New family of sextuplets coming to TLC & the parents are still together – for now

*May 09 - 00:05*
TLC has ordered a full season of a new reality show featuring NY’s Carpio sextuplets, 22 month old multiples born to a couple originally from Ecuador who became naturalized US citizens and now live in Queens. The Carpios have a nine year old son in addition to their sextuplets, four boys and two girls. They’re struggling to get by, with dad Victor making just $1,800 a month as a maintenance worker. Up until this point they’ve had help from donations and volunteers, with with some minor media coverage helping their cause. All that’s about to change as the Carpios have landed a 12 episode deal with TLC. I really hope they’re getting paid commensurate with what Kate Gosselin is pulling down, $250,000 a episode. That’s a lot of money but if Kate can “earn” it for sitting around and gazing at her navel while the staff and camera crew watch her kids than then the Carpios should make at least that.

Move over Gosselins: TLC has signed on a new family with sextuplets and ordered eight episodes of ‘Sextuplets Take New York.’

Victor and Digna Carpio of Queens, NY, have four boys and two girls: Genesis, Joel, Justin, Jezreel, Jayden and Danelia, all 22 months old. The children are billed as the first Hispanic sextuplets born in the US, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They also have a 9-year-old son.

The family is on a tight budget – before the show, Victor made $1,800 a month as a maintenance worker, according to a 2009 New York Daily News story.

“We fell in love with them,” said Nancy Daniels, senior VP of production and development at TLC. “All of our shows look at interesting families and interesting live. They’re struggling with taking care of a lot of small children who are all the same age and overrunning their house.”

The series is set to premiere September 14. Also coming up on TLC this season: ‘Sister Wives,’ a reality version of HBO’s polygamy series ‘Big Love.’

[From Huffington Post]

Doesn’t it seem like these families are just commodities, like once they’re used up there will always be another family with more kids than they can handle ready to take their place? I know it was fun to watch Kate browbeat Jon until he took up with one coed after another in a hopeless attempt to get his manhood back, but those two annoying people have kids who are going to have to watch their parents’ marital problems on television some day. Now we have another family that may be put together and looking great on the surface but they’re going to be picked apart and made into cutouts for our viewing pleasure. As I was writing this, I noticed that Michael K. at D-Listed already covered it. His title for this story is “Welcome to TLC, Your Lives Are Now Ruined.” I love quoting D-Listed because I couldn’t put it better myself. Sure their material needs will be taken care of, but once fame sets in there’s no going back. Just look at Kate Gosselin now vs. how she used to be. Now tell me, is she better off? She surely thinks so. Now scroll down and gaze at Jon Gosselin’s ugly mug. That’s the bloated face of reality television.

Header photo credit: Alvarez/NY Daily News

SANTA MONICA, CA - APRIL 16: TV personality Kate Gosselin signs copies of her new book 'I Just Want You To Know :Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family' at Barnes & Noble on April 16, 2010 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by John M. Heller/Getty Images)

Photo by: RE/Westcom/starmaxinc.com 2010  6/16/10 Jon Gosselin at the THQ Take No Prisoners party at E3 in the Downtown Standard Hotel. (Los Angeles, CA) Photo via Newscom

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  1. meme says:

    Great. Way to fvck up another family.

  2. Persistent Cat says:

    Ugh.

  3. aenflex says:

    Look if we the peeps didn’t watch this stuff, studios wouldn’t produce it. Sick of the shows? Don’t watch em, and more importantly, don’t buy what is advertised during the broadcast. Or sit and hate while at the same time knowing every detail of family X’s life…

  4. jc126 says:

    I’m no fan of these types of shows, but I’m rather pleasantly surprised that finally a non-white family is being featured. (Yes, I know Jon g. is half-Korean.) Remember the McCaughey septuplets? They were talked about for a while, while a black family in Texas had I think octuplets around the same time, and got hardly any press. (Again, I wouldn’t pay attention to any of these people, but just saying.)

  5. Missy Aggravation says:

    I assume they had “assistance” producing all those little miracles, yes? I wonder how much their fertility treatment(s) cost, and how they could afford it on a janitor’s salary. . .

    Furthermore, if they were able to plan ahead for makin’ a litter, then surely they should have a sound fiscal plan for raising six babies that doesn’t include soliciting volunteers for donations. . .

    Why are all the morons breeding?
    (And why are their selfish actions being glorified on teevee?)

  6. Boat says:

    Sister Wives? OMG!

  7. original kate says:

    can we stop rewarding people for breeding like factory farmed animals?

  8. irishserra says:

    ^

    What Meme said.

