1. Mo

May 25, 2009 @ 8:50 pm

Did Jon arrive at the birthday party in a porsche?

2. iowafan

May 25, 2009 @ 8:58 pm

My DH just said he’d like a Kate pinata for his next birthday.

3. mully

May 25, 2009 @ 9:16 pm

You could cut the tension with a knife during the loveseat interview with both of them together. They both acted very defensive.

The only good thing I can say about the episode is that they do both seem committed to making sure that their kids dont suffer because of what may happen between them.

I hope that stays true, but I am still, and even more than ever after watching this episode, hoping they decide to end the show.

I highly doubt that will happen though.

4. iowafan

May 25, 2009 @ 9:20 pm

I agree, Mully

5. anita haley

May 25, 2009 @ 9:32 pm

please try to work things out not for the kids but for the two of you. get back to where you were when you started the show. get mad hit each other, but getting a divorce is the easy way out. go to hawaii just the 2 of you, after that show the 2 of you were touching each other and to me that’s a sign of love, please fine that love again. i enjoy the show but i didn’t enjoy watching the friction between the 2 of you tonight. don’t give up. stop the show if you have to, do anything to save your marriage, family. please. pray, pray turn it over to God. from someone that will pray for you.

6. Sandy

May 25, 2009 @ 9:39 pm

I am embarrased for what I just saw. Remeber when Kate used to film without makeup and wearing a wig on her kids bday. that was when is was REALity. Watch it Kate. Fame is getting to you. It may just backfire and divorce will be the least of your problems. Your kids disliking you for it on the other hand…

7. Patty

May 25, 2009 @ 9:47 pm

Jon’s car is a Nissan Nismo.

Yes, I agree, the tension was very thick. It was actually quite painful to watch. I don’t like that Kate now refers to Jon as “him” and “he.” I don’t like that Jon now refers to Kate and “she” and “her.” I also thought those few minutes of footage when he arrived at the party shouldn’t have been filmed. She’s ignoring him and he’s ignoring her.

There ought to be laws about the paparazzi, too. That’s just insane what they do to people! BUT, at the same time, Jon & Kate are the ones who signed up for this, and should have realized what it would come to in the long term.

I’m not defending either Jon or Kate. Jon needs to get with the program and step it up a little bit. He does come across as being a little clueless in some respects, but I don’t blame him. He can’t win for trying with her! Yes, he made a VERY BAD decision, but Kate has emasculated him with her verbal and emotional assaults.

They’re kidding themselves if they think their children won’t be affected by this or that they won’t remember it!

It was actually a very sad episode. To see such tension at what was supposed to be a happy episode.

Compared to where they were five years ago, I wonder if they now think pimping out their kids was worth the toll it has taken on their marriage, their family life, their children’s well-being.

St. Kate she ain’t. She hasn’t been exactly perfect here either. I think she speaks to that in one part of the interview. She now realizes that she’s been a bee-otch. However, I don’t see a lot of willingness on her part to make things work. Everything she talked about was me me me. It was all about her, how she’s home alone with the kids, how she’s doing it by herself, etc. I wonder how she’s going to pay for that $1.3M house by herself, too? I don’t buy the crocodile tears during her couch interview either. She’s in it for one reason and one reason only. I really don’t think she wants to make it work for Jon and her. I don’t think she really cares how it impacts the kids. She’s in it for one reason and one reason only - MONEY MONEY MONEY. Was the MONEY and the BIG HOUSE really all worth sacrificing yourselves, your family, your friends?

Overall, a very sad episode. I really hope they can work things out, but I don’t think Kate really wants to. I’m not so sure Jon wants to either.

Saw the previews for next week. Now what? We will have to watch each of them take separate vacations with each kid?

To quote a former boss of mine, “It’s lonely at the top.” Am I right, Kate?

8. mully

May 25, 2009 @ 10:07 pm

8:04: Is it just me, or does Jon seem like he’s had a drink or two?

Prescott: I noticed the same thing! Jon looked awful in many of those interviews. He looked really bloated.

8:06: Kate: “I have a lot of anger.” And you wouldn’t like Kate when she’s angry.

Yeah, when Kate made that statement, I thought to myself, “have you SEEN your husband? Talk about anger!”

8:16: Creepy for the kids to say “paparazzi”, not creepy to expose your kids to them in the first place.

Noticeable to me too. She seems unaware that she can control that situation.

8:23: Well there, Kate just validated all the haters.

Oh yeah, I just loved that one. She makes sure that she “thanks” all of her fans who dont like her because we keep her show going! Very snarky of you, Kate and you want us to like you?

