Have you noticed that Jon & Kate Plus 8 gets more and more interesting when it’s not actually on television?
It does. On TV, Jon & Kate Plus 8 is dreary. Nothing happens. But when Jon & Kate Plus 8 is off TV? Different story entirely. That’s when Jon Gosselin stops pottering around aimlessly and starts lording it upon yachts in St Tropez with hot young girls who are a decade younger than him.
But, despite this, Jon Gosselin remains a class act. He’s allegedly just proposed to Hailey Glassman, the 22-year-old girl he’s known for approximately eight seconds. Like we said, classy.
For a couple who insinuated that their divorce was partially down to media intrusion – something that, incidentally, made us drop to the floor clutching our temples while shouting “But you’re on TV all the time willingly, you idiots!” – Jon and Kate Gosselin seem to be pretty brilliant at courting media intrusion, don’t they?
Just look at Jon Gosselin’s antics this week. He went to St Tropez. Which is fine – there was a break in the filming of Jon & Kate Plus 8, plus his home life must be pretty stressful at the moment so it’s fine. He needed a holiday. No need for any media intrusion there.
Then we learnt that Jon Gosselin went to St Tropez to help start up a range of kid’s clothes that his own children will model. And that was sort of fine too because, after all, Kate Gosselin has a nice little sideline in exploiting her position as a high-profile parent, so Jon would be silly not to get in on the action himself. Again, no need for any media intrusion.
And then we learnt that Jon Gosselin went to St Tropez with a pretty 22-year-old named Hailey Glassman. That was interesting, coming so soon after Jon and Kate announced their split, but maybe Jon Gosselin just wanted to play the field after 10 years of marriage. There’s probably an argument for some media intrusion there, but we’ll try to ignore it.
Then it was revealed that Hailey Glassman was the daughter of Kate Gosselin’s plastic surgeon. Must… fight… urge.. to… intrude.
And now Jon Gosselin has apparently proposed to Hailey Glassman, which is obviously just taking the piss. The Boston Herald reports:
In Touch Weekly says Gosselin, the star of troubled reality show ?Jon & Kate Plus Eight,? has proposed to his 22-year-old galpal, Hailey Glassman. Jon, 32, allegedly presented his young paramour with a $180K ring in the shape of a skull with four black diamonds.
OH COME ON. You’ve proposed to your 22-year-old girlfriend, who you’ve only just started seeing in a romantic capacity, who is the daughter of your wife’s plastic surgeon, and you did it with a skull-shaped ring? Seriously Jon Gosselin, if you want the media to intrude on your life so badly, why don’t you just ask it to? It’d save you an awful lot of bother, you know.
On the plus side, other publications are claiming that this proposal didn’t even happen. Let’s hope they’re right, because otherwise we’d have to put up with Kate Gosselin’s counter-assault. And we have a horrible feeling that it’d involve a sex tape.
Hecklerspray takes no responsibility for the amount of dry-retching caused by that last sentence.
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kww says
Sheesh the last time there was a rumour about this “family” it indeed turned out to be true…hmmmm…a possible repeat, perhaps?
Sunny says
Intrusion is obviously what this group craves. Nice to give it to them, a charitable act, really.
Jon’s an asshat as is the entire idiot premise of this show. Never watched it but the media fall-out is somewhat entertaining. Well more than watching tiny monkeys throw poo in their enclosure at the Dallas World Aquarium. (Caught that act yesterday.)
Skull ring fitting engagement bauble considering the resulting ‘happily ever after’ such totems of affection sometime come to harbor. So what if he and the mother of eight little cash cows divorce was just filed in June. So what if he’s parlayed a holiday into a business venture to keep using those little ones. That just cranks the notches up his in asshat profile.