The last time we heard from Kate Gosselin, she was on the Today Show a couple of weeks ago to promote her TLC series Kate Plus 8. Kate said at the time that if her show had been canceled she wasn’t aware of it. She also gave some boring quotes about how her kids were hoping she’d remarry but that she hadn’t really dated anyone after her divorce. (Apart from boning the married security guard and lying about it.) We usually report on Kate because we’ve followed her over the years and it’s so easy to snark on her, but I didn’t even bother covering that interview. It looks like everyone else is over Kate too, because the show she stars in with her kids has been canceled.
Kate Gosselin’s days as a reality star are done for now.
TLC – the network that gave viewers a firsthand glimpse of Kate’s tumultuous and highly publicized split from ex-husband Jon Gosselin while they continued to raise their eight children – will no longer follow the 36-year-old and her brood with cameras.
“TLC has decided not to renew another season of Kate Plus 8,” a network rep told PEOPLE in a statement. “By the end of this season Kate Plus 8 will have hit the 150 episode mark (including Jon & Kate Plus 8); an exceptional milestone. TLC hopes to check in with Kate and the family periodically with specials in the future.”
[From People]
Kate needed to step up her game if she wanted to keep her show on the air. She can’t just talk about wanting to date someday, she should have had the cameras follow her on actual dates to capture the horrified look on the guys’ faces as they realized what a control freak piece of work she is. What’s next for her and her kids now? She’ll probably try and milk this for as much as she can and go on a speaking tour or something. You know she’s not going to go back to being a nurse. I also assume that she hasn’t saved enough to live on for more than a year, given how expensive her house was and how little savings she had in 2009 when Jon emptied out their accounts. Not that I feel for her at all.
Meanwhile Kate’s ex husband Jon Gosselin has given an interview to Radar saying that he hopes “that this will bring more privacy to my children and that they can get the proper attention they need for any personal issues they might have in the future.” Jon was opposed to having his children on the show, and caused a stink back in 2009 to try and stop production. TLC gave him the legal smack down though and filed suit to prevent him from making money from media appearances. It looks like this family is just about to fade away, and I hope that Kate’s kids have enough good people around them to be able to manage the transition. I’m not saying that they needed to be on camera, just that the crew were probably very attentive to them in a way their mother is not capable of.
After I wrote all that, I saw on Radar that Kate Gosselin has been tweeting up a storm. I’m not going to repeat what she’s written, except to say that the bitch is clinging to fame, hopes to keep her kids on TV, and that she sounds a hell of a lot like LeAnn Rimes.
Kate Gosselin is shown on 8/8/11 (blue dress) and on 5/6/11 (ugly sequin thing). Credit: WENN.com
(1) The aquamarine dress is pretty and looks good on her
(2) The second dress is horrible and looks horrible on her.
(3) Never watched her show
(4) Feel sorry for the kids with the awful parents they have
(5) Feel sorry for whomever she latches onto as a new husband as I dont think she is going back to the real world of work and thus must find a rich hubby-want-to-be-a-daddy man.
But…but…but…she HAS to be on TV or her children will starve!
She’s gonna have a hard time finding a sugar daddy. All those years of nagging and ordering being broadcast hopefully will warn anyone stupid enough to date her.
Guess spending thousands at a time on hair extensions and tanning didn’t pay off…
Kate plus 8 needs to get a real job.
I saw on Radar, apparently her plan now is to get on of the kids on a Disney show or something.
barf
Yep, the reality is nothing lasts for ever (especially in reality tv).
What took TLC so long? Wondering how long it will take her to find another way to use her kids as a way to make money. OMG! Kate may actually have to go to work in the real world.
It’s good this show is going off the air just as the kids are about to hit their worst years ever (tween/teen years). Hopefully they can get some semblance of a private life, if not a normal life. When they were cute little babies, it was sweet to see how they were growing up but now they need to live off camera.
It’s funny about Kate and her appearance. After I had my second kid, we knew we were done. Now I no longer have my excuse of “why get in shape now if I’m going to ruin my body again with another pregnancy”, and that coupled with the fact that my kids are older and therefore a little less needy, I actually have time to focus on me again after 5+ years. I started eating better and working out, and I’ve lost weight and gotten more fit to the point where it’s actually fun to shop for new clothes again. People at work have noticed the change in my appearance. So I think Kate morphing from a dowdy housewife to a glamour queen is fairly normal. Now, I say fairly…I do draw the line at spending every day at the hairdresser and dropping thousands on clothes, makeup and hair…but the point is, I got the change in appearance and thought it was nice for her to be able to do those things for herself after so many years of raising multiples.