8:34: Look at how Kate has to do everything by herself….

I mentioned on the other blog that she lost big points when she kept mentioning how no matter that she was all alone this weekend, SOMEONE had to do the party for the tups. Each time with a long suffering sigh, so that we ALL know that Kate is always there when the chips are down and even tho his name was never mentioned, boy did you hear JON! JON! JON! loud and clear.

9. Chris G.

May 25, 2009 @ 10:18 pm

How can anyone be so critical of Jon and Kate? Can You put yourself in their position of having eight young growing children and having it play out on tv??? I love them both and hope they can find common ground. I also hope they can find the passion and dreams that originally brought them together. That could mean time together for them without children. Good luck Jon and Kate! We will be watching and hoping.

10. mully

May 25, 2009 @ 10:21 pm

How can anyone be so critical of Jon and Kate? Can You put yourself in their position of having eight young growing children and having it play out on tv???

No. I cant. Because I never would.

12. stepfanie

May 25, 2009 @ 10:52 pm

I can not believe people now a days i couldnt even imagin what kate is going thru this is a hard time not only for her but jon and thier kids because they have no clue whats going on other then mommy and daddy are acting funny.
the poeple that are judgin jon and kate, just because they are tv dosent give you the right to be mean and judge them they are just as much human as you or me. i pray and hope they work it out i support them 100% regardless of thier choices because THEY ARE HUMAN. and i hope they ignore the people that are being snoty and rude and are scared to look in thier back doors so they have to talk about other people, because in the end this is going to hurt the kids and they have nothing to do with this B.S.
On that note i hope everything works out and i hope jon and kate are happy and make whatever choice they make for thier kids and their life dont let the haters get you as my husband just said to me
with love stepfanie from michigan

13. Chris G.

May 25, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

I guess I still cannot be critical of Kate … or Jon. I just cannot believe they knew how public all this would be. How could anyone??? Could you? How could anyone know what they were getting into really? Kate acts out within the home and Jon acts out outside the home. Jon buys an expensive car without consulting his wife and Kate demeans. Both need to find ground. Kate and Jon need to send 8 kids to college. Add it up! It makes me very sad for them.

14. Chris G.

May 25, 2009 @ 11:13 pm

For Stephanie ….

DITTO!!!!

15. Heidi williams

May 25, 2009 @ 11:48 pm

The episode was sad, very sad. The awkwardness, the ignorance, the cameras, the children, and jon and kate. Everyone has their opinions so here is mine. Jon and Kate, you are christians and with that comes a love and faith and trust in God. Faith that God will provide. Leave the show, leave the cameras behind, sell the house and fancy car….leave it all behind. Seek marriage counselling from a christian counsellor……and start over. Having 8 kids would definitely have it’s financial burdens, but remember that ultimately it is God who provides. Go back to simplier times, remember why you fell in love. I think that all this reality TV has given a black cloud over your family….if you say you do it all for your kids, well do all the above for your kids. They don’t care about fancy things and paid trips to Disney or skiing etc…BUT they will care years from now when their mom and dad are no longer together, that will affect each child even if you do your best to protect them.
Remember the word forgiveness and begin healing. And the biggest part about it all is PRAY as a family, as a couple and on your own.

16. Mary

May 26, 2009 @ 3:41 am

What a very sad episode tonight(5/25). But did anyone think this wasn’t coming. In all the interviews does either one say they still LOVE each other and want to work on it. In 44yrs with my husband NEVER have I spoken to him the way Kate does to Jon. We recently had 7 couples over and watched the show. The men were appalled. Kate is so cutting to Jon, the constant put downs. But if Kate’s not happy noone else can be. The nicest we have ever seen her with her kids was the 5th B’day party. She says she doesn’t care what people thin, but maybe she better or there won’t be a show or book sales. We can see why Jon is fed up. Maybe he should let Miss Perfect go Hollywood!! They need to pray on this. What kind of a family did she come from? We know Jon loved his Dad he speaks so lovingly of his Dad, we find Kate to be cold. While we adore the kids we will no longer watch the show. We can see Kate is not a very forgiving person and only needs Jon for his services with the kids. Hope she’s missing him and starting to appreciate all that he does. For the kids hope they can work it out. Just once treat Jon like a man, we all saw this coming about 2yrs ago! People surpried? Not anyone I know!! And we don’t believe any of the stories going around about Jon. We really don’t think either one would cheat on each other, and we believe Jon.

17. Dejais

May 26, 2009 @ 6:52 am

Hey Jon and Kate….your 15 minutes of fame is up. Please find the exit door.

