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DAVESBABYDOLL · 06-23-2009, 09:20 AM

Like Mini said, it wasn't over night and it wasn't all because of the "cheating". I have watched the show with my daughters and I always thought while Jon & Kate did the whole interview segments in the chair that she was just a BOB (Big-O-B!tch) Come on really, how many guys (or gals) want to be belittled on live TV ?

And they made it everyones business when they put their lives out there for all to see. Kate said "The show MUST go on" well, hell yeah,for some..money talks no matter how humiliating it is to get it. Even if it's at their kids expense.

galeane29 · 06-23-2009, 10:19 AM

He did say lastnight that he was sick of Kate basically ruling the roost and finally put his foot down

Kelsey1224 · 06-23-2009, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by galeane29

He did say lastnight that he was sick of Kate basically ruling the roost and finally put his foot down

NOW he says he is sick of it...after ten years?

Why didn't he put his foot down in the beginning of the marriage when it was obviously an issue? Why wasn't this 'personality trait' of Kate's discovered in their pre-marital sessions at their church so it could be addressed then? (They say they are Christians so attending pre-marital counseling would have been requirement of most Christian churches.)

Perhaps it is because Jon is a milquetoast, mealy mouth little boy who never wanted to be the man of the family so someone had to do it...i.e., Kate!

He is 'excited' about this new chapter in his life. What "MAN" is excited to be leaving his 8 children? Oh...that's right...he isn't one.

gmyers · 06-23-2009, 01:51 PM

I thought that was a sad thing to say too. About being excited about his new life too. Like it wasn't bothering him that much to leave. I wonder whats going to happen when the kids find out. I wonder if they'll start acting out on the show.

janelle · 06-23-2009, 02:02 PM

I never watched it but for a little as I changed channels and I was sick of Kate right away. Sometimes men go along to get along. Big mistake. He is now breaking away but he will find out he can't go far with 8 kids. Watch them fight the money away. All for more ratings. It's a shame.

Anthill · 06-23-2009, 08:06 PM

I often watched it and thought my god how can she be so cruel and he just takes it. And now after 10 yrs he is tired of it etc. I think it is probably becasue he is getting alot of flack about how he is treated and how can he be a real MAN and take that from her etc.

hotwheelstx · 06-23-2009, 08:34 PM

I think they both would stay in the marriage if they would stop the show. I;m amazed at Kate's ability to go to tanning salons, speaking engagements, talk shows, spa days with her friends. Don't get me wrong it's find every once in awhile or as a treat but Kate seems to do this on a regular basis.

I agree with Kelsey didn't Jon see this trait in Kate before they married? I read on another board they should rename the show Jon & Kate Seperat8.

I do think that Kate's in it for all she can milk out of it. Jon seemed to me he really wanted out, back to a "normal life". Guess that won't happen. He'll be forever known as having 8 children and being half of Jon & Kate.

However, I feel no sorrow for any of them. Look what they've made, gotten free from watchers, TLC. I can't see if Jon was still working as an IT guy how he could afford the house they live in now.

I think Kate will use her children to make the money from now on. As for her stating that she will still have a "job" what job is that? Going around the country promoting herself, children, books? That's not a job in my book.

I hate to blame one more than the other but Kate's gone overboard (imo). I think the children will suffer greatly in the long run. When the cuteness is gone, camera's, all the people what does anyone think the family will do then.

Jon & Kate signed for another 40 episodes for this season. I can't see the ratings going up. I think this will be the last season.

The show is on hold til August. I think it would be in the best interest of the children to stop the show, put the money aside for their college. Besides, that's what the show is really based on.....Jon & Kate having 8 children, how they handle their lives.

This was a SLOW train wreck waiting to happen. I don't care for Kate or Jon really but wish them the best of luck with their new lives. Hopefully the children won't suffer to much after all is settled.

dv8grl · 06-23-2009, 08:45 PM

I've only seen clips of the show on THE SOUP., and that woman is the biggest emasculating b!tch ever! I would smack a b!tch if she talked to me like she talks to him.
I know woman like that, all of them are divorced. No man in his right mind, for no matter how much money will put up with that for so long.
Of corse he's STOKED about getting away from her psycho-ass, I feel sorry for the kids., dad splits because moms a b!tch. I'm sure she'll become one of those mothers that constantly belittles the father in front of the children.

sunflowers · 06-23-2009, 09:37 PM

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Kate Gosselin says in divorce papers that she and her husband Jon have been living "separate and apart" for at least two years.