That said…I rooted for her for about 30 seconds during the demise of her marriage, but boy…seeing her on DWTS and other post-divorce appearances…she really is awful. Just full of herself and completely obnoxious. When she and the kids visited Sarah Palin in Alaska, that was just the worst display of an adult temper tantrum EVER. Any sympathy or feeling of support immediately vanished. You know Maddie is going to write the best tell all since Mommie Dearest.
Good riddance, aren’t there child labor laws that require her to have saved some of the money for her kids???
I have a sinking feeling she’ll be on Celebrity Apprentice or some other crappy reality show sooner or later.
Ummm, can’t think that she saved alot of money. Does this mean that daddy Jon will be the children’s sole source of support? Oh, this could be interesting. Good bye spray tans, goodbye expensive clothes, goodbye mansion, goodbye paid for trips. Welcome to a good ole dose of reality.
TIP: Give Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar a call. Tater casserole in your future.
Please….we don’t need another Leann Rimes, one is enough.
Thank god. Disgusting how she used her kids as a career choice. Just sick. I’ve been waiting for her to disappear. God I hope one day she actually does. You know she’s not going back to non-celebrity life willingly.
She just repulses me to no end.
So long Katie – Don’t let the door hit your @ss on your way out!
Okay, here we go:
1) Jon, you giant ignoramous, you can’t “bring privacy” to your kids. It’s not a freakin’ casserole, dude. You ALLOW your kids their privacy. Which I’m sure is a foreign concept to you & Kate, since you’ve pimped them out since birth. (Yeah, not buying the whole “I’m-so-concerned-for-them-now-that-I’m-cut-out-of-the-income-equation” act. DROP IT.)
2) Kate, it’s called a JOB. GET ONE. Lots of us mommies have them. When times get tough, we ditch the nails, the pedis, the hair. (When hubs and I fell on hard times, I cut my own hair – please, let’s not go there – gave up my nails, and had my own “pedi spa days” at home.)
Both of you self-aggrandising idiots, PUT YOUR KIDS FIRST!
The first 14 post covered my thoughts. Good riddance to annoying baggage!
This is awesome news!
but sadly I think we’ll be hearing more from her now that it is canceled. She’ll be milking this thru the talk shows for a while. I doubt anyone will watch those either just b/c ppl cant stand her.
she has no talent other than being the most self-absorbed bitch in the the world. Hopefully this is good riddance but I have my doubts. I can see her really pushing the kids to other networks. I dont mean to be mean towards the kids but they may have cute to watch when they were infants but they’re losing that ‘cuteness factor’ now that they’re older.
Is it my imagination, or does she have gigantic feet?
Don’t you think they will re-run this show for at least a couple of years? She should rake in some decent money for that alone.
She probably told her kids it was THEIR fault.
I have to admit, I don’t think she really banged the security guard. I think Jon planted that to embarass her back when he was continually embarassing himself on a daily basis.
And another one bites the dust. Boy I can’t wait til the day comes when the Kardashians’ show gets cancelled.
Um for all those screaming that she should get a real job, please inform me on what normal job Kate could get that would allow to support her EIGHT kids?
I wish Kate and her kids the best. It’s going to rough from here on out.
Tierra – Exactly! Cute has an expiration date with a lot of people (my ex included – 3 yrs old, to be exact) and once kids have hit that date, people aren’t so interested any more.
It’s very hard to find someone who thinks your kids are as adorable as you (their mum & hopefully their dad, too) do.
Now, can you imagine explaining to your tender young things that they’ve reached their Public Expiration Date?
Maude, if you can’t support them, don’t have them. Simple, paractical, common sense. One shouldn’t have to rely on a reality show as a source of income.
@Maude so she should pimp out her kids to support her getting $7,000 hair extensions on the regular??? She should have thought of how she was going to supports all those kids when she went in for fertility treatments after her first set of twins.
Guess Jon is finally going to have to pay child support. He is probably sh**ing his pants about now.
I watched this show when it was in its early stages when the kids were babies. What it turned into over the years and what it has done to this family is sad. Kate has become a laughing stock and her desire for fame ruined her marriage and has likely tainted her children for years to come. For the family’s sake, TLC should have put an end to this years ago.
I actually saw her at a book signing (please don’t judge me) pre-extensions and she’s a lot prettier without the drag makeup.
PS, I have EXCELLENT pics of the back of her rabid possum hair.
