The new issue of Us Weekly reports that Jon & Kate mom Kate Gosselin grew so close to her bodyguard, Steve Neild, it caught the attention of her husband, Jon — and has become the talk of many locals in their Berks County, Pennsylvania, community. Since May 2008, Kate has made 50 public appearances, criss-crossing the country, often with Neild by her side, as Jon stayed home with the kids. Even when at home — whether at Starbucks or at restaurants — Neild has been a constant companion to Gosselin, who is estranged from her family and viewed in town as not having friends. “He threatened to hire a private investigator,” a family source informed by Jon Gosselin tells Us.

The married Neild — who once worked for Bill Clinton, and is often photographed not wearing his wedding band — were “very physical, often touching each other,” says an employee at a recent promotional appearance for their TLC reality show. “She was gently poking him, giving him little love pats, totally unlike the slapping she does with Jon. She and Steve were joking around so much, I actually wondered if they were having an affair. There’s a lot of open affection between them.” The employee adds Kate showed no affection at all to Jon at the same event.

Subscribe to US Weekly!

(Neild’s wife Gina, a one-time close friend of Kate’s, tells Us local and online talk of an affair is “ridiculous”; Kate recently said she is “horrified” by any allegations suggesting she and Neild are romantically involved; TLC refused comment.)

Meanwhile, Us has learned that Jon has had more public trysts with 23-year-old third grade teacher Deanna Hummel than first reported. The new Us Weekly confirms a mid-March date at the local Ruby Tuesday’s that a waitress describes as “romantic and lovey-dovey.” And on March 28, Hummel and a girlfriend attended Spring Gruv with Jon in Utah while Kate was away. On April 17 — the day before Jon and Hummel were photographed at 2 a.m. leaving a club — the two were caught on cell phone camera and were “all over each other” while watching band Dirty Penny perform at Paolo’s Restaurant & Bar in Reading, Pa., a witness tells Us.

So what’s next for the couple of nearly 10 years? “Jon says it’s over,” says the family source. “Kate doesn’t want to work on it, he doesn’t want to work on it.”

Source

Kate Gosselin, whose adventures raising twins and sextuplets are chronicled on the hit TLC reality show Jon & Kate Plus Eight, is fighting back at reports that she has been having a more-than-platonic relationship with Steve Neild, a bodyguard who frequently travels with her and her family.

Two weeks after stories linked her husband, Jon Gosselin, with a 23-year-old school teacher, Kate says she is now the target of tabloid lies. “The next story coming out from the animals that stalk us is about our security person and his family,” Kate tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Already the allegations they’re making about me are disgusting, unthinkable, unfathomable, and I am horrified.”

“These are people who absolutely love us and want to see us through to the end,” Kate says of Neild and his family. “Of course, both of them travel with us at times, and we’ve spent holidays together, because, in this situation, your circle grows smaller and smaller, and it’s very natural to become friends with your manager, your publicist, your security team … they’re the only people you have left. And now they’re coming under fire.”

With few close companions, and her marriage to Jon hitting a rough patch, Kate says she is terrified that this latest round of stories will drive away the friends she and her family have left. “I’m totally panicking, and thinking, ‘We are going to lose our last set of friends.’ 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.”

Most troubling to her is the realization “we opened our world to this,” she says, adding, “but we willingly made a conscious decision to put this out there. Our friends and family did not. I had no idea we would potentially take down the people that we love around us.”

She adds: “It’s like saying, ‘Thanks for your support, let me sic the paparazzi on you.’ It’s very very difficult. It leaves us, essentially, alone and friendless. It’s terrible.

Ultimately, Kate says she does not know what she can do to stop the insanity. “The scary thing for me is [the tabloids] are going to take information and create a story. It’s a matter of, ‘When will they stop?’ They’re going to keep going, and they’ll make up stuff to connect the dots.”

Source

Kate Gosselin of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 said the focus on her current marital woes is “a result of our situation — our very public lives.”

“We, as you know, have a reality show,” she said on Thursday’s Larry King Live while promoting her new book, Eight Little Faces. “Everyone wants to know everything about us. And I feel like this is a situation where, you know, you can’t believe everything that you read. You know that. I know that.”

“And so we are dealing with it privately,” she went on. “We are handling it one step at a time. And I think the important thing to remember is that we love our kids to pieces. They are safe and happy and healthy. And of all times, their birthday is coming up. And I’m just thanking God for five wonderful years with eight wonderful kids. And, you know, we’re just — we’re focusing on them.”