Gosselin filed for divorce Monday in Montgomery County Court in Pennsylvania, saying in papers that her 10-year marriage is "irretrievably broken."

She also says they have been unable to come to terms on how to divide their assets.The Gosselins had portrayed themselves as happy up
until the past few months, even renewing their wedding vows in Hawaii last year.

The divorce filing was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

The hit TLC series follows Jon and Kate Gosselin as they raise their eight young children, including 8-year-old twins and sextuplets who just turned 5

hesnothere · 06-24-2009, 10:47 AM

New 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' episodes will include Jon Gosselin's new girlfriend

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/20...ate_plus_.html

Jon's reported girlfriend, 23-year-old Deanna Hummel, is expected to join the show next season.

janelle · 06-24-2009, 01:30 PM

The Monitor: Jon & Kate & their crooked houses
09:16 AM PT, Jun 23 2009
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...ed-houses.html

But what will the kids say? No -- really, what will they say? As the relationship of Jon and Kate Gosselin has devolved into a frost worthy of an Edward Hopper painting, the lone bright spot of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" has been the children: 8-year-old twins Cara and Mady and the 5-year-old sextuplets, Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah. The teaser bumps just before commercials invariably feature one or several of the kids saying, "Coming up next on 'Jon & Kate Plus 8!' " Especially during episodes when the Gosselins were rubbing each other raw, these three-second bits were moments of hope. Someone, at least, believed in the family's future.

So what's it going to be then? "Jon Plus 8" when he's with the kids and "Kate Plus 8" when he's not? Maybe "Jon Plus Two and Kate Plus Six"? "Once Were Gosselins"? Now that the Gosselins have formally initiated divorce proceedings, never again will the show's title trigger a sense of optimism and possibility, only a burden that was probably impossible all along. (Unless you're the Duggars, stars of another TLC megafamily docu-series, "18 Kids and Counting," in which case having children is merely an excuse for exponentially growing joy.)

Jon and Kate have regarded each other contemptuously for some time now, dating back long before they became tabloid chum. They sniped at each other, rolled their eyes, spoke ill of one another. In other words, they made for a refreshingly frank couple, too busy with their children to think too deeply about how to spiff up their love for America.

In Monday's most moving segment, the enormity of the future bore down on Kate hard. "I had half a day where I let myself fall apart and hyperventilate and sob harder than I've ever sobbed in my life," she said. "I don't really want to be alone. I don't want to do this alone."

"I was too passive," Jon insisted in explaining his need for a split. "I just let her rule the roost and do whatever she wanted to do and went along with everything and now I finally stood up on my own two feet and I'm proud of myself."

Not that "Jon & Kate Plus 8" was ever really a show about parents or parenting. And the custody-sharing arrangement that seems to have been hammered out through back channels demonstrates how true that dynamic is to life. On Monday night's episode, Jon and Kate explained that the children will remain full time in the home the Gosselins recently purchased in Pennsylvania, where Jon and Kate will alternate hands-on caretaking. (This seems to be an ingenious solution, only viable for a family that can afford, in essence, three homes, but ingenious just the same.)

After all, this is the house the children feel comfortable in, the one they can stretch out in, the one that shields them from paparazzi. "The security, the room, the land," Jon said on Monday. "All for them."

As with so many recent episodes of "Jon & Kate," Monday's revolved around a product placement, and this time it was apt. Kids Crooked House builds structurally sound children's playhouses that appear whimsically distorted on the outside. That may be the converse of the Gosselin home, but to see Jon and Kate announce their split during an episode otherwise dedicated to the difficult labor of building safe homes for their kids was rich in irony.

Perhaps these Crooked Houses -- the kids received four -- will become refuges for the children from events in the main home, which despite the game faces Jon and Kate put on for their children has been plenty crooked for a while. "I'm tired of smiling on the outside when I'm crying on the inside," Kate said. "I've been doing that for a long time." And you're never too old -- or too young -- to learn that the things that appear weakest on the outside may well turn out to be the most solid. That understanding and more, coming up next on "Jon, Kate, 8."

-- Jon Caramanica