Two of Jon and Kate’s eight took the fifth!
The eldest daughters of the reality show “Jon & Kate + Eight” clammed up on the “Today” show Thursday, leading to several minutes of incredibly awkward, cringe-worthy television.
Mom Kate Gosselin brought them to 30 Rock, in hopes they’d tell the world that their lives weren’t ruined by seven seasons of reality TV filming.
Instead, twin 13-year-olds Mady and Cara went quiet, forcing their mom to fill dead air.
“Mady what would you want to say about how you and your sister, and your family, are doing?” said “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie.
After Mady’s “umm” response, Guthrie turned to Cara and was met with complete silence.
“This is their chance to talk. This is the most wordless I’ve heard them all morning,” red-faced mom Kate Gosselin said.
“I don’t want to speak for them. But Mady go ahead, sort of the things that you said in the magazine – that years later, they’re fine. Go for it Mady.”
Mady responded: “No, you just said it.”
The Gosselin girls spoke to People magazine earlier this month, explaining that their parents’ decision to put them TV wasn’t a damaging experience.
But given the chance to repeat that line, Cara and Mady went virtually silent.
At the end of the interview, Mady finally spoke up and said the public doesn’t fully understand their upbringing.
“I wouldn’t say [the public is] wrong, I would just say [it’s ] not like the full like story,” she said. “Like a lot of people think that filming, like our show, has damaged us. But it’s only really helped.”
Kate and Jon Gosselin vaulted to reality TV fame when TLC network cameras recorded the day-to-day life of their huge Pennsylvania family.
But the Gosselins eventually got divorced, the show went off the air and they’ve been trading barbs ever since about each other’s parenting skills.