KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN

by Robert Hoffman

  Kate was traveling with Steve everywhere in the country and Jon was left at home with the kids. That made him angry and he became suspicious.

  The fact that Kate was away with Steve more than she was home and Jon was left at home with all eight kids really started to anger him and get him thinking about them being together and he started asking her more and more questions about it, which made her more and more angry with Jon. Whether or not they’re having an affair, the topic of Kate and Steve together was what really drove Jon and Kate apart.

  Kate started inviting Steve to the family’s personal holiday celebrations in 2008.

  Then, for reasons unknown to Jon, Kate started inviting Steve and his family to their house for holiday celebrations, which really infuriated Jon. Jon thinks she did it to shove it in Jon’s face. He also thinks Kate and Steve wanted to show Gina that it was just business and they were just good friends and if Kate and Gina became friends, the rumors wouldn’t be as bad in the media.

  Kate and Steve were chummy and she drank a lot around him and acted silly, even in front of Gina and he could see Gina’s reaction to it and she didn’t look happy but Kate didn’t seem to care. In Kate’s mind, she was the big star and everyone else would just have to fall in line behind her.

  In January 2009, Kate and Steve went to Charleston, SC to write book number three. “Who takes a bodyguard with them to write a book?? They were cooped up the whole time.”

  Kate didn’t even try to explain to Jon why Steve was traveling with her to meet with her publisher and editor and Jon can’t understand why she would need a bodyguard to sit in a room working on a book. The only reason he could think of is that it gave them even more time to be together.

  TLC hired Steve and assigned him to the Gosselin family.

  In 2007 Steve became the family’s bodyguard. In 2008 Steve became Kate’s personal bodyguard.

  TLC protected Kate when she asked for a divorce and threw Jon “under the bus.” Jon never wanted a divorce.

  Steve is an executive at his company, yet he spends most of his time out on the road guarding Kate. Why?

  Steve Neild is the trustee of the family money in the event that Jon and Kate should both die.

  On Jon’s suspicions, he said ‘it’s just the way a man looks at a woman.”

  I pressed Jon further today, telling him that I don’t see any real evidence of an affair and I asked him how he could be so sure. He said “it’s just the way a man looks at a woman and I’ve seen they way they look at each other when they’re together.” He’s seen them giving each other playful looks when they thought nobody was looking.

  Xxxxxx the nanny completely agrees that Kate and Steve are having an affair. She “can just tell by how they act around each other. They’re like they’ve been married for ten years but still on their honeymoon.”

  Xxxxxx doesn’t have any concrete proof either except her woman’s intuition. She says it’s so obvious to her by the way they look at each other and the way they act around each other. They’re always very playful with one another, like they’re in the early stages of a marriage but also like they’ve been married for ten years. They bicker back and forth and Steve speaks his mind sometimes like a husband would talk to a wife. Certainly not the way an employee would speak to his employer.

  Jon believes that they’ve been having an affair since mid 2008 and that it continues to this day. He wouldn’t be surprised if they came out with their relationship sometime on one of her new shows.

  Jon never had a conversation with Gina about whether or not she thought Kate and Steve were having an affair but thinks she’d have to be an idiot not to suspect it.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  September 2009

  They ended up at ABC Dance Supplies on Kutztown Road in Reading. All the cars and van pulled into their small lot, followed by the paps. It was only then that I realized that Steve Neild was riding in the passenger seat of the van with Kate driving. The crew went ahead to the store and filmed Kate unloading all the kids and the group walking across the parking lot and into the store. It was closed to customers for the shoot and people were being turned away. It’s a very small, one-room store filled only with racks of ballet and dance outfits as well as dance shoes. Everyone went inside except for Steve. His job for this day was to stand outside and make sure that the paps didn’t interfere and there were no other disturbances.

  He spent forty minutes standing next to me. I introduced myself and we had small talk but he wouldn’t answer any questions for the magazine. He told me he was from Auckland, New Zealand and he speaks with a heavy NZ accent. He was holding an umbrella as the skies were pretty dark and while he was standing there, he was swinging the umbrella like a golf club. We talked a little about golf and local courses and that he doesn’t have any time anymore to play as he’s always working or with his family. He’s very soft-spoken but he looks very confident in his abilities. He’s not a bodyguard that comes at you head on like a tough guy but rather just lets you know he’s there and looks for mutual respect. He made no demands of us and we respected the boundaries of the shoot and kept at a distance.

  As far as Steve not being seen with Kate in awhile he said that he get’s a call from TLC when they’re doing a shoot and he goes to work. They rotate different people on and off of the job as well.

  Kate had no interaction with Steve at all outside of the van until she came out of the store and saw him talking to me. She looked mortified that he was standing there talking to the paps. Her eyes almost bugged out of her head and she did the ‘cut’ motion with her hand going across her throat at him while making a very scary face with her teeth clinched. She said ‘What are you doing??? Don’t talk to them – they’re the paparazzi!!!” He quickly left us and went back closer to the family.

