Jon and Kate Plus 8. Official Thread!!

[Muffy]

I LOVE the Gosselin Family's new site!

So do I! It's great to keep up the Gosselin family.

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

Awesome new website for the Gosselin's, good for them!!

 

[matthew&haleysmom]

Jon & Kate have a newly updated website (Looks like someone has been paying attention to the critics ... )

Paul Peterson, over at A Minor Consideration, has also finally weighed in on the show: http://www.minorcon.org/jon_kate1.html

Thanks for sharing that the website has been updated!

 

[MM27]

Awesome new website for the Gosselin's, good for them!!

It looks good. I see they are going to have a page devoted to each of the kids too, but that part is still under construction. One of the pics looks like it came from their Hawaii trip.

 

[sha_lyn]

Why would they have been banned? I didn't read anything vulgar, mean spirited or inappropriate, only controversial. I could have missed something of course. I thought some people were rude to cottoncandylvr saying he/she must have no life and must dislike their own family!? I don't know the guidelines. Does your opinion not being the consensus get you the boot?

CCL is a troll.....
She(?) only posts on this thread and came here to flame

 

[JennaTX]

Whitney? REALLY!! I mean, "my God! who cares if I've posted here or elsewhere or if and what my other name may have been. Or if I'm a neighbor, friend or family member of the Gosselins!"

WHO CARES!

I'd like one of the fans here to give me a plausible explanation to why Kate got rid of Jodi. Why would Kate get rid of a woman who babysat her 8 kids WITHOUT PAY, OR BIRTHDAY AND CHRISTMAS GIFTS, for 7 yrs, and replace her with a paid non family member?

I babysit my famliy and friends children all the time WITHOUT PAY! Isn't that what friends and family are for???

Also in my family we don't exchange Christmas gifts with my sisters and their family, we exchange them in our immediate family or have the kids exchange names. Do you mean that Jon and Kate expect everyone in their family to buy Christmas gifts for their 8 kids???? And to exchange with Jodi's family, between the two it would cost a small fortune.

 

[poshspice94]

I babysit my famliy and friends children all the time WITHOUT PAY! Isn't that what friends and family are for???

Also in my family we don't exchange Christmas gifts with my sisters and their family, we exchange them in our immediate family or have the kids exchange names. Do you mean that Jon and Kate expect everyone in their family to buy Christmas gifts for their 8 kids???? And to exchange with Jodi's family, between the two it would cost a small fortune.

Everyone loves and talks about Jodi, but the fact of the matter was, Jodi was upset over not being paid. If she wasn't upset she wouldn't have done that video and brought her private business to the table. On her vacation no less. I lost all respect for her when it became known that she was OK with her sister slamming Kate on a hate site. Where does Julie get all of her info? From Jodi. And where does it make it OK to slander someone when you know that hate site that could care less about her? Once her personal info runs dry they will go onto higher ground and hook onto to people like Paul Peterson. Who is none to pleased that he too is linked to a slanderous site. It just reminds me of the media looking for the next hot topic. TLC should have paid Jodi from the get go and everyone else that supported that show. Kate shouldn't have been involved. I truly feel that people like CCL is from that site looking to start fires. Its up to the responsible person to make up their own minds and put the water out on them.

 

[disneychrista]

I lost all respect for her when it became known that she was OK with her sister slamming Kate on a hate site.

I kinda have to agree with this. The internet is no place to air your dirty laundry. I still do not know if I fully buy into anything that has been said about why Jodi and Beth are no longer featured on the show. I am sure there is more to the story than any of us will ever know.

I like the shows being more focused on the entire family doing things together. No leaving half the kids at Jodi's or Beth's while the rest go do something.

For all we know Jodi is the money grubber and was not liking that TLC was no longer going to be using her on the show. I can not imagine that she was not paid for her "air time." And now that she is no longer being featured she is no longer get that pay.

Remember we are only getting one side of the story and as has been mentioned there are always at least 3 sides to every story and only ONE is the truth.

 

[EveDallas]

I kinda have to agree with this. The internet is no place to air your dirty laundry. I still do not know if I fully buy into anything that has been said about why Jodi and Beth are no longer featured on the show. I am sure there is more to the story than any of us will ever know.

I like the shows being more focused on the entire family doing things together. No leaving half the kids at Jodi's or Beth's while the rest go do something.

For all we know Jodi is the money grubber and was not liking that TLC was no longer going to be using her on the show. I can not imagine that she was not paid for her "air time." And now that she is no longer being featured she is no longer get that pay.

Remember we are only getting one side of the story and as has been mentioned there are always at least 3 sides to every story and only ONE is the truth.

I very much agree with this. I tend to think that J&K are taking the higher road by not responding to the slams against them.

 

[MichelleVW]

Everyone loves and talks about Jodi, but the fact of the matter was, Jodi was upset over not being paid. If she wasn't upset she wouldn't have done that video and brought her private business to the table. On her vacation no less. I lost all respect for her when it became known that she was OK with her sister slamming Kate on a hate site. Where does Julie get all of her info? From Jodi. And where does it make it OK to slander someone when you know that hate site that could care less about her? Once her personal info runs dry they will go onto higher ground and hook onto to people like Paul Peterson. Who is none to pleased that he too is linked to a slanderous site. It just reminds me of the media looking for the next hot topic. TLC should have paid Jodi from the get go and everyone else that supported that show. Kate shouldn't have been involved. I truly feel that people like CCL is from that site looking to start fires. Its up to the responsible person to make up their own minds and put the water out on them.

I totally agree...I would never put family business out on the internet like that, it's just crazy.

