Jon and Kate Equals H8
Let me be very clear, I did not know (and still don’t care) about the whole Jon and Kate melodrama. Each time you hear a new story about how Jon is a douchenozzle and Kate is obsessed with media celebrity as they both have jacked up their unusual breeding situation for reality television nirvana, I sort of cringe.
Reality shows are a dime a dozen now. Some of them are so trashily horrific, it’s like watching a train wreck after drinking a bottle of Jose in one long gulp. (In all fairness, I do like some reality shows for this reason alone.) On the other hand, the shows with kids in them make me run to the hills. I have no interest.
I guess a reality show where my oldest niece recently learned to sing and burp at the same time just doesn’t have the same gusto about it.
Over the summer, every single time I have opened up what I thought was a news website, I’ve seen headlines about this gruesome twosome. And, apparently Jon Boy emptied their bank account over the weekend. Well ain’t that damned skippy filled with an extra cup of asshattery for your children.
Here’s my cunning plan. News people (I’m looking at you extra hard NBC and Larry King) should just give it a rest. I realize that, in many ways, we are a TMZ nation these days. And I guess it’s not different than back in the 30s and 40s when celebrity/movies kept a nation at ease during a depression. (Wait, that sounds eerily familiar.) Well, if the ratings of this gag-inducing show are any indication, let’s see, not many people are watching it but then you have to look at it’s a cable show so rating are different in those arenas. And second of all, it’s apparent that Daddy Jon can’t handle his 15 minutes of fame in the least. And on the backend of three, wasn’t Kate a bit of a shrew during this show’s first few seasons?
I don’t know. I’m not picking sides because I don’t care. I haven’t seen it, I just keeping see reports on a show that is supposed to be about a large family. There are eight kids here, two parents trying to destroy each other and Mainstream Media is egging it on.
I don’t see this as entertainment in the least.
I don’t much care for either of them and never watched the show, but since I read some of the gossip sites fairly regularly, I’ve had my fill of them at this point.
Before this bank thing and his childish-tantrum-throwing move last week regarding the show, being pretty uninterested in them to begin with, it would have been a hard pick between which one seemed to be being the better person in all this. Though since Jon has basically been behaving like dude in the middle of an early midlife crisis and coming off pretty douche-y in the press, I would have had to say Kate seemed to have the upper hand.
Now – NO contest. Between his actions regarding his suit against the show and subsequent related actions, which was really like a five year old throwing a temper tantrum, and now this latest – wow, whether she ever acted like a shrew or not is now beside the point. He’s made her look fifty million times better than he does, and I don’t think any of his recent actions have done him any favors (including probably not in a court of law before the divorce judge).
Epic fail and think he’s pretty much shot himself in the foot at this point, acting like a big baby. I don’t care much for her either, but frankly after this last stunt I hope she walks with everything in the divorce and he’s left with nothing. This latest stunt and last week’s tantrum basically made him look like a giant big whining baby and made her look like Mother Teresa in comparison.
One of the gossip writers remarked something along the lines of they hoped that throwing big pool parties at fancy resorts hobnobbing with the rich and famous was profitable, since that’s the kind of thing he’s been spending all his time doing since they split up and has pretty much shot himself in the foot now with whatever might-have-been entertainment career he might have had. He’s probably got about 30 seconds left of his proverbial 15 minutes of fame, methinks.
It’d be poetic justice for the emptying out the bank account stunt if she winds up with whatever career in the entertainment industry she might move forward with, and he ends up mostly ignored by the press and his rich & famous friends and go back to work in some IT department somewhere. And still have to pay child support no matter how wealthy Kate might get.
His hissy fit bullshit this past week has been atrocious. I couldn’t agree more.
I don’t even know what show you are talking about, but hearing about all this even third hand makes me ill.
Bob, this whole thing is vomit inducing for sure.
I’ve been absolutely flabbergasted that the Jon & Kate thing has become A Story. Cripes, did anyone even watch their show *before* the shenanigans? I don’t think so!
Jon screwing around on Kate is the best thing that ever happened to those two. I simply don’t understand the fascination.
My thoughts are that the show has turned into an ugly monster and therefore a great experiment of how people go after the money. They may have started this “project” for the kids and by bringing in income muchly needed to raise 8 friggin’ kids. But now it has turned into a farce. Once Kate got all her plastic surgery and tummy tucks, it went from a good learning experience to another nasty, waste-of-time tv show. Kate always did the talking and Jon just sat there! I never watched the show, so how do I know so much about it? It just shows you how much BS is thrown at us, and we “absorb” it!!! ??? Most of what I saw of the show was on “The Soup”, and in my thoughts enough to see how they are hurting the kids and not helping their poor little psychies!!!! This show needs to just go away!!!
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