A Disney show with her 8 kids might not be such a bad idea, as long as they don’t show her. The only problem is since she is such a control freak I imagine she would make it impossible for the producers to work with her kids.
I think everyone has said it all before me. All I can add is MY Thanks Goodness.
@bellaluna: THANK YOU! It drives me nuts how people cry poor when they have a litter of kids. If you’re that poor, don’t have that many kids! Good grief, what happened to common sense, or sense of any kind? Add to that the fact that most people have paid thousands of dollars for fertility treatments to have all of these kids, and it just leaves me shaking my head.
Hate that woman. Unfortunately, she will probably keep on pimping out her kids on some other tv show and make herself their mom-ager. No way will she give up her hair, mani-pedi appointments, personal trainer, security guards, etc and work a 9-5 job like the rest of us.
No amount of money can cure Fat Calves.
Aside from that, the previous posters have covered the (barely) relevant points of this story.
Does Kate need to be married to be on one of those Housewives shows, now that could be entertaining.
Good lord, after being married to her for however many years, no wonder Jon went on a binge for a while. He’s stayed on the straight and narrow, and I hope he’s sincere, but now her show’s done, it will be interesting to see if he comes out of the woodwork more.
But didn’t anyone notice his statement about the kids getting the help they need? That’s really sad.
If she didn’t blow the TLC money on hair extensions, spray tan and plastic surgery she’d have a nice little nest egg for her kiddies.
She can fall back on nursing although I’d dislike being her patient. Nurse Ratchett, indeed!
I hate this skank. I hope she disappears into oblivion now.
thank god! she is a hideous waste of oxygen.
@ajork That is exactly what I thought!
Seriously glad to see this woman go away. They were plugging her show by using trailors that show her being horrible to a nanny or two. Like we didn’t know that was happening?
Good lord this Diva needs to go away, but I am so afraid that the kids are really going to suffer for it!
I hear Celebrity Rehab has some vacancies…for the KIDS, that is!
OctoMom is snickering, you guys know it!!
she had this strange hatred for Kate, cause she wanted to be in Kate’s shoes w/the fame and acceptance, per say.
I remember on camera she crumpled up Kate’s pic and threw it in the garbage and then said YUCK!
I REFUSE to go read her tweets, LOL
I honestly cannot believe how long the solo show with the kids lasted. A few desperately boring moments had me tuning in and I was ready to gauge my eyes out with a dull butter knife after a few minutes. All they ever did was vacation while she narrated in that droning voice of hers. She never did have a lick of personality. Their success was based on viewers morbid facination with her being a total nasty bitch to her husband. I can’t believe she thought that gig would last forever.
Pimp out the kids to Disney as her next plan; yeah, that sounds about right…..
I admit that I loved the show when Jon and Kate were together, but once they bought that mansion I knew it was over. Ever since she’s complained about money. Uh…you have a MANSION and huge property. Live within your means like you used to and it wouldn’t be a problem. I hope she at least saved up for her kids education.
Who would want to watch her in her million dollar plus house, expensive fake tan year round, dressed sexy all the time with her perfect blond streaks going expensive things with her kids?
What excuse now can Kate use for being everywhere with her married boyfriend — oops, I mean bodyguard.
And I watched the show the other day, again Kate in a tight low it top pointing out paparazzi the whole show. Gag me.
Wow! There might really be a God. Hopefully she saved some money and put it aside for a rainy day, and get an actual job. That’s how most Moms do it. I know she has 8 Kids but so did my grandmother and she made it. Time for Kate to get her resume together, I’m sure people would be willing to hire her because of who she is.
Wow! There might really be a God. Hopefully she saved some money and put it aside for a rainy day, and get an actual job. That’s how most Moms do it. I know she has 8 Kids but so did my grandmother and she made it. Time for Kate to get her resume together, I’m sure people would be willing to hire her because of who she is.
I hope Jon is able to get the kids away from that banshee. She constantly emasculated him, verbally abused him, and even physically abused him by slapping him upside the head and that was just on air. Can you imagine what she was like when the cameras were off?
I know a lot of you will think that male spousal abuse is a joke but it isn’t. NO ONE ever deserves to be abused. Jon was a classic victim of male spousal abuse. I’m not saying that his behavior afterwards was okay or that he’s perfect but she was treated Jon with 0 respect during their marriage. What’s hilarious is that she is still so bitter about him cheating on her/leaving her and can’t understand why. I’m not advocating his behavior or his cheating but I can understand wanting to find some sanity and to be around people who will at least treat you with respect and things spiraling out of control. I think it took him awhile after they split to realize that the damage she did to his life, self esteem and confidence and to be able to address those issues.
