Unwilling to let Octomom monopolize the press about large and unmanageable families with emotional problems, Jon and Kate Gosselin of TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus 8 nabbed the cover of Us this week for Jon’s shady behavior with a younger woman:
The new issue of Us Weekly has shocking, exclusive pictures of the Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad leaving a club at 2 a.m. — with a mystery woman and without his wedding band.
Jon Gosselin arrived at the club at 11:20 p.m. and by 2 a.m. “could barely walk” as he exited the less-public back entrance of Legends Lounge — near the family’s $1.3-million home in Wernersville, Pennsylvania — on April 18, a fellow partier tells Us Weekly.
The dad of 8 — kids are twins Madelyn and Cara, 8, and 5-year-old sextuplets, Aaden, Joel, Collin, Hannah, Leah and Alexis — was overheard yelling, “Hey, babe! Babe! Give me my jacket!” before climbing into his Nissan Nismo. (She complied.) As cameras began snapping, he panicked, urging his female friend to “get in the car!” before speeding off hastily — without even turning on the headlights.
Where was his wife Kate — known for her insults and who famously once berated him for breathing on the show?
Nearly 2,000 miles away, promoting her book Eight Little Faces in Bellevue, Washington.
They and TLC deny that a divorce between the uber-Christian spouses is imminent, but this is the same guy who told Ladies’ Home Journal that he “always thought I’d be, like, 54 years old and marry a 19-year-old or something.”
Who does he think he is, Mel Gibson?
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so ratings must be low. they should now introduce a bout of the swine flu to the family. If the cheating thing doesn’t work, the flu might help.
This is my favorite part of Kate’s interview you linked to:
“…there’s a lot of ugliness out there about us. Honestly, I think a lot of it’s because people squirm at how real we are. I think it bothers some people because it makes them think, If cameras were at my house, what would they capture?”
yes, Kate, we are just insecure because none of us could compare to you when it comes to being genuine and oh so pious and if the cameras were at our homes, we’d be all exposed for what we are. A holier-that-thou attitude always wins me over.
(Long time lurker, first time poster)
Can’t say I’m suprised. My wife keeps up with this show through friends and when she told me that he quit his job some time ago, I told her it would just be a matter of time before something like this happens. With a woman like that at home, the man needed the time away to put his mind on other things. I love my wife and kids, but if I didn’t have a job to go to, I would lose my mind. And my wife isn’t a screaming banshee that sees me as nothing more than a poorly trained monkey. At least she doesn’t treat me that way to my face.
Besides, half the appeal of that show (if it ever had any; I never saw what it could be) was Kate home alone, in a tiny house, with a boatload of kids. Now they both stay home and have moved into a large house with lots of land.
Add to that, the six will start school in the fall. I give the show another 1-2 years. Plenty of material from the kindergarten class, then the following will drop once they enter 1st grade. That’s my hope anyway. You’ll notice that virtually no attention gets paid to the two older kids. Hope those two get good jobs when they grow up. They’ll need the money to pay for therapy.
The one time I watched this show I thought “my god that woman is a shrew”. All she did was b*tch at him the entire time.
Nati: Yeah, exactly. She fails to recognize that people generally don’t have a lot of respect for the famewhores who invite those cameras into their homes in the first place in a quest for money and celebrity.
She’s lucky he’s just cheating. If it was me, there’d be a team of archeologists sifting the dirt in the backyard for bone fragments.
I had the “pleasure” of catching some of this show when we were in a motel room across the country. I was appalled. That Kate woman is a major hag. The little I caught of it (before I said, “Oh hell no!” and changed the channel) consisted of Kate and her friend laying on lounge chairs in Kate’s backyard (?) while Jon chased down their hellspawn. When Jon came up with a questioning look on his face, Kate just gave him the stink eye and got an attitude with him. Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed.
If he’s cheating, I’m not surprised at all, especially if his wife is an attention whore. He didn’t look happy at all about being on television. Then again, he should take his balls back from Kate and put his foot down.
Nati: Then we’re twins. I love people preaching at me from their high horses.
*holier-thaN-thou* still haven’t learned to type. I never had the time to watch the full episodes of the show, but I did catch a few glimpses of it here and there and the husband always looked so beaten down and afraid…I mean, all couples argue and have their disagreements, but that woman is a witch.
Every time I’ve ever seen even a couple of minutes of that show, I catch myself looking for something to throw at Kate’s head before I realize that it is, in fact, a TV show. For me, at least. For Jon, it’s a 24/7 nightmare of bitchery and emasculation. Nobody needs to be cheating on his or her spouse, but there’s usually enough blame to go around.
#1. If that guy was cheating on his wife, who would blame him?
#2. I’ve watched this show thrice. All their little nannies are young college chicks. Pretty cute.
#3. John says “babe” quite frequently.
