Kate Gosselin doesn’t want to believe husband Jon is a cheat

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Kate Gosselin was on The Today Show yesterday and she made it clear that she’s sticking by the husband of her eight children, Jon Gosselin, despite the wealth of evidence that he’s cheating on her. She seemed to suggest that the tabloids are making up the story, and said she’s “hesitant to believe” that it’s true. As for how they’re coping with Jon’s alleged infidelity, Kate said “we’re working through it together” and “privately”. Jon did not appear on the show with Kate, and Meredith Viera read out a statement from him that he made some poor choices but did not cheat:

“We just need to weather this storm, just like all the other storms that we’ve been through,” Kate Gosselin told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira in New York. The tabloid attention and paparazzi have come as something of a surprise to her, she added.

“It is so public. It’s one of the things we did not envision when we started our show,” Gosselin said. “It’s one of the things that comes with it — the tabloid stuff. To be very honest, I’m very hesitant to believe any of it. It comes with the territory. We’re dealing with it just like everybody else does.”

Gosselin was ostensibly visiting TODAY to talk about her new best-selling book “Eight Little Faces,” but she spent much of her airtime with Vieira talking about the allegations, which were published in the current edition of Us Weekly. Jon Gosselin and their eight children had been scheduled to appear with her, but as controversy continued to swirl, the family decided Wednesday that it would be better if Jon stayed at home with the children.

Instead, Jon sent a statement to TODAY denying the charges that he had an affair with 23-year-old Deanna Hummel, whom he met in January in a Reading, Pa., bar. Hummel also denies that the two are anything but friends.

“These allegations are false and just plain hurtful,” Jon said in his statement. “As I adjust to the attention that comes from being in the public eye, I need to be more careful and aware of who I am associating with and where I am spending my time. But the bottom line is, I did not cheat on Kate. I am sorry for putting my family in this awkward position, given some poor decisions and bad judgments I’ve made recently. I am working through this difficult time with my family. My family is my top priority.”

The reports of infidelity were attributed by the gossip magazine to Hummel’s older brother, Jason, with whom she lives.

[From MSNBC]

Kate said “Tabloids pay thousands of dollars for stories, the juicier the story, the more they’re paying.” She said they won’t give “credibility” to the rumors by addressing them directly on the show.

Meanwhile someone who claims to be an ex boyfriend of Jon Gosselin’s rumored mistress is taking advantage of the tabloid coverage to sell an alleged sex tape featuring the woman. Someone has posted some very NSFW photos on the website DeannaHummel.com and claims they’re of Deanna, although you can’t see her face and it’s impossible to tell. They’re offering a sex tape up to the highest bidder, but this is just as likely to be a hoax.

Hello world! This is a site owned by one of Deanna Hummel’s ex-boyfriends.

When I read the news about her alleged affair with Jon Gosselin from the show Jon & Kate Plus 8, I have to say I wasn’t surprised.

The Deanna I knew wasn’t above cheating, even with married men, hence our eventual breakup. During our time together we made a secret amateur sex tape. It wasn’t a hidden cam or anything, she was totally aware of the fact that I was taping. This has never been available to the public before. And it still isn’t…yet! But I am shopping this tape and am currently in negotiations… about selling it.

If anyone is interested in making me an offer, please email me

[From DeannaHummel.com, link very NSFW]

It’s doubtful that this sex tape is really of Deanna Hummel, but even if it is who cares? She’s not actually famous and it doesn’t feature Jon Gosselin.

In terms of Jon’s alleged affair with Deanna, how likely is it that they were “just friends” and that he was videotaped leaving her house in the morning and hanging out while she sunbathed in a bikini on his parents’ lawn? Kate might not want to believe it because she has eight kids kids with the guy and the tabloids are quick to smear people, but there’s plenty of evidence that her husband cheated.

RadarOnline has the mug shot of Jason Hummel, the brother of Deanna Hummel who broke the story to US Weekly about Jon’s affair with his sister. Deanna has denied that anything is going on with Jon and says that her brother is trying to pay her back for kicking him out of the house they share. The guy has a pretty long rap sheet too. It really looks like Jon is cheating, but you have to consider that the brother has a lot to gain by talking, as Kate mentioned in her Today Show interview. Kate isn’t willing to throw her marriage out over the rumors, but she should look more carefully into what her husband has been up to while he’s away.

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  1. boomchakaboom says:

    All “evidence” aside, it is very possible Jon did not cheat on Kate. People have been known to hang out at someone’s house for a few hours or an evening without having sex, for heaven’s sake.

    I conked out and slept for several hours on a (male)friend’s sofa after a night of reunion partying, leaving in the wee hours of the morning, while my husband snoozed at home. It may have LOOKED bad, but it wasn’t. I was mortified because I know people saw my vehicle there, but my husband is still laughing about my “wild night”. Go figure. Actually, I’m still horrified that I did that and gave people in this small town something to talk about, but there you have it. True confessions. Yikes!

