Who ever thought that this small-town couple with a small-town life yet a very large family would explode into something that would get daily updates in the gossip columns. But as we’re proving here, that’s exactly what’s happened with Jon and Kate Gosselin. It came out recently that Kate might have been having an affair with her bodyguard for as long as a year while more pictures of Jon and his mistress have also surfaced. In the beginning all we heard were denials and now it seems to be going back and forth between ‘We need to work on it,’ and ‘The marriage is over.’ So which is it? Well, seeing as how on top of all of this, Kate was seen early this week out with her bodyguard and reported ‘other man’, I’d say that I’m leaning towards the latter. There’s so much to say about this story…where do we begin?

The premiere of the show Jon and Kate Plus Eight will premiere for its fifth season on Might 25 and will be an hour long episode giving fans the ‘real’ facts about the marriage and the problems they’re experiencing. It sounds like they’ll also speak about how the show has affected their family in a negative way, particularly beginning early last year when they moved from the D-List to the B-List and people started paying a bit more attention. From US,

“When the fifth season of TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus premieres May 25, a full-hour will be devoted to the strains on the couple’s marriage, the network has announced.

“We are in production for season 5 and moving forward as planned, while fully supporting the family and respecting their needs as they work through this challenging time,” a network spokesperson stated in a statement. “This show has always been about a real family dealing with real-life situations, and that will continue to be the case.”

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kate admits she and Jon have changed since the first season.

“We’re different, I mean it’s been four years,” she says. “Everybody changes. We as people are different, but I don’t have time, really, to edit myself. I don’t edit myself with anyone.”

(She adds that the show accurately portrays her: “I am who I am and there’s always going to be haters and there’s always going to be lovers and that’s just the way it is.”)

Kate says she noticed their lives began changing “last January, February of 2008.”

“Each five minutes people would stop and take pictures, run up on our porch and take pictures while we were there,” she says. “People would stop by to watch the kids play. Every week the bar got raised, and I remember thinking, When is this stopping? Because it was getting scary.”

The show’s fourth-season finale played like a cliffhanger. Kate admits she and Jon toyed with the idea of not doing another season.

But, Jon says, “I just decided it was to benefit my kids, I really don’t like the public life. There are a lot of positives, obviously.”

The two earn an estimate $75,000 an episode, in addition to a slew of freebies.”

So what information can we garner from this? Well it seems as though the two are now rich, and admit it, and that they’ve changed and that the marriage really is up in the air. One thing I’d like to point out is that everyone has time to edit themselves, I don’t care how many children you have. If you don’t have time to edit, you are saying that you don’t have time to think, and if you don’t have time to think, you’ve got bigger problems than what people think of you. But apparently, everything in this interview is just Kate and Jon trying to state what they think is expected of them.

But RadarOnline.com has an entirely different story with a video from Aunt Jodie and her husband, Kevin, who is Kate’s brother. This seems to show what’s really happening - Kate is money-hungry and losing her picture perfect family means losing her show and income but she wants to keep that buff bodyguard on her arm during the meantime. Jon, understandably, is sick and fatigued of his wife’s nit-picking while she’s sleeping with someone else. A transcript is also provided from RadarOnline,

“The marriage of Jon and Kate Gosselin is “over”, Kate’s brother Kevin Kreider and his wife Jodi state in an explosive new video interview, only on RadarOnline.com.

On the stunning video, Kevin Krieder, 32, states “Six months ago Kate came to Jon and stated, ‘Hey, it’s over.’”

As RadarOnline.com recently reported, Jon has been having an extramarital affair with a third grade school teacher, Deanna Hummell. Kate is rumored to be cheating with her bodyguard Steve Neild.

Both Jon and Kate have denied having affairs. Kate’s bodyguard and Deanna Hummell have also denied the affairs.

Kevin’s wife Jodi says everyone ignored the problems in the marriage to keep the show’s ratings high. She says: “The show isn’t reality, and has not been for a long time. This is a train wreck.”

Kevin adds: “Their family is in shambles.”

Jodi and Kevin gave their only print interview to Star magazine, and in a cover story this week, they state the marriage is now governed by a secret contract. They reveal details of that contract in Star’s interview.

Kevin says both Jon and Kate need to give up the fame and fortune in order to save their marriage while Jodi says a divorce would affect the kids terribly.

In the Star magazine interview, she explains how she believes Kate is exploiting the kids and how badly it’s affecting them.

Kreider says his sister Kate wants to be a speak show host, and she really is starting to believe her own press.”

I really didn’t think I’d ever state it but if all of these things are true and Kate really did tell Jon it’s over, then I don’t hold it against him for starting to date Deanna. If your marriage is a sham and there’s no benefit to you, you’re going to find one somewhere. Good luck with that speak show, Kate. I think money made you blind and you lost everything that made you what you’re this day - your family and your fans.

BTW, this photo of Kate in the leather jacket and mini-skirt was taken on Tuesday and yep, that’s the infamous bodyguard/lover that she’s with. And she states that Jon doesn’t know how to handle life in the public eye!

