Jon Gosselin

TATTLE UNDERSTANDS that it's our job to care about Jon Gosselin; what baffles us is why anyone else cares? Why are People and In Touch leading their July 27 issues with stories of Jon's (love) affair with 22-year-old party girl Haily Glassman and Us and Life & Style using their covers to tease the father of eight's bad behavior? Why did Yahoo! yesterday highlight a story about Jon and another Kate (one who's a reporter for the Star) on its home page? Does anyone really find this guy's life so compelling?

"I am sorry," Jon Gosselin , 35, tells ex-wife Kate , 37, in a blanket apology for his behavior since the couple's idyllic Wyomissing life was shattered in '09. "I am sorry," he says via People mag, "because I did stuff I wouldn't want done to me. " By "stuff," Jon means the torrent of déclassé chicks he so publicly dated after the breakup, which no doubt deeply affected their eight kids and landed reality-show maven...

It was Jon and Kate plus a court date yesterday in Norristown. Although Kate Gosselin wasn't there, Family Court Judge Arthur R. Tilson ordered the stars of TLC reality show Jon and Kate Plus Eight to continue arbitration on matters related to their bitter divorce. The judge scheduled their next court session for late November. The pair, who have eight children, split in June amid rumors of marital infidelities denied by both sides. Following the brief hearing, Jon Gosselin said he had returned $230,000 he took this summer from the couple's joint marital account.

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They may be TV darlings, but the brood featured on the TLC reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8 will not have carte blanche when it comes to Christmas. Instead, they'll each open a few gifts ($25 or less) pulled from under the tree - finding their presents on sheets of paper marked with their names, disposing of wrapping paper between tearing frenzies, then placing the booty in their own laundry baskets - and finally share in a joint family gift. In this year's case, it's a new computer.

Finally, Jon & Kate, unhitched As a big early Christmas present to us all, Kate and Jon Gosselin, once the stars of Jon & Kate Plus 8, a reality show based on their surreal lives, finalized their divorce yesterday in Norristown. The Hon. Arthur R. Tilson of Montgomery County Court handed down the mutually agreed no-faulter, based on "irretrievable breakdown. " Y'think? After 10 years of marital whatever, they blew up over the summer, and bam!, done. We couldn't agree more with Kate's sentiments: "I am very relieved that our divorce has been finalized.

A London court cleared Amy Winehouse yesterday of assaulting Sherene Flash, who claimed Amy punched her in the eye after she asked the star to pose for a photo. Judge Timothy Workman said he was not convinced the punch was deliberate. Amy testified Thursday that the fan's approach scared her and that she merely tried pushing her away. "I'm relieved," the troubled blues diva said as she left the court. A championship delivery Roger Federer, 27, who earlier this month picked up his sixth Wimbledon win and a record 15th Grand Slam title, said yesterday that his wife, Mirka, delivered twin girls, Charlene Riva Federer and Myla Rose Federer, Thursday night in Switzerland.

Swiss reject Polanski's release offer Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in Geneva yesterday rejected an appeal by Polish-born director Roman Polanski to be released from prison while awaiting the outcome of his legal battle to stop extradition to Los Angeles for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Polanski's lawyers offered bail, house arrest, and electronic monitoring as alternatives. But the court noted the 76-year-old director's previous escape from American authorities in 1978, and concluded that "the motivation to flee is high.

"I am sorry," Jon Gosselin , 35, tells ex-wife Kate , 37, in a blanket apology for his behavior since the couple's idyllic Wyomissing life was shattered in '09. "I am sorry," he says via People mag, "because I did stuff I wouldn't want done to me. " By "stuff," Jon means the torrent of déclassé chicks he so publicly dated after the breakup, which no doubt deeply affected their eight kids and landed reality-show maven...

BRAVO CAMERASrolled Monday taping Jennifer Carroll for "Life After Top Chef" as she cooked for family and friends at Meme (22nd & Spruce). Meme chef David Katz let his friend take over his kitchen for a preview tasting of her menu from Concrete Blonde, a restaurant that she is planning to open despite as yet having no location for it. Jon Gosselin, former "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star turned self-described computer geek, and his girlfriend, were...

FILMMAKER M. Night Shyamalan , actor Penn Badgley of "Gossip Girl," actors Seth Green and Terrence Howard , and Boyz II Men singer Nate Morris were among celebrities who turned out Wednesday night at Hotel Palomar for a Virgin America airlines party celebrating its launch in Philadelphia. Virgin's chief, Sir Richard Branson , was also at the party and introduced DJ Jazzy Jeff , who spun as Mayor Nutter and wife Lisa danced it up on the floor.

Is there life after TV? Do people who exist outside the screen actually exist in the full, um, existential sense of the term? Is anything real that isn't filmed? These are some of the myriad Schopenhauerian issues that have besieged Philly beauty Kate Gosselin . Kate, 36, who already lost her husband Jon Gosselin (and on TV!), has lost TV itself with the cancellation of her TLC reality series Kate Plus 8 . (The last show is scheduled for Monday.) "I'm freaking out. Big time," Kate admits to People.

Marcia Gay Harden took up a paintbrush Tuesday morning to help refurbish the Community Education Center in Powelton Village. The Mystic River star joined about 40 volunteers as they put the finishing touches on an extensive makeover of the arts center funded by a corporate-sponsored benefit program, "Drops of Good: The Maxwell House Community Project. " "The idea of giving back to the community through support of the arts has always been important for me," Harden said.

Jenny-From-the-Block-turned-megastar-turned-TV-diva Jennifer Lopez is so eager to find fresh faces (and legs 'n' arms 'n' shoulders 'n' derrieres) for her new video, "On the Floor," that Thursday she set up, via Twitter, an open casting call for dancers in Hollywood. "We're going to be looking for real club kids," she told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show Wednesday. "You know those kids who go to the club and they dance all night and that's all they care about?" Me, Jenny! Me!

SO MUCH television, so little time: It's time to free the Gosselin 8. And only you can do it. Frankly, until I read Regina Medina's story in yesterday's Daily News about a state lawmaker's contention that work permits were issued improperly for the Berks County sextuplets who make up six of the Gosselins' eight children, I'd managed to put TLC's "Kate Plus 8" out of my mind, the way it's all too easy to do when bad things are...

It's a rare and wondrous thing to find a member of that subaltern fraternity - spoiled Hollywood stars - rising to the ultimate existential and political challenge so bravely faced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Nelson Mandela . Lindsay Lohan is that rare bird - crystalline plumage and all. While others fight for their right to paaarty! , she fights for human rights. Two days after being ruthlessly condemned to 90 days in a rat-infested dungeon, an unbroken LiLo spoke Truth to Power.

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Kate plus eight permits equals a new reality show. As long as no kids are in the buff. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has granted child-labor permits for Kate Gosselin's twins and sextuplets for a new series of TLC television specials, dubbed Kate Plus 8. The permits resolve a dispute over the fact that none of the children had such permits during three years of filming of the hit reality show Jon & Kate Plus Eight....