The Jon Gosselin alleged affair story continues to play out in the media. The brother of Gosselin’s rumored mistress is standing by story that Jon often had sleepovers with his sister and that he heard the two having sex. Jon, his wife Kate and the other woman continue to insist that there was no affair. It’s a he said – her brother said, with each side responding to the other in the media. US Weekly is cashing in with yet another Jon Gosselin cover following last week’s story that he was busted with the other woman. Their last issue sold over a million copies, according to MSNBC’s The Scoop, and was one of the highest sellers of the year.
Alleged mistress: my brother is lying
Deanna Hummel says she is sickened by the reports circulating about her relationship with Jon Gosselin.
This week, she came forward to say she’s just friends with the star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus Eight. Now Hummel, 23, is fighting back against her brother Jason and his claims that she really is having a fling with the married father of twin daughters and sextuplets.
“My brother is making this all up,” Hummel tells PEOPLE. “He has no credibility … I can’t even stomach the lies he’s saying about me.”
Hummel continues to deny any sort of romantic relationship with Gosselin, and the elementary school teacher admits that there’s been bad blood between her and her brother for a while now. “My brother is very shady,” says Hummel. “He has no job. He has a criminal background. He was charged for drug distribution. He’s on probation right now.”
And though the siblings live together, she says she was in the process of buying their home – and asking him to move out. “He wanted to get back at me … he knows he’s getting kicked out of the house.”
Among what Jason Hummel, 28, claims is he overheard his sister having sex with the married reality star. A claim Hummel says “is completely crazy!”
[From People]
Deanna also says that her brother jeopardized her job by telling the media that she works as a teacher. Meanwhile US Weekly has video of Jon Gosselin allegedly leaving Deann’s house in the morning, and a follow-up quote from her brother that he “has no reason to lie”. They even claim that the brother wasn’t paid to tell his side of the story. I would bet they paid him at least five figures for that video though.
Mistress’ brother: “the facts are the facts”
Jason Hummell has responded to accusations by his sister Deanna, who has accused him of lying about her three-month affair with Jon & Kate Plus 8 star Jon Gosselin.
“I’m sad to hear my sister’s comments,” Jason tells Usmagazine.com. “I never wanted my sister to be hurt by this. I was only trying to protect her by getting the truth out there. I love my sister and I could never say a bad word about her. That said, the facts are the facts.”
He adds: “He’s not the guy I would pick for my sister.”
In the new Us Weekly, Jason — who was not paid for his interview — went on the record about the liaison, detailing Jon’s trips to the Reading, Pennsylvania, home he shares with his sister (SEE VIDEO). (TLC was asked twice by Us Weekly to comment on the story and refused; Deanna also declined to comment multiple times before publication.)
[From US Weekly]
Jon and Kate went on the record to EW that there was no affair, and are scheduled to appear on The Today Show this morning. From the way Kate words her response, you can tell she’s super pissed off at her husband:
EW: What did you think of the story and photo?
Jon: It’s really upsetting. I may be guilty of choosing the wrong time and place to hang out with my friends, but I am not guilty of cheating on my wife. It hurts me to see what it’s done to my family, and it’s scary to know that these tabloids are in town constantly following us and even paying locals large amounts of money to contribute to these negative stories. It’s even gotten so bad that [one tabloid] has reached out to a youth pastor from our church, which in my eyes is completely unacceptable.
Kate: It’s disturbing and unfortunate that these tabloids have gone as far as they have to try and bring us down. Jon’s poor judgment and irresponsible behavior has also without a doubt caused some added tension and stress between the two of us.
[From EW]
There’s some speculation that Jon and Kate are winging their media blitz without support from The Learning Channel and that their goody-goody image is suffering because of it. Their new season starts May 25 and this is all a little too conveniently timed. The controversy does comes across as genuine though, and you can tell this family is suffering because of dad’s alleged infidelity. Unfortunately it will ultimately hurt their kids much more than either of these grownups, who have been making decisions to air their children’s day to day activities in a way that many people worry will affect them for the rest of their lives. Now that their dad’s affair has been made public there’s that much more to be concerned about.
He seems like an ass, and she (Kate) seems like a harpy. I have a feeling they’d be dysfunctional even without the TV show.
I feel bad for the kids. They didn’t ask to be in the public eye.
Kat, I think you summed that up perfectly.
He’s a terrible liar. He totally cheated. He must think the public and his wife are complete morons.
Why don’t either Jon or the bimbo clarify the video of him leaving her place in the wee hours of the morning? Or the photo of her sunbathing at his home while his wife and kids are out of town? If there’s a perfectly innocent explanation for these things, let’s hear them.
He did it. Everyone knows it.
