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Whether or not the TLC reality phenonomon “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ will actually return to the airwaves for another season is still TBA, but one thing is for sure, the parenting duo are pretty much considered the lowest of low even by their D-list reality counterparts. Now that’s sad.

“Jon and Kate handled the entire thing wrong, their kids are going to grow up to resent and hate them. They should hang up their towel and get a real f***ing job to support their children instead of ruining their lives,” the original “Next Top Model” turned “My Fair Brady” starlet Adrianne Curry said at the FOX REALLY Awards on Tuesday. “If I ever do get pregnant, I don’t know that I would ever share it, and if I did, all the money made wouldn’t be going into Ed Hardy shirts but into a college savings account. But to each their own, if they feel like mistreating their kids then that’s their decision. I like Kate more than I like Jon right now, but I would like her more if she got a real job and took them off TV while they are going through the pain of the divorce.”

Former playmate and author Cindy Margolis (whose reality dating show ‘Seducing Cindy’ comes out in January) agreed that the situation the Gosselin’s have put their children in is “way too much.”

“My twin girls are four and I did not allow them on the show with me around the men. My son Nicholas is seven and he did come with me only once. I explained to him that the guys (the 25 male contestants vying for her affection) are just part of the crew. It’s really hard bringing children into a situation like that, and I would never do it,” she explained.

Meanwhile “Real Housewives of O.C.” star Gretchen Rossi said that its one thing for her to go in and expose herself to the world, but “when you start affecting children who didn’t sign up for it” things go to a whole new level of inappropriate. However, “Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” Kim Zolciak has no regrets about her time in the limelight.

“My two little girls have a hard time, sometimes it’s hard for them at school,” Zolciak said. “But all press is good – negative or positive, it doesn’t matter.”

On the flipside, Danny Bonaduce’s former wife Gretchen (who came with her new fiancé) seems to think it’s the media that are more disgusting than the controversial Gosselin parents.

“It’s not the show that ruins relationships, it’s cheating and all the other things. It has nothing to with the camera. Blaming it on the show is not right,” Bonaduce said. “This is going to sound mean, but if the media is so concerned about the kids, then stop covering them. Then the kids won’t read it and nobody will know about it.”

To add insult to injury, the Gosselins were jeered inside the awards show after winning the “Best Reality OMG Moment” when it was announced they were parting ways. Not surprisingly, neither Jon nor Kate made it there to accept the award.

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Kate Gosselin has taken to the courthouse to open a new front in the ongoing war with her estranged husband Jon.

The ‘Plus 8′ matriarch reportedly filed for child and spousal support.

Last week’s filing in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County Court occured around the same time Kate filed an emergency petition seeking $230K that she says Jon plundered from a joint bank account, TMZ.com reports.

Insiders told TMZ an exact dollar amount has not been specified.

The couple’s feuding has degenerated into an all out war being waged in the media over the last week.Just days after TLC announced it would be re-launching the couple’s show sans Jon, his attorneys moved to bar production and filming crews from the Gosselins’ Pennsylvania home.

TLC suspended production and shot back they were tired of Jon’s “erratic behavior.”

Shortly after, allegations surfaced that the 32-year-old octodad pulled more than $200K from a joint account – leaving Kate with a paltry $1300 in the bank.

Both parties subsequently took to the airwaves to make their case for who loves the kids more.

“I do know that no matter what, I know within myself that if I have to work at McDonald’s, I will do what it takes to provide for my kids, period,” Kate said in an apperance Monday on the “Today” show.

That same day, in an appearance on “Entertainment Tonight,” Jon balked at being cast as the villain.

“I’m not the bad guy here – I’m the one trying to protect my children. That’s called being a parent, protecting my children.”

The couple briefly managed to bury the he-said, she-said hatchet to jointly celebrate twins Mady and Cara’s birthday, with Jon telling reporters he and Kate were “cordial.”

But the ongoing war is reportedly taking its toll on the brood of 8.

The little Gosselins, sources told US Magazine, are “confused and distraught and acting out all the time in an effort to get attention from their parents.”

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Fighting back tears, Kate Gosselin said on TODAY Monday that she is broke and can’t pay her bills after her estranged husband Jon cleaned out their joint bank account. But later the same day, Jon Gosselin fired back, telling TV show “The Insider” that Kate’s account was “a total fabrication” and accusing her of “hiding money.”

“[Jon] took $230,000 of the $231,000 we had,” Kate told Meredith Vieira on TODAY in New York Monday morning. “I have a stack of bills. The last thing I wanted was to do this show and end up not being able to pay our bills.” However, she also said that Jon Gosselin did not touch their eight children’s money, which Kate said remains safe in protected funds she established.

