Are you sitting down? Jon Gosselin Blames Media For ‘Exploiting’ His kids.

[SoCalDem]

http://www.accesshollywood.com/jon-gosselin-blames-media-for-exploiting-his-eight-kids_article_22353

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

Before jetting off to Las Vegas to host a pool party at Wet Republic at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jon Gosselin sat down with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday for his first interview following his split from Kate Gosselin.

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The source initially said that, “TLC has had him on a gag order and he’s sick of it,” and that, “Jon basically comes right out and says he’s worried the show is ‘exploiting’ his eight children.”

The source continues that, “Jon says he doesn’t see himself as a celebrity, but because the public does, it will make it hard for him to go back to a normal life and a normal job. He wants to stay in the TV industry and has a lot of ideas.”

However, the reality dad also told E!, “I’m not saying TLC is exploiting my children. But I do believe the media and tabloids covering my family and the show for their own financial gain are the ones exploiting them. I have said on numerous occasions TLC has afforded my kids a better life and has helped provide a better roof on their heads.”

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Jon is slated to meet with clothing designer Christian Audigier on Monday, who he linked up with weeks ago in France. “Everything’s in the works,” Jon said of a possible business venture with the Ed Hardy designer.

[Neecy]

1. wow...just wow

[area51]

2. I'll second that "wow".

What an assclown. It's "someone else" exploiting my kids ... :eyes:

[aikoaiko]

3. I'm shocked -- I tell you -- just shocked.

What a douchebag.

[Cant trust em]

4. gotta be someone's fault.

[redqueen]

5. The really scary thing is ...

what if this DB is actually of 'average' intelligence? :scared:

[maxsolomon]

6. if Gosselin can put the final nail in Christian Audigier's coffin

then he will have become a productive member of society.

[GReedDiamond]

15. Audigier is, indeed, a slimy character...

...but his aggressive marketing of the Ed Hardy brand has made Don Ed a fair amount of money, even if Audigier has to be sued to make him pay up. I have a professional connection to Hardy, and he's actually a very nice guy who deserves his success. He works now as a fine artist, his tattoo days are behind him, and he has no direct part in the dreck Audigier produces under the Hardy brand, except for collecting his royalties (and the occasional need to sue Audigier).

In any case, Christian Audigier and Jon Gosselin should be a perfect match for each other.

[Jennicut]

7. Idiot. He and his wife put the kids out there for the media to exploit

Hence, he has expolited his own kids but that is obvious.

[SoCalDem]

11. They already HAD twins, and yet somehow thought

that having SIX more, would be okay....they SOLD their children's childhoods.

That's the "problem" here. In a perverse way, they could have turned it around, if they had been putting all/most of the "tv-money" into an interest-bearing trust fund for the eventual education and counseling for the kids, but they are children themselves, so they are blowing through it.

People like cute LITTLE kids, but somewhere around 7 or 8, they turn into ordinary adolescents, and are no longer "interesting".. What was their plan? to put them all into after-school care while they worked regular jobs?

They had no plan, except to find a way to cash in on the babies:grr:

[rocktivity]

8. Rocktivity Blames Gosselin for Exploting His Marriage.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. So glad I have no idea who he is..........

[Common Sense Party]

16. I have only the vaguest of notions

I don't know why anyone would care enough about their life to watch multiple hours of a show about them.

[SoCalDem]

17. I've never watched it.. Shows like that creep me out..

Remember "the Loud Family" from the '70's..? Sad to watch, but it was a harbinger...

[Common Sense Party]

20. I never saw the Loud family; only recently heard about them on NPR.

People like to stare at car wrecks, too.

[Javaman]

10. I know absolutely nothing about these two people...

I have purposely chose to remain ignorant in regards to who they are and what they are famous for.

They seem to be heavily promoted on the Huffington Post, however.

[Missy Vixen]

12. Poor, poor Jon Gosselin

"Exploited" by the media, AND paying child support for eight children?

:nopity:

It's unfortunate that he can't take responsibility for his own mistakes. Then again, I'll bet this is a pattern with both he and his ex. I feel badly for the kids.

[dugaresa]

13. I think that the best way to keep people from having these litters of children

is to not give them any attention or freebies.

Jon would be working double shifts and collapsing on his bed every night from exhaustion (not chasing young women) if he and Kate hadn't exploited their kids. She would be home taking care of her brood.

To be honest those kids lives are way better for the fact that they were "exploited", however their lives are worse for it as well.

I don't know what would be better, being poor nobodies with a father always out earning income to feed you and a mother who is exhausted or living the way they do now.