I think MSat is right; how do you explain away that 7:30am video? Friends don’t have sleepovers when one is a married man with 8 children.
The brother definitley had slimey intentions with all of this but the fact is–he has proof!
You can’t wiggle yourself out of a 7:30 am walk of shame Jon!
I do not understand why someone who lives their life in the public eye would do something so stupid. Did he not think that if he did this out in the open no one would see ? Did he want to be caught ?
I think MSat is right in saying he’s lying, but wrong on saying he thinks his wife is a moron.
Most probably she yelled quite a lot when she got wind of it, and now she’s doing damage control. She doesn’t want us to know the state of their marriage.
That would bring up too worrisome questions, like : was it a good idea to pimp out 8 kids in order to become insanely rich, and have no need for work anymore, and have so many time on hand that one’s bound to stray if treated like a dog at home ?
If she acknowledges the facts, she’ll have to divorce him or to lose credibility. And either way she’ll have to address the fact their couple screwed up despite being hailed as an example and receiving so many freebies and “love offerings”.
Is there a market for a reality show with an OCD divorced mother and 8 innocent kids ?
Bren,
Yes, the guy wanted to be caught. I guess he’d like to show that his wife didn’t completely destroy his balls.
Jon, Jon, tsk! tsk! you’ve been caught, and your alibis, they are “shitsweak”. Just shut it and go away quietly.
I may be totally going to hell for this but man, this story just makes me giddy for some reason. I feel for the kids (I do, poor things) but watching this glossy-perfect life implode makes me feel deliciously evil on the inside!! LOL
I’m sure Octomom will suggest a pairing of Kate and her kids to form a new reality show. I’m having a tough time thinking of a name for it though.
Team Jon!
Kate’s a wench.
Ultimately it’s best for the kids for them to divorce. It’s not healthy for them to see how their mother treats their father. Also, if they divorce the show on TLC will finally be over.
she was so fos on the today show – she’s in complete denial & such a liar. that show, as it stands, should be canceled.
I don’t advocate divorce or affairs, but it’s refreshing to see this poor guy get out form under his wife’s constant nagging and bitchery.
Kate is vile. I feel for the children though.
I’m still amazed that a dude with hair plugs is getting any action at all.
what is fos? she was blah on the today show ALONE I might add. she is in denile no shes not quiting the reality show ( the money is too GOOD !! and her book is on the best selling list the money is too GOOD ! )
reality show curse is that marriages break up eveyone rags on kate Jon is the same as her. hes so passive aggressive even now when he doenst do the church/book tours with her or go on Tv the last show he TOLD her he didnt want to do the show anymore she shot him such a look. well hes repaying her by doing what he wants to do. she can suck it if she doesnt like it and you can see she is by this mornings appearnace on the ToDay show.
fos full of shite yeah she was she does not want to lose out on her $$$ endorsement deals and all those church booking telling them about her happy family
oh .. i am really quick here ha haa
I hope this is all figured out soon because i feel bad for the kids. All ten of them could of had wonderful lives.
Alright…I’m getting sick of some things here:
1. The implied thought that since Kate is a bitch, Jon gets the go ahead to cheat.
2. This obsessive “Those poor kids will suffer” thing. Most parents split up or cheat anyway. Welcome to the world, kiddos.
I wouldn’t be suprised if this was all milked for the new season. I mean, now that there’s the Duggers and soon the Octomom, 8 kids seems pretty tame.
She can’t leave him, no marriage, no show, means no money.
They go around talking to churches about how Christian they are and how to lead a Christian family life, no church is going to continue to pay them $20-25,000 to show up and talk about that if their family implodes on national TV.
It’s a double-edged sword, the fame and money thing.
It’s not an excuse, but when you’ve watched him get yelled at for breathing for a while, you start to gun for him and hope he does something, anything. Even if it’s just standing up and yelling “STOP TREATING ME LIKE DIRT.”
Cheating is very passive aggressive but I think some people are just happy he’s doing something other than being a stepped on doormat for her all the time.
I would think there’ll be a divorce down the line but I can see where they pull it together for a while to milk the reality series as long as possible. As for the split, they can just divide the assets and both chip in equally for child support. Jon has been infantized by Kate…made to be one of the children and along with that receives equal discipline…when wives do that, the man either becomes submissive and docile or as in Jon’s case, acts out and tries to fight back against total domination. Good luck Jon – you’ll need it.
I hate their show, it’s not even that good. All Kate does is complain and beetch about everything and act like she hates her kids. John doesn’t do much else but sit back and let his wife take centerstage. The kids are cute though, yet understandably all over the place.
photo-jojo – You’re not alone. I just love it when a carefully constructed lie, or a series of ethically-questionable decisions comes back to bite the morally righteous in the ass. (Ted Haggard, anyone? HA!)
