Duggar Family News Update: Reality TV Family Continue To Lose Advertisers
The Duggars have been struggling financially since Josh Duggar's molestation and cheating scandal last year. Though TLC has been trying to reintroduce the clan on TV with Jill and Jessa: Counting On, a recent report said that the spinoffs has been disliked by a lot of advertisers who withdrew their support from the show.
A report said that more than ten companies have already aired their protest and urged the network to stop running their ads in any Duggar show.
These companies are Wrigley, Ring.com, Combe Inc., Credit Karma, Gazelle.com, RCN Corporation, X Out, Chattem, Inc, Cici's Pizza, The UPS Store, Whitewave Foods, Choice Hotels, Mattress Firm, Verizon Wireless and Pure Michigan who have issues statements saying that the station did not inform them properly that their ads will be aired during the Duggar spinoff.
Wrigley and Ring.com, for example said that their ads were run by mistake or because of an 'error' that prompted the airing of the ad.
Despite this negative turn, TLC General Manager Nancy Daniels assured that the Duggars still have millions and millions of fans out there who want to stay updated particularly in the lives of Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard.
Daniels also said that the reported advertisers just comprise a 'small group' of 'very vocal' ones who are against the show.
As of the moment, the network still has no definite plans for the clan to return to television even after Josh's supposedly momentous event of being released from rehab.
"We've been with Jill and Jessa [for years]... they had a tragedy in their lives when they were very young... these are two girls who were victims," another Discovery Communications executive said.
The recent development came out amidst new pregnancy rumors aimed at Jill Duggar. In Jill's recent Instagram post, she was seen wearing a maternity shirt while with baby Israel and Derrick Dillard. The reality TV star's loose clothing prompted speculations that she is carrying her second baby.
Fans, however, were worried for Jill since she is currently with Derrick in South America, a Zika hotspot, for their charity mission.
