Jon never wanted to do it, but Kate was the boss. According to Figure 8’s Bill Hayes, “you could see the friction [in their relationship] from the start.” And that made for good television. Jon & Kate quickly became the top-rated show on TLC, with an audience of between five and six million viewers. “We had a show that was rising in interest,” says Eileen O’Neill, “based on the unfiltered, sometimes cantankerous relationship of this couple with these eight beautiful children.” Often the production team would goad Jon and Kate into discussing their disagreements during their weekly couch sessions.
Kate forced Jon to quit his IT job to stay home and watch the kids while Kate went on a book tour for 2 years.
In the show’s fourth season, in 2008, Jon seemed to experience what Gail Collins has cleverly identified as the “feminine ‘problem that has no name’ that Betty Friedan wrote about in 1963.” He had been working again, this time as an I.T. analyst in the governor of Pennsylvania’s office in Harrisburg, but then he quit.
“He said he ‘just wanted to be Jon,’” Kate says disdainfully. But that had become impossible. “I remember Jon and I having a conversation some time in 2007,” Kate says, “to the effect of ‘We’re in this, and we can never go back,’ and I kind of secretly had a little grip of fear.” When they renewed their vows, in Hawaii, in the summer of 2008, she says, it was the first time they were “paparazzi’d.”
3 comments:
shalone8 posting=The more I see& hear on your website Kate is a repulsive ulgy huzzie.The kate zombies been on TMZ trying to control posters there as well,they have lost their minds watching,reading& hearing kate,kate until their life is nonexistence,I bet their home is filthy,the children abuse,animal abuse,anything that not KATE is worthless to them.JJ that is sad. I read on another site about Doug from radar kate all of her zombies fans making fun of Doug,saying he a wimp like jon,all kinds of things which they said,"DOUG WOULD NEVER READ WHAT THEY POSTED THERE".JJ kate zombie fans on Radar do not respect any of radar staff making fun of someone else there as well,I can't remember her name the editor..JJ they post they wish people wouldn't post bad about kate b/c of the children will read it,well read what the zombies post about jon,the fools don't even realize the children love their dad as much ,probably more than they love the Nasty Nose& Wonky Eye Kate..
JJ that why kate zombies fans hates u b/c the truth about kate is on your wesite.I hope people will stop by & see the clips I wish u would find the TLC clip where she refuse the child some water& then drink it in front of the child.TLC got the clip.I went posted on a site & posted that another poster ask me was that the truth about kate & the child water,I told her YES & how I found that out was on RADAR when someone pointed it out & I went & watch the clip..JJ I watch one clip & that was enough Kate was terrible to the kids & Jon & never watch another TLC clip again& won't..
I agree. The truth does hurt. Both parents are idiots, but Jon is the lesser of the 2 evil.
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