A photo that shows Jinger and Jana Duggar hanging out with an unidentified male has fans of the Duggars wondering whether the first season of Jill & Jessa: Counting On will focus on another Duggar courtship. There are also claims that the promo for the new TLC show hints that Jana has found love, but it’s possible that the Duggars and TLC are teasing fans with a courtship that doesn’t exist in order to get viewers to tune in to Jill & Jessa: Counting On .
Christianity Today speculates that something Jana Duggar says in the Jill & Jessa: Counting On promo is evidence that the oldest Duggar daughter has found love.
“I totally did not see this coming,” Jana says with a big smile on her face.
This is far from definitive evidence that Jana Duggar is courting, and there’s a reason TLC included the ambiguous comment in its promo—the network wants Duggar fans to tune in to find out what Jana is talking about. It’s even possible that TLC intends for viewers to think that Jana is referencing a courtship in the Jill & Jessa: Counting On promo below.
Jana Duggar’s parents were possibly using Jana’s love life (or lack thereof) in a similar manner when they shared the photo below on the Duggar Family Official Facebook page. As you can see, there’s a “mystery man” on the left side of the photo. There are heart decorations on the wall, so the picture was probably taken around Valentine’s Day.
A few of the Duggars’ Facebook followers noticed the non-Duggar male and guessed that he might be courting Jana or her younger sister, 22-year-old Jinger.
“Hope that good looking guy in the back is interested in Jana or Jinger!” Amy Armstrong Tucker wrote.
A commenter on the Freejinger website believes that the mystery man in the photo might be a friend of the Duggars named Logan Smith. He’s posted numerous photos of himself hanging out with members of the Duggar family on his Instagram page, and most of these pictures don’t include Jana or Jinger. Last August, Logan snapped the photo below that shows Jason Duggar and Joseph Duggar hanging out with him at a Chick-Fil-A.
If a Duggar courtship was actually going to be featured on Jill & Jessa: Counting On , there would likely be bigger hints about it than Jana’s “I totally did not see this coming” line and the photo that shows a male friend of the family eating at the Duggars’ house. The last time the family had a courtship to announce, they didn’t just drop tiny hints about it — as People reports, Josiah Duggar and Marjorie Jackson filmed a courtship announcement video that was posted on the 19 Kids and Counting website.
If the Duggars had a courtship to announce, surely TLC would use it to promote Jill & Jessa: Counting On , especially since the family no longer has any births to film and no new revelations about Josh to talk about—many viewers likely tuned in to last year’s three-part special simply because they wanted to see Jessa Duggar’s traumatic labor footage and hear what Anna Duggar had to say about Josh’s cheating scandal.
If fans of Jana Duggar do tune in to Jill & Jessa: Counting On in the hopes that they’ll get to hear Jana Duggar explain that courtship is “dating with a purpose,” they might be sorely disappointed. Judging from a description of one of the scenes that “ Cinderella Duggar ” filmed for her family’s new show, it doesn’t seem like much has changed for the 26-year-old since fans last saw her on 19 Kids and Counting — she’s still living at home and helping out with her younger siblings. According to Radar Online , TLC filmed Jana and her twin brother, John David Duggar, purchasing $3,500 worth of lumber for a tree house back in January. Jana didn’t even get a break from babysitting while she was busy trying to make sure that she was picking out the right materials for the project — she had to take three of her younger siblings to the lumberyard with her.
Instead of going to college or getting a job when they complete high school at home, Jana and the other adult Duggar daughters continue living with their parents and taking care of their younger siblings. They don’t move out until they get married, and they can only court and marry men that their father approves of . Jessa once said that most of these men turn out to be “weirdos.”
It should also be noted that the description of Jill & Jessa: Counting On that was shared on the Duggar Family website doesn’t mention a courtship. It simply says that the adult Duggar children will be shown experiencing “the growing pains of additional responsibility and figuring out adulthood for themselves.”
“Jana, Jinger, Joy Anna, John David, Josiah and Joseph continue to explore their own talents and passions,” the description reads.
Do you think Jana Duggar will ever get married and move out of her parents’ house, or will she be stuck there forever?
[Photos via Duggar Family Official Facebook ]