While all eyes are focused on her skirt-chasing estranged husband, Kate Gosselin has set her sights on a romantic hideaway in Rockville, Md. — less than 40 feet from her bodyguard boyfriend, Steve Neild!

As we report in this week’s issue of Star, multiple sources confirm that Kate —in spite of her denials — has bought a luxurious apartment in the Palladian Condominium, where she can spend time up with Steve while her soon-to-be-ex-husband Jon Gosselin has his turn watching their eight children.

“Kate is definitely going to be living here,” says one building insider. Kate tried her best to keep the condo purchase under wraps, but her secret got out anyway. “She negotiated and bought the place in her lawyer’s name,” explains the insider, adding that Kate paid about $700,000 for the one bedroom lovenest.

“Kate feels like she has her cake and gets to eat it too,” snipes a friend of Jon. “She has the big house with her children in Pennsylvania and a hideaway with her new love in Maryland. What more could she ask for?”

Perhaps a secret getaway with Steve under the guise of work. Kate took her three sons to Wyoming for a five-day camping trip on July 29 with Steve right by her side. The trip was filmed for Jon & Kate Plus 8, so they can use the show as the perfect cover!

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To most of the world, Kate Gosselin is the levelheaded, tough mom of eight seen on TV. But the few people allowed into her inner circle know Kate has a different side — a softer, more vulnerable side. Now for the first time, Kate’s closest friend, Jamie Ayers, is speaking out about Kate’s split from hubby Jon — and defending her pal against unfair media portrayals, some of which have branded the single mom a “monster.”

Jamie tells Life & Style about her recent visit with Kate: “It was good for her — she’s lonely now that Jon’s gone.” But with eight children to care for, there’s no time for Kate to sit around feeling sorry for herself. “Kate’s trying to do more than be just a mom,” says Jamie, “the kind of stuff Jon would’ve done. She wants to be well-rounded for the kids.”

And while Kate misses having a partner, she’s not ready to date. “Kate says it’s not something she’d ever consider doing before the divorce is final,” Jamie says. “Even then, I don’t foresee it being a priority for her. Her goal is supporting her kids.”

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Jon and Kate Gosselin’s marriage fell apart in October 2008, and he was living separate from Kate and the kids as early as January 2009, according to a new interview in In Touch weekly.

“Many people think that everything moved too fast, that I was out partying too quickly. But Kate gave up on the marriage last October, and the divorce will be finalized by Sept. 30,” he said during an Aug. 2 interview in New York.

The episode of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” that featured the Gosselins renewing their marriage vows in Hawaii aired Nov. 17, 2008; the In Touch interview doesn’t address whether TLC was aware that the Gosselin’s marriage was on the rocks and TLC didn’t comment.

Jon went on to say that he and Kate flew to Utah on Jan. 1, and on Jan. 12, Kate flew home by herself (with security) and Jon stayed behind. “That’s when I started to just hang out and meet people, and feel free,” he told the magazine. “Not too many girls, just with my guy friends. I couldn’t do that for nine years. When I came back on the 17th, Kate and I weren’t talking. So I just said, ‘I’m moving out of the house,’ and that was it.”

Jon, clearly, has moved on, at least romantically. Although he’s been linked with several different girls, he tells In Touch he’s in love with Hailey Glassman, the daughter of the plastic surgeon who performed Kate’s tummy tuck.

“She is a really cool person. We both like snowboarding and sports. She is like the female version of me. She is so caring, kind and open. She is beautiful and glowing, and I love her to death.”

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Jon and Kate Gosselin returned to TLC Monday night, but many of their fans didn’t.

After a month-long hiatus, last night’s back-to-back episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 brought in less than half the audience of the show’s previous episode, which earned a record-breaking 10.6 million viewers. (In that episode, which aired on June 22, the couple announced they were separating after 10 years of marriage.)

Last night’s first half hour, which featured Kate and the kids vacationing while Jon supervised their kitchen renovation, drew 3.9 million viewers. The following show, in which Kate went camping with the kids without Jon, was watched by 4.1 million.

Both episodes were also down significantly from the May 25 premiere, which brought in 9.8 million viewers.

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In the first episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 to air since the couple announced their split last month, Kate Gosselin says she has a new outlook on life.

“It is my new attitude that I’m going to do things I’ve never done before,” says Kate, who is interviewed in a one-person armchair instead of the loveseat she’d shared with Jon during the last five seasons. (She also shows off her bikini bod in the same show.)

“This is what has stemmed out of all that — ‘I can do,’” continues Kate on the episode, which airs on Monday.

She also says her eight kids are doing well despite the divorce. (Jon and Kate take turns staying with the children in their $1.1 million home.)

“They are still kids, they still enjoy things,” Kate says. “They still want to do things.

“It is not their fault that what has transpired has transpired,” Kate adds.

On Wednesday, Jon took three of his daughters to the dentist in Reading, Penn. Earlier that day, he organized a scavenger hunt for his kids while TLC cameras rolled.

He spent the weekend in the Hamptons with Michael Lohan and Kate Major while Kate played with the kids at home.

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A lot has happened since Jon and Kate Gosselin announced their plans to divorce on their TLC show Jon and Kate Plus 8. What can the family’s fans expect to see when the reality series returns Aug. 3 in the first episode since the Gosselins’ split?

“You’ll see Jon struggle in the kitchen trying to make pizza for his kids,” TLC General Manager and President Eileen O’Neill said at the Television Critics Association panel in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday. “You’ll see what its like when Kate has to put a tent up for the first time for her kids, who love to camp in their backyard. And she gets a little advice from her daughter who doesn’t think she does it quite as well as dad.”

O’Neill did not indicate, however, whether some of the new people in the Gosselins’ orbit — namely the women Jon has been spotted with, former gossip reporter Kate Major and Hailey Glassman — will be featured on the show.

While Jon recently told People that he’s “single — per se” and, “I don’t want to introduce anyone [I'm dating] to my kids,” he didn’t say whether he’d introduce them to fans of the show.

“As far as new people and places that may be cycling into Jon and Kate’s lives, we’re taking it on a case-by-case basis,” O’Neill told reporters.

“Jon and Kate have never said they were perfect,” O’Neill added. “You’re still going to see two parents that love their kids, but you’ll see them parenting separately.”

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Despite numerous reports that Kate Gosselin either has purchased or is considering purchasing a condo in Rockville, Md., a source close to the reality star says the mother of eight is absolutely not making a move that would put her miles away from her children.

“She is not buying or renting in the area,” says the source. “Kate was having lunch there, and after spending a total of one hour in a restaurant that has condos for sale above it, a rumor began that somehow, suddenly, she was buying a condo there. She didn’t even know there were apartments for sale there. It’s totally false.”

There have been no records of a purchase in Gosselin’s name recorded in the area, and a sales representative at the condos where she was rumored to have toured said she’d never been shown the one new unit currently for sale.

While Gosselin and her estranged husband Jon have agreed to alternate in and out of the home they once shared so that their kids can stay put, Jon has already moved in to a New York City bachelor pad. Kate is still deciding where to settle when she’s away from her family.

“One thing is certain,” says a friend of Kate. “Kate absolutely will not live far from her family, ever. Period. She would never choose to be so far from home.”

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