  2. Sara says:

    Even if Jon is completely innocent, I hope this scandal serves as a wake up call to Kate that she can’t continue to treat him like garbage on national television and expect him to stick around forever and take it.

  3. Jen says:

    “she made it clear that she’s sticking by the husband of her eight children”

    LOL ~ I’m pretty sure that’s not right. He’s the father of her eight children.

    This woman is a C-U-Next-Tuesday if there ever was one, boy.

  4. guest says:

    damage control plain & simple. she’s protecting her little empire even tho you know she loathes him even more now. it’s not for the sake of the kids – it’s for the sake of her bank account.

  5. Tia says:

    Hellllloooooooooooooooooooo, of course he did. I am sure she wants to believe that. Just like Oprah said yesterday to John Edward’s wife. Women’s whose husbands cheat on them is a H U G E group and the figure is more than 70% of marriages end that way…. sad !!

  6. photo jojo says:

    Lemme just add that regardless of if there is sex, an emotional affair IS indeed cheating and can be just as damaging to a marriage if not MORE so.

    Ask me how I know… 🙁

  7. pebbles says:

    easy solution…..take the show off the air. Once the $ becomes a non-issue, and the pressure is off, maybe the Gosselins can mend their family.

  8. Justalark says:

    I had no idea who Jon and Kate were until their faces were plastered all over the internet and tabloids last week, so please forgive the following superficial comment if you are Gosselin fans. REGARDING KATE’S HAIR: It’s really hard to believe that her ridiculous, cartoon haircut was intentional! (I did something similar to myself with my mother’s manicure scissors when I was four years old, and my mother cried when she saw me.) Once again I ask myself, “What is this star thinking–doesn’t she have a mirror or one honest friend?” When people stare, it’s not always in admiration, celebrities!!!

  9. cher says:

    Is it just me or did Kate seem way too calm (almost drugged). I’ve never seen her like that before!. My guess is he told her the truth and they are really dealing with it ‘privately”. hhmm.I agree with photo jojo as well, an emotional affair is just as damaging as a physical

  10. Lem says:

    before I watched the video I was going to say she doesn’t believe he has the set to do such a thing.
    after the video I feel all melancholy. poor thing seems defeated

  11. Wow says:

    No woman or man wants to “believe” their husband or wife will cheat on them, but this doesn’t mean that they won’t.

    As for her hair, I think people are just jumping on a bandwagon with the complaints about it. That is actually a very popular/fashionable cut, and she looks fine with it in this clip. *shrugs*

  12. lisa says:

    Her eyes look so lifeless. Nothing animated about her personality in this interview. She looks worn out.

  13. Cowbell says:

    Although, I believe he cheated and I also believe that Kate is a royal C word, I also believe that she doesn’t owe the public an explanation of how they’re dealing with it.

    I’m sure she has him by the balls again and knows he screwed this girl. She’s not going to let that go. Hell, he can’t make a cup of coffee wrong and have that go unnoticed, so I’m sure he’s paying for his indescretion. But, I also think this is none of our business so she can unexplain away all she wants.

  14. anastasiabeaverhausen says:

    No, her hair really is horrible. Whoever does it HATES her. The front hair claw thing is WAY too long for the shortness of the spiky back. It could be cute, but it’s way out of proportion.

    That being said, the current theory on the site Gosselins Without Pity is that they’ve been separated for quite some time (over a year)and that she’s known about this and Jon was hoping it would finally break in the media because he so badly wants out of the show. So she’s doing some really hard and fast damage control (not her first time to damage control things in her family/life/TV show).

    I agree with whoever said just stop the show. Then they can do whatever they need to do–divorce, counseling, whatever. But as long as she’s keeping the money machine going, things will be screwed up.

  15. hotmilfchocolate says:

    *phone ringing*

    me: hello.

    woodstock: uh, yeah…can you tell that bitch to stop jacking my hairstyle.

    me: uh, sure…will do.

    woodstock: cool. peace out!

  16. OXA says:

    She has to stick it out as they are contracted for season 5 and she wants to make more and more money with her book tour, speaking engagements, media and personal apperances.
    I saw the show where he bought something without a coupon, she was like a rotweiller torturing him and went on an on.
    As for the hair, that style went out with the ark.

  17. laurarenee says:

    After watching her on “The Today Show” I feel incredibly bad for her. You can tell that she’s defeated in dealing with the allegations. She seems like the world as she knew it has been burst. I know first hand how it is and my heart goes out to her and children. It doesn’t matter how she treated her husband. He should be man enough and deal with it the way a man should instead of stepping out on his wife and family. No woman deserves that. Maybe he should grow a pair and face his problems head on instead of acting like a 16 year old.

  18. kiki says:

    oh Jon cheated on her allright
    you ‘all just wait till jons girlfriend announces shes having his baby.
    showcasing your family/marriage on a reality Tv show is Never good

  19. caribassett says:

    I saw her on Larry king she was so rehearsed and flat. I feel bad for the kids, the tension must be really high.

  20. Jon doesn’t realize he’s hurting himself by hurting Kate…this will end badly.

  21. anastasiabeaverhausen says:

    laurarenee: well, I’m sure instead of growing a pair, he might like to have his own original pair back that she keeps in a jar on her nightstand.