Asked if their kids — twins, 8, and sextuplets, 5 – are aware of coverage of her husband Jon’s affair with 23-year-old school teacher Deanna Hummel, Kate said, “They attend a very quiet, private school where, you know, people aren’t paying attention to that. They’re investing their time in their kids’ education and activities. And, no, they are, at this point unaware. But they are very aware that we love them very much.”

King also read a statement from Jon, who — despite video, pics and on-the-record interviews — denies cheating on his wife. “These allegations are false and just plain hurtful,” read the statement. “As I adjust to the attention that comes from being in the public eye, I need to be more careful and aware of who I’m associating with and where I’m spending my time. The bottom line is I did not cheat on Kate. I’m sorry for putting my family in this awkward position, given some poor decisions and bad judgments I’ve made recently. I’m working through this difficult time with my family and my family is my top priority.” MUCH (more…)

Deanna Hummel says she is sickened by the reports circulating about her relationship with Jon Gosselin.

This week, she came forward to say she’s just friends with the star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus Eight. Now Hummel, 23, is fighting back against her brother Jason and his claims that she really is having a fling with the married father of twin daughters and sextuplets.

“My brother is making this all up,” Hummel tells PEOPLE. “He has no credibility … I can’t even stomach the lies he’s saying about me.”

Hummel continues to deny any sort of romantic relationship with Gosselin, and the elementary school teacher admits that there’s been bad blood between her and her brother for a while now. “My brother is very shady,” says Hummel. “He has no job. He has a criminal background. He was charged for drug distribution. He’s on probation right now.”

And though the siblings live together, she says she was in the process of buying their home – and asking him to move out. “He wanted to get back at me … he knows he’s getting kicked out of the house.”

Among what Jason Hummel, 28, claims is he overheard his sister having sex with the married reality star. A claim Hummel says “is completely crazy!”

She adds: “I’m so hurt that he put my occupation out there. He has put my job in jeopardy. I can’t take my kids to recess without worrying that people will come up and harass me and the other teachers. It’s not fair.”

SOURCE: people

In the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands Wednesday), five people close to the situation – including two relatives of the other woman – confirm that Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad Jon Gosselin, 32, has been having an affair with third grade school teacher Deanna Hummel.

The most explosive blow-by-blow details are revealed by Deanna’s older brother – and roommate – Jason, who tells Us Weekly that he is speaking out now to set the record straight and to protect his naive sister.

“She’s a nice girl, not a homewrecker,” Jason tells Us Weekly. “He is a bad liar. This isn’t healthy for her. But she is refusing to help herself, so here I am trying to help her myself. I hope this clears the air.”

After Jon and Deanna met in mid-January at Chill Lounge in Reading, Pennsylvania (they sent each other $3 shots), Jason says Jon — who has twins, 8, and sextuplets, 5 — began relentlessly pursuing his sister. By mid-February, he was coming over to their Reading house.

On April 26 – while his wife Kate was traveling – Jon had Deanna over to sunbathe in his family’s front lawn (see photo, left). This was just seven days after they had first been photographed together at Legends Lounge at 2 a.m. in pictures that show he is not wearing his wedding band.

At the Hummel house, Jason says Deanna and Jon would “pretty much stay locked away like two teenagers. It was weird. He’s a grown man.”

He also adds, “A lot of the time, it was pretty, um, gross listening to her, you know, um — how do I say this? The walls are thin. Let’s just say that. I mean, no one wants to hear his sister having sex, let alone with a married dude who’s, like, almost twice her age and who has eight kids and a maybe-crazy wife. Ick. Nast.”

US Magazine

Her hair is just SO BAD!  Would you want to be seen standing next to that hair!? It is painful to look at! Her stylist should be shot! I know I’m crazy, but I can’t even watch the show anymore – because I honestly can’t stomach looking at her hair for that long!  Cut that sh*t off!

UPDATE: Okay guys, obviously I don’t really believe that she deserves to be cheated on because of her hair. C’mon now, that’s crazy – even for me.  I was being sarcastic, but obviously that didn’t translate well for some of you.  I don’t think anyone deserves to be cheated on for any reason, especially not because of her hair. Thanks, Mgmnt.

Okay, I’m done ranting now.

Kate Gosselin of ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ signs copies of her book ‘Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets’ at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble.