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Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
So John is leaving for the good of his children?? It sounds like they haven't tried counciling or anything for that matter. I really think Jon has had everyone tell him that he looks like a wimp the way Kate yells at him and treats him, and this has been the driving factor in this whole thing. If they had never been on TV, Jon would have been fine with the treatment as I feel his personality needs direction, and Kate is more than happy to accommodate this need. He wants his freedom, he wants to play, he feels emasculated. I think the show is the cause of this divorce, and feel, if Jon hadn't had all his friends, ( and young lovlies) telling him he looked like a weakling, they would still be together. Kate is not a sympathetic character, she's controlling to an extreme, but he knew this when he married her. How terribly sad, for everyone.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
So what is the timeline here? I'm not getting it. They announce tonight that they are separating, but then the show announces that they filed for divorce today too. So how long was this separation?

Sabbatia
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08-15-2005

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sabbatia a private message Print Post    
filed for divorce....so much for just a separation. I hope and pray it goes as smoothly as possible for them.

Irismi
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02-22-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Irismi a private message Print Post    
"Geez" lets keep the cash cow 9I meant to say TV show going) so our kids have those memories preserved forever. Oh yeah, the show that documents our divorce.???huh???

Lori32
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07-04-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lori32 a private message Print Post    
When Jon used the words "I'm Excited.." Seriously???? Now Jon? Now you choose to be excited? I'm sorry,but I do not see one bit of sadness in Jon.I see a 18 year old boy getting to go off in the Big City with a bankroll of cash and to "sow his wild oats"
"I'm only 32..."
WAHHHH FREAKIN BOO FREAKIN HOO...Ok,I'll stop here

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
this whole thing is making me uncomfortable. <77> i feel very voyeuristic. i just feel dirty watching them and talking about them. i am not commenting anymore.

Irismi
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02-22-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Irismi a private message Print Post    
Theres a good reason I no longer watch the show...be/c it has become an hour long infomercial for whatever free things they can get...there's nothing 'real' about it anymore

Queenie
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07-09-2007

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Queenie a private message Print Post    
I think the same thing jgalt. I believe it was others bringing to his attention on how he was being bullied by K. Maybe it made him feel less of a man that everyone else could see it?

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
they are going to a fine dining

K I stated rather boldly I will NEVER not see my kids on a holiday I will provide peace in order to be by my kids, I will shelve my feelings birhtdays holidays so I can always be with them

J it was pouring rian we tag teamed to get the kdis to car to Kate

K it was nice I remember thinking it was team work like the old days, we did it 8 times but i lost track.

J do we have all our stuff

J we both want to be with them but its fresh and new on our desciion we still make joint descions and make descions for our kdis together

K Cara will read the menu just listen

an assortment of organic fruit, organic juice organic....

and Kate wirtes their choices

Lori32
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07-04-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lori32 a private message Print Post    
Jgalt,I kept thinking the same thing,I wonder how many marriages DO dissolve due to criticism from others.I know I for one,made a vow just a few minutes ago to make damn sure of what I choose to say to friends/family.And most likely,I will concentrate on my own family.It is great and I would not want the weight on my shoulders of deterring someone else from a great home life as well..

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
no matter what your marital status you have to communicate

K we hopefully better communicate and just some peace

J we've come along way next year school things change, I'm not there yet take it day by day and do the best you can, not every day is the best

K while no one is perfect I've done my best to keep our family togehter to look at who they we'll become, to help form them to be the best they can be

J when we are togheter we dont think about us we think about hte kids, if we keep that going maybe we can be friends. and have a true understanding of why and show them momy and daddy love them and it will be ok

K its renewing the commitment to the kdis turn the page and renewing our committnment

(PS they still are wearing new clothes that match - why does that annoy me? maybe because I dont want to be sad about the kdis and divorce?)

Irismi
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02-22-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Irismi a private message Print Post    
They could have lived happily off of a once a year documentary of their lives plus magazine covers, endorsements, etc... what a shame. This show ruined their children's lives and they are too naive (and greedy)to see it.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I have to say, I think is the very first reality show I ever watched where the teasers didn't turn out to be fake-outs.

Queenie
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07-09-2007

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Queenie a private message Print Post    
i hope that the kids dont think it is normal for couples to talk to each other the way K has been with J in the past. I can't imagine trying to keep your sanity with 8 youngsters but you still have to be respectful to someone!