I’m really happy to see Jon pull himself together and move on with his life. I just hope he does everything in his power to keep his kids from being the targets of Kate’s anger.
Wonder how the kids will adjust… they’ve had cameras on them their entire life. Tons of lavish trips and experiences for the show that “regular people” don’t get. It’s not like they have parents who can work together. I believe Kate was being a protective mom but “the spoils” got to her. These kids have no concept of what reality is. The limelight & perks are addictive. Momma’s gonna get desperate for money & attention. I *hope* the kids’ money is protected & managed by someon protecting their interests.
Hopefully she salted away some money, so now that she doesn’t have a job she will still be able to pay for her plastic surgeries. Sure, she’s gonna have to cut back a little, but she should have enough for the lipo and nip/tucks when she needs them.
Oh please…tell me if you weren’t offered that much money & trips, etc…you wouldn’t put your kids on tv? Don’t fib now! How were they supposed to pay for 8 freakin’ kids?
In regards to the story…please, if you are going to say something about someone and what they said…tell me!! Now I want to know! Can you see two different people than Kate and Leanne? WOW!
Ya think if she was doin’ the bodyguard…SOME other site would of figured it out by now.
I can’t wait for TLC’s reunion show with the kids in 10 years.
If I hear one more person lament about how she’s going to support those kids w/o her show, I am going to SCREAM. She is worth MILLIONS and would never have to work another day in her life, while I, with a degree and working at a real job all my life, live week to week. So sick of entitled people.
@jasperkitty
Wow-you need to do your K8 research. They did in-vitro once and only got twins 6 months after marriage. Usually you have to try for a couple of years, then when she got pregnant with the six, Jon immediately started soliciting for a show before they were even born. She wouldn’t accept any used stuff from her church, got estranged from her father and family over that, estranged herself from a husband, one crew and every family member and friend she had and ordered her husband around like a slave.
It’s pretty widely known that she had banished John from the mansion and made him live over the garage while she carried on with the bodyguard. (Really, you need a FT bg when you live on huge acreage in rural PA?)Her kids have been miserable and unhappy for so long, shown in humiliating circumstances like being made to lie on a laundry room floor because they were vomiting, or having impacted bowels fixed on camera, potty training on camera, developmental delays, the older kids are always sad or angry, the younger ones sound like three year olds. Go to youtube and type in Kate’s worst moments or meltdowns and you will sing a different tune.
So NO WAY would I subject my amazing kids to being on TV 24/7 for any amount of money in the world. I’d rather raise a happy middle class kid than 8 mentally ravaged kids who are already kicked out of school for violent acts.
Sorry for the rant, this woman is a freaking joke, who pimped her kids, sacrificed her husband who put up with her constant shit, and has ruined her kid’s lives. I hope she saved up enough for all the counseling they are going to need. Can’t wait for the tell all books to start coming out, Mady finally wins the day!
@the original bellaluna- I was going to say the same thingto Maude don’t have 8 kids if you can’t afford to feed them wihout welfare, charity or pimping them out. Also I liked youc comment about cuteness having an expiration date at 3 years, ex included. Did you mean your ex was cute for 3 years or cute only until he was 3 years old? I had to laugh at that esp since if remember correctly he was a real jerk of a guy it is nice to still have your sense of humor.
@LeeLoo
I co-sign 100%. I used to watch the show in the *very* early seasons, but part of the reason I stopped was because I was horrified at the dynamic in that relationship. Kate marched around like she OWNED Jon. You could tell how much he adored his children but he just seemed so beaten down on that show, so emotionally drained.
I’m not saying I advocate cheating, but he “went wild” for…what, 5 months? And since then we’ve heard nothing, haven’t seen him staggering out of clubs, nothing. The only media statements he’s given are about how he doesn’t want his kids on TV, and it’s clear he– their father– has no say in that. Meanwhile we saw YEARS of Kate belittling him in front of their children, overriding him on every decision, and yeah, slapping him…and yet he’s the villain?
Seriously, WTF people.
@LeeLoo- Just read your comments on male spousal abuse and I couldn’t agree more. My mom did that to my dad and it was terrible for him and for us bunch of kids they had that they couldn’t afford. He worked a minimum wage job, cooked for us, did the laundry at the laundromat, grocery shopped and she stayed home doing nothing but indulging her mental problems with religion and yelling at him and treating him badly and slapping him and sometimes grabbing his cheeks like she did us. and guess what he is dead and she keeps on living.
