Kate Hudson is also in that awful-looking Mother’s Day movie which landed Jennifer Aniston on the cover of People this week. I took one for the team and watched the trailer and there’s a meet-cute scene in the trailer between Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis’s single parent characters while he’s in the supermarket buying tampons for his teenage daughter. Several other played-out movie tropes occur including a career woman who gave up a child for adoption, a child peeing on someone, and an overbearing mother. I could do an entire post on all the things wrong with that trailer, but I’ll spare you.
Hudson has been doing the press junket, and she has interviews with both Entertainment Tonight and E! ET got Hudson to talk about that date she snapchatted with football player J.J. Watt. Only Kate says that she’s not really dating J.J., it was a group date and they have the same agent. Sure. To E!, Kate talked more about her kids and her relationship with her mom, Goldie Hawn.
On posting to social media
You should never post without getting someone’s permission. You know when you’re in a group photo and there’s one friend who won’t be happy with that picture… I’m always like ‘Everybody has to approve it.’On if she’s dating J.J. Watt
We actually just have the same agent. We were at, like, a big dinner. It’s just what happens.On being a working mom
It’s a hard thing when you’re a working mom and you’re thousands of miles away from your kids and they’re doing things that are important in their life that you can’t be present for. It doesn’t make you a bad mom.Q: What is the biggest secret you keep from [your mom] Goldie?
I’ve always had a really super open relationship with her. I talk about everything. I’m like the person who comes home and can’t hide anything. Even my friends sometimes are like, ‘Kate, you’ve got to stop talking so much about your life.’ And I’m like, ‘Why?’ I can’t keep things in, really.
I really enjoy Kate’s interviews because you get the impression that she’s unrehearsed and is just talking off the cuff. (I don’t know if I’m buying that excuse about her date though.) It’s nice to hear that Kate and Goldie are so close. Now that I’m in my 40s I’m like that with my mom too. It took a while but we’re close and I tell her almost everything. She gives the best advice and I always feel like I can go to her with a problem or issue. Love you mom! (She reads CB too.)
Kate is set to star in a TV show with her dad, Kurt Russell, called Barberry Coast. They already have a distributor but are looking for a network to pick it up. The show will be set during the gold rush in San Francisco, and that’s a great historical setting but we already have one of the best series of all time set in that period, Deadwood. Unfortunately Mel Gibson is going to co-write and also star. Mel and Kurt were in 1988’s Tequila Sunrise together but I’m still surprised at this collaboration. I hope for everyone’s sake that Mel is sober now or they’re in for a world of hurt.
Update: Kate celebrated her 37th birthday with friends, her mom and a bunch of shirtless men. We know because she Instagrammed it. You can see more here.
Here’s Kate at the opening of World of Cyberobics, a fitness studio and tourist attraction on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. I guess the concept is short workout videos which you can do for free and longer classes available when you join McFit (a line of German fitness studios) or pay. She looks like Beetlejuice in those pants.
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I would tell Goldie everything too. How she popped out such a Kate is a mystery to me.
LOVE Goldie!!
And I’ve had a crush on her man Kurt Russell since I was 10… Nearly 40 years ago now. Saw him in Hateful Eight; GD he’s still hot…
But Kate?? Meh…
Remember “Overboard?” Such a silly little movie, but I loved it when I was a kid.
LOL!!! my sentiments exactly.
She needs to tell Goldie about her messed up face.
gee, why am I not surprised that she loves talking about herself all the time. “it’s hard when you’re a working mom” HAHAHHAHA
As messed up as mel Gibson is, he’s still exceptionally talented. It will be interesting to see how the show ends up.
Like, Kurt Russell, isn’t like, her father. It’s like, one of those Hudson Brothers dude, who were like, on TV, like a really, like long time ago.
To be fair, that Hudson dbag very publicly disowned her and her bro, and then demanded that they drop the “Hudson” name. Kurt is her father.
If I called Kurt her stepdad someone would have yelled at me.
Kurt raised her with Goldie, and she considers him her father.
I only clicked on this story because Goldie Hawn was in the title. Had I known there would be a Mel Gibson mention, I probably would not. Shame on this woman and Kurt Russell for collaborating with Mel. She was mildly entertaining when she was fwb with that Jonas boy, now she is just gross.
I would love to split a bottle of wine (or 4) with Kate and gossip, she seems like such a fun person to be around.
I admit, I love Kate’s snapchat. She just starts talking to the phone as soon as she wakes up. I think she would be exhausting in real life, but since I can close the app, I can close her too!
I know people do this i.e. share everything with their mother but this is such a foreign concept to me ..like how ??
I know, right? I tell my mom almost nothing. And we have a good relationship.
I used to tell me my mom stuff until I learned she was telling other people my stuff. LOL!!!
Yeah! My mom does that too!
Hi CB’s mom!!!
I’m super close to my mom too. We fought a lot when I was a teen, but the older I got the more I appreciated her. She’s the first person I call with good news or bad(even before my husband) and I can’t imagine life without her. She is the best person I know.
I like Kate Hudson. She seems like a happy person and her sunshiney personality appeals to me. Even though she makes terrible movies I still like her 🙂
Goldie is everything. I’ve loved her since I was a little boy when I saw her slay in The Best Movie of All Time – The First Wives Club.
It’s a total alien concept to me, sadly – being close to one’s mother. I’ve had an absolutely toxic relationship with mine & it’s taken her complete lack of interest/support during my recent cancer treatment to realise that life really is just too short.
