As photo after photo of Jon “Ed Hardy” Gosselin and new 22-year-old girlfriend hit the Internet for public consumption, and news broke that Jon bought a two-bedroom bachelor pad in Manhattan and seems to be a fixture on the bar scene out there already, there is a palpable change in public opinion. Suddenly, people are seeing why Kate may have been so frustrated with Jon in the first place. I got this exclusive insider tip in my inbox this morning:
My bosses son is a production assistant on Jon and Kate Plus 8. I had dinner at their house about a month and a half ago (before any major announcements were made). He couldn’t reveal much other then that they had planned a trip to Korea as a family (because of Jon’s ethnicity) but that was scrapped after they decided to separate. He did however tell me of his relationship with Kate and how she is not at all the person TLC and the show portray her as. He told me how Jon was a bit of an absent father and all around douchey and resistant to getting older and that Kate truly tried to keep their marriage afloat. My bosses son was even on an episode of the show to help set up a birthday party after Jon failed to show up. He has had Kate in his car numerous times slouched in the back seat to avoid paparazzi and get out of her neighborhood. Although he continues to work on the show (a boy needs to eat) he said he is totally disgusted with the editing and overall portrayal of Kate.
What do you guys think?? Has your opinion of Jon vs Kate changed in the past few weeks?
i’m pretty certain he’s renting and did not buy. at least that’s what i’ve heard from people in the building.
He can’t even commit to an apartment!
I can totally see that. I can totally see Jon not wanting to grow up and Kate being tired of being the head of the household. I am not saying she’s perfect because we all know she is not. BUT, who can’t see how big of a douche Jon has ALWAYS been?
obviously he didnt want to grow up. hes banging 22 year olds. that smoke pot. and are in college.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’ve definitely gone over to Team Kate. This guy Jon is acting like such a tool – it’s embarassing to watch him with his pierced ears, gawdy t-shirts (does ANYONE find them attactive?), and 22-yr-old girlfriend(s). I’m waiting for the partial sleeve to creep out from under his shirt – I say within the month we see ink on him someplace. What a poseur?
I used to root for Jon B.E. (Before Earrings), but no more. But, hell no, I’m not on Team Kate either…she’s always been a nagging bitch to Jon and the kids. You saw the ‘no water for Maddy’ video – come on! They are so many reasons to be disgusted in both of them now, it’s the Kids’ Team that I am on. They need all the help they can get. And I hope their help – the nannies – are loving and decent people!
Not on “team” Kate or “team” Jon, but I have watched the show several times and the times I have watched, Kate always bitches and nags at Jon and makes him feel quite insignificant. I do not agree with him becoming involved with someone else so soon, but I guess he had had enough of Kate and her attitude towards him. That cannot be edited any other way than that IMO.
This is what happens when smart and competent, grown-up women marry boys instead of men. Kate led Jon by the nose because he never seemed capable of having a thought, much less an intelligent thought, on his own. He is reluctant to engage in the lives of those children as a grown-up man would, but like so many frat-bro types, just wants to continue to be a child himself.
He’s just like any other dick-led tool being manipulated because he’s stupid, and doesn’t know how much he doesn’t know.
Just curious — did Kate not know Jon was an immature tool before she decided to have another half-dozen kids with him?
Did Jon not know Kate was a bitch?
An equally valid point.
Your kitty cat is a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e.
Your cat looks exactly like mine! Lol. Love cats!
Does this douche own any clothes that didn’t come from a 14 year old’s closet? I guess it’s working though because he attracts enough “classy ladies” with his ensembles. Ugh I hate Ed Hardy.
I wish this show would get cancelled and these two would just go away. I feel sorry for those kids.
I miss the Ed Hardy that was a great and well respected tattoo artist, not the one that now equals horrible clothing. :(
Beet’s posting and she’s writing about the Gosselin’s? Wow, what’s next? A Lindsay Lohan update?
No Beet, no change in opinion for either actually. They are both fucking idiots, and irresponsible, selfish, pieces of shit. I just pray one of their kids snaps (preferably around the age they are old enough to purchase a handgun) and wastes both of those ass-fucks!
how can you pray for something like that? You’re sick.
It’s Easy!
You’re an idiot!
i’ve always thought more highly of her than him, and this just makes it worse on his end. but really, nothing we “know” is more than hearsay anyhow…
While it hasn’t much changed my opinion of Kate, Jon’s behavior has surely changed my opinion of HIM. His douche-du-jour wear, earring and taking up smoking (WTF?) can’t be doing much for his image.
