
'Jon and Kate' Say Goodbye in TLC Finale
By PopEater Staff Posted Nov 24th 2009 07:30AM
Although 'Jon and Kate Plus 8' aired its final episode on Monday, Kate Gosselin admits it could have been avoided. "I feel like it's been taken from us, from me and the kids," she said about the TV series that ended this week after five seasons due to the disagreements between she and estranged husband Jon Gosselin. The hour mixed direct-to-camera, separate interviews with both parents. Kate called the series' end "needless. It's useless, it's totally avoidable. ... This is a very bittersweet goodbye for me because the kids are already missing it."
In a separate response, Jon told the camera, "Our marriage fell apart and I felt like I was free. And I kinda took advantage of it for a while and didn't really think about my actions, obviously, until I started getting paparazzi and written about. But that's maturing. That's growing up."
The show came to a somewhat abrupt close in the wake of squabbling and scandals that not only tainted the show's previously wholesome atmosphere, but also halted any filming of the children several weeks ago.
During the series' final hour, the young twins and sextuplets toured a fire station with their dad near the family home in Wernersville, Pa. Then, with Kate, they visited a local dairy farm, for what she emotionally noted was the series' last shoot.
Those were the sort of heartwarming activities that had won 'Jon & Kate' a devoted following when it premiered two years ago. But the show fell apart after the Gosselins announced their split in June and became battling tabloid fixtures.
A plan announced by TLC early this fall called for 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' to segue into 'Kate Plus Eight,' a series that would have concentrated on the kids and their newly single mom, with Jon Gosselin taking a much-reduced role. But that plan was apparently torpedoed by his objections to having the children displayed on TV any longer. They have not been filmed since.
According to Jon's his attorney Mark Heller, "Jon impressively put the best interests of his children above all and was extremely appropriate in his approach to the mediation. As a result of that, it came to a successful resolution."
On Saturday, the couple met for more than six hours at a law office in the Philadelphia suburbs to discuss unresolved marital issues, including custody of their eight children and the distribution of marital property. Heller said an arbitrator will rule by Christmas and that the divorce could be finalized by the close of 2009.
Heller declined to comment on the terms of the divorce. As for the roses Jon allegedly offered Kate? Heller said his client brought them "as a peace offering to try to melt down the freeze that he perceives to be coming from the other side."
There was no comment Monday from the attorney for Kate Gosselin.
And as for her television future in lieu of 'Kate Plus Eight,' TLC has said it is now focusing on the launch of a series in which she would star, scheduled to premiere next spring. The network has offered no details on what kind of show it might be.
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Tuesday 24 November
By Kelli
BEST NEWS I'VE READ SO FAR! YIPPEE!!!!!!!
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Tuesday 24 November
By Master Robert
Would these 2 stupid retards just up and die
Tuesday 24 November
By Wish Belkin
Can it be true?!?!?!!?
Be still my heart!
Someone beat it with a stick, just to be sure.
Tuesday 24 November
By Master Robert
If TLC gives this stupid Biatch another show I will never watch TLC again
Tuesday 24 November
By Jim
BOTH of these parents are fame whores and have done all they could to turn these children into the same. I feel for the kids and NOT the parents. These kids are really going to grow up really screwed up in the heads...
Tuesday 24 November
By JANET
I AM SOOOOO GLAD IT'S OVER. IT STARTED OUT AS A NICE SHOW WITH AN UNUSUALLY LARGE FAMILY. I AM SICK OF THE PARENT DRAMA. THOSE CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER. CYS SHOULD STEP AND MONITOR THEM. THE PARENTS NEED PARENTING CLASSES.
Tuesday 24 November
By Sue
Enough already....
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Tuesday 24 November
By 4thechildren
Way to Kate and children! We love you!
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Tuesday 01 December
By sunnie
I'm with u, go Kate! She has taken the high road thru all of this. Jons only concern is Jon.
Tuesday 24 November
By amp41569
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Tuesday 24 November
By sandra cannon
If you are refering to Jon, I agree whole-heartedly. Go Kate + 8!!!!!
