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By MOLLY DAVIS
Kate Gosselin is making a comeback.
Jumping at every opportunity, the Wernersville resident has been spotted out on the town in New York City, is set to come back to a TV near you, and is releasing her third book.
So much for the relative Jon & Kate quiet I’ve been enjoying for the past few months.
First, let’s tackle the book.
The reality star is scheduled to release “I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family” on April 13 by Zondervan Publishers.
The book features prayers she recites, excerpts from her personal journal and eight individual letters addressed to each one of her brood.
Who would want to read that?
Besides her children, I can’t imagine.
But she obviously has an audience, as her last two books, Multiple Blessings and Eight Little Faces, have been New York Times bestsellers.
Kate’s statement about the book reads, “Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised.”
“I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally. I don’t want them to grow up and wonder; I want them to know without a shadow of a doubt how much I love them and how much every sacrifice made was worth it for them.”
It’s a very nice sentiment, but unnecessary.
Instead of publishing these very personal letters, how about just giving the letters directly to your children?
Have them framed for each of the kids — a great Valentine’s Day gift — but publishing them in a tell all?
I would be furious at my mom.
Then again, I don’t need my mom to publish her feelings about me – I’ve never doubted them, as they have been reinforced throughout the years by the act of her being a present parent.
No letter needed.
Just simple “I love you’s” have worked just fine.
In addition to the book, Gosselin is in production on a new television show for TLC, focusing on the newly-single mother.
No kids?
Isn’t that the main reason people tuned in?
Other than watching Kate berate Jon, those eight cherub faces made the show.
Which brings us to the rumors that the kids may return to filming.
Even though Jon slapped TLC with cease-and-desist order to halt production on “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ last fall, he’s reportedly negotiating with Kate and the network to resume filming again.
Smells like a money-motivated decision.
Jon is reportedly willing to let his kids back on the show if TLC will drop its breach of contract suit filed against him for making paid appearances on other networks.
Translation: Jon has no money, can’t make his awful personal Ed Hardy clad appearances, and needs to make a buck to pay for his expensive lifestyle.
The kids filming would also be financially beneficial to Kate, as she was dining at Butter in NYC after getting her new longer locks chopped in Manhattan.
After spending 20 hours having the $7,000 extensions put in, she returned to have them shorn to a shaggy, shoulder-length style.
If Kate is going to be heading to N.Y. and dropping that amount of money on extensions only to get rid of them a month later, you better believe she needs to get her kids back on TLC.

By MOLLY DAVIS
Do you want to Date Kate?
Not Kate Hudson.
Kate Gosselin.
Yes, you heard me.
The baby factory and original octo-mom is supposedly in talks to star in a new reality show — not about her kids — but about finding a new love.
“Love her or hate her, people are fascinated by Kate,” a TV executive said in the story published on Popeater.com. “She has a lot of mouths to feed and Kate looking for love will certainly put bread on the table.”
I’m hoping this is not a reliable story.
Kate is sporting a longer hairdo and a new outlook, as she rebuilds her life as a single woman.
She jokingly said she is changing her name to “Kate Clean-Slate.”
After not hearing anything about Kate for a few months, I figured she was focusing on what’s important (her kids) and not looking for another sleazy 15 minutes.
But here she is on the cover of People, showing off her makeover.
She may look good — and she does look beautiful — but I don’t know many men that would take on dating a woman with that kind of baggage.
Her emotional baggage, not her eight children.
Kate is an alpha female who will rule her roost, and she will need another laid back doormat like her ex, Jon, to boss around.
And there aren’t many eunichs out there.
I do hope Kate finds happiness — but if she’s looking for it on trashy reality TV, odds are it probably won’t work out.
Hindsight is 20/20, Kate.
You should have some by now after your last TV debacle — where your family imploded for the world to see.
The collateral damage done to your kids is nothing short of traumatic, as is any divorce viewed though the eyes of kids.
So lie low, Kate.
Don’t put yourself out there for the world to dissect – they didn’t like what they found the last time.

By MOLLY DAVIS
Just when we we thought it was a Gosselin-free month, Kate opens that mouth of hers…
To Babs Walters.
I’m not shocked that Kate is running her mouth again.
What surprises me is that she was chosen as one of the elite “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009.”
Fascinating?
If you think watching a train wreck is fascinating.
In the interview, Kate tells Babs that the lack of camera crews has been a terribly emotional adjustment for her children.
The brood are devastated by the fact that their family reality TV series, “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ has been put on hiatus thanks to their parent’s messy divorce.
“They cried in the van on the way home from school the other day,” Gosselin told Walters during the interview. “I finally admitted to them, they kept asking, ‘Where’s the camera crew? Where’s the camera crew? We miss them.’ And I said, ‘Our show is over.’ …Eight sobbing kids driving home from school.”
How strange she doesn’t worry about the effect banning her brother and sister-in-law and the grandparents from her children, but she worries about the effect of not having the camera crew around has on them.
Kate has previously explained how her parents and family are not involved in her children’s lives because she chose for them not to be — because their opinions were not the same as hers.
She must have believed since she could make other family members disappear out of her life quietly when she grew tired of them, Jon would quietly follow suit.
Kate must have been shocked when he went out fighting.
I’m still on Team Jon, no matter how much of an idiot he continues to be.
So the show on TLC is finito.
Poor Kate.
Now she may actually have to take care of her kids.
Instead of going to a spa, shopping, doing talk shows, or publicity for her many brands.

By MOLLY DAVIS
The fat lady is singing for “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”
It’s over.
Done.
Finito.
Kate will have one last hurrah next Monday on an hour-long special on TLC, where the mom of eight will answering “your questions about life, the show and moving on,” the network has announced.
It will be the last, dear fans.
It’s not clear whether she will address the breach-of-contract lawsuit between her soon-to-be-ex Jon Gosselin and the TLC network.
Coincidentally, the special airs the same day the Gosselins are due in court to try reach a financial settlement.
It’s all about timing.
And media manipulation.
Having known people who live in the same community as Kate, she has the reputation of being pushy, butting in lines, maniacally grabbing clothing off the racks at Gymboree and then huffily stuffing them in a bag while screaming at her kids, and demands star treatment.
She is not a star and her sense of entitlement is through the roof.
She is just another Pennsylvania housewife with a lot of kids.
No talent and certainly no class.
As for the kids response to the show ending, Kate says they are “angry” and “acting out.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the reality mom tells what went down when she told her eight cuties that the show was dunzo.
“Actually, times eight, there was wailing and sobbing,” Kate says. “They love our crew, they love the interaction, they love the events. There is nothing harmful about it. They are angry.”
And while Kate constantly scolds the paparazzi, she says the kids have become so used to their presence, that she has to “instruct” them how to act.
“I always tell [the children], ‘Turn your back and don’t look at them, don’t speak to them,’” says Kate. “I don’t even let them use the word. I mean, no five-year-old should be using the word ‘paparazzi.’”
“The ones claiming we are exploiting our children,” Kate says, “are the ones exploiting our children!”
It must be nice to be mayor of crazy town, Kate.
If she really feels she hasn’t exploited her kids, God bless her.
She goes on to say, “I’m trying to give them the grace to see, if they’re acting out of line, I’m trying to look deeper into why that is,” she says. “Why the kids are acting out. Cause it’s all inter-related. I mean, they don’t see it, but it’s all interconnected.”
The fate of this family remains to be seen.
Whatever happens, we won’t be seeing it on TLC.
Good thing for the paparazzi.
Sorry, Kate.