[Source : Hollywood Heartbreaker]

Well it seems that we’ve taken the low road with the whole Jon and Kate Gosselin scandal. When it was revealed weeks ago that Jon was caught having an affair with Deanna Hummel, he chose to deny it and hope that it all went away. Now that it hasn’t, he has turned the blame back on Kate, saying that she was actually the first to step out on the marriage. I have a general rule where I’m suspicious of cheaters so at first I was inclined not to believe this story and the fact that it comes from an anonymous source doesn’t help. But I don’t know. The relationship sounds much friendlier than just client/bodyguard and does seem to suggest that Kate might have found her happiness elsewhere. A long time ago, might I add. From US, 

“The new issue of Us Weekly reports that Jon & Kate mother Kate Gosselin grew so close to her bodyguard, Steve Neild, it caught the attention of her husband, Jon — and has become the speak of many locals in their Berks County, Pennsylvania, community. Since Might 2008, Kate has made 50 public appearances, criss-crossing the country, often with Neild by her side, as Jon stayed home with the children. Even when at home — whether at Starbucks or at restaurants — Neild has been a constant companion to Gosselin, who is estranged from her family and viewed in town as not having friends.

“He threatened to hire a private investigator,” a family source informed by Jon Gosselin tells Us.

The married Neild — who once worked for Bill Clinton, and is often photographed not wearing his wedding band — were “very physical, often touching each other,” states an employee at a recent promotional appearance for their TLC reality show. “She was gently poking him, giving him little love pats, completely unlike the slapping she does with Jon. She and Steve were joking around so much, I actually wondered if they were having an affair. There’s a lot of open affection between them.” The employee adds Kate showed no affection at all to Jon at the same event.

(Neild’s wife Gina, a one-time close friend of Kate’s, tells Us local and on the web talk of an affair is “ridiculous”; Kate has confessed she and Jon might split in the same interview she says she is “horrified” by any allegations suggesting she and Neild are romantically involved; TLC refused comment.)

Meanwhile, Us has learned that Jon has had more public trysts with 23-year-old third grade instructor Deanna Hummel than first reported.”

Maybe at this particular event where Kate was showing more affection to someone that was on her payroll than she was to her husband, it was just a bad day for the two. It’s not unusual for people to overcompensate with people they’re not angry with when someone they’re pissed at is in the same room. It’s petty and stupid but that’s Kate after all. And she does always treat Jon like trash, there’s also no denying that. However if this is true, it shows that the marriage was in trouble long before Jon ever made eyes towards Deanna. Not that Kate’s cheating gives Jon the right to nor does Kate treating Jon like trash. If he doesn’t care about it, he should have left and that’s that.

But it seems now that things have gone too far and Jon and Kate just won’t be able to see it through this one. And when both people have already quit and walked out mentally, there’s really no going back. So…I wonder what this means for the show. Will there still be a show? Will it be Kate Plus Eight one week and then Jon Plus Eight the other? Who knows but this couple has larger problems right now than their television show. Most importantly, what’s going to happen to those 8 kids who have already had nothing close to a normal life and now have to live through their parents’ marriage problems? Who could have foreseen that something that was once such an ‘opportunity’ has now become their downfall? It’s really very sad.

[Source : Hollywood Heartbreaker]

I think all fans of the show Jon and Kate Plus Eight immediately wondered what would happen to the show when the news first broke of Jon’s affair with a 23-year-old woman. I’d like to point out as an interesting side note that it was being called a ‘rumored affair’ not two weeks ago and now it’s pretty much being accepted as fact that it happened, although denial is still coming from all around. But back to the point.

It seems that Jon’s stepping out has caused trouble in more than his marriage as producers of the show are wondering how to work the marriage problems into the show. One of their problems seems to be that Kate doesn’t want to talk directly about the affair and another problem is that the premiere is set to air in just two weeks. A what a tangled web we weave…From US,

“The fifth season premiere of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 is running late.

According to the Los Angeles Times, producers are trying to incorporate the couple’s martial woes into the show, just two weeks before its Might 25 air date.

Kate stated they had no plans to address the affair on the show but would speak about the strains on their marriage.

Marc Berman, senior TV editor at Mediaweek, tells Usmagazine.com all the scandal could “a problem for the show. Suddenly, the focus of the show is not on the kids — it’s on them.”

“This is a TLC show that attracts a lot of young kids, teens. This isn’t Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” he states. “What are they going to call the show - Kate Plus 8 Minus Jon?”

The bottom line, says Berman: The couple need to be “true to the audience” and explain what exactly is going on or fans “could feel alienated.”

Like Nick Lachey and ex-wife Jessica Simpson (sources told Us they earned up to $100,000 per show in later episodes of their MTV show), Jon and Kate “became victims of their own success,” Berman says.

A TV agent who deals primarily with reality shows estimates that the two probably earn between $50,000-$75,000 an episode.

“They began making money,” Berman says of Jon and Kate. “Suddenly, they’re not who they are anymore. They’re this Hollywood couple. You get all this money and ultimately it kind of changes who you are.”

