Kate Gosselin has been doing her tour of talk shows this week where she shares more details about her marriage and how it went wrong.  Yesterday she taped Live with Regis and Kelly and the interview, slated to air tomorrow, took an unplanned and emotional detour.

Insiders say that the interview, which airs Thursday on “Live with Regis and Kelly,” was meant to be light and fluffy in the wake of Kate’s “Today” show breakdown this week. But it turned serious when Philbin went off-script and bluntly asked whether Kate could see herself reconnecting with hubby Jon.
“I can’t and won’t answer that,” the uncomfortable octomom said, stating firmly, “I keep certain things private, and that’s one.”
Perhaps the 77-year-old host should have kept his opinions similarly discreet, but he didn’t. “I think you [and your husband] will get back together and live happily ever after,” Philbin said. “I think everything is going to work itself out — he’ll say he’s sorry, that he loves you and everything will be good.”

A shocked Kate had no response as the show cut to a commercial break.

Later in the interview, Kate confessed her hope that she and Jon can get past their animosity, despite his recent extracurricular activities. The 32-year-old has squired wild child Hailey Glassman and former tabloid reporter Kate Major — and last weekend, reports surfaced that he’d spent the night with a 23-year-old baby-sitter who’d been caring for his kids. Regardless, Kate said her goal is to enjoy holidays and family time together again — unmarried.

“I didn’t expect my life to be like this,” Gosselin said, her voice cracking.

Says one audience member: “The only thing that seemed to be holding Kate together was Kelly [Ripa]. They really clicked — you could tell Kelly was completely sympathetic. Kate seemed so down. Even during the break, she appeared to be on the verge of tears.”

You know, Regis just joined the “It’s Time to Retire or Die ” club that Larry King founded.  Is he really so out of touch as to think that an “I’m sorry” would mend the Gosselin marriage?  A mea culpa isn’t going to cover Jon’s schtupping of the daughter of Kate’s plastic surgeon.

In the meantime, while Kate continues to bare her soul to any talk show host who will listen, Jon has been in NYC Porsche shopping – who knew they made a 10-seater? — with Hailey.  Which makes me wonder:  If Kate’s on TV and Jon’s at the car lot, who’s with the kids?

“I’m happy that she’s out of my life.”

Jon Gosselin, responding to Kate Major’s tirade against him with a short and simple bitch-slap. BAM! Bitch goes down! I wonder if Star will give her her job back.

Look you guys! Jon Gosselin is FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE by TAKING PHOTOS OF THE PAPARAZZI. Oh my God they HATE it when you do that. It gets them SO RILED UP. I mean, the resultant photos are FUCKING GOLD to them, which is SO ANNOYING. Oh, Jon. You are such a witty man.

I want to know more about the friend towering over Jon, making him look like the long-lost Little Rascal. I have such a weird thing for guys with shaved heads — especially when they’ve obviously shaved their heads because they’re balding. I feel like those guys try harder in the bedroom, because they know that, deep down, they don’t have any hair.

Jon Gosselin talked to In Touch magazine to set the record straight on how his marriage ended.  I thought they were taking a 45-day break from talking about each other to the media?  Oh, he’s such a man of his word.

I tried to parse the most important parts of the interview from this week’s edition, but it’s all truly so good.  He wanted to work on his relationship with Kate (the original Kate) and she wanted no part of it.  That’s when he decided to start dating multiple women.  You know, I’m calling bullshit on that.  All Kate does is sit in their front yard — and by the way, don’t they have a back yard? — looking sullen while he works on his suntan in St. Tropez.  I’m sure the reason she decided to be done with their marriage is because she learned of his wayward dick.

But you know, it’s not his fault, guys!  It’s not his fault!  

Okay, here’s the interview:

What is the biggest difference in your life now, compared to a year ago?

Let’s go back to October of last year — that’s when all of this happened. Kate basically came to me out of the blue and said, “I am done. You are going to live your life, and I am going to live my life.” I was like, “What?” I didn’t really know what was going on. When she said that, I was really upset and nervous.