Why doesn’t anyone save for a “rainy” day. Hasn’t she made so much money that she can live with her book deals? she may be asked to do hosting gigs but she lacks any personality. hated her in Dancing with the Stars. She was so spiteful.
TG – 😀 My ex thought the kids had a “cute expiration date” of 3 years old. Once our “only” hit 3, I was already pregnant with our second. When she was 3, I left. (I refuse to share my marital bed with another woman – I’m just bitchy like that.) FTR, both of my ex’s were awful, just in different ways. I retained my sarcasmo sense of humour – it serves me well. 😉
Men can be victims of domestic abuse, just like women and children can. There is no “magical barrier” that shields anyone, anywhere, racial and/or monetary status be damned, from being abused. People shouldn’t look down their noses at anyone who is abused.
I will say, however, that I think Jon is passive-aggressive. That does NOT excuse physical abuse. But I believe passive-aggressive behaviour is also a form (albeit not as “in your face” as physical) of abuse. Call it a “gateway abuse,” if you will.
From hostile passive-aggressive-ness comes verbal/emotional abuse, and from there, it’s a hop-skip-and-a-jump to physical abuse. Physical abuse starts when the other person has been demeaned and beaten down verbally and emotionally. In that way, abuse is sneaky and insidious.
When she did that interview…talking about how she can’t find anyone to date…all I could think of was that gray-haired security guard she takes on vacations. Hasn’t she been sleeping with him all along…even though she claims his wife is her friend? What a phony!
I feel sorry for the children..K. is so narcassistic. Dr. Drew, where r you?
OH THANK GOD…..
I agree with you, Bellaluna & GeekChic, about not have litters of children you can’t support. The sucky thing being that the *children* are the ones who inevitably pay for this, when their parents can’t afford to take care of them. Honestly, I’d be fine with Jon & Kate never getting their financial comeuppance…. If it meant those poor kids wouldn’t have to experience it. They’ve been through more than enough already.
I agree with what was said about worry for how things are going to go for those kid’s daily life… without the group of production staff/caretakers they’ve had their whole lives there for them. Kate is NO decent parent, she’s never had to be. On one of the commercials I saw shown about the show ending, Kate was bitching at some woman (not sure who she is) who’s apparently been close to the children since the show started, effectively ‘firing’ her early & making her leave. (This made the woman cry, saying she truly loved the children & worried for them).
Uh, maybe she could get a job an
@Original Tiffany: It’s good to hear from someone who has ALL the facts. So refreshing to read an informed post–you nailed it.
She can always join the RHONJ
@original tiffany and Judy
no matter what is said…your mind is made up. I know the facts just like you…thing is….I choose to hear both sides before I make up my mind. I also choose to not argue about it, LOL…LIFE IS TOO SHORT. I don’t know this woman, don’t want to…I just voiced an opinion. Yikes, LOL…didn’t expect such a response…kinda funny actually how long it was. LMAO
Obviously she’s been blowing money, but the truth is given the ridiculous amount of money earned per episode, plus her children’s earnings (they are technically ‘working’performers given screen time and thus make money), reality TV show appearances, talk show appearances, book deals, and free college that the state of Pennsylvania agreed to give her children upon their birth (which, given this, doesn’t explain her decision to put her kids through all this nonsense to one day put them through college), not to mention residuals and sales of DVDs/merchandise, this woman has made out better than a lottery winner, husband aside. She will desperately try to find another network for her brood, no fish will bite… she will try to make a career for herself on a washed-up celeb reality show and maybe get a gig once in a while, but people are obviously tired of the charade and she’ll fade out like the others. What I can tell you is this lady will never get a real job and has enough money to slide by just fine. It’s the attention-whoring she’ll have to get used to living without, which will be difficult, and those therapy bills for her kids will get mighty expensive. Sad.
Kate Plus 8, my butt, it’s always been Kate, plus Kate. Those series have always been about “HER”, not her children. Jon and the Nanny did the “Best Thing”, they Left, that Bitch.She has played it up for the camera, til she was used up. My only concern is the kids. Kate has an anger issue. And she didn’t raise her kids. The “Nannies did..she only played the part of a adoring Mother, for the camera. She’s a total controll freak.I’m so glad that she will no longer be on TV. The well has run dry, Kate. Get a figgin job, pay your own way……. something that is pretty new to you.Kate, YOU ARE A TOTAL BITCH!!!!!!!