  9. LindaR says:

    I know we can’t wish death on anyone but how about myself. Can I wish death on me? Seriously, just shoot me. What a stupid world we live in. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Isn’t TLC the acronym for The Learning Channel? What are we learning? That people think the worst kind of drivel is entertainment? That their lives are so mundane that watching someone else’s mundane life is better than participating in their own? I can’t stand it. Stop the madness. By the way, is that a blackhead on Jon Gosselin’s forehead? I swear I am going throw up if I look at that picture again. Hitting my back button now!

  10. TG says:

    I agree with some of you on here. How could they afford to even have a second child on $1,800 a month. What does the mother do? Sit on her bumm all darn day long? And those baby names are about as dumb as the Dugger’s names. It pisses me off to no end. Losers. I don’t think one need to be rich to give kids a good life but how can you give even 2 kids a good life on $1,800 a month? Why make the kid suffer in life for your stupidity.

  11. Sumodo1 says:

    YES!!! Sister Wives, pliggy Mormons! And, Big Love coming back? I am in Jewish Bitch Heaven!

  12. nycmom10024 says:

    The names are biblical names.

  13. Taya says:

    I am going to agree with most of the posters. Why the f*ck are people having liters of kids if they cannot afford to live as a couple alone? The Gosselins, Masches, that sick couple from Utah who had sextuplets on purpose and then 4 died and now these screw-ups. These families call the money coming in donations, lets get real people, it called welfare. If you cannot afford a footbal team of kids then close your legs or get your nuts snipped. Man, this ticks me off. They cry poor but have enough money to do pricey fertility treatments. Gimmie a break!

    originalkate:

    Factory animals are made to breed, these losers do it for the limelight. And farm animals are prettier and more inteligent than these idiots.
    Baby farm animals are adorable.

  14. grisgris says:

    I hadn’t heard anything about this before, but I live in NYC and am married to an Ecuadorean. The community here is fairly large and close knit and people are very good about sharing the little they may have with others. It isn’t unusual for people to be from large families (my husband is one of 8 and his mother was one of 12) and the whole family chips in and participates in the raising of children – aunts, grandmothers etc. While 7 kids is a lot, and I can’t imagine carrying sextuplets (I am carrying twins and feel huge), it isn’t my place to tell others how many kids they can have and how much money they need to make.

    I don’t watch these types of shows, but it might be interesting from the standpoint of seeing how a family without the means the Duggars and Gosselins have raise their family.

  15. Captaine says:

    TLC is nothin more than a modern day circus freak show.

    That network has gotten ridiculous.

  16. cowbell says:

    “bloated mug”

    That’s funny 🙂

  17. moe says:

    ugghhh… enough of the babies for profit shows already, somebody needs to start a boycott TLC campaign for starting all this.
    I’m wondering if she had them naturally or if there was ‘help’ involved too?
    Id be a little more sympathetic if it happened naturally but if their talking about money issues and intentionally had all those kids, then Id find them sickening.
    Only good thing that may come from this show is maybe it will kick Kate off the air… if that happens then they’ll have my eternal gratitude

  18. KJ says:

    UGH!! So you are “struggling financially” but you obviously have the money for fertility treatments!!!!! My God-hopefully people who watch these shows will just say enough already and stop watching-these families are not unique anymore-so why is TLC constantly producing shows about more morons having litters of kids????

  19. KJ says:

    correction-meant to type “litter” of kids!!

  20. JustMe says:

    You know what, when you have to get government assistance when you get fertility treatments to have litters, then I feel it *is* my place to tell people they can’t have that many kids.

    I’ll tell you what, I’ll keep my mouth shut and not say one bad word about people who make less than $2,000 a month and yet get fertility treatments that promise multiple children if they sign an iron-clad contract foregoing all rights to any government aid, welfare, or hit up charities already pushed to the limits helping people that deserve help: i.e. people who do their best and play by the rules, but because of circumstances outside their control, are in a bad place.

    “Not my place to tell someone…” That kind of PC BS is one of the reasons this country is deteriorating so quickly. If I dare tell someone they are selfish jerks, I’m intolerant, or racist, or something else, none of which I am but all told to me to shut me up.

    For the record, I am officially sick to my stomach about TLC. That after seeing how the Gosselins are being slowly destroyed they sign another family up. I will not watch TLC, I will not click on any more ‘multiples’ links, I will not acknowledge in any way any of this crap exists, not even to complain about it. I have decided to become part of the solution and make a stand that will hopefully bring a quick end to all this crap.

  21. KJ says:

    Amen JustMe!!!! You said it all!!

  22. melinda says:

    LindaR- I totally agree.

  23. may says:

    That fake blonde hair is just absolutely hideous

  24. TG says:

    Bible names you say? So I bet next they are going to claim the children are God’s miracles. LOL No they are miracles of science the laboratory. Donations = welfare. I never watch TLC anyway because as was said earlier it is the freakshow channel and I will not support those false conservative god loving people any more. Somehow if you give god credit for everything than you are entitled to a bunch of welfare kids and donations and sympathy. Not in my book. Welfare and donations are for unforseen events, such as unexpected medical problems or loss of job that is beyond your control.