Why did she want to break up?

I think she initiated the split because she wanted a career. Maybe I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, and she was going to move on regardless. I said, “Are you sure about this?”

Did you want to work it out?

Yes, I asked, “What do I have to do to mend the relationship? What did I do wrong?” I was beating myself up about it. So I read a lot of books about personalities, like The Five Love Languages. Throughout the marriage, I felt like my personality had changed a lot. In December, I went to therapy. I asked Kate to come, but she didn’t want to. She said, “If you have a problem, go fix it.”

When did you and Kate start living separate lives?

We went to Utah on January 1. On January 12, she flew back with security and I stayed. That’s when I started to just hang out and meet people, and feel free. Not too many girls, just with my guy friends. I couldn’t do that for nine years. When I came back on the 17th, Kate and I weren’t talking. So I just said, “I’m moving out of the house,” and that was it.

I really think TLC needs to give up on J&K+8 and move straight into production for Jon Minus Nine. Audiences seem to have a dwindling interest in the reality TV family — last night’s back-to-back episodes, the first since the divorce announcement, saw average ratings of 3.6M. While this is a very good number for cable TV in general, it’s a huge dip from the May season opener (9.8M) and June’s “big announcement” episode (10.6M). Audiences loved watching the bickering between Jon & Kate while they were still together, but perhaps it’s less intriguing to watch a broken family attempt to soldier on, especially when TLC doesn’t seem to want to actively involve any of the drama surrounding Jon’s dating life.

Do you think ratings will perk up over the rest of the season, or will Jon & Kate sputter to a close?

Congrats, Kate Major! There comes a moment in every young woman’s career when she has sit down and seriously ask herself, “Should I bang a divorcing father of eight and then loudly quit my job, sacrificing any sense of personal dignity, for the potential publicity pay-off?” I know I had a similar moment when Mel Gibson wanted me to go into the bathroom with him at Moonshadows. I thought about it long and hard, but I made the decision that my dignity was more important than publicity. (Well, that and he rescinded the offer once he found out I was Jewish.) But I understand that every woman has to navigate her own way through such complicated moral waters, and I’m glad that your gamble is finally starting to pay off.

Kate Major — the reporter who was spotted out and about with Jon Gosselin — is doing her first television interview this week, with E!’s Ken Baker:

Kate Major and Jon are still seeing each other despite the fact that he had to head back to Pennsylvania to take care of his kids, Kate’s friend Michael Lohan tells Star. Kate spent last week in Pennsylvania with friends. She was staying an hour away from Jon’s family home. “They are keeping it low key. They have not been going out too much.”

Michael says Kate is now chilling out on the West Coast because, “She needed to get away.” Michael added, “Kate has really fallen for him and cares about him a great deal. She called him when she arrived. She wanted him to know we all got here safely.”

Kate won’t be away from her beau for long. “She will fly back and meet up with Jon after her vacation.”

Ohhhh, poor Kate! She’s so lonely! Her imaginary boyfriend had to leave New York to spend time with his EIGHT SMALL CHILDREN. God, life is SO UNFAIR.

As TLC prepares to air the new episode of Jon & Kate on Monday, the talk shows and the morning shows are scrambling to turn the excitement into ratings, and, as such, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jodi are back on TV to complain. This time, though, they’re very clear about blaming TLC rather than Kate or Jon. They say they’re on TV “for the children,” and they want a politician “with a heart for children” to step up and introduce legislation to prevent the kids from being filmed so often.

I’m kind of bored of all this Jodi and Kevin nonsense. These kids are just fine — as fine as any young children in the middle of their parents’ divorce can be. Both their parents love them and spend time with them, and they have opportunities in life they never would have had if it weren’t for the show’s success. What do you guys think? Are Jodi and Kevin doing this for the kids, or are they just trying to reclaim the spotlight they lost when Kate kicked them off the show?