I don’t think she’s a saint, but in situations like theirs there are always two sides to the story. She’s deffo more vocal and present on the show, which just gives TLC more to work with. She seems like a nag, but last time I checked – aren’t we all?
You can only push a man so far……..even a wuss like Jon.
Kate constantly put him down and berated him in public.
His new GF probably tells him everything that he wants to hear, while giving him the best BJ that he’s ever had.
She doesn’t look like a chick who can give good head. She looks like the kind of chick who passes out midway through giving a blow job…
And honestly, you can’t push a “man” around the way Kate did with him. He never once took a stand. Not because he’s a super nice guy, but because he’s a little boy who didn’t want his mommy to yell at him.
real women smelled Jon’s BS a mile away…….I knew they (media) would try to turn her into a bitch…..honestly, who wouldn’t be with 8 kids – I could EAT my child like an insect some days and I only have 1……the cards were stacked against Kate in the beginning – they set her up, tummy tucks and boob lifts…they manufactured that woman. And Jon only became more of a duchebag
i literally just fell off my chair…
i used to be team jon, back in the early days of the show when it was kate yelling at him or telling him he was being stupid. i used to feel sorry for him. now i just don’t care because the kids are stuck in the middle. they’re getting to be old enough to know what’s going on. i can already imagine the kinds of things mady & cara will hear about their family at school.
i also almost wonder if jon’s behavior is in hopes that if he acts bad enough, tlc won’t want anything to do with him & he can live the life he wanted to without the cameras. but then, he wouldn’t be making as much money to buy classy things for his girlfriend like coke or an ed hardy bong collection.
I definitely thought Kate was just an awful media craved attention whore, but since the divorce I’ve completely changed my mind. That special title now goes to Jon, because other than being on the cover of People she has done a pretty good job of staying out of the spotlight.
Kate has won me over by the default that her husband is a total douche.
I think that there’s enough blame to go around here. Jon may be immature but that doesn’t explain why Kate has alienated her whole family, Jon’s whole family, their old friends, their old and new church congregations and now Jon himself.
Even her kids tell her she’s mean. You have people who made bad reproductive choices and profited from their children. Now all of their material needs have been well taken care of at the expense of every close personal relationship from their past.
This is “reality” TV at its most destructive, because so many children are involved. At least Nick and Jessica didn’t rush into having children!
“Even her kids tell her she’s mean”…
Really, if your kids aren’t telling you you’re mean, you’re not doing your job as a parent.
Apparently you attended the Joan Crawford school of parenting. I hope I didn’t interrupt your beating your child with a coat hanger. Go have another drink.
I think you are completely way out of line. All Erin was saying that ALL kids say that their parents are mean, even if they aren’t. It’s just kids being kids. I have a four year old who thinks I’m mean and I’ve never laid a hand on him. Anytime you punish your child (and I don’t even mean physically), they think you’re mean because you are denying them the ability to get away with whatever they want. That doesn’t make you a child abuser, that makes you a good parent.
that was completely out of order and has nothing to do with what Erin said mate
Yes it does you ugly fucking troll! Besides, can’t Erin speak for herself/himself ? I love how idiots post shit and then leave it up to other idiots to defend what they say. Piss off dumb-ass.
Please don’t have children. The world doesn’t need more parents that equate discipline with abuse.
Team kids!
I have always thought he was kind of a jerk. He would be sarcastic and rude to his kids all the time. I found Kate to be humorous and I would be annoyed with him too always acting like that.
They are both assholes, except Jon is a complete loser for buying a 2 bedroom $4 million apt with his children’s money. Where are his kids going to sleep? What father buys a tiny apt that does not fit his children? One that does not want them there apparently.
Jon & Kate are both pathetic and will continue to use their kids until they cannot anymore.
I think this “tip” sounds totally fake.
TLC and/or Kate’s public relations tem, anyone?
I have always been “Team Kate.” It can’t be easy raising 8 kids — no wait, 9 including Jon. I mean, seriously, Kate was most likely a bitch because Jon is a douchebag and I always felt the editing of the show was to show Kate being a horrid bitch to Jon but leaving out the fact that Jon was a complete immature loser.
And you have to give Kate kudos…other than the People cover she really hasn’t shown her face since they filed for divorce. Jon, on the other hand, is making a fool of himself, sporting gaudy t-shirts and gallivanting across the ocean with his prositot girlfriend. What about his kids? I wonder what they think of Daddy’s bachelor pad that doesn’t even have enough room for them to visit overnight, should they want to.
