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Remember when Jon and Kate Plus Eight was a huge pop-culture phenomenon / tabloid controversy / parenting cautionary tale? If you can’t, that may go some way toward explaining why TLC has told People magazine that it is not renewing the de-Jonified version of the reality show starring Kate Gosselin and some kids who happen to live with …
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TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus Eight aired its finale last night and—if we wish really hard and promise to be extra, extra good—just might never return to the air in any iteration. TLC had announced plans for a new Jon-free version to be titled Kate Plus Eight. But with Dad now forbidding further videotaping of his kids, it looks like that …
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Shortly after TLC announced that it was writing him out of the title of what is now Kate Plus 8, Jon Gosselin is striking back against the network. First he announced that he want to put the brakes on his divorce from wife Kate; though it may not be conducive to a reconciliation that, according to Radar Online, he never told her about …
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In the end, only one Gosselin could end up with custody of the post-breakup Jon & Kate Plus 8, and it turns out that Mom won. TLC announced today that Kate Plus 8 will debut on Nov. 2, with newly-liberated play-ah Jon in a continuing but “less regular role.” Translation: having Jon show up with another “new mommy” every week would be too …
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If you’ve never done it before, trust me: a home renovation can stress out even a strong marriage. And Jon and Kate Gosselin’s marriage—well, you already know. So when the first post-separation-announcement Jon & Kate Plus 8 began by flashing back to January, when the couple decided to get their kitchen redone, you had to know it would …
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I was off-campus for a good chunk of press tour yesterday, so I missed the presentations from Discovery Networks. The biggest news to come out of them was the network’s announcement of plans for resuming Jon & Kate Plus Eight, starring the now-divorcing Gosselins and their eight children.
