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Monday, November 6, 2017
Counting On: Canceled By TLC ... Thanks to Derick Dillard?!
Counting On aired its most recent season finale last month, but the TLC series’ future – and the Duggar family’s – is very much up in the air.
Rumors of Counting On being canceled by TLC were fueled by the network deleting a post announcing the show’s renewal for Season 7.
Never a good sign … but is there anything to it?
Fans surely recall that in 2015, 19 Kids and Counting was canceled on the heels of the Josh Duggar molestation and adultery scandals.
Despite that fall from grace, the network repackaged it as Jill and Jessa Duggar: Counting On, not featuring Josh, less than one year later.
The controversial spinoff, later shortened to just Counting On, has chugged along ever since, despite being on thin ice ratings-wise.
Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, ridding the series of Josh Duggar hasn’t made the viewing experience as vanilla as executives might like.
That’s because a new “villain” of sorts has stepped in to take his polarizing place, and one that no one would’ve expected a few years back:
Jill’s husband, Derick Dillard.
Forget about what you see on the air; Derick’s controversial posts and comments on social media may be tearing the Duggars apart.
Things have gotten so bad in recent months that Dillard’s absence from the family’s Facebook page can’t be an accident or coincidence.
The crazy part is how deliberate he is; Duggar family members are all under a microscope, but he goes out of his way to stir the pot online.
Derick sparked controversy online by bashing TLC star Jazz Jennings as an “oxymoron” and saying that being “transgender” is a myth.
While he defends this as freedom of speech instead of bigotry, he doesn’t exactly pass up a chance to publicly share his divisive views.
The question is whether he – and more significantly, his giant family of in-laws – will pay a heavy price for this recurring behavior pattern.
Reports of Derick Dillard cheating on Jill Duggar are likely untrue, but the fact that he’s become a magnet for gossip speaks volumes.
Slowly but surely, he may be sinking this ship.
Counting On began with a smaller audience than 19 Kids, and what remained of the viewership then began to steadily decline further.
The Duggars have managed to stay afloat for two years under those circumstances, but how much more heat can the family endure?
Gossip about the Duggars’ imminent demise isn’t new, in large part because a growing chorus of critics would love to see that day come.
Given the dark cloud that will always linger over the reality series, how long with TLC conclude that it’s worth keeping this on the air?
With Derick emerging as a figure that Duggar detractors hate with a passion, they’re hardly shoring up the support they need at this stage.
If we had to venture guess?
We’d say TLC hasn’t made up its mind one way or another, and is having a lot of internal discussions about the direction they’re going in.
Perhaps the powers that be are waiting to see if any better show ideas come along before rolling the dice on another year of Duggar.
Or they are fully prepared to bring Counting On back but are taking an offseason break from hyping it up in light of recent controversies.
It’s also possible that the show returns with Derick getting the Josh Duggar treatment … sun glare and kids in front of face included.
Deion Sanders DESTROYS Tony Romo, "You Ain"t Won Nothin"
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Kylie Jenner: Huh? I Don"t Have a Baby Bump!!!
Kylie Jenner may have gotten pregnant by accident…
… but the 20-year old now has a very clear purpose:
To break the actual news of this pregnancy on her own terms.
We’re way beyond this being an achievable goal, of course.
Nearly every website on the Internet has written about Kylie being pregnant, with word already leaking about the gender of her impending baby (a girl), along with its due date (early spring).
Still. Kylie has not confirmed the development. Nor has anyone in her family.
And the reason why is obvious:
They want to sell the story either to the highest tabloid bidder… or make the announcement on Keeping Up with the Kardashians or maybe even Life of Kylie Season 2.
The family wants to maximize ratings, money and exposure.
However, The Daily Mail published photos on Sunday morning of Kylie boarding a private plane, wearing some baggy clothing and appearing larger than usual.
There’s a pretty clear baby bump in these snapshots.
But not according to Kylie!
Peeved over the outing of her expecting stomach by this British newspaper, Jenner took to Instagram in response and alleged the Daily Mail pictures were edited.
“First of all if you’re going to photoshop my photos blogs/paps!! Check for the crooked lines in the background.2nd photo is clearly altered,” she wrote.
As some kind of evidence (we guess?) that she doesn’t actually have a baby bump at the moment, Kylie then shared a photo of herself in this same baggy outfit, apparently hanging out at a convenience story with half-sister Khloe.
The images in question were taken by a photographer from X17Online.
The photo agency has responded to Kylie’s accusations of Photoshop as follows:
“100% REAL! No Photoshop, #nofilter, no additives, no preservatives—all organic and all REAL!”
And then The Daily Mail has written the following:
“DailyMail.com can confirm the pictures have not been digitally altered.”
Folks are welcome to believe either side in this debate, of course.
But most Internet users appear to be on to Jenner.
Based on the comments below, they understand that Kylie is just trying to delay the baby bump/pregnancy reveal until it works best for her financially…
Assuming she really is expecting, this will be Kylie Jenner’s first child.
The father is Travis Scott, a rapper Kylie only first started dating a few months ago.
We’re pretty sure the couple is still an item, but they actually haven’t been seen in public very much since the major news broke.
And Scott hasn’t confirmed it, either.
So we’re stuck playing this very silly waiting game, with the entire free world well aware that Kylie Jenner is pregnant, yet Kylie and her family trying to pretend otherwise until the perfect moment.
Whatever, though.
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