  This looked like much more than a professional relationship to me. Kate seemed to be disciplining him like a boyfriend or a husband. She rolled her eyes at him after telling him not to talk to us. It just seemed like they were way past the point of employer/employee. They looked like lovers trying not to act like lovers.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  October 2009

  Black stretch limo pulled up to the house at Noon. Steve and Kate got in and left town.

  Steve Neild gets Kate’s mail at the UPS store in limo.

  Steve gets out of limo at kids school and walks Mady and Cara from school to the car. Kate stays hidden.

  Two paps and I chase limo at high speeds, eventually ending up in Pittsburgh.

  Kate, Steve and kids stopped for dinner at a restaurant in Pittsburgh. Paps left after that.

  Limo driver said Kate and Steve were assholes and they were very rude.

  There were two paps and two reporters circling around today, hoping to get comments from Kate about the TLC situation. She stayed in hiding though. There was no sign of her at all until I saw a black limo going up the road toward the house. I quickly drove up in time to see it pull up to the front door and Kate and Steve came out of the house and got into it. The driver got out of the car but Steve beat him to the door and opened it for Kate and got in behind her and closed it himself. They left the property with two paps and me following them. He drove pretty slowly at first because of the winding country roads but when he reached the highway, he sped up to 75 in a 55. They went to Kate’s UPS store and Steve got out and went inside and got her mail. He glared at me when he walked back to the car. He wasn’t happy about being followed. Once back out on the highway, the driver got back up to high speed again and was weaving in and out of traffic. After thirty minutes, we ended up in Lancaster at Mady and Cara’s school. The limo pulled up near one of the buildings and Steve got out and went inside and a few minutes later, he came out with the girls and loaded them into the limo. Kate still hadn’t been seen at this point. We drove and chased for another hour at high speeds, going over 95 mph at times and I fell behind the paps in their sports cars. I was driving an older SUV and I got
hung up at a traffic light after everyone else ran through it by about eight seconds. After that I never caught back up to them. I was in contact with both paps though the whole time by phone. They got on the PA turnpike heading toward Pittsburgh. I got on about five minutes behind them and headed back. There was no way I could stay with the chase. On the turnpike, they reached speeds over 105 mph according to both paps.

  They pulled over at a rest stop halfway between Reading and Pittsburgh and everyone got out to go inside for a break. Steve told the driver to stay with the car while they went inside. He also looked at the paps like “WTF are you still doing following us??”

  The driver told the paps that they both (Kate and Steve) were very rude. Steve gave him an address to plug into his GPS and told him “that’s where we’re going” and then he had the divider put up so they had privacy. The driver said “these people suck. They’re total assholes” Once back in the car, the chase was on again – again going over 100 mph weaving in and out of traffic with two kids in the car.

  They finally ended up in Pittsburgh at a restaurant. The paps took pictures of them going inside but then decided they’d had enough and began the five-hour trip back home. Both paps were very pissed off that they wasted the trip. They speculated that Kate maybe had a speaking engagement tonight or tomorrow in Pittsburgh or Ohio.

  Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  November 2009

  Steve Neild is the main reason that Kate is happy now. It’s him that she’s talking to on the cell phone all day. It’s like he’s there with her she says.

  Regarding Steve being at the house for Thanksgiving, the kids told Jon about it and are wondering why Jon won’t be there. One of the little girls asked Steve if he was going to be their new daddy.

  Xxxxxx says that “I think Kate is in love with Steve. Steve is the one Kate is talking to on the cell phone all day long and she’s always smiling like a teenager when she’s talking to him at home.” Kate doesn’t talk to her about him but she can hear Kate say Steve this and Steve that while talking to him so she knows it’s him. She told me “the kids love him. He’s so kind and soft-spoken and smart and everyone is so comfortable around him. Steve’s wife comes with him sometimes when he’s here and she and Kate are very friendly but it’s so obvious that they’re having an affair. At the very least they’re having an emotional affair. He’s good for the kids. He’s a strong father figure to them when Jon is not around. They need that in their lives, especially at this age. The twins need to see how a man should really treat a woman and they don’t get that from Jon and Kate.

  Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  November 2009

  Steve Neild and his wife were working in the yard for hours. Seemed very distant.

  When I was in Maryland watching Steve Neild’s house, he was outside with his wife doing yard work for several hours. Now that I think about it, I don’t recall seeing them make contact with each other in any way. They acted like strangers. She was raking leaves and he was working on the porch and the cars. They looked like a married couple just going through the motions. When I’ve seen Kate with Steve, there’s more of a natural chemistry about them. They look more like a couple than employer/employee. They look so comfortable with each other and they always look happy to be with each other. I’ve seen her give Steve a flirtatious glance here and there and he has that confident grin, like the cat that ate the canary.

  Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  November 2009

  Kate didn’t come home last night. Left the kids with nannies.