#4. Again, if that guy was cheating on his wife, who would blame him?
Beige, you always make me laugh. You racist!
It is at times like this that I’m glad I don’t watch television. This way I have none of the (apparently) traumatic memories of this show that all of you have, even in glimpses.
I also find it incredibly interesting that no one (save D) has come forward and admitted that they’ve actually watched a full episode.
Oop, missed Fortunate Son. That makes two.
Oops. Sorry, Fortunate Son has, too. That makes all of two people. How is this show still on the air again?
I’ve seen a couple episodes of this – Kate was keeping the bitchiness at a minimum in the ones I saw, but I totally believe it can get worse. She seemed like it was simmering under the surface or something.
They’ve probably been so centered on the kids that they’ve been able to avoid dealing with their marital issues.
I won’t watch it…..I don’t care for voyeurism on people who crave attention. I’d rather be buried up to my chin in a fireant hill than watch stuff like this.
What is it exactly that these people expect…you invite cameras in your house, they see you do everything but wipe your butt because that is a censored no-no…..then they cry boo-hoo when someone gets busted doing something naughty.
Am we supposed to think that their life is better than ours simply because they are stupid enough to allow a camera crew in their house to show us all their fugly warts????
Nati quoted Kate’s interview:
“…there’s a lot of ugliness out there about us. Honestly, I think a lot of it’s because people squirm at how real we are. I think it bothers some people because it makes them think, If cameras were at my house, what would they capture?”
Um, they wouldn’t be capturing me holding my husband’s nards in a jar, that’s for sure.
Oh man, y’all quack me up!! X-D I agree, she is just too much to take. The Soup’s bit on them last week was priceless.
Anyway, the heck with those two, where can I get some of Lindsay’s skinny-pills?!
lol, you guys, I just watched the extracts of some of the episodes on youtube. Someone made quite a few compilations of different episodes from different seasons and called it “Jon & Kate Gosselin “ugly moments”. lol Poor Jon, he just looks so intimidated in all of the videos. But I think the show is boring. I enjoyed reading people’s comments a whole lot more than watching the vids. Everyone is so nice and friendly…and really likes Kate.
Anni, I’ve been walking around my whole life feeling like something’s missing…must be a long lost twin sister
Jannah, don’t you want that Heidi and Spencer wedding album as well?
For the most part, I hate “reality” shows, so I have never watched this, and all I know about it is in random bits off the internet, and the comments I’ve just read. For the most part, I am of the opinion that there there is no excuse to go behind your partner’s back and feel that it is especially cowardly to do so. I feel that way about Jon, but from what I have read here, I can’t help but feel a bit of sympathy for the guy.
It’s bad enough to live with someone that treats you as something less than an equal, but to do it in front of cameras is hard to even comprehend, especially when those cameras are recording your life as a husband and parent. Sure, he doesn’t have to be a part of a reality show, and that he and his wife are, simply because they have a litter of children to exploit, automatically makes me lose some respect for them as well, he’s in pretty deep now, and that probably has the effect of making this guy feel like he has his balls caught in a bear trap. And in those circumstances, with a woman as bitchy as what I have seen described in these comments, I can’t help it. I feel a bit sorry for him.
It doesn’t take away that he is a douche.
i don’t watch these 2 and don’t care to but what a stupid thing he said! and this may be kinda sad but i’m glad they got the cover because that means stupid heidi and spencer didn’t. which is shocking since they’re on US’ payroll.
We’ve watched it a few times, and now my husband gets angry if he just sees Kate’s face in a commercial for the show. He’s said right from the beginning that Jon’s either cheating on her or will be soon. I tried to argue that maybe Kate’s, um… aggressiveness… suits him, but…
Look, this is no doubt going to stir up a hornet’s nest, but part of what makes this a hypocritical situation, for me, is that Christian wives are supposed to respect (NOT worship, not fawn over, but RESPECT) our husbands. (They are commanded to have the attitude that they’d give up their very lives for us, so to me it looks like a pretty fair trade, or unfair toward the men, at any rate.) I don’t follow three paces behind my husband, or bow my head when he enters the room, but I do try to listen to him and speak to him as though he matters, as though he is important, because he does and he is.
Kate talks to Jon like an especially thick sheepdog. (NO, I’m not holding myself up as a paragon of marital perfection; we all got our problems, honey. I just learned the hard way, a few years back, how to do this particular thing right.) Kate shows Jon the same respect she shows used diapers, apparently. In light of what I have learned about how crucial respect is for any man, (or any person of either gender, but particularly a man) it’s not hard to see that Kate has been pushing Jon away with both hands.
I am glad that I have never seen this show. Anyone who whores out their kids for fame and money do not deserve my attention. However, I have seen snippets from The Soup and Dish and what I have seen makes me cringe. That man is a wimp married to a nasty shrew. I feel for their kids. I do not condone cheating nor would I say that there is ever a reason to cheat, but in this case, I am willing to reconsider. Just cut the cords already before it hurts the kids.
