Jon Gosselin Trying to Keep TV Crews From Filming His Kids

Us Magazine - October 1, 2009 8:15 AM PDT
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Jon Gosselin is attempting to shut down production of TLC's Kate Plus 8 by denying permission to videotape his eight children, according to reports.

Through his attorney, Mark J. Heller, Jon, 32, has written two letters to TLC lawyers. In the letters -- dated Sept. 29 -- Gosselin demands the network cease and desist production and leave his property, according to The Insider. On Thursday morning, he even posted a sign outside his family's $1.1 million estate in Wernersville, Pa. It read: "Notice: no film crew or production staff from TLC is permitted on this property under penalty of trespass."

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In one of the letters, Jon's attorney writes: "Effective immediately, no production crews are to enter Jon's family home for any reason. In the event that anyone enters the marital property, Jon Gosselin will notify the local authorities to effectuate police action against any trespassers."

According to Gosselin's lawyer, both Jon and Kate, 34 -- who announced they were ending their 10-year marriage in June -- own the home where the show is filmed.

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Jon has joint custody of the kids and is able to make decisions about their welfare, his lawyer says.
"Jon realized his family was like a trainwreck, so he decided to put the brakes on the divorce and on the show ... because if he didn't, the family would be in a mortal accident ... the victims of a trainwreck," his lawyer tells Entertainment Tonight.

His attorney also tells ET the original agreement between TLC and the Gosselin family "may very well be 'null and void' and unenforceable." But he claims that TLC never secured the special permits required by Pennsylvania Child Labor Law as a "prerequisite" for the Gosselin children's involvement in Jon and Kate Plus 8.

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Heller also claims that TLC "failed to designate the appropriate compensation to be allocated to the children" and "it may ultimately be determined that TLC has not provided for compensation for the eight children over the past four years."

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  • Miriam C
    Both are to blame. She didn't use her head marrying him and having 8 kids. He married too yopung and inmature. She was a little older and I guess more mature. She treated him like a child so he responded like one. What did she expect. To me she is dumb.
    report abuseposted December 19, 2009 6:32 PM PST
  • Miriam C
    Both are to blame. She didn't use her head marrying him and having 8 kids. He married too yopung and inmature. She was a little older and I guess more mature. She treated him like a child so he responded like one. What did she expect. To me she is dumb.
    report abuseposted December 19, 2009 6:32 PM PST
  • Montana M
    I am not hateing her. Some of you adults act so childsish. You should fell soory for your self. You don't know how he may feel and baleing the whole him is not just right.
    report abuseposted December 5, 2009 6:12 PM PST
  • Montana M
    kate has been rude to him like that time when they got new beds and he was fixing their beds and she and him told the kids not go in the room and they keepet on going in there and Kate was like move the bpxes and for some reson had to have then take their nap up there and their beds were not even fixed and Jhon Kindly sugested that they sleep downstairs. Kate allways thinks she is right but......
    report abuseposted December 5, 2009 6:09 PM PST
  • Montana M
    Do you guys really hear yourselfs! I am a teen in middle school and I have more common sense than some of you adults. Really what iditiots! Adults don't get all worked up about one person. Really come on just listin to your self "Jhons a beep***", "Jhon your an iditot" and so on. You can't just blame him and not his ex. wife etheir. Yes he might
    report abuseposted December 5, 2009 6:02 PM PST
  • Courtney
    I do think that his kids should not be followed by cameras every step they take. Even though they are kids they still need their privacy. I don't like Jon but I do agree with him when it comes to getting the cameras away from the kids. I feel sorry for the kids but not Jon. He is just mad that he dosen't make money off the show anymore. He has absoulotley no sorrow for his poor kid
    report abuseposted November 27, 2009 6:47 AM PST
  • Courtney
    I do think that these kids should not have to be followed by cameras every step they take. Even though they are kids they need their privacy. I don't like Jon but I do say that he is right when it comes to getting his kids away from the cameras. Then again, I know that he would still allow his kids to be on the show if he wasn't fired. He is just mad that he can't make any
    report abuseposted November 27, 2009 6:32 AM PST
  • Courtney
    I do think that these kids should not have to be followed by cameras every step they take. Even though they are kids they need their privacy. I don't like Jon but I do say that he is right when it comes to getting his kids away from the cameras. Then again, I know that he would still allow his kids to be on the show if he wasn't fired. He is just mad that he can't make any
    report abuseposted November 27, 2009 6:32 AM PST
  • cheryl
    Jon is out control, he is self centered, does he have a job to pay child support? Kate is not the one out there disgracing the family.
    report abuseposted October 23, 2009 6:06 AM PDT
  • cheryl
    Jon is out control, he is self centered, does he have a job to pay child support? Kate is not the one out there disgracing the family.
    report abuseposted October 23, 2009 6:06 AM PDT
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