If you are a watcher of these things (and like me you’d never admit it), you might just know that Jon Gosselin continued his “I’m living in a cabin in the woods” tour on Oprah’s Where Are They Now. Now don’t get all excited. This wasn’t a nice sit down with the queen of talk herself. The format of the show runs like this: Oprah does a little intro to the segment (or a stand-up as it’s called in the biz), then they show a clip of the subject appearing on the Oprah show in the past, then a series of questions are asked by a producer and they edit together a little piece on what the person is doing now. Easy peasy. So Oprah didn’t get to view Jon’s cabin in the woods first hand, or maybe she heard of Jon’s recent gun incident and decided to send a minion out to do the job. Who knows?
Oprah started out the segment by saying Jon and Kate plus 8 ruled cable TV back in the day. Which is true – they were pioneers in reality TV. Then she aired a clip of the first time Jon, Kate and the kids appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show back in 2008. It was bittersweet to see those little kids scamper around Oprah’s couch with both their Mom and Dad by their side. In the flash from the past, Jon said “We both are the disciplinarian”, and Kate made a joke about three being the new two, when it came to dealing with the terrible twos. Kate was rockin’ her reverse mullet, and Jon still had hair. Those were the days.
Now on to the Jon interview. It was pretty basic. Jon has clothes for the kids when they visit him and the camera showed some flip flops and coats by the door. Jon has bonfires for the kids and the camera showed him putting twigs in a fire pit. Jon has a chore chart. Jon has learned from Hansel and Gretel that a trail of bread crumbs gets eaten by birds, so he has installed a state-of-the-art piece of twine in the bush so the kids can find their way back to the house when they go to the creek. Jon seems to have rewritten, er… forgotten a couple of things from the past, especially when he said he took the kids off the show because he didn’t want his divorce to be filmed. Or maybe he didn’t know his lawyer sent TLC a “let Jon out of his contract or we’ll take the kids off the show” fax. He also said he and Kate don’t talk (but he wishes her well) and neither knows what is going on at the other’s house. Which again is contradictory to the statement in his recent answer to the lawsuit Kate has filed against him. Jon’s attorney says the kids told Jon that Kate threw out his stuff at her house, so that would tend to indicate the kids tell him what is going on at Kate’s house. He also said he is looking for an IT job and waiting tables in the meantime. Oops, Jon just recently told a local PA reporter that he didn’t miss IT.
He also said it was a misconception he was a party guy. I guess he is forgetting about another stop in his recent “I live in a cabin in the woods” tour, where he coyly told ET’s Brooke Anderson that he still partied but on a “different level”, referring to his former Las Vegas and French Riviera partying. He also said he never cheated on his wife.
The only thing that stood out in the interview is, Jon said:
“.. and yes, they have trust funds, and they’re taken care of educationally, great, but developmentally, they had problems with their peers, and they have problems with talking to other people, and they have problems with wants and needs and um, manners and morals and what’s right and what’s wrong, of course.”
Yup he actually said his kids have problems with manners and morals. WTF? Who says their kids have problems with morals or even manners for that matter. What was he thinking? What kind of morality problems can a 9 year old have?
So to recap: Jon lives in a cabin in the woods. Jon and Kate don’t talk, the kids have problems with morals, and he has made a fail-safe device to insure they return home safely from the creek. Just another interview in the woods with Jon Gosselin.
Oh by the way, many moons ago, we here at ImperfectWomen also interviewed Jon Gosselin. He seemed nice, but certainly wasn’t wishing Kate well back then. You can read it here PART ONE, PART TWO
I don’t even know where to start… He who is morally bankrupt has the gall to say his kids have problems with morals? I am positive that any one of his children has more ethics in their pinky finger, than Jon has in his whole body. He makes me want to vomit.
I have nothing nice to say….
Nothing……
Wow. I just can’t state enough how gross I think it is for him to criticize his children that way to the media. I get that he’s not articulate, and I get that Kate is the intended target of the dig, but it’s just disgusting to publicly call your own children out on their “morals.” Even if it were true (and I don’t think it is), it’s so inappropriate.
He’s never going to grow up and accept responsibility for his behavior, is he?
Said by a man child with the morals of a goat.
He does like to change his story quite a bit. Especially about the IT job. On The View, didn’t he say he couldn’t work in IT because Kate was suing him and who would hire him. But yet the lawsuit wasn’t filed until late August and he was not working in IT at the time it was filed.
I keep typing then deleting because I’m afraid my thoughts on this might be offensive. Like Rosie, I have nothing nice to say about Jon’s opinion regarding his kids’ manners and morals. I did like how you pointed out his inconsistencies in your article.
Oh, and as far as the kids having separate sets of clothing at both places? Cry me a river Jon. That isn’t an uncommon nor unpractical arrangement. I guess you’ll just have to buy clothes and do laundry like millions of other dad’s.
It’s very sad that he mentioned his children in such a negative way. Even if they do have problems, he should not have said so on national TV. Maybe part of the reason they have problems (if they do have problems) is he was not there for them when he and Kate divorced. IIRC he was off re-living his 20’s in Las Vegas, France, Utah and New York.
He is seriously a gigantic douche bag.
He thinks a line through the woods are going to get the kids home safely from the creek? Is he not watching the kids when they are outside?
And if those kids are having any problems with their morals, all Jon needs to do is look into the mirror to figure out how that happened!
Must be something about his parenting style.
The only reason I can imagine him saying such nasty things about his children is he wants to see even less of the ones he sees.