Tuesday 24 November
By Yehudidad
I enjoyed the early episodes, but as time passed I found Kate to be pretty shalow, and she always refered to the children as"my kids". She also treated Jon as a child. She has an agenda, and the agenda is 'KATE'. I feel for Jon & the children.
As with any seperation, there are always two sides to the story, and neither appeared to make any attempt to save the marriage, but good old KATE is sweeping up sympathetic support as the victim, what a joke !
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Tuesday 24 November
By Jim
I totally agree with your take on this. My gf and I have had a few disagreements over the whole thing, and I think she is more concerned over the money and the fame than her own children. "It's needless" - give me a break! On the other hand, he shouldn't have run around on her while he was still married, even though she treated him like dirt. He should have tried to work it out, or stand up for himself, and if all else failed THEN get a divorce, prior to stepping out with the ladies.
Tuesday 24 November
By Kathy
This show was soooo slanted in favor of "I can't be out of the spotlight" Kate that TLC should be boycotted. I was one of the ones who watched the show from the beginning, and I used to say that those babies were lucky to have the cameras around to keep Kate's wrath in line. Those poor children with a mother like her!
Tuesday 24 November
By Beverly
I was once married to a man who never took responsibility which forced me to wear the pants in the family. I really resented having to play the role as head of the family but when a man won't...you either take charge or sink. I have often wondered it Jon could have supported his family without the show. It will be interesting to see how his children will be provided for after the divorce. He just may not have enough money for play time anymore.
Tuesday 24 November
By Keith
As an actor I have heard many a stage mother say the same thing. "The kids want to do this". And my response is kids want to drive cars and drink, and eat whatever they like. Do you just give in to this because they are making money and fame? She is a typical stage mother who can't even fathom the long road ahead of some of her kids. It's pitiful.
Tuesday 24 November
By Shirley
I totally agree that Kate was a very shallow, demanding person. I have never thought that the exposure on the series was good for those children and now to hear her whining that "the kids miss it already," tells me that she doesn't care about their welfare, only her own.
Tuesday 24 November
By Roan
I'm surprised that anyone can jump to a conclusion that either Kate or Jon are money-grubbing whores.
The truth remains that this show has not only been a part of their lives for the two years (or however long) it's been airing, but, quite frankly, it's been their livelihoods. Kate and Jon are not just threatened with their marriage ending, with their fame dissipating - they are faced with a problem on a much larger scale. They have to eat. They have to eat, and feed that brood.
And, I'm sure that the kids do miss it. Those people are people that they've grown accustomed to, have developed some sort of relationship with, and, if you all will recall, it's pretty much the only life they've ever known - at least as long as they can remember. Change is frightening for the children, as well. It doesn't matter if the change is for the better or worse. Change is terrifying - period!
And, as for Kate as a mother. It's hilarity that any of you should judge. If your life were under a microscope, social services would take your children from you. All of us, when looked at through a magnifying glass, are horrible parents. We should never be allowed to spawn! But, we do. And, we all manage to survive our dysfunctional families somehow.
As for Kate and Jon as people - they're not trashy. They're normal. They're you. They're your neighbors. They are all of us on our very worst day, in our very worst month, struggling through our very worst year.
While all of you are sitting your fat butts on your couches judging their lives, I'm wondering what's wrong in your life that you ought to be fixing.
Heal thyself!
Tuesday 24 November
By Nichele
Uh, the only reason Kate CAN play the hurt wife is because Jon turned her into one. He's the douche that paraded his child girlfriend around for everyone - including his own children - to see.
Also, not that I'm condoning all of Kate's behavior (because she did treat him badly at times), but if SHE'S shallow, then what do you call the guy who's more interested in the press than his own children? At least Kate was a parent to her kids! Jon is clearly only interested in what works best for HIM at any given moment and he talks out of both sides of his mouth.
Tuesday 24 November
By Frank
I hope they send kate back to the trailer park.