You know, after thinking about this, I have to lay some blame on the husband here. Yes, the wife is a withering shrew for whom nothing is ever good enough (and boy, do I know some Kates here in my Boston suburb) but it still doesn’t make it OK for Jon to cheat. The right thing for him to do was confront his wife and call her out on her disrespect, not go slinking around with some chica at a bar.
[Those fights would make for much more awesome TV, too.]
Yeah, MC Mom, I think you’re absolutely right. Cheating is NEVER okay and I didn’t mean to imply that I thought otherwise. I just think that you leave your partner vulnerable to that kind of thing when you treat them like a retarded marmoset. It was still Jon’s call, and it looks like he made a bad one. No matter how horrible Kate is, cheating won’t fix her or their marriage, and it doesn’t look like ANYONE thought about how things would ultimately affect the kids.
That whole US cover is just filled with deceiver posts. Heidi, Lohan, and Jon and Kate on one cover. The whole thing makes me want to vomit. Then I watch my wife run out and grab a copy for herself.
Awesome.
Say what you want about these people (I don’t care one way or another), but in that pic (I’ve seen a larger version posted), he is wearing a wedding ring.
I saw part of the show once and I had to change it. I couldn’t get over how NASTY Kate is to her husband, her children. Then again I’m under the delusion marriage should be a sort of equal partnership where the two work together and show respect (which may explain why I am still single
) and if I EVER treated anyone like that… I’d be amazed why they’d stick around me. Kate strikes me as very self-centered and authoritarian, and almost acts as if her kids are a nuisance. I hope they pull the plug on the show SOON. Those children are not acting like kids their age should be acting, they seem “behind” socially and in speech. Jon and Kate… esp Kate… have to quit focusing on the freebies and fame and focus on the kids for a change.
As far as Jon cheating… that’s never something I can condone, but part of me doesn’t blame him. However, way to screw up your kids there, buddy. Whether he cheated or not, just proves how self-centered he is that he obviously didn’t care how the media would twist things up if he was caught.
Add me to your list of the uninformed, VDog.
If Holly had written that John & Kate were last season’s winners of The Bachelor Millionaire Extreme Makeover Biggest Dieter Show and that their 8 children included Tila Tequila, 3 Kardashians, a couple of Hiltons, plus the twins Heidi and Spencer…
I’d totally take her word for it and move along with the rest of my day.
You know…. technically, is it still cheating if they’re separated?
My father is working on a project with the people at the Discovery Health Channel, who happen to own TLC. One of those people (no, he didn’t say who) mentioned to him in small talk that Jon and Kate are separated and have been for some time. Meanwhile, TLC announces that they are going ahead with yet another season of this show. I wonder how they are going to pull that off?
Ugh why don’t they just pull the plug on those two already! I’d hate to be those kids, having the whole country watch you get potty-trained, see your mother henpeck your father to the point of castration…! Watch TLC make it look like they’re living in the same house while Jon probably gets limo’d in to “work” everyday. Maybe that’s why he quit his job?
I unfortunately admit I do read a lot of what is out there on them… being a psychology major I’m interested in seeing how the children are affected by this kind of exploitation. Really, at this point it’s all it is now.
I’m so behind. I tried to watch a whole episode of this show once, and it was like watching paint dry boring, until it was Jon and Kate talking to the cameras (mostly Kate). The way she just cut Jon off at the gonads was an example of how NOT to talk to your spouse. If Jon is catting around, I can see a reason why, but that still doesn’t make it right. IMO, both are in the wrong here. Won’t watch the show again, but will be happy to catch the snippets of it on “The Soup”.
LOL Nati. Did you see them with their facemasks on coming back from their stupid honeymoon? Ridunkulous.
Wait a minute, Jannah.
You mean to tell me they have 8 kids but only just went on their honeymoon?
So that wedding shot on the front cover is recent too?
But hey, why buy the cow when she’ll give you 8 kids and a ballzectomy for free.
I’ve never watched this show. I refuse to watch somebody pimp their kids out just to earn a living. Get a real job, for pete’s sake!
lol, yeah, Jannah, I saw those pics of them wearing masks. And I think it’s a much better look for them. That’s how they should always appear in public.
@buttons
I won’t be surprised if it turns out that they are separated, but fake being married on TV to keep the show going. And that’s probably what the expression “opposite marriage” means…I’ve been trying to figure that one for a while now.
OK, I watched that show again yesterday and I’m not sure there’s hypocrisy involved.
There is zero attempt on TLC or Jon’s part to portray that as a perfect marriage, in fact one is left with the strong impression that neither party would make that choice again, independent of the kids.
