Kate Gosselin’s brother and his wife have come forward to talk about a behind-the-scenes “marriage contract” that Kate has presented her husband co-star Jon with. Good news for Jon & Kate Plus Eight fans; bad news for anyone who dares to think about marriage uncynically.
Kate Gosselin has told Jon their relationship is over and they should begin dating others, according to Jodi Kreider. She said Kate had presented Jon with a contract that laid out the aforementioned circumstances in explicit detail. She said Jon was taken aback by Kate’s bluntness in terminating the relationship.
Kevin Kreider said Jon has told him he can have girlfriends, do his own thing and has the freedom to do what he wants [on] certain days — so long as he fulfills his professional obligations in regards to the show.
Jodi said both ignored their marital problems to keep the show’s ratings high, and that it takes many people to pull off the ruse of showcasing their dysfunctional marriage as a happy one for the cameras.
You have to wonder if their vows were “for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, ’til TLC no longer renews our reality television program.”
So much for the we-are-a-normal-family-who-happens-to-be-on-television schtick. It’s now closer to “How perverse can my marriage be and still be the focus of a supposedly family-friendly show?”
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Am I the only one who is confused about how nowadays people start dating other people before they even get legally separated, let alone completely divorced?! I don’t like the world we live in very much right now, it’s creepy to me.
Wow, I think all that cynicism just killed a kitten.
Gee whiz holly, you sure don’t like this show.
Chalk it up to me being a bitter child-hating hag. And a vigilante against bad hair.
I can’t blame him for leaving her, but I do feel sorry for the kids. They didn’t ask for any of this crap and they are the ones who are going to suffer.
I like her hair. But then, I miss New Wave.
Someone needs to hand this woman the Hilary Clinton playbook.
I’ve heard of staying married for the kids, but this is the first time I’ve heard of staying married for the TV show. But then, like Jannah, I have fairly old-fashioned ideas about marriage.
It wasn’t Kate or Jon that confirmed this issue, so I am skeptical. Especially if they have a sister like I do.
From what little I have seen about Kate, I would not put it past her. She has gotten use to this wealthy lifestyle and if Jon left her, then it would all crumble. Somebody has got to pay for her haircuts after all.
And I too am into old fashioned marriage. Dating and getting engaged to someone before you are even legally divorced in my book is just wrong. Of course, I also grew up in a home where my parents have been married for over 40 years and I feel that too many people are getting married for the wrong reason and think it can be fixed with kids or a divorce.
Amen, LN. Sisters can be evil! Especially if they’re not getting any of the profit.
ok, the whole dating while staying together is oogie and faking it for a TV show is going to have all types of repercussions with the kids but….what the H@LL is up with her brother, or even her family that they would throw her under the bus like this.
I cannot imagine disliking my sibling so much that I would out their dirty little secret like in this manner. Whatever happened to good old blackmail?
This to goes to show that once a woman has a certain number of kids, some Darwinian mechanism in their body causes them to go bat-shit crazy.
“What teh H@LL is up with her brother, or even her family that they would throw her under the bus like this”
Um…have you ever SEEN Kate? Like, talking? Her family probably has a good thirty years’ worth of scores to settle. That there is one cast-iron beeyotch. I’m surprised she waited until the camera was off her to start sucking that kid’s blood.
D—-, that post wasn’t meant to be snarky at you, but it comes across that way. I’m sorry. I’m also sorry I misspelled “the”, because damn.
D, blackmail doesn’t give you your 15 minutes of fame and is probably less lucrative.
And not everyone has an awesome sister like I do. Sorry, LN!
Just because they’re family doesn’t mean you have to like them.
I’m with you, AAW, 100%.
Granted, I’m also with Holly in my hatred of this show. People who aren’t meant to have kids end up with two sets of freaks of nature and then get praised for it… *grumble grumble grumble* Uh hum, sorry.
Beige – No offense taken.
I have only seen the show once, I couldn’t stand her and thought he was weak B for putting up with her condescending tone. Between Kate and the brother I think the brother wins the douchebag award. I cannot even conceive going to the media like he did. You don’t like her, she’s a biz-atch, fine; don’t talk to her, don’t invite her over for the holidays. Run to the media? I don’t know, that just bothers me.
D – I couldn’t agree more. Going to the media about your member of your family just screams – I want my 15 minutes of fame.
McMom – you are a very lucky person.
lmao@”co-star Jon”…that’s exactly what he is, and that’s what he was even when they were actually married (if that ever was the case). A co-star (a supporting reality tv actor, more like it), a second fiddle and an emasculated, emotioanlly and verbally abused Kate’s sidekick rather than her husband…awww, now I feel bad
These two need to ditch the TV show for at least a year, go to marriage counseling, live normalish lives, and see if their marriage is salvageable at all. They’re so busy dealing with the media that they don’t have time to figure this out from a more normal standpoint.
If you’re as busy with kids as they are, and you don’t make your marriage a priority, you run the risk of growing apart. Jon needs to stop running around and Kate needs to stop treating him like one of the kids.
