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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Well this will make many of us tireder of the J part..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/jon-gosselin-announces-hi_n_549338.html

Jon Gosselin Announces Career Plans


quote:

Jon Gosselin must pay Kate $22,000 a month in child support, but like Kate, no one really has any idea what he does for a living.

Short on cash, Jon sued Kate two weeks ago for reversal of spousal support and custody of their eight kids. Thursday he withdrew the papers seeking primary custody, stating that joint custody would be best for the family. He has also fired his attorney, Anthony List, with whom he is now in a fight over disparaging comments List made about Kate to the media.

Thursday Jon announced some money-making plans. He is selling his BMW to tide him over until he can find a job, Us Weekly reports. He hopes to get $25,000 for the car, which he bought used for $30,000 last year. There is also an alleged sugar mama.

"He has a new forty-something Washington, D.C., love interest," a source told Us. "She's rich -- and he's hoping to have her back one of his projects."

As for longer term career plans, Jon told TMZ he wants to get back into TV.


"I just can't afford the $22,000 a month right now. That is why I'm trying to find a job," he said. "I would like a job in some aspect of TV, probably as a host."




Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Speaking to Kate's lack of time to practice - yes, you can't get better if you don't practice; no, practice does not necessarily make you better. I LOVED Sea's comment waaaaaaay upthread about a dance implant! So true!!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Maybe Jon should go be a contestant on Let's Make a Deal. He could dress up like a tool.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
or just go on Tool Academy (j/k, I know that is a show for couples)

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Kate Gosselin spent her first full day back in Pennsylvania after getting the boot from Dancing With the Stars... at the tanning salon!

Leaving her eight children behind at their $1.1 million home with their father Jon, she hit up her fave local fake bake joint and also made time for a pedicure.

Kate, 35, hasn't spent much time with her kids since her run on DWTS wrapped up.

After catching up with them for 20 minutes on Thursday, she hopped into a limousine with her bodyguard Steve Neild, with whom she has denied having an affair, to drive to New York City to tape an apperance on Live with Regis and Kelly. US Weekly

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
That affair crap is so old news.. and in the past they have said that if one of them is with the children, the other isn't.. so if Jon was with the children (not being denied time) then Kate would have to be elsewhere..

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
Well I have NEW news...not sure how good it is though. PA has cleared the kids to work so Kate+8 is greenlighted. This is from TMZ, with what looks like a recent pic of the kids (judging from Kate's hair).

I truly worry about them. Want to bet we'll be hearing tons of pre-planned comments from the kids about how much they missed the camera's etc?! Not sure I have any interest in watching beyond a peek to see how the kids look and if they've grown/matured etc. Can I just say again, those poor kids!

http://tinyurl.com/372u7b4 Is the link to the TMZ story, and pic, if anyone wants to see.

ETA Tish, I recently saw that story too, and I found it odd that Kate wouldn't want to be with the kids on her first day back. Maybe she couldn't change the visitation, but seems like she would do less pampering things and relax either way. Guess not

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The kids were with her in LA and went to Disneyland just a week ago, right?

And in the same time period she was accused of keeping Jon from the kids so I wouldn't expect her to try to change any visitation..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Oh and Lurk, congrats on getting a scoop..

I know often I see something that is new and tvchers are so fast that it is old news on the board.

That definitely looks like a very recent picture and ugly enough (the airport) to be LAX but it also looked like a generic airport, so who knows..

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Sounds like she saw them for a bit before school on Thursday. Maybe she was back by the time school was out. I saw Giuliana of E in a really sneering way say that Kate "waltzed away from her kids" to tape Regis and Kelly. The way she said it really bothered me. I don't watch E a lot, but have seen Giuliana on her show with Bill and liked her. Even my husband who can't stand Kate was pretty appalled at Giuliana's sneering.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Well.. there was a separate link with just that same picture and it says they were landing in Maryland!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
If Kate goes ahead and does another show with the kids, there is no way that anyone could ever convince me that she is a good mother. Are you kidding? Can you imagine the nonstop publicity. These kids would be hounded forever. Don't tell me she would have no choice. That she would have to do it to keep food on the table.

This would be the ultimate thing she would do that would show what is most important to her.

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
I agree Julie.
She would be using her kids to maintain the lifestyle that SHE has grown accustomed to. The interest in Kate and her children will not last forever and that is a fact.Perhaps she is banking/investing $$. I could see her writing books or appearing on other TV shows.
Those poor, cute kids.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
First of all I don't buy anything that TMZ says. The real story, or so I am told, is that they were cleared of any child-labor violations. TMZ took that to mean they could work in TV more.

Grains of salt.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Not exactly. The labor department found that because they weren't simply filmed, that the children also did the "confessional" interviews, they should have had work permits. However, as long as 15% of the shows "proceeds" were put into trust funds for the children, no action would be taken. They do, however, need to obtain work permits for any future shows.

Link to Philly.com

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Escapee, Kate and TLC already announced the new show with the kids awhile ago, a show that is separate from Kate's new show that is her own. The article is further back somewhere in this thread. Here is a newer one. They are going ahead with just "Kate Plus 8". The first ep is likely this summer.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2931398/...

