Jon Gosselin has exclusive' deal with ET; kids acting out for attention

Remember when everyone praised Jon Gosselin for shutting down production of the TLC reality show 'Jon and Kate Plus 8,' saying the show was harmful to his children? Folks were suspicious of the timing of his sudden attack of parenting, since this was immediately on the heels of TLC pushing Jon out of the show. Jon insisted on 'The Larry King Show' that he pulled the plug on the show because the kids' privacy was important to him, and he didn't want them on TV while he and Kate were divorcing.

Looks like Jon didn't so much have a problem with the media invading his children's lives - as long as he gets to pick which outlet. Jon seems to have struck a deal with Entertainment Tonight, beginning with that rapid-fire roundtable session earlier this week on the show, where Nancy Grace handed Jon's genitals to him on a silver platter. But it doesn't stop there. According to TMZ, Jon struck a deal with the TV show to film daughters' Mady and Cara's birthday party - including permission to send an ET film crew to the family home.

We're told Jon has struck a deal with a TV show to allow it to film his kids' birthday party today — this is the same Jon who doesn't want his kids filmed on 'Kate Plus 8.' To that, Kate's lawyer, Mark Momjian, tells TMZ 'I've never seen a greater hallmark for hypocrisy personified.'

[From TMZ]

Entertainment Tonight also posted this 'exclusive' story (I used that term very loosely) about what Jon gave his twins for their birthday:

ET has exclusively learned what Jon Gosselin has given his twin girls for their ninth birthdays. Read on for details...

Sources tell only ET that Jon's birthday gift to daughter Mady was a laptop, while he gifted daughter Cara with an ATV that will be delivered in seven days.

Check back here for the latest.

[By Entertainment Tonight]

Wow! I can sleep better tonight knowing that Jon gave his kids a laptop. I can't wait to hear the next 'exclusive' from Entertainment Tonight, revealing how the girls Googled their parents on that new laptop and promptly ran away from home.

Meanwhile, US Weekly is reporting that the 8 Gosselin children are having — surprise, surprise– some behavior problems as they get shoved to the side during their parents' bitter divorce battle.

Jon Gosselin said he and estranged wife Kate 'kept it cordial' Thursday for his twins' 9th birthday party, but sources tell the new issue of Us Weekly that the eight Gosselin children are suffering from their parents' public war of words.

'They are confused and distraught and are acting out all the time in an effort to get attention from their parents,' a source tells Us Weekly.

Last week, the two engaged in a heated battle, with Jon, 32, trying to halt production on their newly titled TLC show, Kate Plus 8, claiming it is hurting his kids. Kate, 34, shot back this past Monday, claiming that Jon removed $230,000 from their joint account, leaving her with bills. Jon called her claims a 'total fabrication' and said that Kate has been 'hiding money.' He even went as far as telling Entertainment Tonight that twins Cara and Mady's Oct. 8 birthday party could wind up being 'WWIII.'

As the bickering continue, sources tells Us Weekly neither parent seems to care how the kids — the sextuplets Hannah, Leah, Alexis, Joel, Aaden and Collin are 5-years old - are faring.

'She barely talks to them,' a Kate confidant tells Us Weekly. 'The nannies are doing 95 percent of the work. Kate has a short attention span, and everything upsets her.'

As for Jon, 'he can't stay at home with them,' says a Jon source, who overheard the bad dad asking a paparazzo what time the kids were due home from school. 'He gets annoyed when they interrupt him when he's on the phone.'

[From Us Weekly]

Is there any way we can force Jon and Kate into a 'Thunderdome'-style death match and let someone else raise these children? They could host it on Pay Per View and the proceeds would go toward the kids' psychiatric care. But instead of 'Two men enter, one man leaves,' it's not over until they're both dead. Or at least, unable to speak. That would be awesome.

Here's Jon signing autographs outside of UPS yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.com .