Showing posts with label Josh's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh's. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Anna Duggar: Did She Get Pregnant to Save Josh"s Career?!


In recent weeks, we"ve been reporting on Josh Duggar"s comeback tour.


While the Duggars have not made their intentions explicit, it seems clear that they"re working toward rebuilding their disgraced son"s reputation in the hope that fans will be able to overlook Josh"s sex crimes.


That seems unlikely, but it"s not stopping Jim Bob and Michelle from pulling out all the stops.


Of course, if the Duggars have learned anything over the years it"s that nothing distracts their fans from scandal quite like a new baby.


And that"s just one reason that Duggar watchers believe Anna is currently expecting her sixth child.


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1. Anna’s Clan


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Josh and Anna have been keeping a low profile ever since it was revealed in 2015 that he had molested five young girls while still in his teens.



2. Hiding Out


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While Anna has continued to make occasional appearances on Counting On, Josh has mostly kept his distance from his family’s media empire.



3. Creeping Back


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In recent weeks, however, Josh has made numerous appearances on the official social media counts run by his parents.



4. Starting Slow


Josh duggar anna duggar and kids in 2017

The Duggars are no slouches when it comes to public relations, and they wisely decided to re-introduce Josh gradually.



5. Safety In Numbers


Josh duggar and a kid

They started with photos of Josh in crowd scenes at family events such as birthday parties.



6. Back At It


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Recently, Josh and Anna began making public appearances together for the first time since his sex scandals.


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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Duggar Fans Stunned By Josh"s Appearance: Get Off the Internet, You Greasy Perv!

We don’t need to tell you that Josh Duggar is one of the most hated people on the internet.


But unlike the yodeling Wal-Mart kid or Mark Zuckerberg Josh definitely deserves all of the vitriol that’s being directed his way.



As you’ll likely recall, Josh molested five of young girls – four of whom were his sisters – while he was still in his teens.


At the time, it was widely assumed that that would be the end of the Duggar media empire.


However, the rest of the family was permitted to return to television on the condition that Josh would not be allowed on their new show.


Thus far, the arrangement seems to be working out for Josh’s siblings.


Unfortunately, their parents insist on gradually re-introducing Josh to the general public, seemingly in hopes of re-building his reputation.



Needless to say, their efforts aren’t going over terribly well.


The Duggars recently traveled to San Antonio, and they shared photos of themselves visiting the city’s famous landmarks, including the Alamo.


Unfortunately, they decided to include Josh in their outings.


As In Touch Weekly points out, fans were downright brutal in their assessment of Josh’s appearance.


Yes, as you can see, Josh looks a bit rumpled and out-of-sorts in the photo above.


And Facebook commenters were more than happy to call attention to the father of five’s disheveled look.


“He looks downright terrible,” wrote one fan, adding that Josh looks “greasy” in the pic.



 “And like he spends his days at a computer watching porn and drinking cheap beer wearing a stained wife-beater, eating Cheetos,” another chimed in.


“Nice rack Josh. He looks like a bloated, full blown alcoholic,” another follower commented.


“Hope the extra pounds diminished his sex appeal in his own mind. Gag. Keep fattening him up Anna, he looks worse and that’s not saying much.”


Like we said, the people of Facebook definitely didn’t hold back here, and we applaud their candor.


Although this is one of those Chris Christie situations where we’ll hesitantly point out that the man has given us so very much to mock and revile that there’s really no need to get into his appearance.


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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Duggar Family: Do They Even SEE Josh"s Kids?

It’s been nearly three years since the world learned that Josh Duggar molested five girls – four of whom were his sisters.


But for obvious reasons, the appalling scandal remains fresh in the minds of many former Duggar fans.



These days, the eldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle lives in virtual exile.


Josh works on a used car lot owned by his family, and while he still lives in Arkansas, he doesn’t spend nearly as much time with his parents and siblings as he once did.


In fact, Josh sightings are so rare at the Duggar compound that it seems even the family’s most devoted fans have forgotten the 29-year-old exists.


As you’re probably aware, multiple Duggar women are expecting chldren these days, and a recent online conversation about their pregnancies revealed the extent to which Josh is no longer on the mids of Counting On viewers.


Fans on Facebook commented on a recent post made by the family with predictions about the genders of Joy-Anna, Jinger, and Kendra’s babies.



“Lots of grandboys,” one fan wrote.


“I’m betting Jinger has the first girl! Or maybe Joy.”


“In all fairness, it’s been a long string of boys,” another commented


“The girls are sorely outnumbered!”


It was only then that a third fan pointed out that Jim Bob and Michelle have already  welcomed two female grandchildren.


“You’re forgetting Mckenzie and Meredith,” 



The apparent Josh amnesia amongst obsessive Duggar fans might be attributed to a number of different causes:


It could be that these fans simply prefer to forget about Josh.


After all, the disgraced former lobbyist no doubt inflicted immeasurable trauma on his sisters, to say nothing of the fact that he nearly single-handedly destroyed his family’s media empire.


It’s not hard to see why fans might prefer to pretend he never existed.