From a human psychology point of view, though, it’s been an interesting learning experience …
Sorry. Just feel like venting a bit.
@Pip, you are not alone in having a toxic relationship with your mother. It took me many, many years to realise that my mother was an emotional vacuum, and could never really care about anyone but herself, in spite of having five children. She has warped all of us in one way or another, and I have come to realise that I will only have her in my life on my terms from now on. Strangely enough she seemed to respect that attitude from me, and has treated me with more respect since I made my stand. I still keep her at arm’s length though, she infects any one who gets too close. I have tried my utmost to make sure that my daughter has been raised with more empathy, and so far that seems to be the case.
I do wish you happiness and healing, and hope you stay strong in your cancer fight, it is a bitch! You are right, life is too short!
Thanks for your kind words, antipodean (some of my favourite people are Aussies :-)).
It’s a bugger isn’t it: you’ve probably read about narcissistic personality disorder. I don’t think there’s any way of winning with them. I’m sure you’ve done a great job with your daughter. I chose not to have any children.
I’ve reached a stage where I have to make the decision whether to tell all the secrets I’ve been keeping since childhood. For my own sanity I think I have to but I’ll no doubt get blamed for tearing the family apart, such as it is.
Life’s a bitch sometimes.
Sorry, this really isn’t the place for this.
Backatcha Pip, one tiny amendment to your comment I am not an Aussie. There’s North Island, South Island, and Mouth Island, I am from the North Island. At the moment I have my “old” flag out for ANZAC Day, it is a very solemn memorial day in the Antipodean household. I had several Great great uncles who died in the Gallipoli campaign, and some who came back, and were never the same again. A whole generation almost wiped out. At the time it was said to be for King and country, hence my deep-seated aversion the the so called Royal family. Anyhoo probably not the place here either.
But thank you for your kind words, and you have hit the nail on the head, my mother is the poster woman for NPD! I and my siblings will never change her, and she is bitter, dried up old bag now. I used to feel guilty for not being able to love her, but after many years I have realised that it is pointless, and I no longer do. I guess you could say I tolerate her, and keep love in my heart, for my sake, not hers!Truth is always the best policy in my view, it really does free you from old hurts, tell the truth and shame the devil. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a tome. Your well being should always come first, and you may find that others in your family feel the same way, and have not had the courage to say so.
Keep your spirits up Pip, and I wish you all good things.
I can empathise Pip, you do what’s best for you, take care.
Argh, antipodean – so sorry! I should know better – I like Kiwis too 😀 A lot of the wildest partiers I’ve ever met were Kiwi vets ….
Thanks guys. I’m normally so tough & capable – feeling so wobbly is taking some handling. I really appreciate your kind words.
Also, I wanted to add: I’ve always found it really striking how genuinely young Aussies & Kiwis mark Anzac Day. As you say, so many families were massively affected by the whole campaign & somehow the way you all commemorate the day seems incredibly heartfelt & touching. It’s on Monday, I think, isn’t it? I hope you have a tranquil day.
Thanks again. I wish you all the very best with your own family stresses.
Ha, ha Pip, I only came back here to check if you had added anything to our convo yesterday, and was delighted to see that you had. Thank you for that. You are so right, us Kiwis are known to be tireless partiers. Our party and have a good time ethic is only outdone by our work ethic, and friendliness. We land up all over the globe, and try hard to fit right in. “Give it a bit of a go”, is the term we use.
The ANZAC day remembrances are a very serious matter, I think largely because it is only a few generations ago, and so many NZeder’s families were touched by the sacrifice these young chaps made. For many of them it was the first and only time they had ever left their small towns, or the NZ shores, but they were all keen to do their bit. Their sense of duty was betrayed by the gormless oafs who squandered their lives with bad information, and worse battle technique. It is a deep hurt that is remembered every year since 1916. There are many small towns who have memorial cenotaphs at their centre, and the fallen are remembered and honoured every day. For many of the locals there are names of their grandfathers, and uncles, engraved on the stones, so it is very personal still.
We attend a lovely service at the LA veterans cemetery, which is hosted in turn by the Australian, New Zealand, and Turkish ambassadors. In most towns in NZ and Australia there is a solemn dawn service, also in London, this year Prince Harry will lay a wreath at Whitehall. You are also right, it is on Monday the 25th April.
I do hope you begin to feel less “wobbly” as the days go by. It is a long process I think, but I am sure you will get there in the end. Happiness always.
She’ll be right 🙂
Will think of you & your great great uncles on Monday – “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
Pup (said with my best Kiwi accent!)
Thanks, Pip.
I never really cared about Kate until I started following her on social media. Her insta is nice and all but her snapchat is hilarious. She has all sorts of characters for the different filters and she seems to have a close relationship with her brothers and her parents (Kurt not her biological dad). It made me like her more
Some day, Goldie will write a tell-all. I remember the gossip from YEARS ago, and Kate is the apple that’s fallen close to the tree! What a spillfest THAT will be! Yeah, I side-eye both of those women and their “relationships.”
I just saw the trailer for the movie she’s in with Mark Walberg (ugh). All she does in the trailer is smile flirtatiously at him.
It’s nice that she and her mom are so close though. Mine is my best friend too, and I know how lucky I am for that.
I was so completely confused by the last picture! Had to look at it multiple times before I figured out she’s sitting on a chair.
They both look like over processed, botox’d, filled up Bev Hills women. Not pretty. And without Kate’s insatiable desire for men, she wouldn’t be in the news. Next?!!!