By Anya
Jon Gosselin’s loquacious attorney, Mark Heller, is at it again.
In an exclusive interview with Radaronline.com, Mr. Heller made the following statement:
“The show is based on female demographics. You have housewives watching. They want to see what Jon Gosselin is going to do next. They don’t care about Kate that much. She is not the ratings draw he is.”
He also gave further credence to the rumors swirling that Jon will soon allow filming to resume of the Gosselin children:
“We may have a settlement proposal in the next week or two…It shocks me that they don’t try and get this thing back on the air.”
So, IW housewives, is Heller right? Was Jon the main draw of Jon and Kate Plus 8? If his personality did at one time attract you to the show, have his actions in recent months changed your desire to see him in future projects? Also, does anyone besides me find it astonishing that Jon lets Heller continue to represent him when it appears he is at least partially responsible for landing him in this lawsuit mess?
Tags: Gosselin lawsuit, Gosselins, housewives, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Mark Heller, TLC
Was Jon the main draw of Jon and Kate Plus 8?
oh my NO! he was the least interesting person on the show. it was the dynamic between kate and him that was interesting, not him. lol. he has no personality and no presence. at least kate can hold her own…she may be controversial but she had presence!
I guess Jon is never gonna learn that Heller needs to be muzzled.
From the very first show, Jon was the most interesting person. IMHO, the kids were first and the relationship between J&K was next. Jon by himself was nothing….
Ha Ha! Oh my, that’s inane as his old woman who lived in a shoe rant. Good grief. Lol.
Not that people didn’t like Jon, but Heller is just nuts.
Thats the way I feel!! Jon and Kate were nothing!! It was the babies that I enjoyed.
I think we need to introduce Gloria Allred and Mark Heller to eachother!!
Jon was interesting (not the most interesting, but interesting) when interacting with Kate and the kids. Jon, being inarticulate and doing whatever it is he’s doing these day? Not interesting to me, and I honestly would probably find it uncomfortable to watch him.
Absolutely NO! Jon was not the reason I tuned in to watch. In the very beginning I admired the fact that he appeared to be totally devoted and in love with Kate “forever”; however, now when I watch the reruns, my mind constantly strays to wonder…”Hmmm…since he met Hailey Glassman when Kate had her tummy tuck…and that was in the beginning…just how long was he unfaithful and unhappy about “missing his 20’s???”
I enjoyed Jon;s interaction with Kate but on his own? No, he was not the draw. This statement is laughable. Heller is nuts.
I just want to know what planet Mark Heller lives on???
Kate was not the ratings draw? It shocks me that they don’t get the show back on the air?
Lets go back to Larry King show and The Insider(?) all the accusations you made with J0n when you stopped the show.
Guess you are just trying to find a way to get your money from Jon since none of your other tactics have worked and Jon has no visible income coming in.
What planet does this idiot live on? Mark Heller probably wants the show back on the air so that Jon can pay him. Hopefully these 2 have learned not to cut off their nose to spite their face.
As far as Jon being the draw to watch the show…absolutely not! I watched because I was interested in the kids. There were a few scenes where Jon was interesting, like how he took charge of dressing and bathing the kids. But he was never the draw. Kate was far more interesting than he. Even before all this mess with the marriage came out I found the show boring when it was just him and the kids, while Kate was on her book tour. After the mess broke I couldn’t stand to see or hear him. He was unenthusiastic and short tempered with the kids. He was pathetic sitting there bragging about how he’s back to his old self, where if that was the case, he had nothing to brag about. Basically what he was saying was that Kate brought the best in him out because at least he was a present parent then. I hope that if TLC brings the show back Jon is not on it because I can’t stomach any more from him.
LOL… Jon was never the draw. The kids were primarily the draw as well as the INTERACTION between Jon and Kate. But Jon is even less of a draw now then he was orginially.
I can tell Heller why TLC is not champing at the bit to put Jon back on their network. He can’t be trusted to honor contracts. He is said horrible things about the network and few empolyeers ever accept that very long. And no one wants to watch a man his mid 30’s whine and act like a teenager.
hahahahahahaha
Why hasn’t Jon Gosselin dropped this douche bag of a lawyer yet?
I watched Entertainment tonight and they reported Jon was getting his own show!! Come on!!! No wonder Jon is acting so weird!! They are pumping him up with all this nonsense!! Then we have Hailey trying to get in the lime light, with her tell all bedside manners of Jon. Then Kate does her little goodie two shoes act of writing letters to the Children!! I wish they would all go away!!
I like how Kate puts on this big show about how broke she is, and trying to support the Children, then spends $7,000.00 on getting her hair done?
