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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last I heard Jon was waiting tables.  I know that he used to be in IT and Kate used to be a nurse...that was before TLC.

Now Kate is a reality t.v. show star and Jon is remarried with custody of 2 of the sextuplets.

I think Jon is bitter towards Kate.  He wanted the divorce and I think he underestimated her star power and Kate's ability to support herself.  I think he really thought that when he ended his involvement in the show that would be the end of it for Kate, too.  They would become "normal" people again, figure out custody, split up assets...and go live there regular lives as regular people.  He tried to go under the radar but Kate kept herself (and the kids) in the spotlight.  Maybe he's come to terms with the fact that he is never going to have a normal life again, he'll always be recognizable...so now he can talk again.  Might as well make the best of it.[/quote]

Jon works fulltime in IT now.

Kate isn't a reality TV star. She desperately wants to be one, hence the fact she illegally filmed her children, but that ship has sailed. No one cares.

Jon isn't remarried. He has a long term girlfriend.

He didn't want the divorce. He wanted to quit the show, and Kate basically said...show or divorce. TLC offered him literally millions of dollars to stay married for the sake of the TV show.

He's talking now because a 10-year gag order on him has been lifted. And because his ex-wife dumped their 11 year old son in a psychiatric facility for years and refused to tell him where he was. [/quote]

It sounds like he gave Kate an ultimatum.  Quit the show/lose their income OR divorce him.  Jon actually was the one calling the shots.  He could have said that he wanted to greatly reduce his involvement or eliminate himself entirely from the show without divorcing Kate.  [b]But Jon was basically demanding that she quit the show[/b], too, or he did not want to remain married.

Kate chose to stay on the show and continue to bring in the money that supported their children.  Jon ran off and started sleeping around and playing the single guy.  Oh, I remember well how he behaved...

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Uhm, no, he wanted the kids to quit the show.  They are his kids too.  [/quote]

O.k.  He quit the show, divorced Kate but Kate and the kids continued on the show.  So how did Jon divorcing Kate achieve anything other than Jon was then a single man who was free to go to bars and hook up with women...[/quote]

Well Kate divorced him when he wouldn't film.  I'm sure he didn't go into it thinking he will lose the legal battle.  He sank almost 2 million into it and TLC paid for Kate.  I'm sure the truth about that is somewhere in the middle but he has never wavered from his story that he didn't want the kids to film because he thought it was bad for them.  She really likes the celebrity and the money it was bringing in and obviously didn't care about John's objections. [/quote]

Well she must have disagreed with him and she apparently was able to keep herself and the kids on the show.  That was their livelihood and Kate wasn't just going to chuck it out the window because Jon wanted her to.  She must have found his request unreasonable and that is why she divorced him.  Irreconcilable differences.  It happens.  Kate won in court and Jon needs to get over it.

I'm sure that Kate was not an easy person to be married to, I will give Jon that.  But I also think that it was mainly Kate who kept a roof over their children's heads and food on the table.  She gets credit for that.  [/quote]

PLENTY of people raise kids without whoring their children on TV day in and day out.  They both had careers before they had children.  She just liked the money and the spotlight.  Do you normally consider yourself to be the tiebreaker and an ultimatum setter in your marriage?  She won in court because she had more money (which is almost always the case) not because she was necessarily right.  She could have compromised in some way, cut back the hours they were filming, excluded certain moments of their lives.  But she said, "it's my way or the highway."  I'm not trying to say John is an angel, but Kate is bat shit crazy. [/quote]

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