Remember when Jon Gosselin called himself the most photographed person in the world and claimed that he was too famous to work a 9-5 job? Remember when he was hanging out on Christian Audiger’s yacht in Cannes with one 24 year-old girlfriend and later making out at Sundance with another? Well Jon ate crow for a while, moved into a 2 bedroom apartment and got a job working for an environmental company installing solar panels. Then he lost that job and now he’s living with his mom, driving his mom’s car and having her pay all the bills. I forgot to mention all the other chicks he boned and misled along the way, particularly the nanny and the tabloid reporter who cried about the assistant job he promised her after knowing her less than a week. (Note that I looked over the last time I covered this guy, and I basically said the same thing about him. It’s what comes to mind whenever he tries to act holier than Kate.) Would any of those women have slept with this dude if he was living with his mamma? Here’s more about Jon’s current situation.
Jon Gosselin has a new roommate – his mom!
The former star of “Jon and Kate Plus 8” has finally hit rock bottom and was so down and out that his 65-year-old mother Pamela Castello moved halfway across the state of Pennsylvania to share a townhome with him, say sources.
Pamela pays the rent and shares her beat-up vehicle with the father of eight.
“Jon is going broke – has has no job and I think he has used and abused all the people close to him that helped him financially, like his brother Mark,” revealed an insider.
“He’d wanted his mom to move to the Reading, PA area for a while, and since she is almost the only person left that will still help him financially, he talked her into getting a townhouse – and she pays rent…
“When Jon and Ellen [his last girlfriend] lived together, Ellen split the rent with Jon’s mother – it’s quite sad, actually,” said the insider.
In December, The Enquirer reported that times were so tough for the former IT specialist – who’s now dating single mother-of-three Elizabetta Jannetta – that his beloved BMW was repossessed, and he had to borrow his mother’s beat up minivan.
“He has eight children to provide for and has to turn to his mother to help support him.”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, April 9, 2012]
Well Jon did want his kids off TV, and he did pay lip service to living a quiet life after he couldn’t land his own reality show with Michael Lohan and no one wanted to pay his appearance fees. But all I can think of is the Jon we got to know through the press, the Jon with verbal diarrhea and an extremely inflated sense of self. The one who is now broke and living with his mom. I can’t harp on it too much, though. At least he tried to work a regular job for a while. Can we say the same for coupon Kate? Sort-of.
Jon on 08/29/09 hosting an event at Wet and Republic at the MGM Grand in Vegas. Credit: PRN / PR Photos.
Jon on 3/29/12 at Svedka Vodka’s ‘Night Of A Billion Reality Stars’ at the Supperclub Hollywood. Credit: Daniel Tanner/ WENN.com
this family is WHACK! to put it nicely…those poor kids. they’re not messing up ONE but EIGHT children who will grow into very dysfunctional adults… and again, this is why you don’t sell out your family on TLC for fame and fortune… you end up in your mom’s basement…
I’m probably the only one who misses this guy being in the tabloids. He is SO much fun to hate on, for some reason.
Jon expressed that he was perfectly content with the twins-Cara & Maddie. It was Kate that wanted more children..they ended up with 6 lovely babies. I enjoyed watching the show when the children were young, learning to walk & talk. They are adorable. The stress on Jon & Kate was unimaginable. Kate was/is like a drill sargeant, never treated Jon like an equal. I fail to understand why doctors keep providing fertility treatments when couples are visibly struggling, and already have children.
Jon only changed his tune when he couldn’t get his own reality show.
Kate and Jon really are made for eachother – hope those kids are OK
Who paid his airfare to get to the ‘Night of a Billion Reality Stars’ event? What a pack of losers that room must have been. Reality TV is one of the worst things to happen to entertainment in the last decade.
Couldn’t agree more – on all counts!
Exactly! And you know he didn’t go to that event without getting paid.
Good Lord I had totally forgotten about him.
These reality tv bozos think they’re on the gravy train for life. Fail.
He did all that talking about how he didn’t want his kids on tv but he can’t even take care of his kids financially?! Smh he was a loser before the fame and he’s still a loser after it.
Kind of sad. That show destroyed their lives. The marriage, the family, everything. All for what?? Money? Was is worth it? This should be a cautionary tale for anyone involved in reality TV.
The show didn’t ruin their lives, their own choices did. There’s lots of people with reality shows that don’t end up broke and living with their mother, or even divorced. Makes me think that they probably weren’t the best people even before the show.
The show gave them a chance for financial assistance, money for their kids’ futures and the chance to take their kids to all kinds of places and see things they otherwise never would’ve been able to. THEY were the ones who chose to keep going as long as they did and who chose to start acting like they were too good to live in a regular neighbourhood or work a regular job and needed to act like they were rich celebrities. The show didn’t make them do that.
“The show didn’t ruin their lives, their own choices did.”
I had to tell my son the same thing when he once accused Maury of ruining people’s lives with his ‘you are not the father’ schtick. It is their own choices that brought them to this point. They are responsible for their actions, not Maury.
I don’t agree. I remember reading that they were drowning in debt before their reality show. Not a surprise considering the quick growth of their family. Kate once said she was stressed out all the time about their finances.
Their reality show gave them a chance to sort out their finances, provide unique experiences to the children, and save for the childrens’ future. If Jon really had a problem with his children being on tv, he would have never allowed it to begin with. He started to object when he realized his role was going to be greated reduced or cut.
While Kate comes across as a bitch, at least she has come up with ways to generate the funds that are necessary to support such a large family. All I remember about Jon, after the breakup, was that he spent most of his time dating and spending money. He borrowed thousands of dollars from girlfriend #1 which he never paid back. I’m curious how much of that money went towards his children.