18. Jessica

May 26, 2009 @ 7:03 am

I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned this yet, but did anybody notice that two of the 5 YEAR OLD girls were in high chairs??? WTF? That’s totally weird. 5 is way too old to be in a high chair. (It was towards the beginning when the kids were eating breakfast sans Jon.)

Another pet peeve of mine, when people have 7, 8 and 9 year olds in strollers. It’s so wrong.

19. Jennifer

May 26, 2009 @ 9:03 am

I find this situation so sad. Whats even more sad is the petty people who are writing horrible things about this family. In no way are they perfect, yes they have made many mistakes. But the hounding is just plain wrong. I’m not saying, give them a break. I’m saying, step back and picture yourself in their shoes. Whether they put them in this situation or not, they are still people!

With Jon in the beginning of the episode, he didn’t look so good. I’m just boggled over the whole situation. Kate is off doing her press and book tour because Jon doesn’t like to do that. So he is home with the kids. And Kate comes home, the Jon not wanting to work on their marriage. He’s seen partying and with younger girls and he’s driving a brand new porsche. Is he trying to go back and be young? Idk. I just feel awful for those kids. They didnt ask for any of this.

20. Jennifer

May 26, 2009 @ 9:06 am

RE:Jessica

Yes, the kids are still using those high chairs, but if you look closely, they took the front off, so it just look likes a chair. They are actually very popular, if you go to any baby furniture place, they sell these highchairs that convert to regular chairs. Why should they not use them anymore? And buy 6 regular chairs, when there is nothing wrong with what they are using?

21. Maria

May 26, 2009 @ 11:03 am

This reminds me of what many Black women experience. Kate might be tough, but she has had to be. What is a woman supposed to do when she is desperately working on the very survival of her family? Joh should deal with Kate’s response to him, and correct her rather than abandon his family.

I think he was whiney and lacked a sense of commitment. It is time for Jon to rise to the occasion. I admire Kate for being strong and understanding what it takes to maintain a family. It is something many Black women in particular have had to endure given a history of slavery and the destruction of the family.

It saddens me to see it spreading to other cultures. Men appear to be loosing sight of the importance of family.

22. Lynda

May 26, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

Maria said:
May 26, 2009 @ 11:03 am

This reminds me of what many Black women experience. Kate might be tough, but she has had to be. What is a woman supposed to do when she is desperately working on the very survival of her family?

I have no idea what the heck your point is here. There are millions of women raising their children, for the most part, on their own. AND, they don’t have live in nannies, chefs, gardeners, etc. There are also men doing the same thing, also without benefit of help. And you know what? These moms and dads don’t have time to sit around and wallow in self pity, they JUST do it!

23. mully

May 26, 2009 @ 4:53 pm

Maria: I, too, dont get your point. I especially think you are dumping an entire culture of women (Black) into one lump sum and thats a pretty unfair statement to make.

As Lynda said, there are millions of women, from all walks of life, all races who have endured much more than Kate Gosselin has endured and they have done it with a lot less help and financial stability.

For centuries, families have stuck together in times of trial and tribulation, especially when there are children involved. Kate has no family, she has effectively cut off all ties with her family (ies) and in doing so has alienated any chance for her children to know that they belong to a family.

I think its very sad that the tups have no idea who their grandparents are. At least Mady and Cara have memories of the Kreider grandparents.

As far as Jon’s passive nature. Its my opinion that that is exactly what drew Kate to him in the first place. She couldnt be in a relationship with someone she couldnt push around and manipulate.

If Kate truly wants to be in charge, let her, there’s no law that says the wife cant wear the pants in the family. Unfortunately, in this family, Im pretty sure Jon is getting pretty fed up with Kate not only wearing the pants but also tired of Kate giving him absolutely no credit for anything he does for her or the children.

24. Valerie

May 26, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

Maria, I think that Kate is the one who lost sight of the importance os family a long time ago. Kate wants to be the bread winner, and Jon is her puppy dog. He does whatever Kate says. He let her drive all family and friends away. I think he enjoyed all the freebies and perks, but recently realized that this is not the way he wants to live. I don’t agree that hanging out with the college crowd is the way to go. He should be refusing to continue with their sham of a reality show and either work on his marriage PRIVATELY or end the marriage once and for all. Kate needs to stay home and start raising her kids and fixing her family for they are indeed broken.

What in the world does any of this have to do with Black women???