Mary,
Do you REALLY think she had to PAY for those hair extensions? Come on…..her old hairstyle (which I liked by the way – and for the record I like the new hairstyle too!) was so famous/infamous that I am sure many hairstylists were jumping at the chance to give her a new ‘do on the house just for the free publicity (Kind of like Jon and all of the Ed Hardy wear/fiascos….ugh….no comment on that one!)! And I would have jumped on the offer just like Kate did! When prices were being tossed around in the tabloids about what the new extensions would cost it didn’t say specifically that Kate paid that amount…they said that is what YOU WOULD pay if you were to go in and have it done. …….I think we would all be shocked if we knew how many freebees that people in the public eye receive just for the free advertising! And I’m not knocking the practice…..if someone wants to offer me some free stuff I would be ALL OVER IT! Unike all of those out there on certain hate sites who act like they would NEVER do that….yeah, right
Jmax-
I completely agree. I dont believe for one minute Kate paid for that- we’ve been hearing the value amount but no where have I heard she paid for it. Not to mention- she would be an idiot to pay for it with as much advertising and attention as it has gotten.
Mary, Kate didn’t put on a show about how broke she was. She did announce that Jon cleaned out the checking account in which she paid her bills leaving her only $1,000.00. If that weren’t true then he wouldn’t have been ordered by the court to pay it back. And it’s true that she has to be the one to support the kids, hence the book and the TV show. Jon certainly won’t be able to.
And as far you wishing they would go away. I understand the feeling. What I do when I feel like that about someone is to not watch or read anything reported on them and I don’t go to blogs talking about them.
Ted Gibson (from the same network TLC) guaranteed did the job as a freebie (oh, not another one I say sarcastically) for Kate. It’s nothing more than cross-promotion. Big flip. If people have a problem with freebies Kate gets (and I think we know what “people” and from where I’m talking about), then they need to get their heads out of their rear-ends. Oh, but then what would have of their writings be about if they can’t complain about all the freebies Kate gets?
Jmax you are so right….celebs and people in the public do get a lot of freebies. But, they don’t get all the flack for it that Kate does. Nor, is it as publicized. Guess people just love to rip on Kate.
Yes, I’d rather poke my eyes out, Jon does need to drop his douchebag of a lawyer.
I wonder why he hasn’t figured that one out yet. Oh yeah that’s right, he’s not very bright.
I’d Rather Poke My Eye Out – I have been saying the same thing for months. I do not understand why Jon is still with Heller. Perhaps he is in so deep with him money-wise there is no other alternative? Heller has done nothing for Jon except make a bigger mess of things than Jon would be capable of doing on his own.
I agree with those who say that Kate did not pay for her new hair. It was a freebie. And it seems to have served Ted Gibson well. I understand he had somewhat of a “name” before, but I think it kind of exploded with his work with Kate. He is everywhere now. I just saw another article today where he was talking about working with Ashley Greene (the Twilight star).
It’s funny as much as people want to put Kate down and preach that they think her 15 minutes are up, it seems she is able to keep the media interested in her (and not for embarrassing reasons like Jon) and she also brings attention to others looking to market themselves. I say good for both of them.
I have no idea if kate spent the 7,000.00 herself on her hair!! She had it all cut off already because she didn’t like it. So your right she probably did not pay for it. I don’t believe Kate is the only one responsible for supporting the Children. I am sure Jon does his share.
Yes I do wish everyone would leave both of them alone for awhile, and stop all the games. Yes they are games!! The only people getting hurt here are the Children. I am sure they love hearing about their Mom and Dad on the TV all the time. I believe if the media got out of their life for a year, it would give them both time to think!!
I think Kate got the extensions as a way to handle her hair growing in. She didn’t want to deal with the in between stage. Now that it is longer she had it cut into a new style.
I don’t think Kate is the only one responsible for supporting her kids. We know Jon is suppose to pay child support every month. We don’t know if he is. I do think Kate is determined to not depend on Jon and is having her book published , going on the View . and getting her own show as a way of not depending on anyone but herself.
mary you have to remember kate said ONE TIME and MONTHS AGO that jon cleaned out the account and she had no LIQUID ASSETS in that account to pay her bills. you cannot infer (well you can, but you’d be wrong) that to mean that she was saying she had no money and months later would still have no money and no way to pay her bills.
of course she got the extensions free. no one ever said she didn’t pay for them. and i just saw on rol ted gibson saying how sweet and funny kate was, how she was always talking about her kids, how she was always with her kids unless she was working…he had lots of nice things t say about her.
and she didn’t have her extensions all cut off. ted gibson said she would probably be coming in every month changing things, the cut/style/color…that she was game for different things and that she loved this new cut and style.
i’m happy for her.
I can’t believe that people are still talking about the cost of the extensions. Kate did not pay for them – this was a cross prmotion for TLC and What Not to Wear as Ted is the new hair stylist there. I think Gibson orginally went with a totally impractical style of a busy Mom and the cut works better for her.
