Jon Gosselin: 'I Put My Kids Out There to Every Pedophile ... Never Got Paid for It'
"Jon & Kate Plus 8" dad lashes out at TLC in audio tape leaked by Michael Lohan.
Nov. 25, 2009 — -- Here's one thing Jon Gosselin's probably not thankful for this year: audio recording devices.
The "Jon & Kate Plus 8" dad has been caught saying some pretty damning things about his children and TLC, the network that aired his reality series, courtesy of taped phone calls recorded and released to Radar Online by Michael Lohan, who has apparently decided that his new friends are worthy of the same taping treatment he gives his starlet daughter, Lindsay, and his ex-wife, Dina.
"I mean, I put my kids out there to every pedophile on the planet, and they never got paid for it?" Gosselin said in the recording, spouting off about TLC allegedly profiting off his family. "It's disgusting."
Gosselin goes on to explain how TLC "scare tactic"-ed him into an exclusivity clause in his contract with the network. TLC is suing Gosselin for breaching that contract. He also claims the network stole money owed to his children.
"They tried to scare tactic me," he said. "Why the f**k should they get paid and not my kids?"
"And I see now they know that I know," Gosselin said. "That they took money from People [magazine], they took money from Good Housekeeping. They struck side deals and none of that money went to my kids. To leak that to the public? Oh my god, Michael, can you imagine? They'd be so f**ked. Their stock would tank. That they stole from eight kids."
Gosselin's rants continue for almost four minutes.
"They never say the good things," he said, lambasting the media. "Never, because the good things don't sell. I've learned. I'm not stupid."
Gosselin's lawyer, Mark Heller, said he has no comment at this time.
"I'm not even going to dignify this with a comment," TLC senior vice president Laurie Goldberg said.
Lohan said he recorded his conversations with Gosselin several months ago because the two were talking about putting together a reality show, "The Divorced Dads Club," and he was afraid Gosselin would cut him out of the development deal.
"When someone makes me believe they were lying or something was going to happen, I tape their conversations," he told ABC News.
The leaked conversation comes on the heels of the news that his divorce from his estranged wife, Kate Gosselin, may finally be finite.
Gosselin offered the mother of his children a bouquet of red roses at their divorce arbitration hearing over the weekend, according to The Associated Press. She refused them. But, despite that, the session went so swimmingly that their divorce could be finalized by the end of the year, Gosselin's attorney told the AP.
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