"Growing Up Gotti" - new A&E show

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Anyone watch this show last night? An Osbournes-type reality show about Victoria Gotti and her three sons, which I'm working on as a part of my 90-hour work week.

I have no idea if it's any good, I'm just wondering if anyone actually watched it.

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched the last 20 minutes of, I think, the second episode last night. Train wreck. Imbecilic, spoiled brats.

Huck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

my gay co-worker hates it/her

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i read that as "growing up goth" at first

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw a magazine ad for it and they all look really creepy.

St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

they are really creepy.

Huck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotto is dialect for Goth so they techincally are the Goth kids.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been hyping it all morning.

i've seen two or three episodes. i totally hate it/them, but can't stop watching. the boys are so fucking nasty with their plucked eybrows, gelled hair and Armani A/X clothes or whatever the fuck. and the mom's plastic surgery is outta control. real boobs my ass (my ass is real if you were wondering)

the boys have their own website http://www.hottigotti.com/

JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG HOTTIGOTTI

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hottigotti.com/images/header_nodate.jpg

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They're really trying to hype this as The Sopranos meets Seventeen

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that middle one looks like the biggest prick of the lot

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

he's also only 14!

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

take the quiz!

http://www.electricartists.com/gotti/john_m.jpg

Huck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

wop-teen

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh

Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

greasiest tv show ever.

dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I rather endure an Anna-Nicole marathon.

Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen footage where these kids use an entire bottle of gel to get their hair up like that. It takes 'em an hour.

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

And wtf, A&E??? I *like* that station!

Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

they all have ass-chin as well

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you resist the delicious mixture of low braincell counts, cosmetic surgery, illicitly-begotten wealth, and the everpresent threat of domestic violence?

Huck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

L'il Kim (who is friends with Victoria Gotti) did the theme song, the remake of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(episode 5 features a hilarious moment where Victoria kills her maid)

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

her plastic surgery has almost reached wildenstein levels, except w/o the conceptual theme:

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2004/2004-01/21-gotti-inside.jpg

anthony, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

also, i would like to hear the theme song...

anthony, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

use my gel!

Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, has Dame Fortune smiled upon young Gear!?

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A&E has ordered five more episodes of reality series "Growing Up Gotti" after its Monday episode delivered the strongest series premiere ever -- 3.2 million viewers -- on the cable network.

A&E already has ordered 20 half-hours of the series, which follows the daughter and grandsons of late mob kingpin John Gotti.

Also scoring robust Monday ratings was the third installment of the TNT miniseries "The Grid," rebounding slightly from a second-episode drop to reach 3.6 million viewers.

Considerably weaker for TNT was the Friday premiere of biopic "Evel Knievel," which stalled at 1.7 million viewers. It improved slightly over the course of the weekend for a cumulative primetime delivery slightly more than 2 million.

USA continues to see potent numbers from limited series "The 4400," which reached more than 5 million on Sunday. "Monk" did even better Friday by grabbing 5.4 million, the most since its season premiere in June.

Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Shoot some of this money our way. We're your 'research team.'

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cosy.com/art/cosy/gotti.gif

dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, "people" "neighborhood" "little italy"

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i read that as "growing up goth" at first

Me too. And then I was really bummed when I read the thread.

martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

her plastic surgery has almost reached wildenstein levels, except w/o the conceptual theme:

jesus christ. I still don't understand what kind of mental defect causes people like this not to realize that they no longer look human... It's one thing to have a nip or a tuck somewhere, but when you look like a damned alien, for fuck's sake STOP.

martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how gotti's people went into poor neighborhoods and spread cash around to drum up support for his press conferences, etc.

bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Little Italy is just two blocks now, not a neighborhood.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"blocks"

dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, i only regurgitate hearsay and conjecture. to hell with your facts.

bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.njguido.com/index.htm

dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all so incredibly hateable.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gunit"

Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Thursday, 5 August 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that guido website makes me want to vomit.

Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread will now double as the "how long til Gear gets fired?" watch, because since I started this thread I've done precisely 8 minutes of work while working 40 hours a week. I'm not slacking off, no one's given me anything to do, and I sit in this side office with the annoying co-worker, and we stare at our computer screens and occasionally reorganize the tape library and sometimes I'll print something up or make copies or tell one of the writers that "Hey I found this bit of footage you might like", and yesterday I brought in Krispy Kremes which I think might have bought me another week on the job.

Thing is, everyone else is so busy that they don't notice me not doing anything. And my constant ILX/e-mail typing coupled with the occasional furrowed brow makes it appear as though I'm working hard.

I come in on the weekends to make up for the fact that I work four hours a day here during the week because of the night job, but I haven't actually done anything except sit at my computer five hours a day on Saturdays and Sundays and write.

Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

and this has to do with Growing Up Gotti, how?

JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

that's my job.

Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Watched a bit of it the other night. How people find time to get all outraged about "the Osbournes" and not drown in their own bile over this show defies all semblance of reason.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, when i read this, which I'm working on as a part of my 90-hour work week., i thought you meant you factor in watching shows like this for your "job"

JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yes that and crying and eating Skittles. I get paid for it, son, I get unemployment chex

Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't get stuck to your couch, pls? Ok thanks.

dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

VICTORIA Gotti's sons Carmine, 18, and John, 17, took a beating last weekend after they allegedly harassed a 15-year-old girl at a Long Island mall.

The 17-year-old brother of the aggrieved girl delivered a beat-down to the Gotti boys after they "pinched her butt and made disgusting comments" at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Saturday, says our source.


The enraged brother and two of his friends approached the Gottis and their 10-person crew after his sister complained about their boorish behavior.


"Next thing you know this kid was really beating the c- -p out of Carmine," a witness to the melee told PAGE SIX. "All the Gotti friends were taking cheap shots, punching and kicking the back of this kid's head, but he didn't care. He just continued to beat Carmine till he was bloody, and then he went after John and whupped him, too.


"He was in a zone, repeating, 'Not my sister. I don't care who you are.' And the Gottis' crew couldn't hold him back. The whole crowd of people was cheering, adults were coming up to the kid after the fight and congratulating him. He really showed those boys they aren't above the law."


The Gotti brothers have appeared on their A&E show, "Growing Up Gotti," picking up girls at the mall.


Mall security guards and police broke up the fracas, but no charges have been filed. Our source claimed that mall security had received "several complaints" about the Gottis' behavior prior to the fight from fed-up store owners and shoppers.


"One security guard said they got a complaint from the mother of a 12-year-old girl the Gottis and their friends had harassed," another witness said.


The youth who beat up the Gottis "was like 5-foot-10," not that big. Their grandfather [John Gotti] would be rolling over in his grave if he saw that. They not only fought like cowards, they're a bunch of wimps."


Victoria Gotti told PAGE SIX's Fernando Gil the attack on her sons was an unprovoked act caused by sheer jealousy: "Carmine dated a girl he liked. Jealousy makes people do crazy things. This boy was no exception to the rule. It's unfortunate that boys can't talk out their differences."


The father of the 17-year-old boy told us, "This is a private matter between our two families, and I hope that it gets resolved soon. It was an unfortunate incident."

Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)


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