Kate Gosselin faces another roadblock in her ongoing legal battles with ex-husband Jon. According to a new report, the Kate Plus 8 star, 44, has been found in contempt of court for filming her underage kids for her new TLC show. That goes against a legal order Jon, 42, obtained that said she had to notify him before doing so.
Kate has been ordered to pay $1,500 to Jon in legal fees. She also purportedly still owes him $25,000 in legal feeds because of a previous court battle over filming.
The original order said that Kate and TLC could film the kids as long as Jon were provided with a filming schedule. But this never happened. In October, the network aired a Kate Plus 8 special that featured six of the eight kids.
The issue was the appearance of 15-year-olds Alexis, Aaden, Joel and Leah in the footage. Mady and Cara are now 19 and legally adults, so they get to choose if they want to be filmed. The other two sextuplets — Hannah and Collin — live with Jon and were not involved with filming at all.
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It was also reported that in 2018 the Pennsylvania Department of Labor denied filming permits for the show and that a judge ruled that it wasn’t in the kids “best interests” to be filmed.
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Jon said in an interview, “The court agreed with me, they have given me back my rights. The guardian ad litem said filming wasn't in the best interests of my children, the judge said it wasn't in their best interests, but Kate went ahead and did it anyway.”
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“But this order now puts her on notice that she has to do everything by the book,” he said. “She can still film Kate Plus 8 or Kate Plus Date, or whatever she wants, but she has to go to court to get a court order to get my written consent first.”
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He said that he thinks any show involving Kate and the kids is “dead in the water.”
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It was also reported that in 2018 the Pennsylvania Department of Labor denied filming permits for the show and that a judge ruled that it wasn’t in the kids “best interests” to be filmed.
Jon said in an interview, “The court agreed with me, they have given me back my rights. The guardian ad litem said filming wasn't in the best interests of my children, the judge said it wasn't in their best interests, but Kate went ahead and did it anyway.”
“But this order now puts her on notice that she has to do everything by the book,” he said. “She can still film Kate Plus 8 or Kate Plus Date, or whatever she wants, but she has to go to court to get a court order to get my written consent first.”
He said that he thinks any show involving Kate and the kids is “dead in the water.”
He added, “I really just want to get my kids off the television, period.”
Jon currently lives with
his girlfriend Colleen and two of his kids, Hannah and Collin. He got custody of Collin at the end of 2018, while Hannah chose to live with him earlier that year.
Photo credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
