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With Josh Duggar about to leave rehab, the question is: will the antigay activist be returning for the reboot?

“The whole world was shocked,” laments Jill Duggar, sobbing over Josh’s admission that he molested several girls.

TLC is not moving forward with an 11th season of “19 Kids” featuring the Duggars, whose show “will no longer appear on the air,” the network told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Since being interviewed on ABC’s “20/20” by Barbara Walters at age 6, Jazz Jennings has emerged as a leading advocate, role model and explainer for the transgender community. Now she’s opening the door to her everyday routine on “I Am Jazz,” an 11-episode unscripted series premiering on TLC on Wednesday at 10 p.m. EDT.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ, the fate of the show is uncertain, but there’s now so much heat in the wake of Josh Duggar’s molestation confession … the network had to make the decision.

The 11-episode series will follow the lives of 14-year-old Jazz Jennings, her parents, siblings and grandparents.

Reality TV is not an area in which I have much comfort. I don’t know what a Kardashian is, and I am not clear on the point of real housewives or bridezillas. There seems to be a pre-occupation in this “reality” world with the breadth of “traditional marriages” from Bachelor mating rituals, which are tacky at best, to extreme retro “traditional” with multiple wives or 19 kids….

TLC denies claims that its newest show, “My Husband’s Not Gay,” helps promote the discredited notion that gay men can choose to be heterosexual. But one of the show’s stars has a history of promoting “ex-gay” therapy.

GLAAD says the show sends the wrong message and is a sad reminder of so-called gay conversion therapy, often faith-based efforts designed to change sexual orientation that can be emotionally scarring.

The TLC special follows four Mormon men living in Utah who are attracted to the same-sex, but who don’t identify themselves as gay or bisexual.