I have never watched the Plus 8 show because it’s just not interesting to me; however, tonight Jon and his new lawyer appeared on Larry King Live and it was interesting. Jon is an opportunist who has literally screwed his way through the last year of his life and when K8, fed up with his public immorality and hugely embarrassing conduct, dropped him from the show, SHAZAM! Jon is now apologizing for his past mistakes and, following the script, saying he’s made mistakes but now it’s time for him to man up and assert himself. He wants his kids off the show so he and K8 have time to talk things through and do what’s best for the children.
Really? That isn’t the message of the past year, Jon. Your actions have spoken much louder than your apology, and, by the way, crying that you didn't know what you were signing when you signed the contract for the show just doesn't cut it. You've been living much better than you ever dreamed, and none of the pretty young thangs you've been doing for the past year would have given you a second look without the money you've earned from the TV exposure.
The new buzz word is transparency, and Jon’s as transparent as glass. It’s NOT about the children: it’s about K8 pulling the plug on financing Jon’s disgusting lifestyle. Every question had the same scripted answers, and it got tedious. Poor, poor Jon has made mistakes in the past, but he's had an epiphany and realizes he's made mistakes and now he knows what he has to do. With the threat of losing his piece of the financial pie, Jon hired a lawyer who kept telling the viewers that we’re in the court of public opinion, and with the people standing behind Jon, we’ll win. Of course, what we’re going to win is never specified, so there is no way to know if the win is Jon back on the show so he continues to earn money he can spend on going out and getting drunk, or Jon gets his own show, or TLC has to start paying Jon more or he takes them to court.
Jon may say he wants the filming to stop, but if it stops, so does the lifestyle, and I'm thinking that's not what Jon really means to have happen. If that was what he really wanted, he'd be talking to K8 in person, not on Larry King Live! Again, the actions aren't in sync with the message, Jon, and I'm not buying the product you think you're selling.
K8’s lawyer was on via telephone and he kept shaking his head, an obvious reaction to the horse pucky being shoveled by Jon and his new lawyer. Jon wants to slow down the divorce? No, he’s already moved on. Haley, the newest girlfriend, is a rock and she’s standing behind him no matter what he does. Uh, maybe, but I wouldn't bet my future on it, Jon. Jon (or his lawyer) wants to slow down the cut-off date for the money machine by slowing down the divorce that he pushed for 6 months ago! Again, his motives are so transparent that he came across as in it to win it and willing to throw his not-quite-ex-wife and children under the bus in the process.
All in all, I better understand what I've heard from others: the show was REALLY Kate Plus 9 as being married to Jon was more like having another child to raise than sharing parenting with a spouse. You said it's time for you to grow up and be a man? K8 has already moved on, Jon, so do your growing up on your own dime.
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I've watched the show on occasion-- it was really 8+Jon and Kate. Both parents are irresponsible, gold digging, and uncaring people. I'm surprised the show made it this long/far.
Kate is blind to the damage she is doing to her children, cannot see that she has taken advantage of her spouse for years, nor that most of her decisions have led to this current impasse.
Jon can't understand that he needed to "man up" about two-three years ago, that his acting like a petulant child after his wife started treating him like a servant only furthered cemented that opinion in her mind, and he lost all contact with his genitalia when he stopped working to allow Kate to have the writing and speaking career (which furthered neutered him in both their eyes because she could even further stop paying attention to the children who she claims are her "life" yet ignores at every opportunity and allowed him to feel emasculated as just another servant in Kate's stretch for fame).
This was a bad idea from day one. The fact that it was a bad idea that America wanted to watch only makes it worse.
PS - verification word sounds like something Jon will catch from GF #4-- "goninbra".
I have watched the show in recent months to see what all the hullabaloo is about. In that time, I have seen various stages of Kate+9 re-runs on TLC. I do not think Kate was negligent. As for Jon, he would not have been bossed around if he had grown himself a set and done things with the kids on his own, maybe been a tinsy bit self motavated. I now can not stand that passive, brain dead, expression on his face. Oh yea, I forgot, he looks that way because Kate abused (said in a whiney voice) poor Jon. If Kate happened to be a man and did the very same things people would be saying, "go girl!"
Well...maybe not the girl part. Just "Go!"
Anyhow, get a life Jon.
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