Spring Break
Jon and Kate milk their hate
Beth Clothier
Issue date: 6/24/09 Section: Opinion
There are so many more obligations when a network is relying on you to keep their numbers up, and the stress of raising eight children under the age of ten doubles (at least) when you are constantly surrounded by film crews or trying to shield your children from the paparazzi. And though Kate denied that having the show and becoming celebrities played no part in the breakdown of their marriage, I can't help but wonder what their lives would have been like without the constant intrusion of the greater viewing public.
I cannot understand our fascination with these people, or any other family with a so-called "reality" show, other than that we get to satisfy our voyeuristic tendencies and gawk at them from the privacy of our own homes. That we can compare our lives to theirs, and in cases such as these, revel in the misery of others. The destruction of a real family should not be entertainment, but unfortunately, it likely took seeing one unfold to make thousands of viewers come to this realization.
I cannot understand our fascination with these people, or any other family with a so-called "reality" show, other than that we get to satisfy our voyeuristic tendencies and gawk at them from the privacy of our own homes. That we can compare our lives to theirs, and in cases such as these, revel in the misery of others. The destruction of a real family should not be entertainment, but unfortunately, it likely took seeing one unfold to make thousands of viewers come to this realization.
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debra
posted 6/28/09 @ 1:43 PM CST
The is showed does need to end. TLC is disgusting for continuing to milk it for all they can. Jon & Kate are not of their right mind. They I am afraid love the cash load. (Continued…)
BOBBIE
posted 6/28/09 @ 3:04 PM CST
I TO WISHED THAT THEY WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO GIVE UP THE SHOW, I DO BELIEVE THEY LOVE THIER CHILDREN BUT ALSO LOVE THE MONEY, AND JON HE IS JUST OVER IT. (Continued…)
linda
posted 6/28/09 @ 6:00 PM CST
this show should be cancelled. mostly for the childrens sakes. where are the child's protective agencies in this case??? unfortunately jon and kate's greed got in the way of the betterment of the children. (Continued…)
Bonnie
posted 6/28/09 @ 6:20 PM CST
I think like all the rest of us poor folks out here if we want to file for Divorce We have to go to Counseling for 6 months before and 6 months after. (Continued…)
Patricia Adams
posted 6/28/09 @ 7:25 PM CST
God Bless the children.
Jon is a whimpy pouty prick. Oh now I have earrings--I'm a man ? Oh now I wear my hat like a street punk--I'm bad. Go count eggs in a petry dish?
Kate get over it. (Continued…)
Joel
posted 6/28/09 @ 8:09 PM CST
Kate is oh so awfully sorrowful about this divorceful, ickily thing called motheryhood and wifery-type thing that she is driving her milliony fan-type creatures into an oodle of spite-ily hatefulness towards that lord-forsaken muggily duggily of hers. (Continued…)
Lee
posted 6/28/09 @ 8:19 PM CST
I knew after the first season of the show that Jon would probably have an affair or divorce Kate because she is constantly "belittling" him on the show for the world to see. (Continued…)
ohio red
posted 6/28/09 @ 9:58 PM CST
I can't believe he is looking a bachelor pads in NY.
He needs to get a place near his kids and not abandon them...They are going to need a lot of love and hugs. (Continued…)
Sue
posted 6/28/09 @ 10:00 PM CST
I am so disappointed that Jon refused counseling. When you make your marriage vows, you're supposed to work things out. He may have been henpecked, but Kate obviously has a problem, and he should have chosen counseling with her, not give up, and of all things, cheat on her. (Continued…)
Doug
posted 6/29/09 @ 12:28 PM CST
"Kate denied that having the show and becoming celebrities played no part in the breakdown of their marriage" umm HUH? I think the writer of the article meant she denied the show played a part instead of no part?
She obviously is in total denial
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