25. Beth

May 26, 2009 @ 6:53 pm

Like all of us, Jon and Kate are not perfect. Believe me I am no fan of Kate, and I actually used to like Jon better, which I do not now.
But when the last last 6 kids were born they (more than likely Kate, who like any mother worth her salt really tried to figure out the realities of how to provide a good future for their family of 10) took action and due to the interest they generated being a family with 8 babies, did the next best thing they could do- this is America and reality show era-, and agreed to have a camera follow them around in exchange for financial security. GENIOUS! If any of us came face to face with that opportunity and had children to raise (never mind we would be fools not to take it.
Sure, many people say they are greedy to want so much, (although Jon now pretends he never wanted any of it). Really? Greedy? what do we ALL want? The bare necessitites: a home, food, education, health insurance. How about the reality of what we all really want, and can have if we just bust our butts through a dual working household each working a 60 hour work week executive-type job, or own a business where you then work 80 hours/wk, etc.? A comfortable home where our children have room to play and thrive, and maybe even feel happy to bring their friends over -never mind the parents feeling proud and comfortable with their surroundings and able to entertain friends and family, good schools for the kids, dance classes and ability to afford the costumes for the recitals, music classes and the ability to afford the piano, etc., team sports and the ability to afford the fees and equipment, braces for the kids, take the family occassionally out to a movie and a bite to eat, take to a cultural event, sporting event, take the kids to Disney, take the family for a yearly vacation to recharge the batteries, send the kids to camp, send the kids to college, maybe put in a pool, change the carpet, paint the house every few years, update appliances, get the good grill, good beds for the kids and parents, update the TV every 8-10 years, etc etc. I could go on…
There is not one person reading this that doesn’t want or need some or all of these things at some point and wish they had the ability to do it when needed… These are basic things really, they make the fabric of a person’s life. And well, kids don’t raise themselves and money doesn’t grow on trees! Kate was a nurse who worked in the beginning until it was crazy to continue because 8 kids need their mother and it was more expensive to pay than to take care of them herself. John was a computer programmer whose salary would never be able to provide the basics for 10 people. There is a difference about the goals humans have- is it to just barely get by (food, shelter, whatever education you can get?) or the goal and desire to have a measure of quality and some culture along with it? Kate took the opportunity presented because she wants to raise the kids well, who blames her? John went along because although he is a blameless wimp (yeah, that’s the reality, he loves his kids, won’t hurt a fly, etc. but lacks a back bone) he too realized it’s better to live well than to have a ‘job’ and just ‘get by’.
So off they went, day after day, following their scripted routines which some people criticize, but how often can you just talk about poop and cranky kids?? Since Kate wants culture for her kids it’s great that they have story lines that take them out of the house on various activities and events. This is what makes it interesting for us to watch.
Then the ‘Aunt Jody’ thing comes along, and aunt Jody is clearly sour graping at not being paid (although Really Kate? why not share the joy? Aunt Jody deserves to be paid like you, especially if she is helping you with your kids and it’s not your money after all. Why not ask the very rich Network to pay anyone who is part of the show?).
I said in the beginning I’m not a big fan of Kate, but with her faults and all (overbaring? little respect for Jon?), I give her credit for raising to the challenge of being a mother who wants her 8 kids to grow up with quality and family values and seizing an opportunity. I would never call her lazy, nor Jon really. She left her job as a nurse and took the job of speaker, writer, tv personality, and this brought her and the kids a life filled with exciting experiences and adventures, a bigger home, a tummy tuck which after carrying 6 kids at once she well deserved, hair plugs for John, a cook and house keeper- the least the Networks can do since it takes time to do things with the kids to keep the show interesting -because as much as we would Love to see a haggard mother slaving away at the stove, cleaning toilets, folding laundry for 10 people, that’s exactly what Kate wanted to avoid in her life and I don;t blame her, the good life shouldn’t be just for the kids- she is definitely not a lazy woman and greatly loves her kids, everyone should benefit.
Now Jon- queue the violins- who says he now has no identity -he is ‘Jon and Kate Plus 8′, not Jon anymore,but who can now buy the sports car of his choice, goes skiing with his daughter in Utah, has acres and acres of property, etc. He says he has no job, no privacy, no independence. Well, whose fault is that? As for privacy and independece -YOU Have 8 kids Jon!!!. You are in the business of raising kids until they leave the home on their own. Deal with it like the rest of us. No Job? Why did he have to leave his computer work? Many men wealthy or not have an office at home, or are self employed. But like I said before he has no backbone and no leadership. If he had both he would have long ago said to Kate: “fine, will help you raise the kids at home and do this tv thing since we do get ALL this money, but I will do my work from home and will continue my career and my hobbies since they are important to me and make me who I am…, etc. etc”. “After all, you have your books, your speaking engagements, your facials and manicures…”, “And further I will apreciate it if you did not correct me in public, I am your husband and demand the same respect and courtesy I grant you…”
If he had taken that stance in the beginning Kate might really have grown to respect him. We love our men to be self assured. Respect is EARNED by the actions we take Jon! not just buy giving and giving and giving until you resent the person and blow up.
And finally, financial needs for a large family aside, I hope that they are setting aside some daily time for the kids when there are no cameras, or some downtime where they can just be kids, and have privacy around special occassions and holidays, sick days, etc. because ALL the money in the world won’t be enough to pay the Analyst bills for how ‘not normal’ they are growing up, and their skewed sense of reality and self.