I’ll call it a wash if they admit they can’t stand the sight of each other and got a divorce. But there’s so many perks to living a lie – and you know this is so “relatable”, the powers that be will give them a fat paycheck to film “couples counseling”. Just think of all the franchising to be done . . .
why all the love for a cheating husband? kate is nuts, no doubt, but jon should stand up like an adult and say i want out of this, and not pick up 23 year old chicks in a bar. of course the ones who will be hurt the most by this are the kids, who will get to see it played out in the media, even if they don’t understand it now they will when they are older. yeah- he’s a great guy.
Jon is a jerk. At the end of last season he said that he didn’t really want to do the show anymore. Kate was still comfortable doing the show and had much more positive things to say about the state of their marriage. Jon wanted out, now he’s doing it publicly. Kate should throw him out, this whole things is absolutely gross. As a couple jon and kate decieded to live their lives in front of the cameras and now for better or worse they still are. I think they may divorce by the end of this season. Jon is having a midlife crisis.
Katherine Jaynes: I have a different take on that. Early on in the series, Kate said if EITHER one of them wants out, it’s over.
Now on the brink of season five he says very honestly he DOES want out. And she goes on and on and on about how she doesn’t want out.
Guess who gets their way? Guess who goes back on their word?
Kate and Kate. His opinion is for shite. It doesn’t matter. She lied when she said if either of them want out, it’s over. If SHE wants out, it’s over. But if he wants out of the show and she doesn’t, too effing bad.
What Kate wants, Kate gets. The end. That’s how it is and how it always has been with them. He’s been miserable from day one and I’ve said repeatedly cheating is not right and it’s no answer. But it’s not surprising, not one bit.
Maybe she is the older twins tutor.
i don’t get the justification for cheating just because she’s a “bitch”. why not advocate an amicable divorce or something in such a case… rather than complicating matters and dragging 8 kids into a mess…
it doesn’t make sense and it’s a downright stupid opinion as far as i’m concerned.
I agree that there is some major acidity each and every time Kate speaks to, or about, her husband. That is one toxic relationship. She says “caused some added tension and stress between the two of us”?! I can’t imagine how bad it must be then – because it seemed to be so bad to begin with before the affair allegations came out. She basically treated him like her mentally challenged younger brother rather than her husband. I’m not advocating cheating; rather, I think Jon should head to counseling and divorce her if he needs to get out. Divorced people successfully raise children every single day.
Whether this is true or not, I am not surprised Jon went looking for the affection and attention from someone other than Kate. I mean, really, have you seen the way she treats him? I don’t know if it is all acting or whatever for the ratings or to keep the money rolling in from the show, but it is downright mean a lot of times. I cringe every time I see that show because I know she’s going to ridicule everything he does. It is like he can never do anything good or she orders him around and treats him like some servant or something. She should read both Gary Neuman’s and Steve Harvey’s book and take a long look at herself and the way she treats Jon and even her kids(I remember one show she told her kids if they kept doing that they wouldn’t have a mommy anymore). I also remember another show they did where they were making over the house to be “green” and she was being snarky and mean to the host and the others. Yes, Jon is also to blame, but Kate didn’t help matters either.
Maybe his new hair plugs went to his head. He’s not an attractive guy, in any sense of the word. Maybe being treated like a child suited him. He’s certainly acting like a rebellious teenager, with as much immaturity and irresponsibility.
How selfish can he get?
Does anyone know a reality show couple that DOESN’T break up? Jessica/Nick, Bobby/Whitney, Carmen/Dave. Jon and Kate doomed themselves from the beginning. The lure of easy money overcame the realization that a show puts way too much pressure on the relationship. I feel that producers like to turn minor problems into huge ones, to create drama. Then the stars start believing the problems are huge too…
I just hope that Jon and Kate are getting counseling – both individually and as a couple. My heart breaks for the pain and stress they both must be going through. How inspiring it would be if they both were able to change their harmful (to the family) behaviors and become the healthy family that they (and we all) want to be! Let’s all pray for them!
Let’s all pray for them? Keep your Jesus to yourself, thanks.
Wow. It must really suck to know that you’re such an a$$hole that people actually excuse your husband for cheating on you!
How dare any of you say Kate deserves it IF Jon did or is cheating on her. You all think you know her because you’ve watched a few hours of her on television? While I don’t agree with a lot of what she does and says, it doesn’t mean that she deserves to have her heart broken and be completely humiliated. That’s just absurd. You don’t agree with the show? Don’t watch it. Easy enough. None of you must have very difficult lives if you can spend so much time, effort and emotion on bashing people you don’t even know. What a great lesson to be teaching your children.