Despite all the headlines it’s been generating, people always forget one thing about Jon & Kate Plus 8.

It’s boring. Really boring. Have you ever tried to sit through an entire episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8? No? Well don’t. It’s rubbish. Ooh, some kids are baking some cakes. Ooh, some kids are going to the zoo. The only people who could truly enjoy Jon & Kate Plus 8 are heavily sedated pederasts, and even they wouldn’t love it.

TLC could spice up the show by making Jon Gosselin‘s alleged mistress a central character. But TLC says it won’t. TLC is rubbish.

One thing to come out of the Jon and Kate Gosselin divorce – apart from the fact that marriages between controlling, fame-hungry shrews and their put-upon sad-sack no-ball husbands never work – was the destructive effect that the media can have on a happy marriage.

It’s awful, and a timely warning that fame can often ruin everything. If Jon and Kate Gosselin had chosen not to make any episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 and just raise their children as normal parents then, sure, they wouldn’t have had as much material wealth – but at least they would have been happy. Now all they’ve got to show for themselves is a tattered marriage, a life of misery  and eight children who are all bound to grow up to be catastrophic screw-ups.

But you know what? It’s been a hard-fought lesson, but a lesson nonetheless. At least now Jon and Kate Gosselin know better than to drag their loved ones into the limelight, because of the tragic consequ… hang on a minute – Jon Gosselin wants to do WHAT?

According to reports earlier this week, Jon Gosselin is keen on involving his alleged mistress and new squeeze Deanna Hummel in future episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 – presumably the episodes entitled You’re Not My Mommy, Daddy Doesn’t Love Me Any More and I’m So Alone I’M SO ALONE. However, it turns out that TLC, Jon & Kate Plus 8‘s network, isn’t too crazy about the idea, as The Hollywood Gossip reports:

“There are no plans to use her,” a rep for TLC said of the Deanna Hummel rumors. “We are in hiatus and all future episodes haven’t even been planned.” The rumor was launched in today’s New York Daily News, which said “Deanna’s role isn’t expected to be big, but because she’s part of Jon’s life, she’ll be filmed.”

We actually can’t even tell if dragging Deanna Hummel into Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a brilliant idea or a terrible one any more. Yes, it would have been painfully awkward for Kate Gosselin to come face-to-face with the woman who possibly broke up her marriage on national television – but then again it would have boosted the show’s ratings, and more ratings means more money, and Kate Gosselin sort of gives off the impression that she’d eat some poo off the pavement for more money.

Yeah, actually she’d be alright with it. It’s a brilliant idea. TLC, you have our blessings.

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