I keep asling myself “How stupid do you have to be to have a TV show these days?” and shows like this answer the question. Pretty Fing stupid if you kill your meal ticket with a dumb stunt like that.
This whole mess makes me want to go sqweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Both of them are emotionally draining, I’m glad I’m not related to ANY of them.
These phony trainwrecks almost make Octomom look like June Cleaver.
I wonder if Jon has fantasies about nice, divorced twenty-somethings with only four kids.
That guy gets a medal for even putting up with her for even one season.
That said, that show doesn’t pretend that they are a happy family, or even a moderately satisfied one.
As a mom, I feel obligated to interject a little bit of wishful thinking in here. While it is callous and seemingly bitchy and fame-mongering thing for Kate to do; at the same time this COULD be about the kids. In a roundabout way.
Jon & Kate +8 originally started because TLC dangled the carrot of “MONEY!!1!!ONE” in their face and with that many kids, it probably seemed like the right thing to do. Now, if the show ends…will TLC take the house? They’ll definitely take the money. Yes everyone’s lives would change, but maybe (I hope) Kate is doing it this way to keep her kids from coming dangerously close to the poverty line.
Of course, TLC could also spin it into a reality show about dealing with 8 kids AND divorce. But meh.
Longtime reader, first time poster.
From what I understand, the bro & sis-in-law’s motivations are to get Jon and Kate to quit the show and go back to raising their family. This is the same set of uncle and aunt who helped with the kids for a long while, but then when TLC approached them (not the other way around) to give them compensation for showtime, Kate freaked and cut them out of her life. I just don’t think they know how to help the kids from the sidelines other than hope to help drive the show off the air.
Isn’t lovely how she told him he can do what he wants as long as he fulfills obligations to the SHOW? No mention of their children, just the show. If I married someone with hair that horrible, I’d mess around too..
her hair.. omg. and why did i think “heidi and spencer in 10 years” when i read the subject line? hahaha
I’m sure there are plenty of men who want to date a mother of eight, but she may have to move closer to the insane asylum.
Do you know how many women I have seen recently with that hair? At it is cross cultural and age demographics. I just don’t get it. I left the 80’s and moved on. That hair should stay back in the 80’s.
Apparently, there are plenty of people willing to degrade themselves as much as possible, as long as it means their faces are all over TV. There are people willing to suffer any humiliation, air any dirty laundry, give up any vestigial self-respect they’ve ever had, to be considered “celebrities”. As J&K have shown us, there are people willing to Jon-Benet their kids’ every waking minute for a buck and a chance at becoming household words.
The worst thing that could happen to these idiots, in their own minds? Obscurity. Not divorce, not psychological damage, but being ignored. These dumbasses didn’t care enough about THEIR OWN CHILDREN, let alone one another, to put the health of their marriage ahead of book deals and paydays and magazine covers. And it has nothing to do with any talent or merit on the part of Jon or Kate; it all hinged on their having these kids. Otherwise, Bitchy O’Snarl would simply be alienating people in her own ever-shrinking circle of friends, instead of eliciting a long national eye-roll.
I have a little bit more sympathy for Jon, as he’s been putting up with Cruella up there, but still. Choke it loose, people.
They are no different than Octomom – except they were married when they had fertility treatments and a bunch of babies they couldn’t afford but expected the state to support… and that they could use to acquire wealth and fame. I think I loathe these 2 even more. They are terrible parents (watch an ep or 2 of the show and you should quickly see what I mean – if you can suffer through that long) and I seriously suspect Kate is just a downright terrible person.
…which is probably why the brother and his wife are spilling her secrets.
I don’t know. I think Octomom is a tie with these two. She was single with no means to support the kids and instead of helping her mom pay for the mortage, she went out and had invitro with money given to her to go to college. Talk about a selfish individual. Now she has 14 kids and is still in talks for a reality show, which people will watch and she will get rich. IT is a never ending cycle of stupid. People who watch the show, donate to their cause and therefore enables them to be who they are.
I’m with Simon. I don’t think her hair’s that bad looking. If I had eight little kids, the last damn thing I’d do is style it or let it grow long. It’d probably be a disaster waiting to happen, the way children grab on stuff. Or, if they’re beyond hair-grabbing, it could easily be leftover from when they were at that stage.
Her hair wouldn’t be that bad if she hadn’t taken the weedwacker to the crown. What’s with that?
When are they going to pass laws to protect the litters these women are having in hopes of getting rich off the press, books, media and so forth they get for the mere fact they were sucessful in getting the litter to term? Shame on the state of PA for sitting by and allowing the children to be used in this manner. I hope the Gosselins have a huge tax bill to make it worth the state law makers to pay deaf, dumb and blind.
Anni, I’d agree with you about the hair if it didn’t look like it needed closets full of styling products and a weekly roots touch-up. I’ve seen plenty of busy mom-friendly haircuts in my time, and this ain’t one of ‘em.
people should stop trying to copy Kate Gosselin’s hairstyle; she’s one of the few people in the world who can pull it off