As Wendie reported yesterday, ratings for Jon & Kate Plus Eight are nose-diving after a huge initial premiere. What to do now? Make a big announcement, apparently.

“Jon and Kate Gosselin have an announcement.”

Those are the words that appear on the screen in a new TLC promo for a one-hour Jon & Kate Plus Eight special episode, airing Monday (9 p.m. ET).

In the spot, Kate Gosselin says, “Recently, we’ve made some life-changing decisions — decisions that will affect every member of our family, ones that we hope will bring each of us some peace.”

The stirring spot, which also flashes phrases like “A family in turmoil” and “A relationship at a crossroads,” first aired Wednesday night on TLC.

Wow, are they really going to drop the “we’re divorcing” bomb so early? I thought TLC had signed up for 40 episodes of this season. You’d think they’d draw this out a little longer. Or maybe TLC is just trying to strike while the iron’s hot, and J&K are still infuriating Paris and Lindsay by being on the cover of every damn magazine. You’re driving Lindsay Lohan and your husband to drink, Kate!

Meanwhile, Gawker Stalker spotted Jon in Manhattan this morning, sporting a diamond stud in his ear and smoking a cigarette. Sa-weet!

Check out these pictures that INFphoto captured!

Liv Tyler was out on the streets of Los Angeles yesterday when she saw an older woman yelling at a crying toddler.  Maybe because she has been in a superhero movie (Incredible Hulk — was he a superhero?) she thought she needed to save the day. 

After approaching the child to make sure she was okay, the screaming woman told Liv to mind her business. 

Tyler returned to her car to call 911.  Can you imagine how that phone call went? 

911:  “911.  What is your emergency?”

Liv:  “Yes, I’m in Los Angeles and I just saw a crying toddler!”

911:  “And?”

Liv:  “Can you send out a cruiser?”

Liv Tyler thinks yelling at a toddler pitching a temper tantrum is worthy of law enforcement involvement?  She wouldn’t survive a day in my house.  Not.  A.  Day.

Anyway, the pictures in the gallery tell the story.  Kind of like those little flip books that look like animation if you go through the pages quick enough.  Crying kid.  Pissed off Grandma.  Bad shorts on Liv.  The end.

“Lindsay and Paris hate not being on the covers of weeklies.  That’s why Lindsay has been causing so much havoc and pulling these antics. And why Paris had a big blow- up with Doug [Reinhardt].”

An unnamed source discussing Paris’ and Lindsay’s displeasure with the fame whores better known as the Gosselin family.

This morning while I was fervently Googling naked images of Bradley Cooper trolling the Internet looking for some pictures of my boyfriend Bradley Cooper, I came across photos from last night’s Whitney Contemporaries Art Party. 

Question:  What in the Rory Gilmore was Alexis Bledel thinking  wearing that dress?  Chevron designs shooting out from one’s hips is never, ever, ever a good idea. 

My fiance — yes, I upgraded him — was there as well as Amber Tamblyn, Ali Larter, Gretchen Mol, Camilla Belle, Ivanka Trump.

Most of the attendees obeyed the ”Clunky and Inappropriate to the Ensemble” shoe requirement that was apparently indicated on the event invite.

Jeffrey Archuleta, the overzealous father of American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, was arrested back in January for solicitation of a prostitute.  This story took awhile to become public, but as we’ve learned, this stuff always surfaces.  Thank you, Internet. 

Midvale, Utah police arrested Archuleta at a Reiki massage parlor and claim that he “received sexual gratification at the hands of the masseuse.”  They actually walked in on him, uh, receiving services.

David’s father pled no contest.  According to Archuleta’s attorney, his client is innocent but took the plea because he didn’t “want to deal with it.”  That makes sense.  Wouldn’t you just pay a fine rather than to proclaim innocence?

Archuleta’s lawyer also said, in the understatement of the century, ”He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He’s a good man and we hope this story won’t cause his family any embarrassment.”  Now why should the Archuleta family be embarrassed?  Just because the married, Mormon patriarch of the family got caught getting paid-for oral at an undercover whorehouse?

What’s new?

After drunk-tweeting a bunch of tragic nonsense late last night, Lindsay Lohan is blaming the incident on hackers.

“Stop trying to get onto my twitter page whoever you are! Its become extremely creepy!!!” she said in a tweet. “Just trying to clear the air! And I’m tired of changing my password every other day!”

Ummmm, Lindsay, let me be the first to do what no other media outlet seems to have the balls to do: Call outright bullshit on this. Hackers don’t go into a Twitter account and write that “I love being alone. Feels safe coz I can only trust myself…ya, sad. But I’m cool with it :) that’s y I share it with others in films.” No, Lindsay. That is not what hackers do. That is what you do when you’re wasted. You and technology and alcohol have been on a collision course for years now. Remember the “be adequate” email? No, of course you don’t, because you were wasted when you wrote it. You saw it in your outbox the next day. Which is just what happened with these tweets — you woke up this morning, checked your Twitter account, wondered what the hell you were thinking, panicked, and blamed it on hackers. You are lying, Lindsay.

Get sober.

Hey, you guys, remember back almost a year ago when I banned The Couple Who Shall Not Be Named from coverage on this blog?

Now E! is thinking about doing the same — but they’re putting it to a vote.

Go here and CLICK YES! We all must work together to get these obnoxious, horrible famewhores out of our lives forever.