The folks who are releasing Jon & Kate Plus 8: Season 4, Vol. 1: The Wedding — a three-disc DVD set, out today — could not have predicted the way some of us would now be watching it. That is, for signs of strain on a marriage that’s recently been all over the media in the wake of alleged naughtiness by husband Jon Gosselin.
This DVD collects the first half of the season-four episodes, culminating in Jon and Kate’s 2008 “wedding renewal” ceremony in Hawaii. They reaffirm their wedding commitment (they married in 1999), and write their own vows. Kate’s words take on new resonance now. Addressing Jon, she promises to “be more respectful and more sensitive to your needs.”
This being Jon & Kate, cable TV’s most interesting reality soap opera, lots of little details tantalize. Kate mentions that when they first married, many of “our family members weren’t willing or able to come.” Not “willing”? We’ve heard hints of disapproval emanating from extended-family members before, but they’re never fully addressed.
As always, the sweet Gosselin children are little wonders to watch, so happily silly and spontaneous. (Of course, Kate has to interrupt the minister’s ceremony to, as she freely admits later, bark sternly at the little ones to behave. Hey, it’s her parenting style, right?)
Kate says on the DVD that she had to explain the “wedding renewal” to the youngest ones: “Not all moms and dads stay together… and we’ll always be together,” she says. Here’s hoping those kids have a happy parental pair in the future.
Did you watch these episodes when they first aired, or were you waiting for the DVD? Do you remember the “wedding renewal”? What do you think of Jon and Kate and the kids’ adventures?
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Must be weird to watch that now today with all that’s happened since.
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/05/05/tv-tonight-tuesday-may-5th-2009/
OK! Start the Kate Hate! Kate defenders, tell the Kate Haters to stop hating! Everybody say that Jon and Kate are getting rich at their kids expense. Go!!
Who cares?
tell aiden in the summer season of jon and kate plus 8 to put two thumbs up for me pppppppppppppplllllleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssseeeeeeee i am only 9
Crapola!!!
I had a problem: I couldn’t get off without being belittled by an older, eye-rolly woman. Then I found a woman named Kate at the site MILFbeyotches.com. She’s really mean, and one of her eight kids is always crying, but the chick’s freaky-deaky in bed! It can work for you! Go to MILFbeyotches.com today!!!
I didn’t believe it then; and I don’t believe it now.
They are a “business” relationship at this point and their business is selling their childrens’ privacy.
Jon & Kate are a joke. I used to love their show, but once they got rich from it, she became so snide and rude to Jon. I won’t be watching them anymore!
the wedding epi was boring Kates gown looked like a nightgown J&K wanted a free trip to Hawaii TLC said OK and added the wedding so viewers couldn’t say christ another vacation
This woman has no soul or spine. She would probably sell her own bowel movement just for a buck. She was an out-of-control preacher’s daughter who suddenly became a “Christian” when she knew she could sell her sob story to them for alot of dough. Check into her earlier years before she married Jon.She is a sham and her entire family knows that is why no one comes out in her defense. At this point she cannot be stopped even after seeing her whole family on the front cover of gossip rags and her children ridiculed. Happy Mother’s Day Kate
I think Kate would be ANYTHING for enough money. She doesn’t listen to anything Jon says. And he needs to learn to assert himself and tell her what he feels. I think this marriage is on its last legs.
Just announced in US weekly. it is over. Jon has confirmed his affair.
Over at GDDNOP the silence is deafening.
I unfairly judged Kate by just the commercials for her show, but, once I watched the show, I realized how great a mother she is, and what a jerk Jon is. I can’t tell you how many times I would have slapped him in his face for the things he says about his children, and for the way he treats them and Kate. He is definitely cheating on Kate, and if he denies it, then why is he going out to the bar to drink while Kate is at home with 8 children? He is not single, but I know he would like to be. Does he realize that he is on TV and America is judging him, as the worst father and husband ever? He needs to kiss the ground Kate walks on, because if I were his wife, he would be long gone, TV show or not. He has snatched those children up by their arms, he has ignored them when they try to talk to him, and he has basically treated them like they are his step-children, instead of his blood. I hope his parents are so very proud of their nasty, ignorant son.
“Not all moms and dads stay together… and we’ll always be together”…
Now she is threatening Jon with being miserable for his entire life?!!!
Please Jon, make yourself happy and get away. Way to go on your “irresponsible behavior”, even though her bro seems like a dolt. We are cheering for you. Please don’t sign up again, you can still get your self-respect and dignity back, as long as Kate is nowhere around. Her meanness and unpleasantness is very much deserving of your “irresponsible behavior”, just tell the judge to watch the shows from the beginning and you will be vindicated.