot of people haven't even heard of it, it was The Wild Thornberries), and my (tiny) part in it ended up completely cut anyway. I quit when I was 16/17 and have steadfastly avoided cameras ever since. So, yeah. It's not like I'm secretly "somebody" lol.

I didn't know about the child porn charges. That is truly horrifying. Surely, you would think that would be a wakeup call for these stupid, exploitative parents?! These people are around their kids, and many times they are alone with them, completely unsupervised. Enough abuse goes on on 'legitimate' sets with child actors (like the poor girl from the TV sitcom 'Hey Dad') without stupid fame-seeking attention whore parents throwing opportunities their way.

Um. I LOVED The Wild Thornberries and I was really sad it got cancelled. I don't think the editor would have been alone with the kids? Just seen what was already filmed.

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That's actually a good point. I hope there was no interaction, but it's still worrying they worked on shows with so many kids and so much raw footage of them at vulnerable times.

I liked the show too. I was super excited to have my name attached to the same project as Tim Curry, but unfortunately it wasn't to be.

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Nah I would have seen your film (don't really like Australian cinema, but try to support it)...I would start making some guesses but I don't want to get it right and out you, so I won't. That's cool though.

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Um. I LOVED The Wild Thornberries and I was really sad it got cancelled. I don't think the editor would have been alone with the kids? Just seen what was already filmed.

But, the editor did have access to lots of footage of the children naked or semi naked.

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Trust me, you wouldn't know who I am and you probably haven't seen anything I've been in. The film I was in did get an oscar, but it was obscure and Australian and I had maybe 10 minutes of total screentime. Most of the work I did was voice overs for radio commercials and radio plays (which was good, steady work, to be fair). The cartoon I did for Nick was definitely not one of their big ones (a lot of people haven't even heard of it, it was The Wild Thornberries), and my (tiny) part in it ended up completely cut anyway. I quit when I was 16/17 and have steadfastly avoided cameras ever since. So, yeah. It's not like I'm secretly "somebody" lol.

I didn't know about the child porn charges. That is truly horrifying. Surely, you would think that would be a wakeup call for these stupid, exploitative parents?! These people are around their kids, and many times they are alone with them, completely unsupervised. Enough abuse goes on on 'legitimate' sets with child actors (like the poor girl from the TV sitcom 'Hey Dad') without stupid fame-seeking attention whore parents throwing opportunities their way.

Haha, I kinda want to know too....(and BTW, loved Wild Thornberries as a kid). Wikipedia does have a list of Australian Oscar winners, but I'm too lazy to play detective, and I respect your privacy :). But, a little jealous because I really wanted to do voice acting and small parts in kids shows when I was a kid, but my parents said no and that they had no idea how to break into that stuff. Oh well.

Anyways, I'm surprised TLC didn't do a stronger background check. But I'm not too surprised by reality show execs. A old roommate of mine once tried to get her mother onto one of those hoarder shows, and it almost wound up as a casting couch thing. Ever since then, I seriously wonder about what goes on behind the scenes.

Plus, with so much footage, I wonder if they could almost blackmail a family (do what we say or we'll "leak" unflattering footage of you).

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The kids probably won't be allowed to write tell-alls - part of Kate's contract was that she would control the kids and ensure they co-operated and 'performed' in perpetuity, and it's possible they would be in a huge legal bind if they tried to talk about their lives during the time of the show.

She and Discovery can't do anything if they tell all when they're older. If it was as easy to control the adult lives of people who are still children, then more adults would be signing contracts swearing their kids to eternal secrecy. There will never be grounds for suing kids for a contract they can't enter. When they're this young, Discovery light be able to sue their mom, but not them. Kids can't enter contracts, and parents can only sign a contract to take the responsibility for if their kids do something the contract says they shouldn't.

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She and Discovery can't do anything if they tell all when they're older. If it was as easy to control the adult lives of people who are still children, then more adults would be signing contracts swearing their kids to eternal secrecy. There will never be grounds for suing kids for a contract they can't enter. When they're this young, Discovery light be able to sue their mom, but not them. Kids can't enter contracts, and parents can only sign a contract to take the responsibility for if their kids do something the contract says they shouldn't.

