What Do You Get When You Cross Two Media Hungry Dads? A Thriving Legal Industry.
Ah yes, Jon Gosselin has finally been forced to shut up to the media. For some, this means Christmas comes early as the reality dad gets legally barred from making any more media appearances. TLC may be the victor, but really, we’re all winners here. Jon Gosselin was banned from making media appearances, as per the contract he signed with the lifestyle network for Jon & Kate Plus Eight. TLC Chief Operating Officer Edward Sabin testified that Jon messed with the network’s mom-friendly reputation by hosting a pool party in Vegas in August.
“It made the show look bad. Photos of Jon Gosselin with scores of bikini-clad women was inconsistent with our image brand of our show.”
Do you think? It was also inconsistent with my concept of what types of men dozens of women will fawn over. Jon was supposed to testify, but instead skipped the Maryland court date. So we didn’t get to hear his argument, but the gist of it is he feels like the attention his celebrity status inexplicably attracts kept him from getting work doing anything outside the famewhore industry (posing with milkshakes, getting into arguments with Nancy Grace). Naturally, his summer flings Hailey Glassman and Kate Major testified against him. Kate, who travelled with Jon to the Hamptons to meet with Michael Lohan about doing an apocalypse-triggering reality series called The Divorced Dads’ Club together, said he knew the side-deal would violate his contract. “At that point he just didn’t care,” she said. Judaserella! And from the other side of the girls tent, Hailey, a 22-year-old who stayed with Jon even as he was linked to multiple other women, basically summed up TLC’s argument for them. “He was like a child,” she said. “‘How come Kate can do this and not me?’ Because they can control Kate’s mouth.” That mouth was in action the evening before the court hearing, as part of Barbara Walters’ annual Ten Most Fascinating People special. The TLC-approved mom reiterated that there’s no way to resurrect their marriage after the series of (frequently female) scandals that broke over the summer. But that doesn’t mean there is no love lost for poor Kate.
“I love the Jon that I remember. The Jon that I knew. The Jon who brought our kids home from the hospital. The Jon who used to be the bath man and the bedtime guy.”
But the Jon taking meetings with Michael Lohan? Even Michael Lohan must have been like “this guy has hit a new low.” Or not, we are talking about Michael Lohan here.
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