Clearly this is a “man” who does not understand what his own words reveal about him.
Goodness, did I write unpractical -I meant impractical. Sorry for my poor grammar. I blame my past relationships and my children. 🙂
OMG, If my kids knew their dad said something like that about them they would be really hurt, but it would quickly turn to anger.
Di, LMAO
I think giant douche bag sums it up perfectly.Can you imagine what the hater squad would have done if Kate had said such things about the kids. He is a disgusting,lying,immoral human being IMO and I feel so sorry for Kate and the kids having to deal with him. It is also a shame that his bad behavior is being rewarded with all the press he has gotten lately.I wonder if he tells the kids they have no manners and are immoral.Tha’ts a great way to build their self-esteem.
Jon knows nothing can hurt a woman more than to hurt her kids.
Jon is a TOOL
I apologize in advance for this…but did any of you notice how greasy and unkempt Jon looked (looks)? Do you think his “cabin in the woods” is so rustic he has to follow the string down to the creek for his ablutions? A big YUCK! He seems to lack a moral compass and/or a mirror.
Well, I thought that segment was a snoozefest. Same ol’, same ol’.
It’s interesting that he has given 2 interviews now throwing his kids under the bus. He had some nasty things to say about not trusting his kids in the Dad’s Round Table interview too.
Whatever.
Team Kate + 8!
Yes Ann, he said the girls lie to him. The more interviews Jon gives the worse he is going to look. The lies, inconsistencies, exaggerations. I say bring on the cabin in the woods tour. (I love that phrase).
What an idiot.
All u people are seriously crazy. YOu say you hate the guy but yet you’ve read every interview he’s ever done. Overanalyzing every single thing he says I believe is some kind of mental disease. Get a life already. I’m sure you are all perfect.
Katie
November 4, 2013 at 5:03 pm
All u people are seriously crazy. YOu say you hate the guy but yet you’ve read every interview he’s ever done. Overanalyzing every single thing he says I believe is some kind of mental disease. Get a life already. I’m sure you are all perfect.
Katie, besides being extremely rude, I think you have a reading comprehension problem. I don’t see where anyone said they hate him. If you think this is over analyzing you should see that other blog that hates Kate, but knows more about her than her fans. Of course, I can’t speak for everyone else, but I do have a life, a great life, in fact. As for perfect, um, no. That’s why I read here at Imperfect Women.
I was a Jon fan at one time…I don’t hate him nor do I over analyze everything that he says…and maybe I have high standards, but the guy has turned out to be a major creep.
BTW…No mental disease here, I have a GREAT life, and I am pretty close to perfect 😉
Whoa! Mentally ill?
We are harsh on Jon today. He really screwed this interview up. Does anyone think he just doesn’t think before he talks? I just can’t believe he means what he said about his own kids.
Kate posted a strong response defending the kids. Good for her. They are the ones she needs to respond for.
Kate’s response was great. I’m sure it was difficult for her to have to write. I guess I will never understand Jon Gosselin. It’s pretty clear he doesn’t feel any compulsion to tell the truth. If he lies about small things (like whether he is looking for a job in IT), it just makes you wonder if he is honest in any aspect of his life.
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The way he talked about his (thankfully) smart, healthy children makes me very sad. Even if he truly believes that, wouldn’t a parent who claims they are concerned for their children’s privacy regret saying that and insist the producers remove his words???
All I can say is wow, so hurtful for those kids to read someday. I really feel so bad for them knowing this will come out to them as they get older. And yes he really does change his story a lot.
Does anyone think he just doesn’t think before he talks? I just can’t believe he means what he said about his own kids. ~Ann
I do. Sadly, I think at times what Jon says and does is very calculated. Instances that come to mind: the long tweet about how he had gone to court to try to stop his kids from being filmed, followed by the urge to boycott (using a nasty hate-blog), the fiasco over his NY apt being robbed and ransacked. Other times, it’s ad lib. Remember way back to the twin’s birthday, Kate sent a text asking if they could split time. Jon flew off on a rant in front of the pap camera but there was a camera that caught the actual text and made Jon look like a fool.
I think a parent has a right to talk about the problems of their children. It builds a community, offers and provides supports to themselves and others. However, what Jon did was hurtful. He lumped his kids all together as one, called them delayed and blamed the show/Kate. And what about those interviews where he reiterated they were just normal kids? Was he lying then?
I am glad Kate responded. Jon did not consider the feelings of his children. What was he thinking? He reminds me so much of Michael Lohan.
I didn’t see the entire interview, just the clip. But, I read at Sage’s that out of Jon’s own mouth he said the children spend the night on Fri. and Sat. but no Sun. and then has dinner on Tues. I haven’t seen any of BL’s flock asking her to explain the math that equals 50% visitation. How about that magic law that makes all child support vanish at 50% or the other law she claims make it impossible to relieve a parent of child support once an order has been placed? BL has revealed that Jon was her source. Seems there’s some explaining that needs to be done there.
Oh yes, I meant to add that it’s a shame and disgusting seeing the haters slam the G kids to back-up Jon’s words. Nice going Jon.
That’s quite the update. Poor kids…I can’t imagine knowing my father thought I had problems with morals as a child.
So he’s going on some couples therapy reality show? Ugh.
I think reality TV damaged this couple’s marriage and the worst affected by the disfunction are the kids who are innocent by standers.
I wondered briefly what happened to him. I think he needed to be a little more concerned about his kids and less about himself, but that i not going to happen.