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" We know: Not everyone&amp;#039;s concerned about Jon and Kate Gosselin\u2014their divorce, their celebrated parental existence or Jon&amp;#039;s recent badboy &amp;#039;tude. But there&amp;#039;s a reason why their names are the number one Google Trend, and we gather it&amp;#039;s because there are children involved. Here, the most recent buzz: It&amp;#039;s been confirmed: Following a devastating dip in viewer ratings (1.7 million) for this past Monday&amp;#039;s episode of Jon &amp;amp;amp; Kate Plus 8, TLC pulled the plug \u2014on Jon, that is. A statement all over the web from a &amp;quot;rep&amp;quot; has TLC proclaiming they can no longer go on portraying Jon as a &amp;quot;doting&amp;quot; father in light of the recent club-going cigarette-smoking antics that have contributed to his newly earned downtrodden-daddy reputation. Beginning Nov. 2, the show will sport a new title, Kate Plus 8, and take a more focused look into the life of soon-to-be single mother Kate, a story line that TLC feels the once near 10 million viewers will tune back in for. It hasn&amp;#039;t been confirmed: Jon&amp;#039;s rep scooped the spotlight briefly with his burgeoning plea to the media claiming Jon was not fired from the show, though he wouldn&amp;#039;t quite say what exactly went down in the TLC tavern. We&amp;#039;ve known for a while that his interest in being on the show was diminishing, and that viewer interest in seeing him on the show was diminishing, but the thought of him voluntarily giving up his starring role on the program from which he garnered his fame (that he is now destructively reveling in) is unlikely. While his rep claims he&amp;#039;ll be making occassional appearances, he&amp;#039;s also apparently in talks with new pal Michael Lohan to start a new show dubbed The Divorce Dad&amp;#039;s Club. Rumors of Kate&amp;#039;s branching-out are circulating, too\u2014we&amp;#039;ve already tuned into her guest co-host appearance on The View. If we may speak freely: Yes, Jon&amp;#039;s antics have made him look the bad guy in this non-love story, but less we forget that they&amp;#039;ve also made Kate look pretty darn good. Before Jon&amp;#039;s tabloid trapeze show, the general consensus re: Jon and Kate&amp;#039;s relationship was that it was bad\u2014Kate by no means the victim, as she is now. &amp;quot;Every time I tune into the episode, Kate&amp;#039;s bickering and picking on Jon,&amp;quot; was the usual complaint. But are his recent actions revealing as to the raison d&amp;#039;\u00AAtre for their snippy charade of a relationship? Comment below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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