Holly
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07-22-2001

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Im just now watching the show and all I have to say is that, to me, Kate NEVER sounds sincere, whether she's (acting) sad or "having fun". It always seems so staged, whether she's sitting on the couch, dabbing at her eyes while she's telling an audience of millions how today she sobbed louder than she ever did in her whole life for over an hour, thinking about facing what's coming. Or, whether she's laughing in that awfully false way she has at something hardly worth a smile, never mind a Tom Cruise type, head thrown back, good old knee slapping type holler. She really strikes me as being such a poser that she's totally lost touch with what's real any more.

And even tonight she had to get yet another dig in at Jon about how he never got the site ready for the "crooked houses"!! What??? The guy spent days cleaning out brush. The problem was that SHE couldn't be bothered taking a walk back to see where he was planning on putting the damned things until the 18-wheeler showed up in their driveway. I think that woman has a very serious personality disorder. If she truly cared for these kids, she'd put a halt to that fish bowl of a show they're living in and live off the many millions she's already made, plus the royalties that will be coming in now they're syndicated. Sorry, but I can find NOTHING redeeming about her. JMO :-)

Ps...FWIW, I think her hair is simply ridiculous too. Apparently she thought that women would be asking for the "Kate" at hair salons all over the country. How wrong can she be? She must think she's on par with Jennifer or Farrah.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
So did they tell the kids? I was watching I'm a Celeb (plus I don't have TV right now).

I find it so sad that couples just quit in this disposable generation. Wish they would at least try counseling. Then again they would probably be counseled to give up the show and TLC and Jon and Kate couldn't have that could they?

I'll be curious to see if Jon really does try to stay away from the limelight or not now. This is all so sad for the kids.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
It didn't show if they told the kids, Lurk. All they said is the show will go on with separate diary rooms.

Jgalt
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02-17-2009

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jgalt a private message Print Post    
Yes Queenie and Lori, I wonder how I'd feel about my marriage if people where to see it 24/7 and tell me how controlling my husband is and how the heck can I put up with it? I think I would reevaluate my marriage through "their" eyes, and find it wanting. Not that I am necessarily fed up or dissatisfied, but they have told me I should be unhappy and dissatisfied.

And Reader re: the dogs, yes I'm with you 100%, big dog lover, and can't imagine a life without them.

Lori32
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07-04-2008

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lori32 a private message Print Post    
You can't fake the way Kate looked tonight.
I would say that I wish I had a heart of stone and could just keep beating down someone who is obviously shaken by what is happening,but I prefer to have the heart I have..It beats..

Queenie
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07-09-2007

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Queenie a private message Print Post    
I bet the media will be all over jon in NY. Watching his every move...Shame really....fast forward to K on the couch by herself dabbing her tears and saying how she is doing all the work now by herself. I am done watching this. All I hope is that TLC gave them counslers to talk to even the kids.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
On the still frame at the 50 minute point in tonight's show it said:

"On Monday, June 22, 2009, Legal Proceedings were initiated in Pennsylvania to dissolve the ten-year marriage of Jon and Kate Gosselin."

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
If everyone would quit watching the show TLC would drop it.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
I doubt many people will be tuning in to watch this train wreck any more.

As for Kate being shaken...seriously doubt it. According to what's been said for months, she's the one who told Jon to have girlfriends. In fact, a contract was made stating he could AS LONG as the show continued. I think he's the one who was very hurt. She's money hungry and her ego got away from her, leading her to think she's some kind of star! She brought it all down on her own head, IMO.

Sabbatia
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08-15-2005

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sabbatia a private message Print Post    
Lori....you and I are always on the same page here. I sooo understand the comments about just wanting peace. What I saw was a very shaken, very sincere Kate too...and a Jon that will only look at the camera when he's talking about he kids. Otherwise, they are shifting constantly.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
Thanks Naja.

I'm not so sure folks will tune out right away. Some will watch to see if they are both their, some how the kids are doing, some just curious etc etc. I do think if Kate keeps up the pity pot that will grow old FAST. As for how she was tonight, I can't comment since I haven't seen it yet. I'm hoping it hits YouTube soon.

I still question what they did to try to work out their problems before just throwing in the towel. Doesn't seem like a lot. :-(