Ok, I’m always late on these manufactured cultural bandwagons, but it’s like all of a sudden these people are everywhere I look for the last few weeks and my question was/is. Who the heck are they and why should I care? What’s Jon and Kate Gosselin’s claim to fame, other than their ability to procreate? I’ve avoided talking about this because, frankly I hate most reality Television and I worked for Discovery and TLC for 4 years, so I’m not really into promoting their programming. Am I the only one who think it’s pretty sleazy that they actually teased the fact that they were getting a divorce to spike ratings for their TV Show? Apparently their ratings, according to several reports, were dropping fast. “In a statement, Jon Gosselin says he and wife Kate filed for divorce Monday afternoon. The co-stars of "Jon & Kate Plus 8," who are parents of sextuplets and twins, spoke of their decision to separate during Monday’s episode of the TLC reality series. The network had promised a major on-air decision from the couple, whose increasingly troubled 10-year marriage has dominated the series in recent weeks as well as fueling a firestorm of tabloid coverage.”
unfortunately, the children are the real victims here, and no one seems to care because they're just concerned about ratings.