    Yep, it’s crappy to cheat.

    AND it’s crappy to treat your spouse like they’re dirt.

    Both of them actually involves treating your spouse crappy. She doles out so much verbal and emotional abuse, I’m amazed he’s even stuck around for this long.

    “It doesn’t matter how she treated her husband.”

    Oh really? So if I’m a horrible biatch on wheels to my husband for years on end, berating him and humiliating him on camera no less, and he cheats on me, then I’M the 100% victim and what I did doesn’t matter?

    That’s crazy. A marriage takes TWO. They’re both jerks.

  22. Cinderella says:

    Black dress, black limo…the woman’s clearly in mourning.

    Nothing that a big fat TLC check and a bottle of lithium can’t fix.

  23. Polkasox says:

    photo jojo – I agree. Emotional cheating can be just as bad as “physical” cheating. & I’m sorry to hear you know about it so well.

  24. Iggles says:

    anastasiabeaverhausen – I agree!

    I don’t condone cheating, but Jon get’s a pass. Kate is a shrill. I stopped watching their show. She’s so horrible to him.

  25. j. ferber says:

    Men cheat if their wives are bitches or saints. They cheat if they have no children or eight. They cheat if the wife treats them terribly or if they mistreat the wife. They’ll cheat for no reason or too many reasons. So what’s the thesis of my comment? Oh, yeah, men cheat regardless of what their wives do or don’t do. I don’t buy that Kate “drove” him to it. That b.s. has been around forever, blaming the wife for however the husband wrongs her. Just say it: he’s a sniveling adulterer who got caught.

  26. So true j.ferber! If a person is unhappy in their marriage they have choices-leave, tough it out, get counseling or cheat. No one forces the last choice on them. Personally, I don’t believe Jon cheated either-wouldn’t he need balls for that?

  27. Wresa says:

    Amen, j.ferber! Jon seems like the type who would cheat no matter what.

  28. czarina says:

    @j-ferber–I think you put that absolutely perfectly!!

  29. aleach says:

    why are these people on tv again? oh yeah, because kate is super-mom with the magic uterus, right?! (im rolling my eyes big time right now…)
    i dont give a shit about these two dumbasses, but their poor kids!

  30. city of lost ANGEL'S where no pitty is shown says:

    Kate- the faster you accept things the sooner you can deal with them. She focuses to much on her schedualed living relax and let the day happend!! Relationships need attention too your kids will always be there but a relationship wont!!! these people are in their 30’s who would have known?? they act and look like they are in there late 40’s =( kates day out is going to get her teeth whitend?? did you see that episode… wow!!! They must not have got the memo on the reality TV CURSE!!!!!

  31. anastasiabeaverhausen says:

    j. ferber: Two people exist in a marriage. Two. I see blame on both sides here. She’s treated him like crap for years and now he’s cheating.

    There’s no better or worse. They’re both awful. Why the need to excuse one or the other?

  32. Zoe says:

    ::poor thing seems defeated::
    ::I feel bad for the kids::

    Are you serious? Am I supposed to have sympathy for Kate Gosselin? You are just NOW feeling bad for the kids? I’m surprised at these comments. I’m not going to feel bad about parents who decided to lie to the media and public about their finances to continue to get freebies and who exploited their children for every penny and now live off their children’s earnings. Kate is many things, but she is not “poor” in any sense of the word. I’ve felt bad for the kids from the beginning, that’s why I quit watching. Anyone who has the best interests of those children in mind should follow suit if you haven’t already.

  33. h fang says:

    J Ferber, that’s quite the sexist overview you’ve outlined. I’m sure if you took a look at statistics you’d find that infidelity doesn’t prefer a gender. I agree with anastasiabea, it takes more than one person to cause an affair. If it is just one person it’s often just called masturbation.

  34. j. ferber says:

    Anastasia, Two people exist in a marriage, yes. But each person is responsible for his or her own actions. I’ve never watched the show, but if she treats him badly, a natural consequence of that is NOT cheating. They both have responsibility toward the relationship, but his cheating was not a joint decision; it was his alone. Thus, he takes all the blame, in my opinion. To put it another way, as a response to his ill treatment, let’s say he decided to rob a bank (to get money to leave, to prove something to her or himself, etc.) Does that mean she gets arrested, too? If he beat or killed her, should she be blamed for that? Yes, I’m taking it far, but the principle is the same. She needs to take responsibility for treating him badly, but that’s all. The affair is his doing; thus, his fault.

  35. MB Travis says:

    And the female-bashing continues apace!

    Keep it up ladies, I think I might write my dissertation on you: “The Man is Never Wrong: Gender and Ethics in the World of Celebitchy.”

  36. I’ve never seen a study where married women cheat more than men. If anyone has, enlighten me. This study (not the best scientifically but includes 70,000 people) is a good example. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17951664/

  37. Jasmine says:

    what a pity Kate Gosselin…, she must be on high pressure now ..