Jon Gosselin’s official statement:
“Like most people, I have male and female friends and I’m not going to end my friendships just because I’m on TV,” Gosselin said. “However, being out…late at night showed poor judgment on my part. What makes me sick is that my careless behavior has put my family in this uncomfortable position. My family is the most important thing in my life and it kills me that these allegations have hurt them.”
What surprises me is that no one seems to realize that these shows are entirely scripted. They fabricate just about everything that they can in order to make for more dramatic/comedic/romantic shows. I myself was addicted to Rock of Love Bus (I know…could someone please just put me out of my stupid misery?), and I knew that it was pretty much scripted down to the who backstabbed who, what the girls drank, wore, etc. So it would not surprise me in the least to find that J&K+8 was scripted so that Kate was a huge bitch, and Jon a complete ball-less wonder. Makes me curious to find out if they’re really married or just acting.
But hey, whatever gets the ratings up. And you know this will.
On a last note (that no one will likely care to read), I agree with Fortunate Son, and I really don’t quite get all the hate for this show that everyone has displayed. I would go crazy with eight kids, myself. That’s just me, of course, but I am sure I am not alone in this opinion.
Lilly, I know what you are saying here, and I am sure that a lot of people realize that not everything they see on this show, or any, is necessarily “reality”. But isn’t it a bit pathetic that people would put themselves through that sort of thing in order to be famous/make money off their kids? I tend to think, too, that in this case, while a lot of the dynamic between Kate and Jon is exaggerated and even scripted, that it’s got to start with some “reality”. And if so, the pressures involved in faking a life for the camera while attempting to live one’s regular life is probably no fun.
I don’t know much about this show because I have never sat down and watched it. Somehow, the idea of having my toes chewed off my angry badgers seems more appealing. I’m not defending this guy, but if Kate is truly that big of a bitch, his cheating is hardly a shock.
Chronic – yeah I definitely agree that it is pathetic to whore yourself – and your kids – out for money. And yeah, in reality they probably can’t stand each other but stay married for the money (not the kids).
I’m not surprised that he’s cheating – I’m just surprised that people think that it’s a big shock.
I think people are shocked at his indiscretion and the fact that not even he seems to have the best interests of the children in mind….AND TLC is going to do another season. I know I am shocked at the total disregard everyone seems to have for the children.
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jon-and-kate-dads-three-month-affair-confirmed-200955?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily
Us Magazine (for whatever it is worth) says Jon has been having a 3 month affair with someone who isn’t his baby mama.
“After Jon and Deanna met in mid-January at Chill Lounge in Reading, Pennsylvania (they sent each other $3 shots), Jason says Jon — who has twins, 8, and sextuplets, 5 — began relentlessly pursuing his sister. By mid-February, he was coming over to their Reading house.”
Ouch.
23 year old schoolteacher Deanna Hummel has been having an affair with John, says her twice convicted felonious brother.
The evidence? Photo of John at her front door at seven in the morning and receipt for purse he gave her from Beverly Hills. Pretty scant, but she is much better looking than Kate.
Where there is smoke there is fire Usually we hear all the garbage and denials, then the inevitable happens. I really think the denials are to keep the show going. If a divorce were to happen,the show would come to a complete halt. After the series is done I look for a divorce.
Ok, so if the majority of you on this site say you don’t watch the show, why have you all taken the time to even post anything about jon and kate and give them more attention? Just admit that you all are just as preoccupied with people on tv as the rest of us. I agree with you. I can’t stand kate either but what’s that saying? People we love to hate we give our attention to most? Anyway, we all could be doing better things with our time than gabbing about people we claim to not pay any attention to. Including myself but I admit I like watching reality drama scripted or not. No excuses.
Has anyone seen the latest issue of People magazine? Apparently, before Jon’s affair, he suspected that Kate was cheating with her body guard. When Jon approached Kate about his suspicions, she (Kate) told Jon the marriage was over, but they needed to ‘act’ like they were together to keep the show going. If the People Magazine story has any truth to it, I can understand why Jon said ’screw it’ and went off to find love elsewhere (it’s not like the TV witch at home was giving him any0. Kate is a bitch that needs a reality check. The show is about her kids, not about her, her ridiculous books, or her trips. She treated Jon like a dog from the very beginning!
Everything about Kate nowadays is fake, straight down to her witch-like cackle and Hollywood persona. You can also tell the marriage is affecting their children; they seem grumpy, unhappy, and they fight more. Turn the damn cameras off already so this family can sort out this mess. Jon & Kate Plus 8 was a decent show when it was about the children and them as a family trying to survive; now the show has turned into a ‘He did this, she said that’ trashy TV tabloid.
Every time Kate opens her yap, I develop a surge of sympathy for Jon. Because she’s like a Tasmanian devil in a bikini. Wait. Maybe I shouldn’t use the word “like”, there.