
The future of TLC's hit show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" hangs in the balance after 5 seasons of love and heartbreak with the Gosselin family. Monday night's episode, during which Kate Gosselin answered viewer questions, was once said to be a transitional episode from "Jon & Kate Plus 8" to "Kate Plus 8" after Jon Gosselin demanded that the channel halt production immediately.
Last night, Kate Gosselin told viewers that she would like to continue working in television: "I've done enough years on TV that I feel like it's a normal, comfortable, natural place to be. I'd love to be in a movie at some point. I'd love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun."
During an appearance on "The View," Kate said "every job comes with a price" and that she is "a single mom and [she needs] a paycheck."
Since the Gosselins announced their divorce on the TLC reality show, Kate has been criticized for promoting herself in the media and for her image makeover. Kate insisted that in spite of it all, the children are "not suffering from [the divorce]. The fact that they have these different experience they need to handle is only going to help them in life."
Jon halted the divorce proceedings in late September, telling In Touch Weekly: "... it appeared that Kate had been suffering from this divorce as much as I had. That's why I asked my attorney to put the brakes on this divorce so I could try to regain control over the future of our family. So Kate and I could join on a cooperative course that would benefit our family -- not destroy it."
"I really don't want to be married again, but I don't want to be alone," Kate lamented on last night's episode. "The aloneness is really alone."
TLC released a statement following Kate's question-and-answer episode: "This is the last episode for which we have completed filming; we remain suspended."
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