“Jon & Kate Plus 8” is over, Radar Online reports, following dad Jon Gosselin’s moratorium to the TLC network to stop filming his children. The producers will cobble together what they can from past footage and cease airing new episodes at the end of next month. It is widely expected that Kate Gosselin will get her own reality show, to focus on her life and career. She is also working on a roundtable talk show with cooking personality Paula Dean.

On Tuesday Jon Gosselin was ordered by the court to return $180,000 of the $230,000 he took out from his family’s joint account, leaving Kate with just $1,000 to pay the bills. Jon initially said he took out only $22,000 recently, but admitted that he took out “$177,000 over the course of a year… which is my paycheck.” Kate had an e-mail from the bank showing that Jon withdrew a total of $230,000 since August 10, 2009, which is well less than the year that Jon claimed.

Now Jon has admitted that he took out the money recently, but he did it in a kind of mumbling half-assed way, and told Entertainment Tonight that he didn’t realize he was in contempt of court, again repeating that it was his paycheck. He also tried to turn it around on his wife, Kate, and said that she has to account for the money she spent, too. He sounded like a teenage kid who realizes he’s been busted and has to own up to it but still tries to justify his behavior:

“Well, it was just after arbitration, we weren’t supposed to take money out of the restrictive account and we both did,” he tells Diane. “I was found in contempt for doing so, I didn’t realize, I was just like taking my paycheck out.”

And when it comes to how much he claims Kate has taken?

“It’s unaccounted for,” he says. “So by Friday, we’ll know her complete accounting, which might reduce my accounting, so I don’t know what’s going on.”

According to the judgment from Wednesday’s hearing Kate has to provide accounting records for $55,000 that she claims she withdrew for “household expenses”.

When asked by Dimond if Jon wanted to approach Kate in court Wednesday and tell her they could work it all out together, Jon replied, “I thought about doing that, but you know, in a public setting as a public figure you have to watch what you say and do.”

[From Radar Online]

How can Jon explain not working things out with his wife by claiming that he has to watch what he says? He’s made statements bragging about how popular and photographed he is, and has repeatedly trashed his wife to the press. He’s hardly taking the “high road” as he’s claimed.

Meanwhile Jon may be claiming that he wants to protect his children’s privacy, but he only blocking TLC from filming them. As MSNBC’s The Scoop points out, Jon didn’t mind having his children filmed on several occasions as part of his exclusive deal with Entertainment Tonight.