Kate Gosselin: I Didn't Cheat With My Bodyguard

NEW YORK — Reality TV star Kate Gosselin said she isn't cheating on her husband, Jon, and called the accusations disgusting and unthinkable.

In a story published Tuesday on People magazine's Web site, Gosselin said she's the target of tabloid lies romantically linking her with a bodyguard who frequently travels with the family. She spoke out following recent accounts that portrayed her as the victim of her husband's infidelity.

The Gosselins, along with their eight children, star on the TLC reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which captures on-camera the challenges of raising a large family.

But TV stardom has brought its own challenges in the form of unsought media attention.

Last week, Jon Gosselin denied reports of an affair with a 23-year-old schoolteacher, while apologizing for having put his family in an "awkward situation."

Now, it's Kate Gosselin's turn.

"The next story coming out from the animals that stalk us is about our security person and his family," she said, referring to bodyguard Steve Neild. "Already the allegations they're making about me are disgusting, unthinkable, unfathomable, and I am horrified."

She voiced regret that the family's friends had been drawn into the media frenzy, and said she was "totally panicking" that the scandalous publicity might drive them away.

"I keep calling them, begging, `Seriously, I'm so sorry. Don't run away from us.' They keep saying, `We're fine, we're fine.' But they have paparazzi in front of their house. It's so upsetting."

The fifth season of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" premieres May 25.

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Comments

[sbrown80]

Wow! Aren't we judgmental. Leave Kate alone. Leave Jon alone. It's so easy 4 all of us to tear them apart b/c we hate our pathetic lives.

[mariannef]

Free Jon! Kate is a monster!

[ChrisAnn]

Why does this have to be public? The damage that they are doing to the kids has to be horrific.

[wonkguy]

call me when the video hits the internets

[PresidentRobertBooth]

I looked it up


Apparently these two are yet more tiresome people famous for doing absolutely nothing but popping out kids.

[progressivelady]

why do they need a bodyguard? they are that important?

[NMGreenChile]

No, its important that Kate has a reason to keep John guessing. It's a Mind F***. I'd tell her to walk the plank.

[rikki52b]

Ok I guess I have been living under a rock but who are these people and who cares!

[progressivelady]

your fine, we all need to get a life

[PallinAround]

Well, at least the kids will always have lots of video to watch showing all the "happy, spontaneous family times they had" -- like all the choreographed, sponsor-paid family trips made completely unbearable by Kate's obsessive-­compulsive disorder.

[PallinAround]

Latest People mag cover features Kate with a story where SHE says "we might split up" and she - finally - admits to some of the real problems with the marriage. Kind of makes a big, sad mockery of the whole "renewing our vows" publicity stunt in Hawaii, doesn' it??? How it was so important to have their children there, part of it, so they would know that there mommy and daddy would be together forever. Those children have already been deeply damaged by being pimped out on TV for money so their parents could afford a lavish and UNNECESSARY lifestyle. There is something very, very wrong with any mother who won't allow her children to "get dirty" like a normal, healthy, well--adjusted kid -- that's why we have "play clothes," Kate -- you reserve some of them just for the purpose of letting them engage with nature - dirt, grass stains, and everything else - and then you don't have a conniption fit about it. I don't think there's enough therapy in the world to help this family. Great job, Jon & Kate! Not.

[walleymr]

i wonder if the kids are cheating on them with other parents

[red686]

LOL.

[rockyersocksoff]

Five seasons of a TV show, and they are whining about unwanted media attention.

How Palinesque.

[PallinAround]

Exactly. I made the same comparison when discussing the J&K scandal with my teenage daughter (who, like me, used to what the show) -- you don't parade your family around on TV, inviting people into your lives, and then complain that your privacy is being invaded. It doesn't work that way -- you make a deal with the devil and you pay the price.

[AnthonyVolpe]

Maybe Octomom can adopt the Gosselins' 8 kids for HER reality show while they go to marriage counseling?

[JanSP1971]

This is a beautiful family with healthy happy children PLEASE just leave them alone. Why must the media try to dirty everyone?

[bittles]

I think the parents are doing that without the media's help.

[Tim Hoetons]

Just an attempt to make the people whose marriages did fail feel better about themselves.

[dashboard]

Bring on the spin off series "Jon minus 9" probably more watchable.

[steveRB]

Maybe Jon and the OctoMom could get together and create a 21st century Brady Bunch.

[TigersEye]

Unfortunately Mel Gibson has already snagged Octo.

[Samantha Jernigan]

LOL