Living Lohan – Or should I say, The Dina Lohan Show?

I’ll admit it, I did tune in last night to watch the latest reality train wreck, Living Lohan, which airs weekly on E!. In an interview about the show held on Good Morning America earlier this week, Dina Lohan described the show as a look at the true life of the Lohans. The show is supposed to counteract the lies the paparazzi and tabloid writers have been spreading about her family, while at the same time introducing her 14 year old daughter Ali as an aspiring singer. Right, a reality show to control spin. Here’s a suggestion, keep your family out of the spotlight! Don’t go looking for publicity while proclaiming it evil. Wasn’t Dina Lohan asking for the media respect her family’s privacy just a little while ago?

This is reminiscent of when Britney Spears was pregnant with her second child, and she was begging for the media to leave her alone. What was her solution – to invite NBC and Matt Lauer into her home for an interview. Of course, the perfect solution, attract more attention to your self! That interview, and especially her bedraggled appearance launched a media frenzy, and made her life ten times worse than it already had been! It also was also the turning point from the old sexy Britney that I used to idolize when I was 17 (oh, the tube tops and choreography) and the new crazy Britney. This tactic obviously didn’t work in the past, and it isn’t likely to work for the Lohans.

Last night’s episode was dominated by Dina Lohan surfing the net to see what the latest gossip was being spread about her family, which was a supposed Lindsay Lohan sex tape – later deemed a fake, and her daughter Ali getting her singing career started by picking out singles for her album. If the show is supposed to be Ali Lohan’s launch pad into pop stardom, why does Dina dominate the screen time as the overbearing stage mom? Who is the show about again? Riiiight, the family, sorry I forgot.

Living Lohans is a look at a typical single mom and her family as she deals with raising the kids and trying to make ends meet.
Does anyone buy that? She isn’t the typical single mom; she has
been as notorious in the tabloids as her daughter Lindsay. If having your life dissected and analyzed by the media because of her daughter’s celebrity isn’t something Dina Lohan wants for the rest of her family, why expose the younger, more impressionable kids to it as well? If I were a mom just trying to make it in the world (hehe – I couldn’t resist – Dina Lohan makes herself sound like such a martyr!), I would protect my kids from that kind of attention, but she is just leading her little lambs to the slaughter while they smile for the cameras.