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Just when you thought you’ve heard the last Gosselin-related story — of the day, at least — another one comes rolling out.
In retaliation to Jon Gosselin’s cease-and-desist filing against TLC, in which he asked that the network stop filming his children, TLC has sued the father of eight for breach of contract.
The lawsuit, filed earlier today in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Md., alleges that Gosselin has failed to meet his obligations as an exclusive employee of TLC, reports The Associated Press.
Gosselin has appeared on rival networks’ programs for pay and made unauthorized public disclosures about his former TLC reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8.
Since 2007, Gosselin starred on the hit series, which has turned the network upside down recently because of the demise of the Gosselins’ marriage; Jon and Kate are in the process of divorcing.
The lawsuit is seeking unspecified compensatory damages and demanding Jon return income gained from his breaches of the agreement. It also aims to stop any future violations of his contractual agreement.
“The network has been trying privately and patiently for months to get Jon to honour the contract he signed and to comply with his obligations relating to public appearances and statements,” said TLC in a statement. “Those efforts have been unsuccessful.”
The suit claims that last June, in recognition of “the Gosselins’ difficult personal circumstances, TLC asked both parents to refrain from making public statements about each other, the divorce, or the program, and negotiated an agreed cooling-off’ period with respect to media communications” for 45 days.
But according to TLC, Gosselin is “in violation of his contractual exclusivity” to his own show: “[He] entered a lucrative arrangement to appear regularly on Entertainment Tonight and its companion show, The Insider, to discuss his family and the problems he was having with Mrs. Gosselin, and he routinely sold photographic rights to various media outlets.”
In the lawsuit, the network also claims that on Sept. 18, TLC requested that Jon be present for filming on Sept. 24, but he didn’t respond or show up, which resulted in filming being halted.
When TLC announced that the show would relaunch as Kate Plus Eight, Jon asked to be released from his arrangement with the network to pursue other opportunities. But when TLC refused, he countered by barring the network access to the family property and filming the children.
And so on and so on. Will it ever end?
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In retaliation to Jon Gosselin’s cease-and-desist filing against TLC, in which he asked that the network stop filming his children, TLC has sued the father of eight for breach of contract.
The lawsuit, filed earlier today in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Md., alleges that Gosselin has failed to meet his obligations as an exclusive employee of TLC, reports The Associated Press.
Gosselin has appeared on rival networks’ programs for pay and made unauthorized public disclosures about his former TLC reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8.
Since 2007, Gosselin starred on the hit series, which has turned the network upside down recently because of the demise of the Gosselins’ marriage; Jon and Kate are in the process of divorcing.
The lawsuit is seeking unspecified compensatory damages and demanding Jon return income gained from his breaches of the agreement. It also aims to stop any future violations of his contractual agreement.
“The network has been trying privately and patiently for months to get Jon to honour the contract he signed and to comply with his obligations relating to public appearances and statements,” said TLC in a statement. “Those efforts have been unsuccessful.”
The suit claims that last June, in recognition of “the Gosselins’ difficult personal circumstances, TLC asked both parents to refrain from making public statements about each other, the divorce, or the program, and negotiated an agreed cooling-off’ period with respect to media communications” for 45 days.
But according to TLC, Gosselin is “in violation of his contractual exclusivity” to his own show: “[He] entered a lucrative arrangement to appear regularly on Entertainment Tonight and its companion show, The Insider, to discuss his family and the problems he was having with Mrs. Gosselin, and he routinely sold photographic rights to various media outlets.”
In the lawsuit, the network also claims that on Sept. 18, TLC requested that Jon be present for filming on Sept. 24, but he didn’t respond or show up, which resulted in filming being halted.
When TLC announced that the show would relaunch as Kate Plus Eight, Jon asked to be released from his arrangement with the network to pursue other opportunities. But when TLC refused, he countered by barring the network access to the family property and filming the children.
And so on and so on. Will it ever end?
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- come next month. Thank the heavens.
yup is time fi dem come off tv now 
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