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Kate Gosselin will have a few empty seats around her Thanksgiving table next month.
Earlier this week, the mother of 8 explained on TikTok that she will be spending the upcoming vacation with her boyfriend Steve. But that’s all.
From what we can gather, none of the reality star’s 8 children will be joining the couple.
“I just asked him what he wanted to do for Thanksgiving,” Gosselin said in the clip, apparently referring to this controversial partner. “Some of the kids have plans, we’re far from home, don’t forget that.”
The former TLC personality continued:
“So we invited some of the kids over and they don’t have enough time off for Thanksgiving to come here and then go back home and to college. I guess it’ll just be me and him.”
Gosselin is the mother of 21-year-old sextuplets Aaden, Joel, Alexis, Hannah, Collin and Leah, as well as twins Mady and Cara, both 25 years old.
As fans of celebrity gossip know well by now, she hasn’t spoken to Hannah or Collin in years; They both live with their father, Jon Gosselin.
Gosselin later explained in the TikTok footage that she asked her boyfriend what he would like to do on vacation, “thinking we could get takeout” or buy a prepared meal “because you know I don’t know how to cook.”
“Instead, he said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, I was thinking we could go dancing,'” Gosselin continued, before apparently looking at his lover from across the room and saying:
“How rude, he’s standing there smiling, he’s proud of himself. That’s the sense of humor he has and I don’t appreciate it.”
Many observers also do not appreciate this relationship in general.
According to Jon and Collin Gosselin, Kate is dating the same man she had an affair with in the past.
It should be noted that none of these aforementioned family members are fans of Kate in general.
On numerous occasions, Collin has accused his mother of abuse, both emotional and physical.
“It was a very, very emotionally abusive relationship,” Collin told The US Sun in a video interview in 2024.
“My mom had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement. It had a room with cameras, a little window in the corner, and it was locked from the outside. It was like a containment room, and I had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived…
“When my mother put me in that room several times, she tied my hands and feet, locked the door, turned off the lights, and had cameras there watching me.”
If it’s true… just really horrible, atrocious and incomprehensible things.
During a TikTok Q&A in September, Kate revealed that she’s been dating her boyfriend for “a little over a year” and has been “super happy” with how things are going.
She added at the time that he won’t be making many appearances on social media any time soon as he “really doesn’t want to be on TikToks”, before confirming his name later in the month.
