I have seen the future and it's a repeat
up up and away in my beautiful balloon
So what's happened to Jon Gosselin since Jon & Kate + 8? Well what hasn't happened to him? After he had his high profile falling out with the dragon lady he went on a sex spree dating women such like as Hailey Glassman and Kate Major. Hailey Glassman was the daughter of Kate's plastic surgeon and a party girl of Jersey Shore caliber. Kate Major was a tabloid reporter with Star Magazine who rebounded onto another fringe celebrity you might have heard of - some guy named Michael Lohan. Jonno was more than a play boy party guy on the loose though; he also briefly designed some shit for Ed Hardy - which is the line of men's clothes that looks like it was based on those black light posters from the 70's, and he tried to cook up some reality TV scheme with the aforementioned Michael Lohan. About the only stones he left unturned were sending on of his infamous brood up in a hot air balloon, and dating Paris Hilton.
it's like you're a pin and I'm a needle - so who's more of a prick?
The public only put up with this shit for as long as they did because they felt a little sorry for him. All of America had seen the way Kate berated and belittled him in front of a national audience. That is if you consider constantly referring to him as pathetic and useless is belittling. Some might call it emasculating. However went Jon so far that he managed to irk the nation.
picking the lesser of two evils
They weren't so fond of Kate either. She was appearing every where there was a TV camera; like the View, on book tours, Dancing With the Stars, you name it. If there was a camera and a pay check she was there with her hen's arse hair cut and flashing her grim steely grin. She got a few other appearances she might not have liked, such as the magazine cover showing her smacking on one of the sextuplets, and that infamous youtube video telling one of her thirsty brood to shut up as the child begged for water. The fact that she badgered one of the assistants for bottled water, took a couple of sips in front of her child, then put it away out of reach didn't do much for her public image. Not since Steve Irwin dangled his new born son in front of a hungry croc had the world been so outraged with such atrocious parenting. So in spite of the fact that The Learning Channel retooled, or detooled, the show into Kate Plus 8, the viewing public began losing interest. They just wanted these two awful people to go away.
what goes up must come down
That left the gruesome twosome facing hard times. Kate started crying about making ends meet and being near bankruptcy. Since she was living in a 2 or 3 million dollar home most people thought "yeah, go cry to Octomom". "I got a lead on a really great nanny from Jenny McCartney but maybe can't afford her unless you keep watching my show and buying my shit" ain't a line to elicit sympathy from people who go out and work for their keep. Only threatening to go into porn as a last resort might have motivated people to continue supporting her reality TV show.
Jon leaves show business for serious work in ecology - There goes the environment!
People who work for their keep now ironically includes Kate's ex Jon. Kate might've been able to get some public appearance work, but no one wanted to see hide or rapidly receding hair of Jon. So he wound up far away from smart nightclubs, Vegas casinos, and celebrity bottom feeders of the Charlie Sheen goddesses variety. In fact he wound up installing solar panels for Green Pointe Energy in Penn. What can you say besides "easy come easy go" except "don't forget to write"?
it's not a make up...
It looked like Jon had gone straight but he hadn't abandoned the public. He kept his ever dwindling followers updated via his Twitter account. That's where the world learned that he might be reconciling with Kate. Actually the world didn't learn about it that way. The world had stopped paying attention long ago. The tabloids learned about it and passed the news on, probably to fill some space. What Jon was saying via the most over used celebrity medium yet in existence was "No I am not back with Kate". He felt the need to say that because he had been seen seeing her again.
keep on tweetin'
So what got into him? Jon also tweeted that "I am acutely aware of the mistakes I made in 2009, and I am ashamed of the choices I made". That's a little long for Twitter so maybe his publicist came up with it. Then again Jon doesn't have a publicist, so it's probably some kind of cut and paste deal. Anyway the upshot of the whole business is - besides that Jon has learned a lot of self help double talk about "owning his actions", which is what people say instead of "taking responsibility" - that Jon appears to be reconsidering the break up.
... we're just taking back the break up
Friends of Kate say that she's considering taking baby steps with Jon (there's been enough patter of little feet in that arrangement already!). Not that she regrets divorcing Jon cause she says explicitly that doesn't, or at least some unnamed friend said that on her behalf to the Globe. It's just that things haven't been the same since those heady jet set days of their reality TV show, and Kate's multi million dollar book deals and speaking tours.
getting high on a lot of hot air
So you can't blame the kooky kids for getting a little nostalgic for the good old days, and maybe even trying to recapture some of that special magic they shared. High powered celebrity was a role Kate seemed to fall into with disturbing ease. Almost as easily as she fell from grace. The thing is that a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. The viewing public had doubts about encouraging bad behavior ever since Richard Heene faked sending his kid up in a home made hot air balloon. People were so outraged that not even insisting that it was supposed to be a UFO hoax could placate them! After the Duggars America decided that the family values trend had to be discouraged.
Friends with Valtrex
So TV has moved on from dysfunctional families. Today's viewer is more interested drunken dyed orange teenagers who sleep around, fight, and occasionally do laundry (think of Jersey Shore as Friends on Valtrex!), then in wondering how far momma's gonna go or how many kids she's gonna pop out to keep the show going and the checks coming. So the sad truth is that times have changed and the world has moved on past Jon & Kate. Sometimes you can't go back home again, even if you invite your old TV crew back for the family reunion.
BTW some of you might have noticed that there's something real in the world. Japan is in a hell of a state. Many celeb gossip follower enjoy a little break from too much reality. However this time there's something that you can really do. Like adding your two cents worth in a way that really matters. Just try this:.
