Ashley
06-22-2009, 11:03 AM
First of all, I was watching CNN headline news this morning, and they actually mentioned that there was going to be a big announcement on J&K tonight.
That's right -- the over-hyped mysterious "John & Kate Plus 8" announcement slated to air Monday barely lasted to the weekend.
In an exclusive two-part video released by RadarOnline, Kate's brother Kevin Kreider and wife Jodi reveal some of their personal insight to the situation. Right off the bat, Kevin confirms the couple's plans to divorce.
"Six months ago Kate came to Jon and said, 'Hey, it's over.'" I suppose it can't really come as too much of a shock with all the recent buzz of infidelity from both parties. Plus, in my five-episode experience of watching J&K+8, it was painfully obvious that the couple's marriage was tense, to say the least.
The Kreiders also revealed how the tension created by Jon and Kate often encompassed those around them. The Kreiders have appeared in past seasons of the show, but had a fallout over a year ago after Kate threw a hissyfit when TLC (http://tlc.discovery.com/) planned to compensate her brother and sister-in-law.
"They would fight so incredibly much, the film crew would have a hard time getting 15 minutes of decent footage out of eight hours of filming," says Kevin. "It was horrible. Some of the production crew came to us at how they had moral problems with how they acted.""What they were filming," adds Jodi. In the second part of the video, Kevin reveals that Kate stated wanting no type of marriage counseling. That tidbit, combined with the fact that it was she who approached Jon saying "It's over," doesn't exactly show a great deal of commitment on her part. I mean, aren't marriages supposed to be about working things out, for better for worse, in sickness and in health, and all that?
In addition to this announcement, the video also verifies how incredibly unrealistic the show portrays the Gosselin household.
"Kate portrays, in the show, to be an incredible cook, an incredible baker, an incredible housewife," says Kevin. "I don't think, that when it comes down to daily life, she does any of those things on a regular basis." Jodi agrees, adding a possibly veiled jab at Kate for placing her personal promotions over her family's well-being.
"It takes an incredible amount of people to pull off what they're pulling off. Having people, you know, folding their laundry, cleaning their house, doing all of your mothering jobs that all of us as mothers just do," she says. "Logically when you think about it there's no way that she could be doing all of these things and also being on book tours, writing books and speaking at churches in different places and also promoting the show."
And now - what about those kids? Not only will the custody battles and learning about divorce at an early age affect the children, but you know the media isn't going to just suddenly vanish from their lives. What do you think?
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/tv/index.ssf/2009/06/jon_and_kate_announcement_spoi.html
That's right -- the over-hyped mysterious "John & Kate Plus 8" announcement slated to air Monday barely lasted to the weekend.
In an exclusive two-part video released by RadarOnline, Kate's brother Kevin Kreider and wife Jodi reveal some of their personal insight to the situation. Right off the bat, Kevin confirms the couple's plans to divorce.
"Six months ago Kate came to Jon and said, 'Hey, it's over.'" I suppose it can't really come as too much of a shock with all the recent buzz of infidelity from both parties. Plus, in my five-episode experience of watching J&K+8, it was painfully obvious that the couple's marriage was tense, to say the least.
The Kreiders also revealed how the tension created by Jon and Kate often encompassed those around them. The Kreiders have appeared in past seasons of the show, but had a fallout over a year ago after Kate threw a hissyfit when TLC (http://tlc.discovery.com/) planned to compensate her brother and sister-in-law.
"They would fight so incredibly much, the film crew would have a hard time getting 15 minutes of decent footage out of eight hours of filming," says Kevin. "It was horrible. Some of the production crew came to us at how they had moral problems with how they acted.""What they were filming," adds Jodi. In the second part of the video, Kevin reveals that Kate stated wanting no type of marriage counseling. That tidbit, combined with the fact that it was she who approached Jon saying "It's over," doesn't exactly show a great deal of commitment on her part. I mean, aren't marriages supposed to be about working things out, for better for worse, in sickness and in health, and all that?
In addition to this announcement, the video also verifies how incredibly unrealistic the show portrays the Gosselin household.
"Kate portrays, in the show, to be an incredible cook, an incredible baker, an incredible housewife," says Kevin. "I don't think, that when it comes down to daily life, she does any of those things on a regular basis." Jodi agrees, adding a possibly veiled jab at Kate for placing her personal promotions over her family's well-being.
"It takes an incredible amount of people to pull off what they're pulling off. Having people, you know, folding their laundry, cleaning their house, doing all of your mothering jobs that all of us as mothers just do," she says. "Logically when you think about it there's no way that she could be doing all of these things and also being on book tours, writing books and speaking at churches in different places and also promoting the show."
And now - what about those kids? Not only will the custody battles and learning about divorce at an early age affect the children, but you know the media isn't going to just suddenly vanish from their lives. What do you think?
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/tv/index.ssf/2009/06/jon_and_kate_announcement_spoi.html