Speaking of Kate…Did fellow lightning-rod gals Kate Gosselin and Sarah Palin become BFFs while camping in Alaska for Palin’s TLC show? Not so much!

A Gosselin source tells the new Us Weekly that the reality mom, 35, had “zero chemistry” with the former governor, 46, while taping a buzzed-about episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska for TLC.

“They didn’t speak off camera,” the insider adds. “She said the food and accommodations were terrible, and it was the worst trip she’d ever been on.”

Although Gosselin’s eight kids loved fishing and looking for firewood with Palin and Palin’s children, Gosselin “had a meltdown” in the 53-degree weather and left before sundown, the source reveals. “She just couldn’t cope.”

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Kate Gosselin steps out of her hotel minus her kids, signs an autograph and then heads out with her bodyguard in New York. The infamous mom appeared on the “Today” show earlier in the day to deny rumors her kids were expelled from their school but did concede they had struggled with her well publicized divorce from John.

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Kate Gosselin doesn’t want everyone to worry: She says her family is “doing wonderfully.”

Sitting down with the Today show’s Meredith Vieira Wednesday to “set the record straight” on various rumors, she insisted once again that two of her sextuplets, Collin and Alexis, 6, weren’t expelled from their private school in Pennsylvania.

But she admitted, “They were having anger issues, acting out, having behavior things.”

Though she was initially worried, she said their issues are “very normal, normal stuff.”

Nevertheless, she and the school “mutually agreed” to take them out and they’re working with a private tutor, she said.

“My kids are back,” she added. “They’re happy. They’re functioning and all is well again.”

Even with her ex husband, Jon.

She said she expects their holidays to be very “peaceful” this year.

“I’m pushing ahead and providing a future for my kids,” she said. “I don’t have time to waste sitting around being upset.”

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Ex-husband to the now famous Kate Gosselin and father of their 8 children, Jon Gosselin, unloads the kids out of his van in Reading, Pennsylvania on November 29th, 2010.

Reportedly, even though Jon and his girlfriend Ellen Ross are still going strong, Kate still has no intention on meeting her. I guess she just wants to wait to see if this one will last…hmm?

Hollywood News reports:

Despite the fact that Ross is definitely in Kate’s children’s lives, the two women have yet to meet face-to-face, states RadarOnline.com. Kate is reportedly fine with the situation so long as Ross treats the children well.

Jon has reportedly straightened out his life a bit since Ross came into the picture, so maybe Kate is just happy to have an easier situation to deal with now.

Do you think she’s right in waiting?

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After two of Jon and Kate Gosselin’s children were expelled from school earlier this month, sources tell RadarOnline that Collin and Alexis, both 6, are “doing a lot better.” The two children are still being home schooled after being asked to leave a private school in Pennsylvania. “It seems like they are happier now that they are receiving more attention to meet their needs,” the source added.

“They’ve fought with their peers, called them nasty names and made fun of other kids,” a source close to the family told In Touch.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Kate spoke out about her kids. “Two of my children are being tutored at home, with a teacher who is working closely with our kindergarten teachers in school, doing the identical curriculum.”

“The pressure was getting to them. You have the divorce anger mixed in with that … The goal is to get them back into school as soon as possible,” she added. (more…)

Six-year-old Collin and Alexis Gosselin, two of the famous sextuplets of reality stars Kate and Jon Gosselin, were expelled from school in Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post.

The children “fought with their peers, called them nasty names and made fun of other kids,” a source close to the family told the magazine. “The things they are saying are not words they should know.”

Maybe that’s not surprising, given the acrimony that reportedly has existed between the children’s now-divorced parents.

And Collin and Alexis may not be the only members of the famous brood having a hard time. Other young Gosselins have experienced “rage issues” linked to filming of their reality series, the magazine reported. (more…)