Beet, you should totally make this a Gosselin-free zone. Much like you did with those other douchebags that kept leaving the jungle.
Team Kate over here. I have no use for Jon whatsoever.
I was watching this interview the other day, and found it very very very weird, that he says the word “like” more than Miley Cyrus does!!! How fucking annoying is that????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mPwspGi3s&feature=related
Maybe it’s because i’ve babysit a shitload of kids but i’ve always been Team Kate. Even if she if the article is wrong and she is a bitch, what do you expect with that many kids 24/7?
I expect prospective parents to have minimum Master’s degrees before having children. Ignorance breeds ignorance.
Give them a few years and all the girls will be slapping their husbands, and having too many kids of their own.
Jon will be an absentee alcoholic grandfather and Kate will be institutionalized. The thought of Nurse Ratchit hurting Kate gives me goosebumps.
The boys will be out spreading their sperm all over other people’s bossy daughters.
TLC has a perpetual contract, I bet.
I liked Kate from the beginning, and still do. Yes, I do see how she has a controlling personality and how she belittled Jon in front of other people, but despite her super type A personality and bitchy tendencies, her heart is in the right place. That might not sound like it makes much sense, but i think the most important thing is that she is obviously a very dedicated mother and makes mature choices. Obviously Jon was not the man for her because his personality did not balance hers. I hope they both find peace and the kids dont grow up to be spoiled brats because of the media.
I’m with Erin and Ashlea on this. How many women have found themselves shunted into the ‘nagging bitch’ role by a husband who simply doesn’t contribute to the care of his children and houshold? When you find yourself doing everything for everyone, and you’re totally exhausted and frustrated by a lack of support from your supposed partner, it’s pretty damned easy to come across as a nag. And if you’re the one who always has to say no to the children, you get cast as the ‘mean’ parent too. Lucky Kate!
Jon has always been a lazy dusch… He got fired from the job before he was an IT analyist. And how did he get that job anyway? Was that his way of saying he was a telemarketer?
Jon is usually high during the interviews… Thats why he just sorta lays there and looks at his cameras with his red, bloodshot eyes…
Everyone thought he was a calm person who was in control. Hell, he just finished a bag of chips because he had the munchies!
http://www.chattertonguegossip.com/
I agree with Zelda.
This is totally spin from camp TLC to make their “star” Kate look better. I smell a great PR firm on this one. AND Jon is giving them plenty of ammo.
Team Kate as always!
i don’t know why everyone continues to erroneously report that jon purchased the apartment when he’s renting.
Here’s the only problem I have with your “insider” tip. Kate’s ONLY friends are the TLC production crew. It shouldn’t be a suprise someone on the crew thinks of her fondly, or the entire crew for that matter. Kate is their bread & butter – their means to an end, and visa versa. Kate, while I trust wanted the marriage to work, has excluded various family members & friends from her life purposefully. She seems to only allow those who support what she believes is right into her life. I wouldn’t trust the affection of TLC employee. Just watch the way she laughs with them during current tapings of the season. She used to laugh with Jon, now she laughs with the crew.
ITA, this is a planted “tip.” TLC doesn’t “portray” Kate in any other way than what she actually is- A SHREW. Although the rest of America has only been familiar with this trainwreck in the last 3 years or so, I live close by to them in PA and we’ve been putting up with them since before the 6 were born. Reporters, many volunteers, family and former friends all have Kate horror stories of how vicerally mean she could be. This was BEFORE their “reality” show.
As far as Jon’s behavior, while it’s very hard to get Americans to agree on anything, the one thing we all could agree on as a whole is that Jon was a gonad-less weenie. While he is acting and looking like a complete douchebag, I think he’s desperately trying to prove he has a set.
what kind of “fashion designer” wears an orange shirt, black jeans and white sneakers? oh right, a skank pretending to be a fashion designer.
I just find it so sad when middle aged men try to go back in time by dating women that could very well be their daughters! Pathetic! Before I used to just think they were all a big mess, but now I’m kinda proud of how Kate is handling everything, and I wanna smack Jon upside the head cuz he’s an imature moron!
I’ve always been on Kate’s team.
jon is 32. she’s 22. so unless he was having kids when he was 10, she’s not old enough to be his daughter. in fact, she’s as old as he was when he got married.
Once a putz, always a putz. How long before he ends up on “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here”??