I absolutely concur that the fame and money changed who they are. I didn’t watch the show from the beginning but I did watch it in the early years and as the family all got older, I had to stop watching it. Kate really did become psychotic and Jon just never really seemed to be willing to go that extra step, when a few extra steps are actually necessary when you’ve 8 kids. The show also became less about raising their kids to be good people and how they did it with 10 people living under the same roof, and became more about all the awesome stuff they got to do because they’re so rich now. 

My last thought with all the many that are running around my head about all of this is that I really think the focus right now should be on the marriage - both for the marriage and for the show. You can’t have a happy family with an unhappy foundation, as corny as it sounds and while I can comprehend why Kate would want to go into her shell and do what she knows how to do ideal, being a mom, I think it’s important that she focuses more now on being a wife. Unless she doesn’t want to save her marriage, in which case I also don’t blame her. But you can’t just act as though it didn’t happen. And you certainly can’t talk about your ‘marital woes’ without directly talking about the affair when that’s obviously a large part of it. Yep, I’m pretty sure these people have no idea what they’re doing.

[Source : Hollywood Heartbreaker]

It was just yesterday that I was saying that I wanted to hear Kate Gosselin’s side of things in the whole scandal of her husband and father to her 8 children stepping out on her and having an affair with a 23 year old 3rd grade teacher, Deanna Hummel. The story goes so far that Jon has been photographed many times with the woman in suspicious circumstances and doing very suspicious things, such as sunbathing half-naked and not wearing his wedding ring but both of them deny that anything illicit is happening. Deanna’s brother has also come out and confirmed the alleged affair, statements which Deanna argued against just hours later. So what’s Kate’s take on all of this?

She’s speaking to speak show hosts all over the country to ‘promote her book’ and ya know, touch on the subject of her cheating husband. Her reaction seems to be very robotic and I personally think this woman is in a great deal of denial. Add to that the fact that she really only seems to be concerned about the kids, a massive priority no doubt, but her marriage is falling apart and maybe she should tend to that for just a second. From US,

“One week after Us Weekly first broke the news that Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad Jon Gosselin was caught with another woman, his wife, Kate Gosselin, opens up about her husband.

“It’s one of those things that we’re just handling privately,” Kate said on Wednesday’s taping of The Rachael Ray Show. “We’re just taking it one step at a time and I’m trying to walk through it.”

She added: “The focus remains on our kids. It has always been there and will continue to be there. One day at a time, like we’ve always done. One hour at a time, one minute at a time, and my life’s been like that.”

“It’s definitely another learning experience,” Kate said about the current media attention. “I look at life through the eyes of my children in that I’ve always stated life experiences… I feel like you can learn something from each situation and I’m absolutely learning a lot from this.”

Kate stated that when she first signed on to do a reality show with her family, she never thought it would come with such negative effects.

“Certainly none of this could have been predicted,” she said. “Now going into our fifth season, we have stepped back and realized that it is part of this process, and I always say there’s really never any going back. We just need to go forward. That’s my new saying — just keep on marching through this. Just doing what we need to.”

Instead of focusing on the news — which includes Jon and Deanna spending time together while Kate was traveling in late April — of her husband’s three-month long affair, she stated she’s putting her attention on her eight kids.”

The Daily Blabber has even more of Kate’s denial from her interview on The Today Show just this morning. Kate seems to think that people were paid to speak but I don’t think that anyone paid Jon to be seen sneaking out of his girlfriend’s home or being seen drunk without his wedding ring on. Strangely enough, Jon and the children didn’t appear on the show even though they were scheduled to come. I guess Jon realized that no one would believe him anyway and that’s a great deal of shame and lies to carry around in front of everyone. From Daily Blabber,

“Meredith asked Kate about the allegations that her hubby is having an affair with instructor Deanna Hummel, to which Kate responded, “I’m very hesitant to believe any of it. It goes with the territory.”

Kate was on the show to promote her new book, Eight Tiny Faces, but talked a lot about all the drama going now in the news. She said she’s taking everything with “a grain of salt” since “people are being paid to speak.”

Us Weekly has an interview from the other woman’s brother, in which Jason Hummel says his sister is totally getting it on with Jon — and the mag claims they didn’t pay him a cent to state that.

“We’re dealing with it privately,” Kate stated this morning. “It’s kind of ironic since we do have a reality show and people see the good, the bad and the unsightly. But there are those things we keep to ourselves, and we’re working through it together, and that’s the important thing.”

Jon didn’t show, but sent a statement that read: “These allegations are false and just plain hurtful. As I adjust to the attention that comes from being in the public eye, I need to be more careful and aware of who I’m associating with and where I am spending my time. But the bottom line is, I didn’t cheat on Kate. I am sorry for putting my family in this awkward position, given some poor decisions and bad judgment I’ve made recently. I’m working through this difficult time with my family. My family is my top priority.”

I don’t buy Jon’s whole, “I didn’t know I had such an impact and that people cared so much about my life routine.” This show is going into their 5th season (well, scheduled to anyway) and I find it hard to believe that he’s still getting used to life in the public eye. My prediction is that if Kate really is in this much denial about it, it’s going to suck the air right out of her when the truth hits home and neither she, nor their marriage, will be able to work it out.

[Source : Hollywood Heartbreaker]