Of course, selective memory is just one possible reason that Josh and his family aren’t at the forefront of some fans’ minds.


Some fans seem to believe that the Duggars would prefer they never mention Josh.



In all likelihood, Josh makes so few appearances on his family’s social media pages for practical reasons, but discussions in online Reddit boards reveal that many Duggar obsessives believe Josh is such a painful part of the family’s past that they would prefer to pretend he doesn’t exist.


Another possible reason – and perhaps the most likely explanation – is that Josh is not on fans’ minds for the simple reason that these days, he has very little interaction with the famous branch of his family tree.


He lives outside of town, and not only has he never appeared on his family’s reality show, he rarely pops up on his sisters’ social media pages.


Since those are the primary means through which Duggars interact with their fans, it’s not hard to see how Josh might get confined to the dustbin of history.


We just hope both fans and family members will bear in mind that his children have done nothing wrong and do not deserve to be exiled.


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Monday, April 3, 2017

Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar: Blaming Anna For Josh"s Cheating?!

Shortly after the world learned that Josh Duggar molested five young girls when he was in his teens, the Duggars were beset by yet another scandal involving their eldest son’s sexual impropriety.


When the infidelity-facilitating website Ashley Madison was hacked in August of 2015, Josh was revealed to be its most high-profile client.


We still don’t know if Josh succeeded in his efforts to cheat on his wife, Anna, but we do know what his intentions were.



In the wake of Josh’s second scandal, the Duggars went into damage control mode.


Josh was sent to rehab to undergo a “faith-based” course of treatment for his sex addiction, and when he returned home six months later, his family basically kept him hidden from sight.


So it would appear that though he avoided jail time for his adolescent sex crimes, Josh learned a hard lesson about fidelity after getting caught cheating on his wife.


But as we’ve seen before, the Duggars are in object lesson in the many ways in which appearances can be deceiving.



Less than two years after Josh checked into rehab, everything in his life has basically returned to normal.


Josh and Anna are expecting their fifth kid; the rest of the Duggars are back on TV; and while his career as a lobbyist/reality TV star may have come to an end, Josh is reportedly making a fine living for himself as the proprietor of several used car dealerships.


Needless to say, fans are growing concerned that any lessons learned might now be forgotten.


And their worst fears seem to have been confirmed by recent comments from Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar regarding their views on infidelity.


The couple frequently speaks at marriage retreats and in a video uploaded yesterday, Colorado-based pastor Kenny Batson recalled an encounter with Jim Bob and Michelle at such an event.



Addressing his congregation, Batson recollected:


At the marriage retreat — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar helped us do it, and at the end of it, they were getting ready to go home, and Jim Bob caught me out in the hall and says, ‘You know what,’ he says, ‘I have to go back in here and do a little more teaching.’”


“What they talked about was this matter right here. Intimacy in marriage. And Michelle said something that I’d never thought, I mean I knew of it but I never thought like she put it.


“She said ‘Ladies, your husband can get his laundry done by other women, he can have his meal cooked by other women, he can have all kinds of things done for him by other women, but there’s only one woman who can meet that strong need he has that God put in him, and its you. Only you, lady.’”



In the past, the Duggars have been accused of blaming Anna for Josh’s infidelity, and many fans see these latest comments as Michelle’s way of doubling down on those views.


Michelle seems to be implying that Josh was simply acting on the “strong need that God put in him” and that Anna wasn’t satisfying his needs in the bedroom.


Batson puts an even finer point on it, summing up Michelle’s comments thusly:


“It is one of the greatest sins of women today, is a self-centered narcissistic view of how they are to have control of their bodies. The Bible says your body is not your own, sister. It is your husband’s.”



They may have figured out a way to present themselves to 21st century television audiences in an inoffensive fashion, but the Duggars views on marriage and a woman’s place in the world remain deeply problematic.


The Josh sex scandals briefly brought those views to the surface, and fans were justifiably outraged.


But like Jim Bob and Michelle, the Duggars’ most loyal viewers proved very eager to forget.



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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Anna Duggar: Josh"s Scandal "Can"t Be True"

Good Morning America ran a profile on the Duggar family ahead of TLC"s three-part special, Jill & Jessa: Counting On.


The segment includes sound bites from Jill and Anna Duggar.


"It wasn’t right for him to let us speak our words without having the full knowledge of what he was hiding," a tearful Jill told the camera of Josh, who not only admitted to molesting his younger sisters as a teenager, but also cheated on his wife.


Jill was angry that she and sister Jessa defended Josh on-camera to Fox News" Megyn Kelly in June, before knowing that he had been involved in extra-marital affairs.


In August, Josh"s email address was one of thousands registered in a data dump from extra-marital site Ashley Madison.  He also admitted to a porn addiction and that he had been unfaithful to Anna.


"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever," Josh said in a statement after the news broke.  "While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife."


In a clip from the series, Anna revealed her feelings on the matter.


"I was like, I’m just gonna wake up and everything gonna be ok," Anna told the camera.  "This can’t be true."


Josh is currently undergoing treatment.


Jill & Jessa: Counting on premieres December 13th at 8pm on TLC.


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