Jon & Kate Announce Their Separation
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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6:15AM, Tuesday June 23rd 2009
Sad, but anticlimactic. On last night’s episode of “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” after it was leaked online that divorce papers had been filed, Jon and Kate Gosselin confirmed their separation. As annoying as these two people are—seriously, we are sick of them being on the cover of our beloved Us Weekly—it’s sad to see the breakup of a family, especially one with so many young kids. We can’t help but wonder if Jon and Kate had never gotten a TV show and thus so much fame, would they be going through this right now? Guess we’ll never know. The future of the show is still up in the air, but I’m willing to bet it will be determined by the show’s rating this season—and whether the Gosselins are greedy as individuals, rather than a couple.
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crustee
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 06:37 am: [report]
I smell a spin-off! “Quantity Jon & Kate Plus 8 Divided By 2.”
jimnist10
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 06:51 am: [report]
I feel like they didn’t even try to work it out. I guess cancelling the show for the sake of their family and marriage was too much to ask for.
writergirl
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 06:58 am: [report]
Yeah….there’s an add for not having your priorities straight. The show over familial unity.
kw1223
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 07:39 am: [report]
I don’t think either one of them is blameless but I do think that Kate’s ego had a lot to do with the failure of this marriage. She’s a media whore and uses the excuse that she’s “working” to chase the limelight. Jon wanted less media attention and she pretty much overrode him on that. Those poor kids have a bumpy road ahead of them, trying to grow and understand how to cultivate relationships AND understand where their place is in this whole mess. I hope Jon manages to spend enough time with them so that they aren’t missing their father. Hopefully his newly found freedom won’t get in the way of his desire to raise his kids.
marirene
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 07:43 am: [report]
I know we don’t see everything but I wonder what they really did to work it out? And I wonder how long this was going on… I also wonder what hope any of us have when it is so easy and acceptable to throw in the towel (or get off the roller coaster) when things get too rough or our ego is hurt. I was not a big fan but I enjoyed watching it from time to time and I always wished Jon would push back when she was a “bully” but I don’t think she was doing it to be mean but to get a fight out of him… imagine the passion they would have shown then! I was and still am hoping they will work it out. They are a good couple and it would be nice for once to see some honesty on reality TV.
Infamous
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 07:51 am: [report]
Jon made a comment something about letting her “rule the roost” too often and I think that hit the nail on the head right there. She’s a pretty intense woman, and Jon just plods around and kind of mumbles. I think that played a big role in what happened. Then he finally decided he wanted to be a man, but with some skeezy broad rather than his wife. This has been such a long time coming. It’s so sad, but at least now the kids won’t have to live with the tension and bickering.
Squidtermz
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 07:55 am: [report]
I could see this coming from episode 1. Granted that’s all that I watched. But you could see the guys distant look in his eyes. I also saw some clip where they let him drive a race car or sky dive or some other adrenaline pumped activity and he came back all wild eyed saying ‘that was the best time of my life!’ eerrr… really dude? Why are people surprised. He’s obviously got a huge ego, especially after hearing about his past. Hot shot in High School etc. Usually means you’ll jump in head first into something in real life; and drown.
PinkRanger
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 10:57 am: [report]
I recently met a former crew member from the show, and he told me that Jon and Kate were probably the two worst people he’d ever met. Said they were both outrageously mean to the crew. Honestly I could care less…......but I hope the kids are happy regardless.
GreenAura
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]
I have only seen one episode and that was last nights where they announced their separation. My thoughts are this: How the heck can any of us judge them? We have NO IDEA what goes on behind closed doors. The producers will chop and slice every bit of footage to make it fit into a storyline of their choosing, so even if you hear a quote from Jon or Kate, it could be taken (even slightly) out of context. Maybe they secretly went to counseling. Maybe they sat down with each other and cried and held each other and finally decided they just couldn’t make it work. Who knows? None of us will ever know because we weren’t personally there. All I know is that is APPEARS that the children are happy and that is the most important thing. Sometimes parents just can’t live together. They gave it ten years, which is a fair shot in my book. Besides, isn’t is better for the kids to be around happy parents separately than together miserably?
marirene
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 12:55 pm: [report]
Have bickering, even fighting parents is not a bad thing because it teaches that people do not get along all the time and that making a commitment means that when someone messes up you fix it. period. Marriage is not the “happy ending” like the fairy tales but the beginning of a shared life. Marriage is not easy, it is not always perfect but we are living in an age of instant gratification and this is one more example that we are teaching our children that we can just leave when things are not working the way they wanted… Maybe this was happening for years but they gave me at least the impression that this is the only incident.
It is a TV show and we can judge them because they put themselves on TV. Yes it is there life but when they made the choice to open their homes to the public… they made the choice to cash those paychecks, what ever the motivation and well this is what happens. The sad thing is that the children have an askew view of what happen to their parents. It is also easy to leave when you have the money to do so… if they were both jobless with eight kids I am sure they would find away to make up…
I am still hoping that they get it together and try to stay together…
joyy
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 01:04 pm: [report]
@marirene - I couldn’t care less about these morons, but a miserable marriage does not make a happy home life for the children. I was raised by both bio parents who are STILL married, but being around the abuse, the constant put-downs, and the unhappiness had a very negative, very lasting effect on my brother and I. If they are happier apart, that’s probably better for the kids than staying together in misery.
ExGirlfriend
wrote on June 23 2009 @ 01:23 pm: [report]
you know, if people would stop giving these attention whores what they want (coughATTENTION) they will just go away. And in the end, I think that’s what is best for everyone. Why do people even still give a crap?