26. Valerie

May 26, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

I give her credit for raising to the challenge of being a mother who wants her 8 kids to grow up with quality and family values and seizing an opportunity. I would never call her lazy, nor Jon really.

She might have originally wanted this, but she certainly lost it along the way. You see, money, material possessions, always wanting bigger and better do notbring forth quality or family values. Actually, I would call both of them lazy. They took the easy way out and now they are paying for it.

I guess I would be considered a fool by Beth because under no circumstances would I expect my kids to pay my way. Under no circumstances would I have let cameras in my home to intrude on my children’s privacy. You don’t need 5 vacations a year, a million dollar home, courtside seats at a basketball game, state of the art kitchen appliances, box seats at a ballgame, personal trainers, weekly spa visits, hair plugs, weekly tannings, etc. to have quality or solid family values. They went way too far. Jon, at least, realizes this. Kate never will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do agree that Jon needed to stand up to Kate a long, long time ago.

27. Carrie

May 26, 2009 @ 7:36 pm

We wish Jon the best of luck. He can do better.

28. Patty

May 26, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

Wasn’t it Kate who said she “quit her job as a nurse to stay home full time to take care of the kids?” I thought staying home and raising her family was her job - not out on the road doing book signings.

I read again someplace today on one of these blogs somebody said that Jon was fired from his last job because the insurance premiums were too high for his company. NOPE!!! He was fired because he was doing side jobs on company time using company resources. It had NOTHING to do with insurance premiums.

Kate needs some serious psychological counseling.

Jon needs to stand up for himself and stop being so passive-aggressive. He also needs to get a job outside the home. He needs some male friends to hang out with.

It was very, very sad to hear Alexis tell her dad not to leave again. Whoever thinks this isn’t psychologically impacting those “Eight Little Faces,” think again!

It’s also very sad that Kate thinks it’s so wonderful that Mady & Cara have stepped up and are pitching in. They are 8 years old!!!! Let them have a childhood!!!!!

The whole situation is just very, very sad. Kate needs to lay off, lighten up, quit being such a bee-och, and realize the world doesn’t revolve around her. I think she’s very lucky to have somebody like Jon, who DOES help and who doesn’t tell her to shove off!

Jon needs to man up. Put Kate in her place.

The cameras need to go away.

The children need to recoup whatever is left of their childhood.

The silence around the picnic table last night was very sad. Not my idea of a good time. No one laughing, no one talking. Nice dinner!

29. Beth

May 26, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

Valerie, I agree that hard work and grit are the best way to make your way in life and are the basis for excellent values, but a family of 10 with 8 kids under 4 (at the time) were going to need a bit more than that. That’s where I feel that someone presented with that desperate landscape since not a lot of family around either, and being handed out this amazing apportunity for a better way of life most would probably take it. I never mentioned mansions or 5 vacations a year to be happy, I mentioned basic things like braces, and activitites for the kids -if you want learnings and culture- or the ability to buy new carpeting or upgrade appliances when needed -if you care about comfortable living- and go to a movie or sports event, or even the obligatory trip to Disney. Rich and poor people alike want these.
Values are unique beliefs that we hold dear and live by and not only poor people have them, there are some wealthy people who have them as well. I do not think they were lazy, I think they just imagined something different, and the reality is not what they bargained for, I do agree that a simple desire to live well and educate your kids, when being handed a ton of money to do it, as can happen in our country, can quickly turn to greed and you do lose yourself and what you hold dear. hopefully they are still young to realize that and do something about stopping the madness and getting back to some real basics if family is what they value.