 

[Muffy]

Everyone loves and talks about Jodi, but the fact of the matter was, Jodi was upset over not being paid. If she wasn't upset she wouldn't have done that video and brought her private business to the table. On her vacation no less. I lost all respect for her when it became known that she was OK with her sister slamming Kate on a hate site. Where does Julie get all of her info? From Jodi. And where does it make it OK to slander someone when you know that hate site that could care less about her? Once her personal info runs dry they will go onto higher ground and hook onto to people like Paul Peterson. Who is none to pleased that he too is linked to a slanderous site. It just reminds me of the media looking for the next hot topic. TLC should have paid Jodi from the get go and everyone else that supported that show. Kate shouldn't have been involved. I truly feel that people like CCL is from that site looking to start fires. Its up to the responsible person to make up their own minds and put the water out on them. :laundy

I agree with this. Posting family disagreements on a blog does nothing but cause hard feelings within the family.

 

[Ilovemylife]

I kinda have to agree with this. The internet is no place to air your dirty laundry. I still do not know if I fully buy into anything that has been said about why Jodi and Beth are no longer featured on the show. I am sure there is more to the story than any of us will ever know.

I like the shows being more focused on the entire family doing things together. No leaving half the kids at Jodi's or Beth's while the rest go do something.

For all we know Jodi is the money grubber and was not liking that TLC was no longer going to be using her on the show. I can not imagine that she was not paid for her "air time." And now that she is no longer being featured she is no longer get that pay.

Remember we are only getting one side of the story and as has been mentioned there are always at least 3 sides to every story and only ONE is the truth.

From everything Jodi has done on the show and what we've seen, do you honestly believe she is a "money-grubber"??

I certainly don't.

Sorry, but I'm firmly in the "Kate doesn't want her getting paid" camp.

 

[MichelleVW]

From everything Jodi has done on the show and what we've seen, do you honestly believe she is a "money-grubber"??

I certainly don't.

Sorry, but I'm firmly in the "Kate doesn't want her getting paid" camp.

Do I believe she is a "money grubber"? No...but I don't think she should have posted that video on the internet.

What about Kate's brother? Of course he has to side with his wife, but what if he wants to mend fences with his sister? It will be pretty hard now since his wife and his sister in law have been bashing her on the internet.

I said it before, I don't care how I feel about my brother or sister if my husband and one of his relatives were bad mouthing them on the internet I would be livid!

 

[whitneyNC]

From everything Jodi has done on the show and what we've seen, do you honestly believe she is a "money-grubber"??

I certainly don't.

Sorry, but I'm firmly in the "Kate doesn't want her getting paid" camp.

Maybe it's not about money at all. Who knows? Jodi may have felt taken advantage of and embarrassed over the gum (and whatever else?). I don't think it was polite to snicker and do the "private joke" eye rolling thing on the interview couch when Jon and Kate talked about Jodi. Obviously Kate should have handled the gum thing in private. Do two wrongs make it right? No, I'm not saying Julie did the right thing, but blood runs thick; especially between sisters.

 

[FergieTCat]

I guess it's safe to come in the water again? (I'm kidding!! I'm visiting my mother this weekend and my internet time is limited).

I always thought that Beth, at least, was appearing on the show for the attention. For a while there, it seems that she was on every single episode. I really thought she was volunteering to constantly be with the kids to be on TV. I don't think I feel the same thing about Jodi.

I don't know about reality television, but on network television, every actor that appears on camera is entitled to compensation (it's called "scale") and every actor that speaks on camera is entitled to extra money. Maybe Julie was aware of that and told Jodi that she was entitled be paid for her camera time. Maybe Kate told her that if the only reason she was watching the kids was to be paid then she'd find another babysitter. You don't know what goes on behind the scenes, and since the Gosselins and TLC have declined to comment, we've only heard one side of the story.

As for Paul Peterson's comment, the GWOP group have been hounding him for months. I don't think that GWOP care about the kids, they have just developed a hatred for Kate and want her show/cash flow yanked.

As I said, if I ever developed such a negative obsession for a woman I have never met and has never crossed my path, I'd seriously consider finding another hobby.

 

[ksjayhawks]

I can't get the website link for the gosselins page to open. Anyone else having troubles?

 

[disneychrista]

From everything Jodi has done on the show and what we've seen, do you honestly believe she is a "money-grubber"??

I honestly don't know that is what I am saying. Noone knows for sure what is going on. I do think, though, that anyone who is willing to air their dirty laundry on the internet is looking for something.

 

[floridaminnie]

I honestly don't know that is what I am saying. Noone knows for sure what is going on. I do think, though, that anyone who is willing to air their dirty laundry on the internet is looking for something.

And is that the type of person that you want around your children?

 

[madge]

As for Paul Peterson's comment, the GWOP group have been hounding him for months.

do you think he only wrote what he did to shut them up?

If that's the case, why didn't Mr. Peterson write something when they first approached him? I believe he researched the show, the family, and what the emails said and drew his own conclusion. For all we know, the GWoP people may not have been the only group to contact Paul Peterson.

We will never know the truth. That's the reality of it all. We simply won't.

 

[barkley]

And is that the type of person that you want around your children?

given the snarky comments j&k made on occasions during the couch sessions about jody's capabilities in watching their kids yet they continued to use her, i suspect that if the occasion came up where they were in want or need they would place that above any concerns.

i don't agree with people airing their issues on the internet, but that is a venue that at least the children are (hopefully) exempt from exposure to. i have a big issue with the comments kate made about jody during the gum issue in front of the kids, and the smirking, snarky, eyer rolling comments both of them have made on the couch. they openly say that their children watch and re-watch the videos of the show over and over-these comments are not what i feel is appropriate for these children to hear and i have to wonder how they feel when they hear these kinds of comments only to have their parents put them back with that person as a caregiver (seems to me a very mixed message for a young child).