Jenelle Evans: CUT from Teen Mom! Again!
Stop us in case you’ve heard this earlier than, however…
… Jenelle Evans has been let go by the producers of Teen Mom.
The polarizing cable community persona appeared on a number of episodes this previous season of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, however our pals at The Ashley’s Reality Roundup are actually reporting that she’s going to NOT be requested again in 2025.
“It kind of came out of nowhere,” one manufacturing supply advised this superstar gossip web site, including on Monday:
“There had even been a concerted effort to get [Jenelle’s mother] Barbara Evans out to film, because they know that the fans really wanted to see Barb again. Barbara had almost agreed to film, and then [MTV] pulled out.”
As is so typically the case, in fact, there’s been an entire lot of drama surrounding Jenelle of late.
Just final week, insiders confirmed that Evans had despatched son Kaiser away from reside together with his grandmother — not lengthy after Evans herself relocated from North Carolina to Las Vegas.
This information got here instantly on the heels of Jenelle’s boyfriend having positioned a name to 911 as a result of he alleged Evans had been taking medicine and hitting him.
Evans didn’t precisely dispute both of those fees towards her.
Interestingly, nevertheless, Evans has NOT been launched from her cope with the MTV manufacturing firm Viacom.
“Jenelle signed a contract, and even if [MTV] chooses not to film her anymore, she is still locked into that contract,” the insider defined to The Ashley. “That means Jenelle would not be allowed to appear on any other shows or anything like that, due to the non-compete clause in the contract she signed.”
Evans, as you possible recall, was fired by MTV again in 2019 after her estranged husband, David Eason, shot and killed the household canine.
As a results of this heinous motion, Child Protective Services carried out an investigation and even took away the then-couple’s kids for a couple of month.
To her credit score, Evans lastly left Eason a number of months in the past.
According to the aforementioned supply, Evans made round $25,000 per episode final season… not precisely an insignificant determine.
“It’s a significant financial loss, because Jenelle wasn’t the only one making money from her segments,” The Ashley writes. “Her kids were each being paid when they appeared, too.”
As for why Evans was let go?
It could have been Jenelle’s need for her boyfriend and supervisor, August Keen, to be included on subsequent season.
“Having August be a ‘boyfriend’ really took away from the whole redemption arc they wanted to show Jenelle having,” this supply says.
“They wanted to show her living life as a single mom, away from David and being with her kids. But showing August as her boyfriend and not just her manager would have kind of killed that.”