Everyone hates Jon and Kate Gosselin; I know that.  But I promise that I wouldn’t be bringing them up if this tabloid confession didn’t make my day.

Kate Major, the former Star reporter who left her job after she fell in love with Jon while working on a story about him, shared the romantic details of their affair:

“Jon said he couldn’t be seen having a girlfriend, so he told me to drive to a neighbor’s house after midnight, when the kids were asleep,” Major told the mag. “He said he’d pick me up on his four-wheeler, take me to his house and drop me off again at 6 a.m.”

What an old-fashioned gentleman.  “I don’t want to be seen with you, but I’ll pick you up on my four-wheeler and you can stay long enough for me to enjoy the secret poon.”  The only way this could have been better is if he had ridden a moped to get her.  That would have been a nice metaphor.

I hate Jon and Kate Gosselin stories way more than you do, but I’m relenting on my coverage ban on them because this is pretty gangsta: Jon is vacationing in St. Tropez with the DAUGHTER OF KATE’S PLATIC SURGEON.  And she’s 12 years younger than Kate.  Can we go to the judges?  Yep, that’s a burn.

Just weeks after splitting from his wife of 10 years, Jon Gosselin is back in the spotlight with a new career and a new girlfriend. Gosselin, 32, turned up in St. Tropez hand-in-hand with Hailey Glassman, the daughter of the plastic surgeon who performed Kate’s tummy tuck in 2006. The lovebirds spent the weekend along the French Riviera so Gosselin could finalize a deal to design his own line of children’s clothing with Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier [on Audigier's yacht, no less]. Glassman will also have a hand in creating the kid-friendly fashions. “She’ll have a lot of input with Christian,” Gosselin told PEOPLE of Hailey’s involvement. “And I will, too.” [People via BWE]

I’m going to pretend for a moment that there aren’t eight children dealing with divorce right now, because that makes it way easier to say that this is AWESOME.  Even better: Hailey is your average pot-smoking, panty-flashing 22-year-old who crashes into potted plants.  He left the confines of his marriage with a stentorian control freak for the nearest party girl.  It’s so predictable and awful that I can’t help but feel an immense schadenfreude that makes me want to dance down the street and wave to strangers.

See you in hell, everyone!

While Jon and Kate Gosselin go through the ugly business of divorce, they’ve entered a rare period of media silence while their show goes on an unexpected hiatus.  And so Monday’s episode was a look back on their ten years of marriage that highlighted primarily the bright moments, which spurred Jezebel to make this video, a clip filled with signs of relationship doom. 

The immediate take on this is “Wow, Kate’s the most controlling awful bitch on the planet.”   And maybe she is.  But there’s also something to be said for Jon’s mastery of passive-aggressive behavior and lack of interest in raising eight toddlers. Hell, Jon wasn’t excited about having a third kid, then she was all,  “Surprise, we’re having six more!”  I’m not a marriage counselor, but I do like pointing out obvious things, so I think that might have been a turning point in the relationship.

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Devastating, shocking, unexpected news on Jon & Kate Plus 8 last night: Jon and Kate Gosselin have filed for divorce after ten years of marriage.  Please, everyone: try to contain your grief.  Your tears can’t heal this rift.

Fans who have watched the couple’s popular TLC show – or read the voluminous coverage of the Gosselin marriage in the press – will hardly be surprised: The duo had long maintained a tense relationship, with Jon recently telling PEOPLE he wanted a less high-profile life, while Kate appeared to remain committed to their TV career. [People]

Obviously, divorce — no matter how much it may be a necessity for the parties involved — is a sad event when children are involved.  The important thing to remember for the kids — if you little Gosselins are reading this — is that Mommy and Daddy would have stayed in love if the sextuplets had never been born.  KIDDING.  Just kidding, you adorable matching children.  The real truth is that your mother is a monster.

Below, Conan O’Brien’s awesome take on the Gosselins from last night’s “Tonight Show.”

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