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Jon Gosselin sues TLC

jon-goselin-240Jon Gosselin has filed a $5 million lawsuit against TLC claiming that the network dedicated to learning damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets.  He also claims in his lawsuit that TLC owes him $175,000 for Jon and Kate Plus Eight episodes that have already been aired.  In accordance with a contract he and his soon to be ex-wife signed in 2008, he gets $22,500 for each half-hour episode and $45,000 for each one-hour episode.

I’m not sure he even has to be in the episode to get the money.  TLC probably didn’t foresee a future where Jon and Kate would be separated and no longer appearing together on the show.

Jon Gosselin filed the lawsuit here in Maryland at the District Court in Rockville, where Discovery Communications, TLC’s parent company, is headquartered.

Since Jon Gosselin is under contract with TLC, it’s a shame that they cannot simply reassign him to another show on the network.  I’m sure I’m not the only one that would get a real kick out of seeing Jon work as a deckhand on The Deadliest Catch.  After spending 48 hours on his feet pulling up crab pots in below freezing temperatures on the Bering Sea, he might just decide that being married to Kate isn’t so bad after all.

Smoking is now officially no longer cool

Jon Gosselin

Kids today need no further proof that smoking is bad than to see this photo of Jon Gosselin sitting on top a ATV with a real life cancer stick dangling out of his mouth.   See kids, smoking is so stupid, the Hawaiian looking guy on that reality show with all the kids does it Smoking ain’t cool, Jon Gosselin does it.

It’s a powerful anti-smoking message to send to our nation’s youth, or to anyone else that doesn’t want to look like a tard.  Like Jon Gosselin.

Jon and Kate call it quits

Shocker of all shockers, Jon and Kate Gosselin are legally separating. They filled papers and everything.

If you have never watched their reality show, Jon and Kate Plus 8 and you were only were going by what you’ve seen in the tabloids (or this video) you might just think that Kate Gosselin is the victim in all this.

I can assure you that she is not.

She has got to be one of the meanest, nastiest woman to have ever appeared on the reality TV show. And that’s saying a lot. I don’t know who she treats worse – her soon to be ex-husband or her eight kids.

They both say in this video that they are going to share custody of their eight children and that the children will remain living in the home while the parents rotate in and out. If you’ve watched the show, you know that Kate is rarely ever home. She’s usually traveling around giving speeches on how to be a terrific mother or to pimp one of her books.

My guess is that they will both end of seeking sole custody of the eight kids. The parent that doesn’t get custody will end up owing the other parent about a bazillion dollars in child support every month. That could be problematic since neither Jon or Kate has a job.