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Kate Gosselin’s ‘Kate Plus 8′ Axed!

Kim LaCapria — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:08:02 +0000

Last week, newly single mom of eight Kate Gosselin did a round of press discussing the new season of her show Kate Plus 8 and her kids’ desire she meet and marry a new guy following her high-profile divorce from ex Jon Gosselin.

It looks like Kate will have a bit more time on her hands to find Mr. Right- TLC has decided not to renew the once-popular reality show that first chronicled the hectic daily life of the Gosselins and their massive brood, and then shifted focus to Kate’s life as a single mom to eight children. Prior to the departure of Jon from the series, Kate was often pilloried in gossip columns for her harsh treatment of her spouse and frequent pointed criticism- goodwill toward Jon rapidly frittered away when he ran off with Kate’s plastic surgeon’s twentysomething daughter. (That coupling, not surprisingly, did not end well.)

After Jon and Kate’s crumbling marriage was no longer a part of the series, it appears America quit tuning in to monitor the family’s doings. In a statement, TLC confirmed:

TLC has decided not to renew another season of Kate Plus 8. By the end of this season Kate Plus 8 will have hit the 150 episode mark (including Jon & Kate Plus 8); an exceptional milestone. TLC hopes to check in with Kate and the family periodically with specials in the future.

Over a series of comments on Twitter, Kate commented:

As is very typical for me, I am choosing to see the positive in this situation and I am excited to consider the… many more invigorating opportunities that may come my way! I poured my entire self in2 last 6 yrs of ‘Kate+8′ …I can’t wait2have the chance 2 challenge myself again w future endeavors!… And maybe even some dating??!!

Kate said the show will air through September 12th before it goes off the air for good. Kate has not discussed her plans to support the Gosselin clan after the show ends.

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TLC cuts John, now it’s just “Kate Plus 8″

Kim LaCapria — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:57:47 +0000

Dad of 8 and d-list playboy Jon Gosselin has been dumped from the title and main storyline of TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus 8.

Starting November 2nd, the show will officially change titles to Kate Plus 8. No specific reasons were given for the switch, and Jon will still appear in some episodes, but speculation points to Jon’s continual frat boy behavior. Even before the Gosselin’s impending divorce was announced, Jon was caught out by paparazzi partying with college girls, schtupping the daughter of Kate’ plastic surgeon and generally behaving caddishly. Since the split, he has been photographed publicly kissing girlfriend Hailey Glassman while Kate stays home with their eight children.

It seems America’s interest in the Gosselins has faded tremendously as well. While Jon and Kate‘s fifth season premiere grabbed a record 9.8 million viewers, only 4.2 million people tuned in for the new crop of episodes on August 3rd, and only 1.2 million people tuned in this past Monday.

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Has Jon Gosselin been fired?

Kim LaCapria — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:53:17 +0000

Rumors are flying this morning that TLC might be giving Jon Gosselin the heave-ho due to his douchey behavior.

Gosselin, who you may know as the reality-TV dad from Jon & Kate Plus Eight, seems to be persona non grata in many places. Designer Christian Audigier of Ed Hardy, with whom Jon was visiting when his first extramarital affair became public, sounded less keen than before when he spoke to People about his alleged business relationship with Gosselin.

“I met the guy for two days to see what he wanted to do as a job. In the beginning it was Jon and Kate, and then the guy came with another girl. He told me, ‘I’m going to come with my stylist. I need two tickets for the plane.’ So I said, ‘no problem.’ “

But sometime between then and now, TLC decided to blur all the logoed clothing Jon was wearing. Audigier now says he’s “different than he was.”

“He is not the same as he was,” says Audigier. “He has a more complicated life now. He has all of those kids and a girlfriend and ex-wife.”

And secondary mistress Kate Major unsurprisingly dished the whole story of their troubled tryst:

“Jon said he couldn’t be seen having a girlfriend, so he told me to drive to a neighbor’s house after midnight, when the kids were asleep,” Major told the mag. “He said he’d pick me up on his four-wheeler, take me to his house and drop me off again at 6 a.m.

“I was shocked and said, ‘No, I don’t feel right doing that. What if the kids wake up?’ He was like, ‘They’re not going to notice, they’re not going to see anything.’ He wasn’t nervous about it — I was.”

Slick. And who would think a man who just split up with his wife and was immediately photographed swanning around the south of France with his wife’s plastic surgeon’s daughter would behave like that? And he wasn’t even sincere in his affections:

On July 20, we went to a hotel in New Jersey,” Major said. “I paid for the room, and he snuck up a back way. That was the first time we slept together. He said he was falling in love with me. He said, ‘I thought Hailey was perfect until I met you.’”

Major added, “Even when we were in the Hamptons, we were planning to go to L.A. together to meet with Christian Audigier about Ed Hardy stuff. We also talked about going to Las Vegas. Now he’s taking Hailey — and that was a trip we had planned together.”

Major said the Gosselin left promising to break up with Hailey Glassman, but instead turned off his phone, and last contacted her with a text simply stating “do not contact me again.”

No official word has come from TLC regarding Jon’s fate as a reality TV trainwreck, but it’s hard to see how they can keep him on after all the bad press he’s gotten lately.

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