So I guess we have to wait till they turn 18 to hear their side of the story? That will be interesting.

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Jon Goselin was an abused spouse who was still a child when he married and found himself the father of 8 tiny children and a manipulative shrew for a wife who was out to milk every dime she felt the world owed her. When he left, he did exactly what FAR too many abused spouses do and had a lot of immaturity and growing pains to get back on his feet.

If the genders had been reversed, the public would have CLEARLY seen the abuse. Instead, he started dating lots of women, after he claims to have caught her cheating (and I truly believe she was and possibly still is) and the public turned on him. It helps that Kate had the machine of TLC to spin it all in her favor and make certain she came out looking like the poor, wronged, devoted wife and mother---niether of which was she in real life.

I also saw the abuse, and it made me uncomfortable. Why is it okay for a woman to do to a man but wrong the other way? Men today didn't do the stuff men 100 years ago did, so I don't buy that excuse. Abuse is abuse, and it was always spun so it was poor, poor Kate. Jon cheating wasn't good, but the abuse was going on before that. I saw an episode before the divorce announcement where she kept yelling at him about why he was separating the white and green pieces of scallions when he was making dinner. All the kids were right there and she kept on and on about that. How bad was it when there were no cameras?

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Um. I LOVED The Wild Thornberries and I was really sad it got cancelled. I don't think the editor would have been alone with the kids? Just seen what was already filmed.

I loved the Wild Thornberries, too, and so does my 7yo daughter!

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Not sure why I remember this, but Her Majesty was working at a dialysis center during the first special and episodes. I also recall reading that she has an LPN, not an RN. I would guess that she would earn less than someone with an RN. I have always disliked her, and it just got worse the longer it went on. I remember saing to Mr. Long Island, they make you get a license to own a dog, but any shrieking bitch can have a baby-or eight.

I remember that first special! She did work at a dialysis center, every Saturday, with a double shift every other Saturday. That surprised me, because there's an outpatient dialysis center in my neighborhood, and it isn't open any evening of the week, so I wonder how long her "shifts" were. She also told the camera that Jon was responsible for bathing all the children after coming home from work, because she "doesn't do baths." I thought to myself what nurse doesn't do baths??

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I remember that first special! She did work at a dialysis center, every Saturday, with a double shift every other Saturday. That surprised me, because there's an outpatient dialysis center in my neighborhood, and it isn't open any evening of the week, so I wonder how long her "shifts" were. She also told the camera that Jon was responsible for bathing all the children after coming home from work, because she "doesn't do baths." I thought to myself what nurse doesn't do baths??

Baths may get her hair wet or smudge her makeup. We all have to have priorities...

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But, the editor did have access to lots of footage of the children naked or semi naked.

Please don't misunderstand me, I think that is also terrible. I just meant the editor wasn't unsupervised alone with the kids like a cameraman or boom operator might be, so he wasn't a direct danger to them.

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Please don't misunderstand me, I think that is also terrible. I just meant the editor wasn't unsupervised alone with the kids like a cameraman or boom operator might be, so he wasn't a direct danger to them.

A direct danger? Maybe not, unless he became obsessed with one or more of the children to the point where he would actually try to get at them. For me, the point is that he did have access to footage of children in varying states of undress and was in an ideal position to feed his habit. Not a good thing.

I found the airing potty training and bath footage to be tasteless, as well as the footage of (I think) Colin's little bout with constipation. I'm not personally offended by it, but for their sake it really didn't need to be shown. Pedophiles, certainly. It could also be embarrassing to them later and is certainly an invasion of privacy. One would think you could take a crap in your own home - well, maybe not in quiet and peace in their case, but without it being broadcast to the world.

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I really hope the kids can't be controlled after 18, they deserve their freedom.

I was very shy about camera work (I had a dreadful photo spread published of me in the newspaper when I landed that film role and since then I can't stand being photographed or filmed) and I didn't 'overact' enough to have a career in theatre, and voice acting sort of became my my niche. If you're interesting in voice acting, or have kids that might be interested, my advice on the industry would be:

- In 99% of auditions, the material will be a blind read. For example, once when I auditioned for a part in a modern radio play based on an Australian book, we were all given Shakespeare to read blind. Articulation and character matter, but what really captures their attention is the number of mistakes you do or don't make. The faster you can read, the better you tend to do because you can read ahead as you're reciting and therefore make fewer mistakes. Voice recording is very expensive, and time and mistakes are money. They look for actors who won't cost them a lot in retakes.

