Well the show started a few years ago with a couple that had 2 children and expecting 6 more. A few years of really Kate not being so nice to Jon, she was a tad bit bossy. Now here we are they are seperated and the sweet Jon we all loved just became a train wreck. I don't think most really saw what came ahead of their split.
Kate basically became the only parent figure and she became much nicer. Jon well he basically started hopping all over the world with a new girl on his arm every time he turned around.
New turn on the show - TLC has decded to drop Jon and just go with Kate plus 8. I can't really blame them Jon I think is out of control. I did find this funny when I read here that Jon did this on the SAME day that he was cut from the show.
Speaking of Jon, the same day as the show announced it would be squeezing him out, In Touch Weekly reported that Jon filed paperwork to “put the brakes” on his divorce, or at least stall dissolution of his marriage by 90 days.
In an accompanying statement, Jon said, “This will enable Kate and me to restore our relationship as cooperative parents and to open up our lines of communication. I hope that she will be as receptive and enthusiastic as I am to do what is best for our family … I asked my attorney to put the brakes on this divorce so I could try to regain control over the future of our family. So Kate and I could join on a cooperative course that would benefit our family — not destroy it.”
So one can read into that two different ways. Either he is trying to mend a relationship with his kids and actually be a better dad or maybe just maybe work his way back on the show. Personally I'll miss him on the show but I'm proud of how Kate has really taken charge and stepped up to the plate. Jon need a spanking IMO.
So what do you think? Any other fans of the show?
love the pic of Jon
WOW you saved me from having to write all of that I AGREE 100% he is a douche. I think his last stunt was so that his gravy train doesn't die. Kudos to Kate for not killing him now. She is home raising the kids and he is out whoring around....FAIL (Jon)
I have never watched the show although i have heard all the hype and the goings on with the two of them.. I can't say i favor either one of them just because I really dont know either of them....although Jon's behaviour is a complete joke..
Its like watching a train wreck but my heart breaks for those kids, they don't have a normal life.
Ok so did you catch the story today? I guess Jon has his tail feathers in a spin. He has stopped production that includes the kids and booted them (TLC and the film crew) off the property.
Jon Gosselin is attempting to shut down production of TLC's Kate Plus 8 by denying permission to videotape his eight children, according to reports.
Through his attorney, Mark J. Heller, Jon, 32, has written two letters to TLC lawyers. In the letters -- dated Sept. 29 -- Gosselin demands the network cease and desist production and leave his property, according to The Insider. On Thursday morning, he even posted a sign outside his family's $1.1 million estate in Wernersville, Pa. It read: "Notice: no film crew or production staff from TLC is permitted on this property under penalty of trespass."
In one of the letters, Jon's attorney writes: "Effective immediately, no production crews are to enter Jon's family home for any reason. In the event that anyone enters the marital property, Jon Gosselin will notify the local authorities to effectuate police action against any trespassers."
Yeah Jon is pissed - too bad he didn't care about the kids and filming was fine when he was on the show...idiot. For the kids sake yeah its probably best the show ends but I'll miss it.
I think anything that helps to get crappy shows like this off the air is a good thing...
Ok I didn't get to watch that earlier today but yeah Nancy Grace wouldn't let him get away with anything. He does need to own up and start thinking of the kids.
I've never watched a single episode, and I refuse to. The day that I do, you all are encouraged to take away my mancard ... and other man items, on my person.
But I do know what makes good tv, and if they remove the 'scandal' portion of the show (Jon and his dark side ways), the show will fizzle out and die. He's there for people to 'love to hate'. Who is going to want to watch a show of just 'some chick, raising 8 kids'? I think there might be some golf on tv or a plant growing that would be better watching (anyone get that reference? )
you all are encouraged to take away my mancard ... and other man items, on my person.
you asked for it .... promise? (well, not take away per se...)
it's funny--i used to love this show. and it's weird...i used to think Kate was a control-freak and felt badly for Jon. BUT the more i thought about it, listen she has 8 kids...you have to rely heavily on routine and things being a certain way or else it will turn into complete and utter chaos.
when Jon had his mid-life crisis or whatever, i lost all respect for him. he's basically a wanna-be playboy now. inviting the babysitter over to sneak in and spend the night in his bed while his children are sleeping? sleeping with every ho-bag around? jetting off to france to be with {one of} his 'lover'{s}? going to big-shot parties (including VMA afterparties, the Hamptons, etc), college parties, donning his big stupid cubic zirconia earring? creating that ficticious story about kate and her married bodyguard and getting joy out of the press running with it?
he's only "rescinding" the divorce to look like the good guy to the courts because now it's up to Kate to say no to him. That quote he said was completely fed to him by his attorneys bc the court won't question his motives, they'll only see that he made that move to reconcile. Oh i had my little tantrum and freak-out about being married and having kids, and i've shamed my wife 100x over and slept around but now, nooow i want to "join on a cooperative course that would benefit our family"... wth is that? i don't believe it for a second. if he was being honest about wanting to reconcile he would've said "i realize the error of my ways and i am still in love with Kate and want to make it work, for us and for our children."
Don't get me wrong i would love nothing more to see this family whole again, but there's just no way Jon is genuine about it here.
And don't get me wrong again, I don't agree with everything Kate has done or their 8 kids being on a reality show. But that would be another 3 paragraphs...