  Nannies stayed at the house with the kids all day.

  Kate never came home last night. Nanny stayed with the kids overnight. Nobody had any idea as to where Kate went. I found out later in the day that Kate went to Maryland. Steve lives in Maryland.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  March 2010

  Steve Neild and his wife brought Kate a present for her 35th birthday which is on Sunday 3/28.

  Gina Neild watched the kids today while Kate danced and stayed at the house alone with them after Steve and Kate left in a limo.

  Kate took her Land Cruiser to get detailed. Called police to keep paparazzi away.

  Steve and Gina Neild arrived in their Ford Explorer around 8:30 today carrying what looked like a present for Kate. Tomorrow is her 35th birthday. Steve seemed surprised and angry to see the paparazzi camped in front of the house so early. He glared at the group as he was entering through the front gate. Gina didn’t even look over at them.

  Kate and Tony rehearsed until 12:30 when he and the crew packed up and left the house. Shortly after they left, Kate and Steve left in their own cars, followed closely by the paps. They drove to a local collision/car detailing shop in Wernersville where Kate was met by a Spring Township policeman who made sure to keep the paps away.

  Gina Neild brought the kids outside to play and they ran around like they haven’t been outside in a month. She stood nearby watching over them as they played with their scooters and bicycles and just generally ran around enjoying the fresh air. They didn’t seem bothered by yet another new person watching them while their mom was busy doing something else. It’s a normal part of their lives by now.

  A limo arrived at the house around 1 pm and sat in the driveway waiting for over an hour. Finally Kate, Steve and Gina started bringing their bags out and loading them in the car. They had the limo move across the driveway and up to the front door as close as possible to cut off the view from the paps. Gina gave Steve and Kate a big hug before waving goodbye as the limo drove down the driveway and off the property, followed by the paps.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  April 2010

  Kate and the kids arrived home today after almost a week in LA.

  Kate left with Steve for NYC after 15 minutes at the house.

  Kate and the eight kids arrived back home in PA today after almost a week in LA. At 10:15am, two limos arrived at the house. A limo bus was carrying Kate, Steve and Kate’s BFF Jaime and the kids. They were followed by a second limo that would take Kate and Steve to NYC a few minutes later. Judy was at the house when they arrived and she came outside to greet them. All the kids ran to her and gave her big hugs like you would expect a mother to get. Judy spends more time with them than Kate so their bond is very strong. Kate went inside the house with Judy while Steve and the limo driver brought the luggage in the house. The kids looked tired from the trip and happy to be back home. After fifteen minutes inside, Kate and Steve came out and got in the second limo and left for NYC. Kate’s master schedule says DWTS and I know they’re going to be on Regis tomorrow.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  May 2010

  Kate hasn’t seen the kids since last Sunday when they left Orlando.

  Kate hasn’t seen her kids since last Sunday when they left Orlando and returned home. Kate went directly to LA with Steve Neild to prepare for DWTS while a second bodyguard accompanied the kids back to Pennsylvania.

  Jon & Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  July 2010

  Kate entertained Steve and Gina Neild, as well as their two sons and a girlfriend at her house on the Fourth of July.

  Kate wore a very small bikini while frolicking at her pool with the Neild’s and the kids.

  Kate entertained the Neild family at her house today, throwing a picnic and pool party in the back yard, keeping mostly out of sight of the paparazzi at the fence. Steve brought his two sons and one of their girlfriends and they all pitched in playing with the kids and helping with the cookout. They grilled on the back patio behind the house and made a bonfire in the back horse paddock where they roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. The kids were running around laughing and having fun, playing hide and seek in and out of the new trees.

  Kate wore a skimpy bikini while they were inside the fence at the pool, but walked to the grill and around the back freely, letting it all hang out in front of Steve and Gina and the two teen
age boys. We can’t see the pool because of a big wooden fence surrounding it, but we could see a beach ball popping up and down in the pool and hear the music blasting and kids laughing and screaming.

  Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  July 2010

  Kate and Steve went out together at night in Alaska while the kids stayed with another bodyguard.

  Kate and Steve went out together every night in Alaska while the kids were left with another bodyguard at the hotel. After they came back to the hotel after a day of filming, Kate and Steve would get cleaned up and into fresh clothes and go out on their own with Steve driving. Steve went to great lengths to avoid being followed.

  Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

  August 2010

  Xxxxxx is sure Kate and Steve are having an affair but has no proof. She said Kate giggles like a school girl around him and they talk on the phone for hours some nights while xxxxxx is there working and Kate’s home. Kate only has one other friend in Jamie, and when she’s not on the phone with her, she’s on the phone with Steve. Kate get’s very annoyed when one of the kids interrupts her while she’s on the phone, which is most of the time that she’s home. Steve has been at the house more frequently than in the past and not only when Kate is traveling. It’s easier for him to go unnoticed by the paps now that all of the new trees have been planted.