Bottom line, Jon comes across as an immature leach who doesn’t do nearly enough for his family.
Why do people like Jon & Kate breed????!
In their case it was science.
I have no sympathy for any of these reality show losers who make more money than I’ll ever see in a my life and aren’t smart enough to invest it properly and end up broke and whining about it.
You had your shot and you blew it. If I was his Mom there’s no way I’d let him move back home and pay his bills. He’s a grown man, let him get out there and get a job. He’s pathetic. He mad his bed, let him lie in it.
I only hope these two were responsible enough to put aside trust funds for each of the kids with the money they earned for their education and future. They deserve it.
The bottom line is Jon is a nice enough guy that at least he has somewhere to go unlike Kate. She has burned every bridge by her narcissist behavior and by thinking she is some kind of a star because science gave her multiples and she carried them to term. Jon was burned by this show and his wife and he took the brunt of the hate for what Kate wanted. Kate and TLC is where the hate should be directed not him because at the end of the day they will be the ones responsible for the 8 screwed up kids that will come out of the mess that was Kate Plus 8. There was a blind about six months before the shit hit the fan on CD&N about a reality couple where the wife had kicked the guy to the curb but said he was free to do as he pleased as long as he showed for filming. It was them. If I had to pay $20,000.00 per month in child support I would be moving in with my mother too. Without a reality show this amount was totally out of the realm of possibility for not only Jon but for Kate had the shoe been on the other foot. I just want these people to go away and try to undo the damage they have done to their children.
I agree with you I stopped watching the show long b4 the crap hit the fan. I found that the show, instead of the kids making me smile, made me so mad because khate was such a raving bitch to him and the kids. He was always loving towards the kids and he was a far better mother that she could ever pretend to be. Those kids faces lit up around him and that could not be faked for the cameras. khate saw a weak man she could use for her own plans and married him. He and the kids sadly are just a bi-product of her need for fame and fortune. I do not think he is a bad person, just damaged from 10 years with a narcissistic witch.
You could see this downfall coming a mile away ever since the split. I’m surprised it took this long for him to end up living with his mom and driving her beat-up minivan. What a total loser.
I’m thankful Kate hasn’t been in the news too much lately, because I like her about as much as nails on a chalkboard, but I do hope for the kids’ sake that she’s faring better than Jon.
Kate is most likely doing alot better than Jon. I think she still gets paid for speaking engagements and she wrote a few books that did very well. Also TLC will probably film some Kate plus 8 specials and she’ll get paid for that.
If he has NO place to go, why doesn’t he just live in that gigantic house so Kate can fire household help. It’s frugal and gives the kids more face time with their FATHER. I’m sure there is an extra bedroom.
Would you want to live in the same house again with a raving bitch?
She’s a bitch and he’s an asshole. They could totally live together. Lol Jon lost any hope of sympathy for me when they split up and he started acting like a college boy. I HATE men who make stupid decisions then expect sympathy. Sadly there are plenty of pathetic women who will forgive men of anything.
How many couples live together after a divorce? The atmosphere would be toxic and the kids would be confused. Jon needs to find some other way to deal with his finances and his support payments just like all the other divorced men with kids.
Wow, that’s… quite a fall from grace. I plan on doing it twice as fast as soon as I win the Mega Millions tonight!
Ha Ha Ha that’s all I have to say; but like everyone else, I feel for their kids.
you realize your life is going great when you’re in your mid thirties and you have to borrow the car from mom….
Even though I thought he acted like an idiot when this all began, he finally came to his senses and settled into a ‘normal’ life – so I kind of feel sorry for him now. It will be difficult for many years to come with so much child support to pay. I hope someone will reach out and give the guy a chance, even if it’s for the kids’ sake.
He is a man baby.
I’d love to see him go in front of Judge Judy and have him tear him a new one.
Ug. Enough with the Jon and Kate stories. Let them fade away into obscurity so they can raise their gazillion kids.
To his credit, he did go away like he promised. Kate still whores her crocodile divorce tears out to the cameras, while maintaining that she just wants a regular life.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
i don’t get why people who aren’t rich would choose to have so many kids.
According to RO on 3/31/12:
“I’ve been working 9 to 5. I’m a network engineer at a local IT company,” Jon revealed at Svedka’s Second Annual Night of a Billion Reality Stars bash in Los Angeles Thursday night.”
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“The former reality TV star is now living in a simple and small home in a rural area quite close to the Wernersville, PA estate he once shared with Kate and their kids.”
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“I have a house in the woods,” he said. “I do no normal things.”
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/03/jon-gosselin-moves-house-pennsylvania-woods-photos
Everyone, just everyone is tired of Jon and Kate. No one cares about their money problems. She has them too. She has so many loans on her home that she could possibly lose that home and land.
Work? Kate never works. She just gets on tweet and makes more enemies. She should have left TV, stayed out of the limelight and remembered that she was not liked.
Jon was a sad, kicked to the curb hubby when he and Kate lived together, she kicked him to the barn to live in an apt above. The bodyguard starting living in the house.
Why he put up with that, I will never know, but he and she separating and going thru the split, has marred those 8 kids for life. Never will they adjust to life.
Kid start their lives on TV, living with a silver spoon in their mouths, flying around the world first class, living in first class hotel rooms and now? Adjusted children? I doubt that. Those kids were kept away from other children until they entered school. How bizarre. No family functions, no friends around, no family friends around, nothing.
God help the children.