Premiere of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" Ends In Suspense

As the fifth season of Jon & Kate Plus 8 begins, the show started out much different than the previous seasons. The once loving couple were interviewed separately rather than together during most of the show. The two were not even shown together until later into the premiere.

Monday's premiere was about the sextuplets’ fifth birthday party but also addressing the media that have shown up recently. It was clear that there were tensions between Jon and Kate as they arrived separately to their children's party. Even while they were there, the two barely spoke to each other.

Clips of Kate and Jon talking about the media were shown throughout the episode. Jon insisted that he did not have an affair with a 23-year-old schoolteacher and saying, “I never read a tabloid magazine until I was in one. And the first one I bought was the last one I bought.” On one clip, Kate was filmed talking about how things have changed. “Very swiftly we turned into two different people,” Kate said, as she described how she has grown apart from her husband of 10 years, “and it’s just hard.”

While Kate travels making personal appearances for the show, Jon has mostly stayed home which Kate feels is one thing Jon is mad about. “So he’s angry with me that he’s home and I’m not,” Kate said. “Yet he doesn’t really feel great about me, so he wants me to travel.

Then she shares her anger. “I think the thing that makes me the maddest is: Jon made some mistakes and he was out and whatever, and that made people question him,” she said. “I’m doing what I’m SUPPOSED to be doing. I’m working and traveling” This led to the rumors of her having an affair with her bodyguard. She then says, “I’ll be darned if they’re going to take me down with that.”

“I have a lot of anger,” Kate then said, “because this is not where we were supposed to be, this is not what I envisioned for us.”

As the premiere ended, an announcer off screen asks, “Do you guys know what the future holds?” Both did not reply and the episode ends.

These two really should get some counseling instead of complaining. Jon needs to pull himself together while Kate needs to take some time off from the public appearances. They need to get together and work on their marriage. This episode was just sad to watch.