Where’s the money?
According to Kate, Jon Gosselin virtually cleaned out the account that Kate said contains all their liquid assets last week after TLC announced that it would continue filming the Gosselin family, but was changing the name of their show from “Jon & Kate Plus 8” to “Kate Plus Eight.”

Kate told Vieira that under the Gosselins’ agreement with TLC, the network will stop filming if either she or Jon make such a request. “It has ended our income and our paychecks and our opportunities,” Kate told Vieira. “I wish Jon would think more about it.”

But Jon told “The Insider” a different story later the same day, according to People.com. “I withdrew $22,000 last Thursday,” he said, adding that he had “the paper trail to prove it.”

In total, Jon said he had withdrawn “roughly $177,000 over the course of a year.” He also said that the joint account in question is only one of 11 the couple have, and said that Kate “had a best-selling book. Where’s that million dollars?”

Kate did allude to more than one bank account during her TODAY appearance. “Financially, the kids are protected; they have the fund that I set up for them,” she said. “That was my long-term goal. It is secure and substantial … and it is safe. I had the presence of mind to start that on my own. That’s what I want for them, [for] their future to be secure.”

Vieira asked Kate how she’s holding up under the latest assault on what once appeared to be the perfect family life.

“I’m hanging in there. It’s hard. Every morning I don’t know what I’m going to wake up to,” Kate replied.

“He has gone way far off the trail … Obviously, I am very upset. I can’t sleep at night. I can’t pay my bills. I think he’s receiving bad advice. I think he’s making bad decisions.”

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The father of the children on “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ says it’s “not healthy” for his kids to continue appearing on the TLC reality show.

Jon Gosselin says he had “an epiphany one day” and realized his 5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins shouldn’t be filmed at the family’s Pennsylvania home while their parents are going through a divorce.

Gosselin’s comments came during an hourlong interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Thursday.

TLC network has shut down filming of the children on “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ after receiving a cease-and-desist order from Gosselin.

In a statement, the network said production would remain suspended “pending further conversations” between both Gosselins. Filming not directly involving the kids is ongoing, TLC said Thursday.

“It appears that Jon’s priority is Jon and his interests,” his estranged wife, Kate Gosselin, said in a statement on Thursday. “My priority remains our children and their well being.”

Jon Gosselin says that though his family has earned $1 million for appearing on the show, he wants production “to stop completely.” He told King that, in retrospect, he wishes his family hadn’t done the show at all.

Gosselin’s attorney, Mark Heller, also appeared on King’s show Thursday.

“This man doesn’t care about the money. He doesn’t care about the show,” Heller said of his client, adding that “the priority should be the well-being of the family.”

Gosselin said he posted a sign outside the family home prohibiting TLC’s production crew from entering or filming on the property.

Wed for a decade, the Gosselins filed for divorce in June, after weeks of reports of marital discord and infidelities, which both spouses denied. The couple made their separation official on a “Jon & Kate” episode seen by 10.6 million viewers.

But the series, which premiered two years ago, had originally clicked with viewers for its heartwarming look at the challenges of raising eight young children.

In her statement, Kate Gosselin said, “I’m saddened and confused by Jon’s public media statements. Jon has never expressed any concerns to me about our children being involved in the show and, in fact, is on the record as saying he believes the show benefits our children and was taping on Friday with the kids.”

Jon Gosselin denied participating in the Friday taping, telling King, “I don’t know Kate’s filming schedule.”

He said he hasn’t spoken to his estranged wife in more than three weeks but that he wants to become friends with her and “figure out our marriage.”

“We know we’re not going to be husband and wife anymore, but we’re always going to be mom and dad,” Gosselin said.

On Monday, TLC announced that the weekly series would be renamed “Kate Plus Eight,” with a reduced involvement by Jon Gosselin, though he remains under “an exclusive contract” with TLC.

In her statement, Kate Gosselin said, “I do the show for my family because I believe it provides us opportunities we wouldn’t otherwise have. Jon used to share that belief until as recently as the day the network announced the name change of the show and indicated that Jon would have a lesser role in the show.”

Jon Gosselin said he wasn’t notified in advance of the show’s name change and was “totally shocked” by it.

“I found out just like everyone else, on the AP news wire,” he said. He told King repeatedly Thursday that he has made mistakes and needs to learn from them.

“I need to be a father,” he said, “and I need to take my kids off the show.”

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