[LibDemAlways]

14. He's got hairplugs, fast cars, a huge McMansion and a ski

retreat courtesy of the exploitation of his kids. He's travelled extensively and had his mug all over the media. And he's bitching about others reaping financial gain off their little backs? There are no words. (And Kate is equally shameful.) Authorities in PA who've allowed those kids to have cameras record every moment of their childhoods are culpable too. How long will it be before we start hearing stories of the adolescent rebellious Gosselin children acting out and getting into all kinds of trouble? This is one screwed up situation.

[gbate]

25. And he's still an ugly m-fer with no clue.

[RamboLiberal]

28. I'm betting I'll read of this assclown declaring bankruptcy

in less than 2 years. Kate at least seems to have a better business head on her shoulders though I think her biggest fear is her money-making celebrity status and freebies from the exploition of her brood drying up.

I think the kids especially the older twins have gotten disgusted with the cameras always in their life.

[TahitiNut]

18. That's straight out of Palin's "How To Pimp Your Kids" playbook.

:puke:

[gratuitous]

19. I'll be contrarian

And say that there's something to Jon's whining. I've watched the show pretty consistently on TLC, and while there's a certain narcissism to it, a lot of the show seemed to be about coping strategies and parental planning to keep eight very active children occupied, entertained, growing and thriving. Unarguably, both Jon and Kate grew with the series into something a lot larger than it had started out. The sextuplets went from indistinguishable blobs to very different individuals with their own personalities, likes, dislikes, needs and abilities.

Did the Gosselins know what they were getting into when they had all six kids at once? I'd bet not a chance. Did they know all of what they were signing on for when they agreed to do the TLC series? No way in hell. Does Jon (and probably Kate, and all eight of the kids) have some regrets? Oh yeah, big time. Is he entitled to those regrets? I think so. Is he entitled to complain about what other people and entities are doing to exploit the Gosselins' situation? Again, I think so. Was it all as inevitable as night following day? Yupper.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I too have been a regular viewer

My concerns from the first season are Kate's OCD behaviors which seem unrealistic for any young mother, but especially a mother of 8 children. I went to Catholic school as a child and most of my classmates were from big families. The happiest seemed to live in the messiest houses and had moms who spent more time playing with their kids than cleaning their houses.

I have also been concerned for some time about Madi, the twin with the anger problem. She is likely to become even more troubled now that her parents are divorcing. Yet Jon and Kate have not yet seemed concerned enough to get Madi some help.

I see nothing but trouble ahead for these kids.

[gratuitous]

24. I agree re Kate

Her obsession with cleanliness and orderliness was way out there. Again and again in the diary sessions, you'd hear her complaining about all the chaos kicked up by eight kids (no duh!). Jon would sit patiently (sometimes not so patiently) and either look like he was thinking about a relaxing with a beer or not so quietly rolling his eyes.

I have to confess that I can't recall individual characteristics (or even names) of the kids, but they are surely going to need some professional help in the years to come. I think that by law any family even contemplating something like this should be required to sit down with someone who brushes the dollar signs out of their eyes, and levels with them as to what all of this attention is likely to mean for them and their lives. "Your relationship will change forever, and probably not for the good. Every little thing will be magnified out of all proportion to its role or its duration: good things will seem nearly heroic and be quickly forgotten; bad things will look worse than Hitler and be obsessed about for months afterward by busybodies who don't give a tin shit about your best interests." And so on.

[onenote]

22. to be uncontrarian

Jon is perfectly happy with TLC's exploitation of his children because he (Jon) shared in the financial benefits of that explotation. He doesn't like the fact that the tabloids (both print and broadcast) have a field day discussing his marriage and family situation because he doesn't get a piece of that action. Of course, he actually does benefit indirectly from the tabloid exploitation since the free publicity helped drive viewership to the show.

[Lex]

23. Their ability to logically foresee consequences is that of a 2 year old

child at best.

[Blue_Tires]

26. he really wants a 'normal' life and job?

he wouldn't last for 30 seconds if the gravy train ever stopped...the child support payments alone would put him in indentured servitude for his next two lifetimes...

i also love his attitude that makes it almost seem he was once a regular guy who all of a sudden was forced at gunpoint onto a reality TV set to play house with a strange woman and her brood...nevermind the fact that it is the cult of celebrity (which he claims to hate) that even got him in the door of Audigier's office...

[SoCalDem]

27. Hey, Jon !! Walmart's hiring

They're always hiring.. regular jobs for regular folks .. Go for it, dude! :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. He's an ass

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. I can't stand Kate but Jon is emerging as an ass as well.

I feel so sorry for those kids.

[JerseygirlCT]

31. Oh for F(*& sake. nt