Jon & Kate, Octomom Nadya Suleman “Law & Order” Ripped From The Headlines
October 6th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: Jon & Kate Plus 8,Jon Gosselin,Kate Gosselin,Kate Plus 8,Law & Order,Nadya Suleman,Popular Culture
From the tabloids to primetime TV: Warring reality couple Jon & Kate Gosselin and trouty-pout Octomom Nadya Suleman have inspired their very own “Ripped From The Headlines” episode on the 20th season of NBC’s veteran crime drama Law & Order.
Next Friday’s episode was inspired by the headline-grabbing parents and their child armies, Law & Order Executive Producer Rene Balcer told Access Hollywood on Tuesday.
In the episode, a family patterned after The Gosselins,of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 fame, battle it out with a single mama of multiples created in the image of real-life foe Nadya Suleman.
“Two families with multiple kids [compete] to land a reality TV contract,” Balcer says. “Out of that, a murder occurs and then, as the episode goes on, suddenly our lawyers get roped into the reality TV show…..It’s sort of inspired by the phenomenon — shows about multiples,” he explains.
“There’s lots of kids. There’s …Oh God, I don’t know if we hit 20, but we come pretty close.”