30. Linda Rogers

May 26, 2009 @ 8:49 pm

I love the kids and have always watched.I’d like to see more. But now with the 5 year olds going to school in fall, I think the show should stop, and the parents should go back to their jobs. Give all 8 kids a chore to do. And everyone will do better. Kate has always been too controlling and too bossy. She needs to cool down, treat Jon with respect. Jon and Kate need to find each other without the tv cameras. I think they don’t need to travel and promote books. Stay home and work on your Love and marriage.Besides Jon can’t afford the house and child support payments!!Neither Jon or Kate should look to someone else for comfort and love and listening. Look to yourself. Get over it Jon,you are a daddy and need to stay home to drink.Both of you need to respect each other and improve on your faults.Kate can’t be “perfect” all the time ,stop controlling people.The job gets done,everyone has their own way of doing it.Maybe the show has gone to Kate’s head!

31. mully

May 26, 2009 @ 8:49 pm

That’s where I feel that someone presented with that desperate landscape since not a lot of family around either,

Beth: What you dont seem aware of is that there WAS family and many offers and donations from Kate’s father’s congregation which Kate, no doubt because it didnt fit into her grand plan, turned down because she only wanted “things that matched”.

The ensuing rift, most believe, is why Kate is estranged from her family.

Also, I, for one, do not agree with your summation of Aunt Jodi as “sour-graping”. Jodi was the one person who was there for the children and kept them in a loving, stable environment when Kate and Jon needed to traipse here and there in order to share with the world how they manage. She has more than shown her love and concern for the children and if she and Kevin are now speaking out about the sham that is the show and Kate and Jon Gosselin, I say, good for them.

32. Tamika

May 26, 2009 @ 9:23 pm

When I saw the show on Monday night I was so upset…i followed this family it felt as if a family of mines was acting out on national television…I didn’t think that is was this serious because i don’t pay attention to tabloids…yall need to get it together pray and ask God for guidance and don’t be getting advice from people that don’t know anything, yall need to humble yourselves for the children…Did you guy’s try going to counseling? I think it would be wise…just think about the children they are beautiful…show the world that all things a possible through Christ and if yall want things to work out God will work it out for u guys…be encouraged stick together for the children….God bless and i hope that i am able to see a better Jon and Kate plus 8…another thing you guy’s were blessed i did IVF and i had for eggs three feel out one stuck for five months and he still didn’t make it. Don’t take things for granted pull together and be a happy family ,even if you two are no longer together be loving to one another…..
sincerely a sad fan…Tamika

33. Jennifer

May 27, 2009 @ 9:35 am

I think if this world didn’t have crazy women who talk badly on people they dont know and feed into the crazy tabloid rumors. Then this world would be a peaceful one. As I stood in line at the grocery store, a woman flipped through US Weekly. Her husband made a good point. He said, “Men dont look at that crap but women seem to. They love to put down others and feed into this bullshit. Thats the only reason tabloids keep going is because of caddy women who believe that garbage”

Really they are human beings, just like every single one of us. People make mistakes but you can’t judge unless you are in their shoes. Some of you should be ashamed of you for writing what you have written. Really?? Get a life and stop griping over what you didn’t have and what they do have. Really!! You must have a dark soul!

34. Carolyn J

May 27, 2009 @ 11:31 am

After watching the show on Monday night Kate said she was doing her job, I realized that Kate actually thinks that running around doing interviews, book signings writing books is her calling in life(as she states) her job. Giving birth to 8 children is her JOB!!!! not running all over hell and creation. Your JOB my dear is staying at home with your children and raising them. Teaching them right from wrong, good from bad. How to learn to use the potty that you hated so much. Teach them manners and their prayers at night. You think training them to act like robots is the way it should be. Teaching and training are 2 different things. Spending time with them, playing games, reading books to them. Every field trip where there were things that could get the kids clothes messed up, or for that matter you might get something on your clothes you made sure that you sat in the background and watched. No interaction on your part. That’s your job!!! Giving them their baths instead of Jon all the time, that’s your JOB!!!!! The BS about you feeding them organic foods- the stuff you take out of a cans or bags? Is that organic? We never saw you really do much in the kitchen, stand there with your hands crossed at the wrist. That’s not your job… Every meal they ate came off of paper plates. That is the height of lasiness to me. You have a dish washer but the kids eat off of paper plates!!! You can’t be that lazy but then again maybe you can. And your always so exhausted… from what? You never did anything!! Jon bathed and dressed the kids, someone folded your clothes, someone else did the ironing, and then someone else again but all the clothes away. THAT’S BEING A MOTHER!!!!you didn’t do any of those things. Your traveled, went to the spa, the hair dresser and nail shop. BTW, your hair looks foolish!!! On top of all that you picked at your husband constantly, no matter what he did it was never right, sitting on the sofa during interviews so many times you said to Jon don’t interrupt me. But yet everytime the man opened his mouth you interupted him. Every time! every time!!! I thought maybe just once you would let the man finish a statement but you never did, not one time did you. Then ridicule him. Oh Jon stop scratching, stop playing with you hair stop doing doing doing……..
And you were just doing your JOB.

