After butting heads with the show’s producers over unauthorized endorsement placements, TLC has decided to take Jon Gosselin off Jon & Kate Plus 8.
The show will focus on Kate as a single mother of twins girls and quintuplets in Kate plus 8.
I’ve only seen one episode of the show (just to see what the hype was about) and Jon comes across as an overbearing jerk who would much rather be chasing skirts than minding his own kids.
Moments after TLC announced the news that the show was moving on without him, Jon’s attorney submitted paperwork to a Pennsylvania court requesting a delay in his divorce proceedings. The reasons are obvious: 1. Jon loses any say so over his family’s appearance on the show if the divorce goes through, and 2. Jon doesn’t have a job.
According to USA Today, Jon’s attorneys submitted this statement to a Pennsylvania court approved arbitrator asking for a delay:
“Even though we were heading for a divorce, it appeared that Kate had been suffering from this divorce as much as I had. That’s why I asked my attorney to put the brakes on this divorce so I could try to regain control over the future of our family. So Kate and I could join on a cooperative course that would benefit our family — not destroy it.”
I used poor judgment in publicly socializing with other women so soon.”