Tonight’s episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 (filmed in March before Us Weekly broke the news of their marital troubles) showed Kate Gosselin spending her 34th birthday with just her kids.

Where was her husband Jon?

“I went out to Utah for, like, five days,” he says. “I just wanted to get back out there and ride with my friends. It just happened to fall on Kate’s birthday.”

Not shown on camera: Deanna Hummel, the 23-year-old teacher with whom Jon had a three-month affair. A source confirmed to Us Weekly they were together at a Spring Gruv party at The Canyon in Utah on Kate’s March 28 birthday.

Back home in Pennsylvania, the kids surprised Kate with a trip to Charm City Cakes, which is featured on the Food Network show Ace of Cakes.

Kate — who works out with a personal trainer to maintain her post-tummy tuck bikini bod — chowed down on lemon birthday cake.

“I never eat this stuff!” she says.

Jon and Kate also recorded a few of their couch testimonials together this episode — different than the gloomy scenes shot separately in the premiere.

“This season, sometimes you’ll see Kate and I interview separately. Sometimes you’ll see us interview together on the chair,” Jon explains in a voice-over played in the second episode, shown back-to-back after the first. “It depends how things are going. We have busy schedules. And that’s it.”

(Noticeably though, the couple only appear in the same town while taping testimonials — never in the episodes. On last week’s premiere, Kate said they may split.)

During the second 30-minute show, Kate takes twin Maddy on a trip to San Diego. Their plans?

“Shopping, sun, sand, spa, swimming, Sea World, sushi, Shamu!” the 8 year old ticks off. (She’s also spotted handing her mom her BlackBerry later on.)

Back on the grounds of their $1.1-million Pennsylvania home, one of the sextuplets, Alexis, trips and accidentally bites through her lip. (She isn’t seriously hurt.)

“I was on the elliptical and got a phone call,” Kate says.

“We usually don’t call,” Jon says, as Kate interrupts, “No news is good news.”

After last week’s premiere earned 9.8 million viewers (a record for the network), TLC announced they had ordered a 40-episode season.

On Friday, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor confirmed that an investigation is underway to determine if Jon & Kate Plus 8 is violating child labor laws after receiving a complaint against the show.

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Christie Brinkley has been married four times, and after the last marriage ended in a headline-making divorce from Peter Cook (who reportedly had an affair with his then-18-year-old assistant), Christie has declared she will not get married again in her interview with Ladies Home Journal

‘I would never get married again,’ she says firmly. ‘With what I know I don’t see why anyone would get married.’ Which is not to say she is not a romantic. ‘I totally believe in true love. And I think couples should celebrate their love over and over again.’ But, she adds, they needn’t formalize it. ‘In fact, right at the beginning of a relationship, I would formalize an exit strategy.”

She goes on to say she feels badly that intimate and unflattering details of her life being public fodder, and that the press implied she wanted it that way:

“Maybe I can try again to clear this up, Divorce courts in New York are always open to the public. I didn’t want special treatment.”

She felt very strongly she had nothing to hide — and should not cower, in life or in the press.  As for any future relationships she says:

“I haven’t always followed my own advice, but I’ve always believed that you’ve got to be whole before starting with someone new. You’ve got to find that inner peace. I’d have to feel, ‘Okay, the time is right to be open to that again.’”

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Sienna Miller leaves a pub on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in a flattering green sequin dress. The actress was at the MTV Movie Awards on the same night and wore a dress from her own collection, the Twenty8Twelve “Viviane” green swarovski mini dress.

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Forget 7-11. When Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has cravings, she has to race to the farmer’s market.

“I crave a lot of greens when I’m pregnant,” says Rutherford, 40, who’s due to welcome her second child, a daughter, within days. “I love kale and chard, so I’ll steam that and then I’ll make an organic turkey burger.”

The actress says her second pregnancy feels more relaxed. “I’m making it a point to rest more,” says Rutherford, who together with son Hermés, 2 1/2, attended the 3rd Annual Kidstock Music and Arts Festival benefiting One Voice and the Scholars Program in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday.

She has also taken a “sustainable” approach to prepping for her daughter’s arrival, re-using many of her son’s baby furniture – including a white Target changing table – and baby clothes. “I’ve been trying to be smart about it,” she says.

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Playing a genetically-altered alien/human hybrid in the movie trilogy Species, Natasha Henstridge blew viewers away with her out-of-this-world body. But what it took for the model-turned-actress to maintain that killer physique was close to “extreme.”

“I’ve done some things that probably weren’t the smartest things in the world,” reveals Henstridge, now 34, of taking “pills” and over the counter supplements to give her an “extra boost” to be thinner. “I’ve even been to Chinese herbalists who’ve given me herbs and acupuncture,” she says, thinking that they were “innocent and healthy.”

Now, the mom of two realizes that the diets and drugs were damaging. “All of a sudden when you decide to go clean, things are changing in your body because you done a bit of damage,” she says. Sporting a curvier figure last month, Henstridge is happier – and healthier – than ever. “My body has definitely gone through a change since coming off all the crazy yo-yo stuff,” she admits of putting on weight.

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The stars of the new movie Land of the Lost came out for the premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Saturday night, including Anna Friel, Amy Brenneman and Brooke Shields

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I really hate typing that   At any rate, here is Jesus Luz and Madonna out for a stroll in NYC on Saturday.  I don’t think I’ve seen Madonna dressed so casually!

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