35. BamaMom

May 27, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

Ok… I have my opinions…I also have 4 kids…
4 doesn’t compare to 8, but I know how stressful it CAN be..not that it IS all the time. There are times, when I go into my room, shut the door, go into my bathroom, shut the door, and turn on the exhaust fan…just to stop the crying and whinning for ONE minute.

But what got me about the show…Knowing that Kate is hardly there most of the time..(admitted to on the show), At the very begining, when she was eating her salad and talking about how poor miss Kate had to take the kids shopping all on her own…Poor Fraking Baby!

There are moms at there that do EVERYTHING by themselves. I know my husband works a 80+ hr work week, I take my 4 kids, 7,4,2,& 3 months everywhere with me…I don’t have family or friends or sitters, I can’t afford to have ‘help’ or someone to watch thekids while I run down to the store. Has she ever had to take all of her children with her to gas station and had to take all the kids in with her, just to spend 5 secs paying for gas..I highly doubt it…but oh poor Kate..is so worn out and stressed. She has to doeverything.
If she has to do everything that comes with being a mom..how the heck is she able to globe trott and take vacations?

Anyway… when she was sitting at the table..the kids came running up and were trying to tell her something..she shoed them away with out even hearing what they were saying and then she turns back to the camaera and gave that snarled looked..like, “God..can you believe that? How dare they be kids and need their mother’s attention.” It was a look of total discust. I almost changed the chanel.

Also, when they were showing about them getting ready for Oprah…She went shopping for the kids, she went shopping for her. She bought herself way more then enough clothes for 1 (One) 20 min interview! But, did anyone see Jon get any new clothes?

I am a divorced mother. When my ex and I were in the middle of our separation…it was very tense at gatherings. That’s just the way it is. We would also arrive in different cars…granted mine wasn’t an economy sized van and his wasn’t a 2 door sports car…(seriously…you have a sports car and have 8 kids?)

But we have to realize too, that TLC is making it more dramatic then it my really be…for RATINGS!!!!!!
The more they play into the rumors and tabliots…there more people are going to watch the show…the higher the RATINGS!!!!

Although I feel that Jon was wrong if in fact he has been cheating on Kate, and no matter how she treated him, no body deserves that. However, I feel that she is wrong because she has this ‘high and mighty’ complex.

I am OCD about things with my kids too though. I don’t like them to get dirty and all, but I don’t make them miss out on anything because of it and I don’t make my husband do everything. In fact, because my husband works from 4am-7,8pm and I stay at home with the kids…I feel guilty for asking him to do anything.lol

It’s whatever, really…
To each his own. My only thing is..don’t put yourself, your family, and your kids out there like that, and then get pissed when people disagree with your tactics and choices..

Kate contradicts herself too often.

36. Carolyn J

May 27, 2009 @ 1:42 pm

I just came to the conclussion that maybe this new episode was nothing more then a setup by TLC. Let the viewing public think that they are having martial problems, play it up big and watch as they revolve back into the so-called happy couple they once were. There so happy in season 4 how did they go to being so disfunctional between 4 and 5. There was no paparazzi now all of a sudden they are everywhere,
there were no tales of cheating, no tales of Kate cheating. Just Kate being a bit_ch to Jon. All of sudden interviews and talk shows to do, more to push her books. And where is Beth Carson in all of this? I thought she helped write one of the books… Doesn’t she get credit for her part in it? Or is Kate so greedy she has excluded Beth from apprearances? I for one do not believe all that is being pushed around on the networks. Like they say- something doesn’t smell very good.

37. jenna roberts

May 27, 2009 @ 11:19 pm

I cannot believe I missed your live blog session Prescott of the season opener! What a great idea!

I don’t watch much J and K plus 8 these days. Too much controversy going on and I want to see the show when it is a Mom and Dad taking care of their kids. Now it seems like a soap opera with the saga that is being interwined into the show. The saddest part seems to be that they had their most viewers ever this past Monday which certainly is surprising given the amount of venom that is being spewed and has been spewed for many many years. You would think with all the people complaining about J and K that they would simply turn off the t.v. and give them no mention.

Well, if you ever do another live blog, I will get all the cyber snacks ready.

