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"After a record-setting turnout for last week&amp;apos;s season premiere, viewership for Jon &amp;amp; Kate Plus 8 dropped significantly in its second week.\r\nFueled by ongoing media reports about Jon and Kate Gosselin&amp;apos;s marital difficulties, the May 25th premiere of Jon &amp;amp; Kate Plus 8 attracted a staggering 9.8 millions viewers, easily beating such highly anticipated network offerings as ABC&amp;apos;s Lost season finale.\r\nSee how Jon and Kate first met!\r\nThe two newest episodes of Jon and Kate which aired this past Monday, however, scored only 5.5 million and 6 million viewers respectively.  A precipitous drop, but still big numbers by basic cable standards.\r\nInterestingly, neither one of Monday night&amp;apos;s new episodes addressed the subject of the Gosselin&amp;apos;s crumbling marriage.  Instead, both shows were built around material which had already been shot prior to the scandal breaking.   \r\nCheck out some of Hollywood&amp;apos;s ugliest divorces!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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