{"id":2026813,"date":"2025-09-16T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2026813"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:13:35","slug":"kids-came-home-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kids-came-home-to-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kids Came Home to Say Goodbye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate Gosselin is giving fans a look at life with her boys<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The reality TV alum shared a TikTok clip on Tuesday, Sept. 16, featuring two of her sextuplets hanging out with her dog<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family&#8217;s TLC show\u00a0<em>Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8<\/em>\u00a0aired from 2007 to 2009<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-gosselin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kate Gosselin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kate Gosselin<\/a> is giving fans a rare look at life with her kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Jon and Kate Plus 8<\/em> alum, 50, shared a pair of images featuring two of her now-adult sons on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kate.gosselin\/video\/75506755001469698868BIM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TikTok;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TikTok<\/a> on Tuesday, Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate, who shares her twin girls and sextuplets with ex-husband <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jon-gosselin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jon Gosselin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jon Gosselin<\/a>, uploaded a glimpse at her &#8220;first road trip&#8221; with her dog Meika. In the TikTok&#8217;s first image, two of Kate&#8217;s boys \u2014 presumably Aaden and Joel, both 21 \u2014 gave a hug to the dog before Kate loaded up her car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Kids came home to say goodbye,&#8221; Kate captioned the snap, before sharing a follow-up image of one of the two boys petting the pup on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They tried to tell me they wouldn&#8217;t miss her&#8230; Suuuuuurrreee,&#8221; she captioned the second snap with a laughing emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The remainder of the clip detailed what went down when Kate took both Meika and her other dog, Nanuq, on the road. It did not feature any more photos of her kids. (Kate is also mom to sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Collin, and Leah, as well as twin girls Mady and Cara, both 24.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Kate Gosselin\/TikTok<\/p>\n<p> Kate Gosselin&#8217;s son plays with her dog, Meika<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video from Kate comes less than a month after Aaden made a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-gosselin-son-aaden-makes-rare-appearance-tiktok-reflects-jon-and-kate-plus-8-11795109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rare social-media appearance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rare social-media appearance<\/a> on his mom&#8217;s TikTok live. In the footage, he emerged from his room and joined her on the couch as she interacted with fans. He also answered a fan who asked Kate what her favorite memory from\u00a0<em>Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8 <\/em>was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Probably any time we went to Wyoming. That was really fun, yeah,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8<\/em>\u00a0aired on TLC from 2007 to 2009, ending when Aaden was 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elsewhere during Aaden&#8217;s appearance on TikTok, Kate described her son as &#8220;very chill&#8221; and &#8220;a laidback guy&#8221; during the live. He became the second sextuplet shown on Kate&#8217;s account, after his sister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/alexis-gosselin-rare-appearance-mom-kate-tiktok-11789104\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alexis was shown briefly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alexis was shown briefly<\/a> in a video in early August, as she walked through the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate has since shared that she was hoping to have several of her kids co-host a TikTok live with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate celebrated her sextuplets&#8217; birthday in May by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-gosselin-sextuplets-21-birthday-photos-11732661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sharing snaps;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sharing snaps<\/a> with four of her children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-puzzler-8620185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/collin-gosselin-focuses-on-gratitude-and-calls-sextuplet-sister-hannah-his-number-1-in-graduation-post-7551820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Collin Gosselin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Collin Gosselin<\/a>, one of the sextuplets, opened up about his relationship with his siblings on his own account on Aug. 20, years after he and his sister Hannah chose to move in with their father following their parents&#8217; divorce. As he explained, it was &#8220;not something that is easy for me to talk about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;As you can see, I don&#8217;t post on Instagram, I don&#8217;t post on TikTok much,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m still getting in the groove of things, but, you know, I&#8217;ve realized I love to share my videos with you guys,&#8221; Collin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look at it more like moving forward and just kind of sharing content, and also for like TikTok at least, unfortunately, I don&#8217;t talk to my siblings, and I very much wish that we did and that they knew who I actually was because we don&#8217;t know each other at all,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added that he was using TikTok as &#8220;a journal to make videos and hope that they see them,&#8221; while also giving fans an update on Hannah. &#8220;I do still talk to Hannah,&#8221; Collin said. &#8220;I actually just texted her today, you know, she&#8217;s in college doing her thing. I always say, though, Hannah&#8217;s just very like living the life, you know, like having fun, always doing something, so we catch up when we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At this time, Colin and Hannah are estranged from Kate. He had previously accused her of abuse during an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/12350645\/collin-gosselin-kate-zip-tied-arms-legs-locked-basement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sun;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/collin-gosselin-claims-abuse-by-mom-kate-gosselin-zip-tied-locked-in-containment-room-8709768\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE had reached out to Kate and her attorney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE had reached out to Kate and her attorney<\/a>, Richard Puleo, for comment at the time, but never received a response. However, Kate\u2019s attorney told\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>\u00a0that he didn&#8217;t believe that his client had done anything to &#8220;intentionally harm&#8221; her son and that &#8220;she did what she did to protect herself and her family&#8221; from what he called &#8220;troubled behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24\/7 in more than 170 languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-gosselin-shares-rare-glimpse-two-of-her-sons-in-tiktok-11811022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Kate Gosselin is giving fans a look at life with her boys The reality TV alum shared a TikTok clip on Tuesday, Sept. 16, featuring two of her sextuplets hanging out with her dog The family&#8217;s TLC show\u00a0Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8\u00a0aired from 2007 to 2009 Kate Gosselin is giving fans a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2026814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[345465,345466,345467,22488],"class_list":["post-2026813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-collin-gosselin","tag-jon-gosselin","tag-kate-gosselin","tag-tiktok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kids-Came-Home-to-Say-Goodbye.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}