Sep
30
2009
Jon & Kate Plus 8 will be Kate Plus 8 from now on. Jon Gosselin was eliminated from the picture by TLC. According to Eileen O’Neill, TLC’s President and GM, the “recent changes in the family dynamic” call for the show to be recalibrated and refreshed to “keep pace with the family”.
After watching several episodes of the show, pre-split, and seeing how Kate treated Jon, I was certainly more in Jon’s corner than Kate’s. That is, until Jon’s pre-midlife meltdown. I’ve seen kids who grew up in extradordinarily strict homes go off the deep end once they were able to get out from under. That’s what Jon’s behaviors resemble. His actions are so opposed to the quiet, humble and, yes, henpecked man we saw on the series you might wonder if he has an “evil” twin.
But the surprises keep coming, because after the announcement that he wouldn’t be on the show after November, Jon made a statement saying, “I regret my conduct since Kate and I separated. I used poor judgment in publicly socializing with other women so soon”. Poor judgment? How about lack of consideration for anyone but yourself? It is alleged that he has filed papers to delay the divorce for 90 days. What’s with that? Hard to know. Or not.
O’Neill has also confirmed that the network is “in development for a Kate project for 2010” which, by the way, is not connected to the talk show that Kate is supposedly planning to do. Waaaay too much Kate. I don’t see her as a good interviewer, so, after the first couple of airings where she will certainly talk about life with and without Jon there will not be much more of interest. And between her speaking engagements, book promotions, TLC’s “Kate project” and a talk show how much time will she have to be a mom to eight little kids. I think the Gosselin’s would most likely have accumulated enough bucks for both of them to step away from the limelight for a while and just concentrate on their children. When the kids are grown Jon and Kate can do whatever the hell they want.
Aug
15
2009
According to Jon Gosselin he was at their estate during his custody time with the children when Kate Gosselin showed up and wanted to come in. Well, seeing as it was Kate, I suppose she demanded to come in. Anyway, Jon said no, Kate called the cops, cops said it was a civil matter and they would have to work it out themselves, cops left, Kate left .
Jon said Kate didn’t like the babysitter he hired to watch the kids while his portion of whatever their is show is called now was being taped. He said he didn’t know what her beef was with the baby sitter but he thought it was because Kate didn’t have prior approval of his choice. That sounds about right.
The photo above was taken the day after the “incident” when they “reunited” to talk things over, with five of their kids in attendance. It seems obvious this was not a friendly discussion and I wonder whether either of them have any idea what effect this head-on collision is having on their children. I don’t doubt they love the kids but, right now anyway, it’s all about them with seemingly no regard for their kids. I think if they really were concerned about the welfare of their eight children they would cut the show and both step out of the public eye and help their children to cope with this.
Divorce always has an effect on the children of a marriage, and, it effects different children in different ways. In this case there are eight children involved in a very public, nasty divorce. How much time are these two self-centered people giving to helping each of these eight kids deal with this? I’m thinking nowhere near enough.
Jun
23
2009
Happier Days
The Gosselin’s marriage is over, but Jon and Kate seem determined to salvage whatever part of their relationship they can so both can parent their eight young children. There seems to be so many opinions as to what went wrong. One is that Kate is a controlling bitch. She does appear to be very controlling and harsh and sometimes moody. She admits she is hard on Jon.
Of course, there is the whole “Jon cheated” scenario, although Jon has always denied he has and Kate has never said he has been unfaithful, just that he has made poor choices.
Having a production crew in your home on a daily basis, filming your family life with all its warts would have to be rough on a marriage, to say nothing of the fact that having eight small children doesn’t leave much time for any couple to be a couple.
Kate is domineering, moody, outgoing, wants to travel and be in the public eye, while Jon is quiet, likes to be home and is very private. The combination would be difficult for any two people to sustain, let alone two people living under these circumstances. It seems highly possible that the Gosselin marriage would have ended even without all the children and hullabaloo.