- Don't worry about being able to do 'voices'. I was always worried because I couldn't do voices. Sometimes I would be asked to imitate an accent I was shown, but that's fairly easy to do because you'll be mimicking. If I'd continued on as an adult I would have hired a coach to help me develop a portfolio of voices, but since I sound much younger than I am that was my 'thing' and they like casting older people as younger characters whenever possible, since older actors are more reliable and aren't restrained by child working restrictions. Almost every single VO role I had was of a girl 5-10 years younger than myself. I almost never played my age.

- The voice acting industry is extremely hard to get into, but if you get in, it is steady work for as long as you have an agent willing to push you. When I first broke in, my voice acting teacher at my agency told me that and he was right. It's one of the best ways to earn a living in acting. Whenever people tell me they have kids who want to get into acting I always recommend voice acting, because their faces (and most likely, names) will remain anonymous, they don't have to worry about their appearance, it is a really small and friendly group of people, it's fun and challenging and it rewards skill in reading. I can barely watch the stuff I was in on TV, but I'm really proud of everything I did voice over work on. It didn't capture me looking dorky with glasses (my left eye wanders on camera without them), it captured me at my best.

The only other thing is that in the legitimate acting world (in my state, anyway), directors and producers can smell a Kate-like stage mum a mile away are will avoid that kid no matter how talented they are because they know the mother is trouble and the kid is probably not in the business for themselves.

When I was 'on the circuit', there was a slightly younger girl who had the same size and colouring as me, who was every bit my equal and from what I'd seen, my better. She was prettier, and she didn't have glasses. We were actually the final two for the film part, but they gave it to me in spite of my glasses (I was a sassy kid. When the director said my character didn't have glasses I asked why she couldn't since the main character, her brother, had them) largely because of her mother. I actually heard them discuss her. This director was one of THE sweetest people I have ever known, but he didn't have a kind word to say about the mother. Directors know, and a good director will reject stage kids in order to not encourage their mother.

So sorry for the thread hijack. This is the only time you'll ever hear me recommending acting for kids - when it's for fun or it's voice acting.

If I were the kids, I would sue to get the potty training footage off TV when I was older. I guess maybe by then they won't care, but I think that crosses a lot of boundaries. I was always so disgusted that they let that happen.

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I found the airing potty training and bath footage to be tasteless, as well as the footage of (I think) Colin's little bout with constipation. I'm not personally offended by it, but for their sake it really didn't need to be shown. Pedophiles, certainly. It could also be embarrassing to them later and is certainly an invasion of privacy. One would think you could take a crap in your own home - well, maybe not in quiet and peace in their case, but without it being broadcast to the world.

I don't think Kate cares about pedophiles watching her kids. At worst, she encourages it (like MckMama) She recently posted a very creepy and sexualized picture of her 11 year old daughter, not much better to me than MckMama posting pictures of boys wrestling and tagging it with pedophile buzzwords.

Some people are determined to get attention, even if they have to thrown their own children under the bus to do so.

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I remember that first special! She did work at a dialysis center, every Saturday, with a double shift every other Saturday. That surprised me, because there's an outpatient dialysis center in my neighborhood, and it isn't open any evening of the week, so I wonder how long her "shifts" were. She also told the camera that Jon was responsible for bathing all the children after coming home from work, because she "doesn't do baths." I thought to myself what nurse doesn't do baths??

I was totally surprised when I found out that Kate has a nursing degree. It irritated me when she went on after the show was cancelled about how she wasn't going back to nursing, that she couldn't make enough money, blah-blah-blah, it just felt like she was denigrating it. As a nurse (RN) myself, though, I know why she isn't. Nursing, in most cases, is very hard work and someone who won't even give baths just won't cut it. I also can't see how any nursing facility would hire her as her nastiness was on full display during the show, and I hope that she never treated patients that way :o .

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