Courtney Stodden “Desperate” For Attention On Couples Therapy; “Angry” When Being Ignored
October 12, 2012 by Hollywoodite
It would seem apparent that Courtney Stodden, 18, and husband Doug Hutchison, 52, who married when she was only 16-years-old, are only on VH1′s Couples Therapy after trying-and-failing to land their own eponymous reality show with MTV/ VH1, with whom they’d met months earlier. For example, in December 2011, they turned down nearly identical Relationship Rehab (also turned down by Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt) because they had no marital issues and the show was a poor fit, according to Stodden’s own mother. Months went by with no firm offers for their own show, so they settled for pulling focus on Couples Therapy instead.
It worked. The show and all it’s coverage at the moment is about them. Their aim is to steal away screen time with histrionics and aggression and eventually compel their own television show. No longer a theory, but confirmed by other residents in the house.
House mates Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen both blogged about the show, today, and their experiences in the house.
In short, of course Stodden is baiting people by dressing and acting in a sexually inappropriate manner (flirting with the men to anger the women and wearing next-to-nothing) and of course Hutchison is irascible and baiting people with the word “molester” because he knows he is one (not by technicality since he rushed the marriage to get around the law, but morally).
Here’s McCord’s blog about the dinner scene from episode two of which there’s video below.
Simon and I [Alex] made dinner for everyone, and fur flew.
Although we do make our children dress for dinner every night, it really wasn’t about Courtney’s lack of clothing for me. It was about her aggressive, disrespectful, attention-seeking behavior. She reminded me of a naked version of the Jack Russell terrier in The Mask.
Everyone tried to ignore their antics in order to focus on their own therapy process, and that made her angry.
It was clear to me that both Courtney and Doug desperately wanted to have all eyes on them, and when they felt they were being ignored would act out accordingly. Courtney would change into an even skimpier outfit and shake her (ahem) attributes, and Doug would gleefully remind everyone that he had been called a child molester. Once. Every other time it was brought up, it came out of Doug’s mouth, as though it was some weird badge of honor. – via Alex McCord’s blog.
And here’s van Kempen’s blog about group therapy during episode one.
In that first Group Session, that wrapped up the episode, it seems that I stay pretty quiet, however what you didn’t see is me [Simon] really having a go at Dr Jenn (although to be fair she’s not the show’s casting Director) about Doug & Courtney being on the show.
It’s obvious to anyone why they are on the show; they came in with an agenda to make noise and so far are succeeding in so doing.
Dr Jenn states she’s amazed at our collective hostility towards Doug & Courtney but even from what little of that first day that was shown in this episode (and a lot more went down in the six hours between their arrival and this Group Session), Blind Freddy can see that they are in this to stir things rather than as Alex & I were doing trying to concentrate on their marriage. – via Simon van Kempen’s blog.
