Earlier this week, Molls wrote about Kate the Clean Slate’s (*shudder*) new hairdo which includes extensions that look like they were purchased and installed in the autocare section at Wal-mart where I buy my tires.  So it’s fitting that Kate’s new hair is worth more than the Kelley blue book price for my 1997 Honda Civic.

The stylist, Ted Gibson, revealed in an interview this week that the combined cost of the salon services Kate received was worth about $7,000.

“My haircuts are $950,” Ted revealed. “The color would have been about $500, and the extensions, which were great length extensions, would probably cost about $5000.”

Kate was excited about getting a new look to start off the new year, but was a little nervous about changing her trademark bangs. “We were together for about 20 hours and I would say 15 of those hours were working on Kate trying to convince her to cut her bangs,” Ted joked. “I felt like she was hiding behind that front piece.”

Despite the hesitation, he said the mother of eight “was really open to the entire process.” Ted summed up his vision for the TLC star: “I wanted to make sure I took her from being really ordinary to really extraordinary!”

Ted even has a nickname for Kate’s old hairstyle, “The little short bits in the back, we called them her ‘attitude’ and getting rid of those took a long time!”

Ted said Kate loved her new do, which she’ll have to have done every three or four months. “She was blown away, she had no idea what the length of hair and changing the color and bangs would do for her!”

They kept saying “would have cost” which indicates that she got the new ‘do for free, probably for the publicity it would generate.  Even so, the idea of a $7,000 hairstyle– ugly or otherwise– is absolutely repugnant. And I’m betting that the 3 to 4 month upkeep is going to come out of someone’s pocket.

This is part of the reason why I can’t understand why anyone is “Team” either of the Gosselins. They’ve built their “celebrity” around the idea that they’re just a mom and dad trying to take care of their large family. But they’re not like you– they’re just selling you that bill of goods so you’ll identify with them, watch their TV show, and buy their crap. How  many $7,000 haircuts and trysts with 25 year olds is it going to take before you realize that they’re both disgusting, just in different ways?

This little wench is turning out to be quite the media pro!

When Entertainment Tonight asked Hailey Glassman — who recently lost her position as the nightly remover of Jon Gosselin’s Ed Hardy shirt — what she thought of Kate Gosselin’s new hairdo, she had this to say:

“I like it! It’s a little shocking due to how short it was before. I think a new look is a new start and happier times. She’s like fine wine. Better over time. Did I mention how great her body looks? I wonder who her surgeon is? Jon’s poison. He plays the victim when he is the villain. This is also a way for her to throw it in his face. Jon always gave her shit about having short hair. Props to Kate. She can now be a MILF!”

A point of clarification: Kate’s surgeon is Hailey’s father. So that’s actually an honest-to-goodness joke and not a backhanded compliment.

I’m loving this Glassman chick’s uncanny way of sticking around the spotlight for waaaaaay longer than she should be. How much longer do you think she’ll make it? A week? A month? A year? WILL SHE GET A WEAVE PUT IN?? Only time will tell.

Image via People.com

Kate Gosselin got a weave! Kate Gosselin got a weave! Ahh! How exciting! Kate Gosselin got a weave put in by celebrity stylist Ted Gibson! I can only imagine what a mullet that thing looks like when the fans aren’t blasting, but damn: She looks good in this photo.

Ted, who works on just about everyone who’s anyone, including Angelina Jolie, got his hands on Kate’s infamous hair and went to town regardless of the fact that he didn’t have much to work with. “Bonding extensions to those little hairs really took time. But in all those hours, she didn’t complain once. She was so open to whatever I suggested, and willing to try just about anything,” he told People Magazine.

One thing particularly hilarious about the hair change is that the most awful part of Kate’s last style (her bangs) was the one thing she really wanted to hold on to. Gibson said, “She wasn’t sure about bangs, but I find many women have that one thing they’re afraid to let go of, that one ‘security blanket’ part of their look, whether it’s a fear of going shorter or darker or something. But once they finally let go and embrace the change, they always love it.”

Crazy hair is gone, crappy husband is gone… Kate Gosselin is set up to win, ladies and gents.

Today has been sssslllllloooooowwww as hell and I’ve been digging around trying to find you guys little nuggets of awesome all morning. There’s been pretty much nothing, unless you count a behind the scenes video from People Magazine‘s photoshoot with the Kardashian sisters, and I’m pretty sure you don’t. Then, my girl Kate Gosselin came and saved me with this clip of her appearance on last night’s episode of The Jay Leno Show.

With her divorce being finalized yesterday, Kate was a hot guest to have on. Of course, Jay asked her what her life was like now that she was divorced and she said “I’m a wild woman!” She then goes on to talk about how she likes the coffee from McDonald’s and does a pretty OK job trying to list as many shows that take place in a hospital in 10 seconds as possible. She got mad points from me when the second show out of her mouth was Doogie Howser, M.D. and not ER or something more obvious. That Kate, she can think outside the box.

“Don’t kid yourself. When I’m driving to get school supplies with the kids or try on shoes . . . it always crosses my mind that I should be in the passenger seat and Jon should be driving. Every single time.”

-Kate Gosselin on the struggle of being a single mother. This quote was taken from the final episode of their show Jon and Kate Plus 8 and dug up by US Weekly in light of the Gosselin’s divorce being finalized today.

photo from Willow Street Pictures

The couple that I didn’t even know about until it was announced that they were getting a divorce might finally be close to sealing that deal. In fact, sources from the inside are talking and they’re saying that it’s a mere matter of moments (well, probably days) until the papers are signed and the divorce is finalized.

Jon and Kate Gosselin were married for a decade (I’m telling you, people! Worst decade ever!) and the last handful of years were spent on television with their family, writing books, getting kind of famous, being chased down by paparazzi, and eventually, starting new relationships. This public display of rotten humanity has been fascinating (and simultaneously horrifying) for people who don’t even know who they are to watch. Why? I think because this is the ultimate example of what the popular American trend of “trying to get famous” can do to normal people.

Things have gotten so out of control for fame-hungry Jon that on December 10th, a judge had to check him and tell him to stop violating his contract with TLC by making media appearances. Kate may not be much better herself, but Jon with his younger girlfriends and CZ earrings and tipping off the paparazzi… I mean, do they offer therapy for people who go through stuff like this? How are these people who got famous as a couple deal as individuals when news stops popping up about them and there’s no reason to write about them anymore?