<p>People Mag is reporting that Jon’s run on the show will end Nov. 2 and the show will be renamed “Kate plus 8”. Thoughts?</p>
<p>My thoughts? Jon got what he wanted - away from the show. Kate got what she wanted - the show and camera all to herself.</p>
<p>The show is already pretty ho-hum this season - I’d say it’s 15 minutes (in the form of this show anyway) is just about up.</p>
<p>What a circus this has turned out to be.</p>
<p>Interesting. I wonder how Jon will make a living.</p>
<p>Sounds like he may sporadically show up but will not be a “regular”. Wow, that’s bad news - not a “regular” in your own family.</p>
<p>I thought the kids didn’t want to do it any more. Didn’t they have a sit out one time?</p>
<p>If he is smart, he won’t work, Kat will support him through alimony payments.</p>
<p>I wonder, too, how he will make a living. Kate has her books and speaking engagements, as well as the potential Paula Deen show, so she seems ok in that regard. Jon has an expensive life, though.</p>
<p>Looks like Jon knows who’s driving his gravy train (from AOL News)
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<p>LOL at abasket’s comment:</p>
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<p>Well, at least if Jon is off the show, then when the kids are with him, the cameras will not be around. Thinking positive.</p>
<p>He’s trying to save face…a little late dont you think??</p>
<p>I figure in a few short months, the enterprise of J&K+8 will be history. I sure hope the money has been put into trust for the kids’ futures. Afterall, it’s because of them that the show even existed.</p>
<p>^I got to agree with you, laxmom. Kate Plus Eight is just the dregs at the bottom of a tea cup.</p>
<p>There were reports a couple of weeks ago that Jon was upset because Kate actually had put a great deal of money into trust for the kids, so that’s optimistic, at least.</p>
<p>That means much less of a giant pot of money for him to get 1/2 of. A divorce ploy? Yes, Kate also gets 1/2 of a smaller pot, but she still has the TV show, personal engagements and books to earn money from. Jon has what? I’m sure that he was counting on the $$ to bankroll his new life and she’s just cut it off.</p>
<p>I give Kate a lot of credit for doing whatever she has to support the kids. It can’t be easy and at this point, her celebrity is her most practical marketable skill.</p>
<p>Zoosermom, I agree.</p>
<p>I also read somewhere that Kate has insisted the shows earnings be put in a trust or 8 separate trusts for the kids. Jon tried to block this and thats why his first lawyer quit.</p>
<p>I like watching the kids and would still view a show with Kate plus the 8. </p>
<p>Jon is such a screw-up; I hope he rebounds for the kids sake.</p>
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I would too, and I’m rooting for Kate. I hope she becomes a spectacular success and finds some peace. If this is really who Jon is, behind the scenes, then I really don’t blame her for taking charge. Someone has to.</p>
<p>I don’t watch this show, but as I understood it, the show’s appeal previously had been how a young Christian couple coped with the logistics of raising eight small children in a very low-key, middle-class environment. Obviously that is not the situation any more, nor has it been for a while. How can this show – whatever it is named – be about anything but how these parents trashed their marriage and exploited their young children to pay for a lavish lifestyle that includes plastic surgery, hair plugs, nannies, extramarital affairs and fancy vacations – along with lots of therapy in the future for the eight kids? </p>
<p>Pull the plug on this mess, please. They have made enough already to pay for a fancy house and their kids’ educational needs. Let them both get real jobs now and let their kids be kids.</p>
<p>I can’t believe that at least the older 2 girls aren’t tired of the intrusion into their lives that these t.v. cameras bring. I assume they still attend school somewhere or at least have some life outside of their home. We see them at their best and we see them at their worst. While adults understand this, kids can be very cruel. I just can’t imagine that they aren’t sometimes teased or that some of the events of the show aren’t at least brought up by their friends/schoolmates.</p>
<p>Ugh. Kids have enough to deal with in just growing up. How terrible to have to have your life on display for everyone to see when you have no say in the matter.</p>
<p>Kate will steamroll any of the kids’ complaints. It’s all really about Kate. Always has been. How many women have NO friends? I don’t buy the rest for a second.</p>
<p>I don’t think much of Jon. He appears to be lazy, and worse yet (in my eyes from a male perspective), has very little drive or ambition. Antiquated as it sounds, men must stand on their own two feet. </p>
<p>Having said this, watching episodes of Kate with her husband ought to be a task every young man should accomplish. Her shrewish, controlling, non-supportive and constantly insecure behavior is just what makes marriage a living heck on earth, and young guys in a relationship should learn to not just walk, but run from someone engaging in that conduct. Again, this may sound insensitive, but she is exactly what most young guys need to avoid. And justifications about Jon’s lack of focus and ambition don’t cut it.</p>
<p>I tried watching it last night and it was painfully tedious. Kate was definitely working on coming across as more pleasant (but as neurotic as ever). Jon in ‘his episode’ seemed completely disinterested, and just barked orders at the kids…I actually thought he isn’t going to last. He’s not into the show and moreover, I sensed he wasn’t into the domestic scene anymore. He’s moved on. He’s got the cool look, the two new earrings, the partying to do, and this parenting thing is cramping his newfound youth.</p>
<p>Jon was always a passive, conflict-avoiding slouch, she was always a verbally abusive and controlling wife, and probably better for the kids they are separated. And now the show can die the death it should. I just hope the kids turn out okay.</p>