Jon Gosselin's Cruel, Cruel Summer
Kate Major's on Gosselin's back while TLC may want him off their payroll.
Aug. 21, 2009 — -- After weeks of sub-average temperatures, sweltering summer weather has finally hit New York.
Unfortunately for one of the city's newest residents, Jon Gosselin (Maybe you've heard of him? He's on some reality show with a bunch of kids?), things haven't been so hot.
TLC, the network that airs "Jon & Kate Plus 8," the reality show that made Gosselin famous, has reportedly fallen out of love with the father of eight faster than did his soon-to-be ex-wife.
Earlier this week, TMZ.com reported that TLC (the network Gosselin's 22-year-old girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, recently dubbed "The Lying Channel") told the dad he may soon be freed of contractual agreements tethering him to the network. Apparently, producers don't think Gosselin's new hobbies -- bar-hopping and lady-wooing -- jibe with the intended family values of the show, whose ratings are falling.
Representatives for "Jon & Kate Plus 8" declined to comment on the reports. TMZ.com also claimed that Gosselin was being courted for a new TV gig -- a starring role in "Divorced Dad's Club," a series chronicling the lives of famous divorced fathers, currently being developed by reality-TV production giant Endemol.
But more bad news for Gosselin -- an Endemol spokeswoman told ABCNews.com the company is "absolutely not" in talks with Gosselin about participating in the show.
As his professional prospects plummet, Gosselin's personal life is falling on hard times, too. While he claims things are going great with Glassman, the daughter of the plastic surgeon who performed his estranged wife's tummy tuck, Kate Major, the Star magazine reporter with whom Gosselin palled around a few weeks ago, is hissing about his behavior.
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