I don’t think Kate is the only one responsible for supporting her kids. We know Jon is suppose to pay child support every month. We don’t know if he is. I do think Kate is determined to not depend on Jon and is having her book published , going on the View . and getting her own show as a way of not depending on anyone but herself.
Honestly, if I was Kate, I would only depend on myself to support the kids too. I am sure he was ordered child support but an order means nothing if he has no money. Jon has been on a year long holiday. When they were still getting paid by TLC that did not effect the family financially although clearly it hurt them other ways. Now the J&K+8 contract is over. Jon sullied his reputation in the TV industry by becoming known as someone who won’t honor a contract. He is unlikely to earn a living in television and shows no sign of interest in earning a living any other way. What he seems to have a knack for is finding girls from weathly families that he can live off of until they grow weary.
I have been paying close attention to Jon’s activities since the divorce was finalized and honestly in the 7 wees since Christmas, it seems like he has spent very litttle time with the kids. There were pictures two different weekends of him being home – one in January when he went out with Kevin and the other recently when he had two of tup girls out without any coats. There has been no sign that he has done any bus pick up or drop off lately. More telling is that we saw pictures of him in Utah (2 weeks), Washington, DC ( a weekend), and now Hawaii with the new girl.
Jon wanted out of parenting the kids on a regular basis and we should have all believed him when he said he didn’t like staying home with the kids. Jon is not a co-parent Kate can count on.
Jon wanted out of parenting the kids on a regular basis and we should have all believed him when he said he didn’t like staying home with the kids. Jon is not a co-parent Kate can count on.~Paige
I’m a SAHM & to be honest it isn’t my cup of tea. Most days I’d rather be working outside of my home. I guess that’s one of many differences, Jon doesn’t seem to want to work, or take of his kids, or co-parent, or be responsible or….
I think the only housewives who would want to see Jon on tv now is that “group” who used to regularly bash him and Kate, until it became more important for Kate to be the bad guy. Remember when they had discussions about whether Jon or Jim Bob Duggar was hotter?
I don’t think Jon could get anyone better than Heller at this point. Everyone is on to him now.
Heller is probably happy to give him a break on his fees because he’s getting all this free publicity.
And, Mary, I don’t think Kate would want the media to back off now, with a new book and tv show in the works. I don’t think it hurts the kids to hear about their mom getting a new haird0, the way it might hurt them to hear about their dad’s girlfriends.
The whole family was the draw, not just Jon or his interaction with his wife which more than half the time was embarrassing and hard to watch. Jon has acted so badly people would watch him to see what outrageous thing he is doing, but in a very different spirit, in my case at least, than we watched him as the father of a family of 8 young kids with a demanding wife.
I wonder if his kids will be teased although I don’t wonder about it very much. I’m sure they will be, if either parent does a show that is not of a reasonably high quality. It’s one thing to be famous and photographed for your reality show about being a family of multiples, which will have its embarrassing moments, but to have to have your father or mother doing some kind of reality show that seeks to shock and outrage people just to get viewers would be very painful for the kids socially. He’s blown his world’s favorite father, or father of the world’s favorite family role, that is for sure. What’s left?
Heller is terrible.
I think that Jon keeps Heller because he agrees with the things Heller says. In Jon’s mind he probably believes he was the draw.
I personally believe it was the interaction between Jon and Kate that kept people interested in watching the show.
I didn’t always agree with some of the things Kate did but I also don’t have 8 small children. I do have a set of twin boys and it was a lot of work. I can’t imagine twins and sextuplets.
I admire Kate for her strength and courage.
The real draw for me was all the blogging about the show. I would have stopped watching a long time ago except for the “child advocates” sideshow. All the handwringing about exploitation as if the show did not benefit those kids has been interesting. Given the chance, I would not have done the show the same way Jon and Kate did, but I can’t say that I blame them for taking the opportunities they did.
Without a doubt, Kate turned out to be a better parent to those kids. Theresa said that Jon is not very bright, and I agree. He stikes me as being a little slow. I still feel a bit sorry for him. He’s been exploited, it turns out, not by TLC (who paid him handsomely for his “work”) but by the Glassman family, the Hellers, M. Lohan, and Kate Major. They deserve what they got back from him.
Heller is laughable.
The real draw for me was all the blogging about the show.
I think that’s a good point. The show was entertaining but the craziness that surrounded it was fascinating. I don’t think some of the haters ever got that we didn’t defend Kate because we idolized her so much (I didn’t and don’t idolize her); rather the unfairness of the criticism that was leveled at her spurred us.
I feel sorry for Jon too. I feel like Kate hit the nail on the head when she said (paraphrasing) that Jon is a follower who listens to others who tell him what to do and think. I don’t think he’s a horrible person, but I think if he’s following crappy people, he can be pretty crappy himself. It’s too bad, because he does have good qualities.