  25. hmm says:

    I’m with JustMe.

  26. Cinderella says:

    They’re may be a slight chance the Carpio parents aren’t psychos and f-ck ups like the Gosselins. That would be refreshing.

    The Gosselins were unlikeable and idiotic long before TLC came along.

  27. Aqua says:

    Move over Jon and Kate! another family has just moved in and is about to take over! seriously, did this family not realize the dire situation they were putting themselves not to mention their older son through when they agreed to fertility treatments? and that I’m sure they were told their would be a high risk of multiple births?But that’s O.K. because their are channels like TLC coming to their rescue. It USE to be called the LEARNING channel but all you really learn is how TLC destroys families.

    How could this family afford fertility treatments on $1800 a month? does any body know? Is it Government funded?

  28. LindaR says:

    Team JustMe. I am going to email TLC and tell them they are off my favorites list on my satellite stations. They won’t give a sh#t if I don’t watch their channel anymore, but it will make me feel better. I need to vent dammit!

  29. texasmom says:

    Since they have seven years between their first and the set, they might have reasonably sought fertility treatment to get a second child. There is a higher chance of multiples but it is usually twins, not sextuplets. And maybe they made more money before the six babies — it doesn’t make economic sense for both parents to work when you consider the cost of childcare for six infants. Just saying, they MIGHT NOT be irresponsible psychos.

    Of course, by the time TLC is through with them, they probably will be. I hope they’ve looked at the land of Gozz and thought long and hard about it.

  30. Eileen says:

    7 kids with $1800 a month?? Why do people do this??

  31. Dingles says:

    We’re getting so close to “Idiocracy”…so close…

  32. anyhoo says:

    @Dingles.

    It scares me how close we are getting…

    Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m watching the movie or just something on TV. ex: Wipeout, minute to win it, anything on TLC.

  33. Emily says:

    Screw this family, I want to know more about Sister Wives! How does a show about people living in illegal marriages work? Wouldn’t they all just get arrested?

  34. bizzy says:

    on the very slight chance that the sextuplets are wholly natural, sorry for the following rant: the fertility doctor told you what *not* to do, but you did it anyway. no fertility doctor wants a patient to conceive six babies — the chance of losing all six and crapping his all-important success rate is too high. i’m sick to death of fertility doctors being blamed for very high order multiples, when the cause is almost invariably high dose fertility meds and inability to follow instructions. i know it seems odd to be told to use contraception when you’re being treated for infertility, but really, there’s a shagging reason.

    hi.

  35. Jaxx says:

    Do you know how many people are right now sitting in their homes planning to have a litter so they can get on TV? This will spawn an entire industry and it is just disgusting. I don’t watch, will never watch but it won’t change a damn thing. It will just have to run its course and people quit watching. By the time that actually happens how many people will be saddled with a pack of kids nobody is interested in?

  36. sunnyjyl says:

    Sister Wives!!!! What about Brother Husbands?? I want to watch that. Hell, I want to live that.

  37. slymm27 says:

    WTH is sister wives????

  38. Vanessa says:

    DISGUSTING ANIMALS! THAT’S WHAT THE CARPIOS ARE!

    plus everything Justme said.

  39. lucy2 says:

    Like everyone else, I’m wondering how on earth they afforded fertility treatments if they’re struggling financially. That’s just…wrong. And I too am sick of people being given TV shows and stuff just for popping out a bunch of kids. Where are the people with actual TALENT?

    Speaking of no talent, Kate Gosselin gets $250K per episode?!?!? For a basic cable reality show no one really watches? GROSS. I’d better never hear her whine ever again about supporting her kids. Clearly she’s spending all her cash on horrible fake hair.

  40. Aqua says:

    I’m sure some of you are aware, their is another family called the Jones who have multiples as well staring on TLC.They need to rename TLC the reality t.v. channel.It’s all this channel is about now.

  41. DD says:

    lol meme, was gonna say the exact same thing

  42. Westcoaster says:

    I would like to see a show in fifteen years on how the Gosselin and now the Carpio sextuplets handled being in the media spotlight. It is a shame the parents of these children did not read about the Dionne quintuplets before signing up for a reality show. I guess it all comes down to the almighty dollar

  43. Gigohead says:

    I’m the lone voice here but I don’t care!! Good for the Carpio’s!! They are just as deserving as the Gosslin’s who were vile and selfish people to begin with. Kate was always a control freak and jon was a slacker. The Carpio’s may show how real folks live.

    If they are able to make off with some money for their kid’s education and perhaps upgrade their home, GO FOR IT!!

  44. Audrey says:

    They weren’t getting any treatments from what the show explains. Her monthly was not normal and while getting treated for that she ended up pregnant with 6 babies!!