Good to be back on the site. It looks fantastic! Great job Jessica and Prescott! Be back soon.

38. Stacey S_MOD

May 28, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

Hello Jenna!

I will take some of those M&M’s you used to pass out!!!

39. jenna roberts

May 29, 2009 @ 10:04 am

Hi Stacey S,

LOL, which kind, dark chocolate, peanut butter, milk chocolate? Take your pick. I must have stockpiled them back when all the drama was happening on here. :)The cyber snack closet is bursting.

40. Stacey S_MOD

May 29, 2009 @ 7:24 pm

Oh…hands down…dark chocolate AND peanut butter!!!! Where’s lillyann, Iowafan, Ambull, & momof3 when you need em….we could have one of our “parties” again!

41. luvs

May 30, 2009 @ 1:54 am

37. jenna roberts said:
May 27, 2009 @ 11:19 pm

The saddest part seems to be that they had their most viewers ever this past Monday which certainly is surprising given the amount of venom that is being spewed and has been spewed for many many years. You would think with all the people complaining about J and K that they would simply turn off the t.v. and give them no mention.

Are you referring to the venom that is “spewed” out of Kate’s mouth towards Jon? I agree! Many many years of doing that has finally caught up with her, he is so done with her…too bad the ones that will suffer the most will be the children. I don’t think turning off the tv is really a solution, I think canceling the show would be a btter solution…… but when there are milions and millions and dollars to be made, the show must go on!!! No matter who gets hurt in the process, sadly.

42. Lauren

May 30, 2009 @ 10:27 am

I don’t think it’s sad at all that Monday night’s premier was watched by so many millions. The way I see it, the more people who are aware of what America’s Favorite Family really is all about, the quicker their scam will come to an end.

43. mully

May 30, 2009 @ 10:32 am

I tend to agree with you Lauren. We all realize that the show should end and in order to do that, ratings need to go down because we also know that TLC has no conscience and is simply a business out to make as much money as possible.

All of that said tho, I agree that the REAL Kate Gosselin, in all of her glory, needs to be something every, single one of those viewers witnessed on Monday night as well as seeing Jon Gosselin, downtrodden and apparently beaten.

Kate, in my opinion, didnt come across as the poor, sad, “done to” wife on Monday night. Instead she came across as manipulating and shrewish and trying to make sure that everyone knows, as always, it’s ALL Jon’s fault.

If her intent was to gain support and sympathy, I think she missed the boat.

44. Valerie

May 30, 2009 @ 12:19 pm

I also agree with you Lauren. There are a lot of people out there who have either never watched Jon and Kate plus Eight or maybe only caught a couple of episodes. I don’t have a single friend or family member who watch the show religiously. Having said that, I think that those people tuned in on Monday night to see what all the hoopla is about. I didn’t watch it, but from what is being written about it, I think it is a good thing that more people are becoming aware of the situation and are becomming just as outraged as we have been for a very long time.

45. Lauren

May 30, 2009 @ 12:49 pm

You know, also the only venom that’s been spewing for many, many years was started by the people in the Gosselin’s own hometown. The very people who reached out to help time and time again, only to be asked for more and better “donations.” When they started their series in 2007, the general public became aware of what the Gosselin couple was up to. That’s two years. Not many, many. LOL

Sounds totally like something Kate would say.

“Cause you’d have to change a hundred kids!”

“I’ve already told you 17 times!”

46. Sandra

June 8, 2009 @ 4:13 pm

I think that Kate needs to remember the trailer she came from. Jon needs to rememeber that he’s really bolding. I hate them all. They need to have everything taken away from them and given to others in need.

47. mully

June 8, 2009 @ 5:20 pm

Sandra: While many of us here on this blog would agree that Jon and Kate are despicable and poor excuses for parents, hate is a pretty strong word, especially about someone you dont know personally.

48. Carrin

June 25, 2009 @ 5:47 pm

I believe Ms Eileen O’Neill, President of TLC, must have ice water running through her veins. She says it is hard to pull out of something “when the numbers are high.” She is very proud of herself for what she has done for TLC. She doesn’t care whose little fingers she steps on in her climb up the career ladder. She is truly despicable.

49. WENDY

June 28, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

I AM A WOMAN SCORN BY A CHEETING HUSBAND AND ITS ONLY AS PERSONAL AS YOU TAKE IT I THINK THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AND I WISH THEY WOULD SEEK COUNSLING MAYBE TALK TO DR PHIL INSTEAD OF DEVORCING AND GE TOUT OF THE SPOT LIGHT