If you don’t know the background story on TV’s favorite family here’s a quick synopsis. Jon met Kate…Jon married Kate…Jon and Kate had twin girls, then decided to have one more child and ended up with sextuplets (with the help of fertility drugs). Then yay America was fascinated with them and asked them to do a reality TV show and of course they accepted…who wouldn’t?

So the 5th season is about to start and people will definitely be tuning in to see what unfolds with all the latest developments on Jon & Kate’s “marital problems.” At the end of the 4th season Jon went to PA to help his mom who was sick. Supposedly he was down there by himself for 8 days and partied until the sun came up on various nights with random young college girls. One girl in particular has been making a lot of headlines 23-year-old Deanna Hummel (who graduated from college in 2007). Allegedly Jon was seen leaving her house at 7:30am. She was seen sunbathing in the front yard of his new house. Her brother Jason claims he heard Jon and Deanna having sex (Eww!). Then Deanna comes back in people.com with “My brother is very shady,” says Hummel. “He has no job. He has a criminal background. He was charged for drug distribution. He’s on probation right now.”

So there are the current “facts” that are circulating. I put facts in quotations because you can never really believe what you read. I mean who knows. The brother sounds like a loser who just wants some publicity…maybe a little celebrity? make a little money? You know those magazines pay for those “exclusive” interviews right?

Do I think Kate is a little high strung? Maybe a little bitchy and mean? Yes in fact I do. But if you ask me if Jon loves her I would still say yes! I think Jon just wanted to pretend for a few days that he could just go back to being normal and that people would treat him normal and he could get away from the cameras and the fame that comes with having your own show. I think it’s all harmless since there’s no hard core evidence. I mean they say that video was from 7:30am but who knows what time it was taken or for that matter who knows where it was filmed! And why would Jon bring his “mistress” to his NEW house and have her sunbathing in a bikini on his FRONT YARD? Even if Kate wasn’t home he has neighbors, he has kids, he has camera crews and nannies and house keepers! If he was cheating he wouldn’t have done that. Men who cheat hide their cheating. Jon’s a quality guy, he’s a good husband and everyone who watches the show can see he’s a good father. He’s just a guy who is trying his best to handle the situation in front of him.

They make between $50-$75 thousand per episode! I once heard that it cost $1,000,000 to raise a child from birth to 18 years old. Considering they have 8 kids I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to stick it out for the money.

I love me some Jon & Kate Plus 8 because the kids are toooo cute!!!!!!!! So I am routing for that family! I’d rather see them bicker on air and be real with the public then pretend they are the ‘Leave It To Beaver’ family of the new millennium!

New season debuts on May 25th!