Shenanagon
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07-28-2009

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shenanagon a private message Print Post    
15% seems very minimal.

Sia
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03-10-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Kate really would be better off (and might save money) buying her own tanning bed and putting it in the basement on a corner of the dance floor. Then she should hire a nail technician to come to the house every week to do her nails. Hopefully the public would have less to say about how she spends her time.

On a lighter note, I've always said that if I were as rich as Oprah that I'd have a shampoo bowl and hair-chair installed in my house and have my hair washed/styled every day! That would be so nice. I love having my hair washed because it feels so good.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 9:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
(Sia, I love that too, although I love massages more.)

As for the Kate Plus 8 show... why not? If she's not breaking any laws. I see no difference between her kids on the show, than any other similar reality show featuring kids, ie: 19 and counting; The Roloff kids, or whatever the heck that show is called, etc.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
From Philly.com link:

"Replying to written questions about the state's letter, Laurie Goldberg, a spokeswoman for Discovery Talent Services and TLC, said Wednesday that the trust fund had been established, and that the amount placed in it exceeded 15 percent of the show's gross proceeds."

---So they put more than 15% of the gross into a trust fund. If it was of the net, it might not be so much, but since it is of the gross, it is probably a lot of $.
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"In the Gosselins' case, the department received a complaint last summer against the show, which was filmed primarily in the couple's home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, and later in Wernersville, Berks County, after the couple moved there.State officials declined to say when the complaint was filed or who filed it.

One of the fundamental questions, state officials said, was whether reality television was subject to child labor laws.

According to information that TLC provided to the state, filming generally occurred two or three times a week for four to six hours each time. On school nights, filming wrapped up at 7."

---Some people make it seem that they were filmed 24/7. This statement shows that they were not.

(Although, "Kevin Kreider said he was particularly concerned about 24/7 video cameras in the children's bedrooms, filming of toilet training with full nudity, and lack of adult supervision during filming." Makes me wonder who is telling the truth. Is Kevin just using the 24/7 expression or does he mean it literally? I'm sure we'll never know.)
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"Then there are the relatives. Kate Gosselin's brother and sister-in-law were testifying Wednesday at a legislative committee meeting in Horsham examining the state's child labor laws.

The two told legislators that those laws needed updating to reflect the advent of reality television and the Internet.

"These children deserve the same legal protection and ethical safeguards provided to children involved in scripted television production," an emotional Jodi Kreider, who is married to Kate Gosselin's brother, Kevin Kreider, told legislators."

---Some of what Kevin and Jodi have said and done and the way they have gone about things has really bothered me. I would be very disappointed in my sibs if they had said and done to me some of what he has said and done to Kate. However, I think them testifying is good and a step in the right direction.
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"State Rep. Thomas Murt (R., Montgomery) said he planned to introduce legislation to revise Pennsylvania's child labor code to reflect concerns raised in the hearing. He said the state code needed new curbs on hours and working conditions, and language to ensure that children in reality shows are compensated.

Murt said that he was disappointed that the findings of the agency charged with overseeing children in the workplace had not been made public until Wednesday's hearing, and that "despite numerous violations to code, no one was being cited" in connection with the show.

Thompson, the spokesman for the Labor and Industry Department, said the department, too, was working to revamp child labor laws - in part to reflect the advent of reality TV and the Internet."

----I wonder what violations he is talking about specifically. I'm sure some will blame only Kate for those. I think TLC is to blame.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
Oh goodie! Now the kids can go back to work to keep Kate in the lifestyle she has grown accustomed to. Maybe she'll get a freebie tanning bed for home, so she can be around for filming. The kids get their "family" back (ie, film crew and sound guys). Maybe if Jon plays his cards right he can get a cameo and get some of the profits as well!

Ugh. Why do I see eight "Mommie Dearest" books in the future?

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
If anything, all the cameras around would ensure that Kate didn't walk around locking the children in closets and beating them with coat hangers.

I wish they'd filmed my childhood...

Shenanagon
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07-28-2009

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shenanagon a private message Print Post    
LOLOL me too!!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Happymom, here is a link to the relevant PA child labor law:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=552938&mode=2

Section 7.1 refers to work in television (among other things). From what I gather, TLC contends is doesn't apply because the children weren't working; they were just being filmed doing what they would normally do. The labor board disagreed, in part because the children were asked to do "confessional" interviews. I would also question all the trips they took for the show's sake.

We don't know what other violations exist, because, since no permit was issued, no one was watching what was happening. According to records TLC provided, filming "generally" lasted no more than 4-6 hours. Does that mean on some occasions it lasted longer? That could be a violation.

I blame both Kate and Jon, much more so than TLC. It is the parents responsibility to protect the interest of their children. It is their responsibility to ensure that they are in accordance with the law as it affects their children. TLC just wants to film the show; they'll do what they can to make that happen.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I thought Kate + 8 was to be a series of specials, not a regular show?

I hope all of you who are mothers don't rely on posters on internet boards to label you as good or bad mothers but have confidence in your own abilities and have people you actually know and trust to give you feedback, just saying. So.. I don't think Kate is living to convince any posters of her goodness as a mother.