Jon Gosselin Dating Stephanie Santoro, The Babysitter

Jon and Kate Returns Amid Controversy
The separation of Jon and Kate, stars of the reality show Jon and Kate Plus 8, gripped many viewers of their, and become a topic around the water cooler.

The drama between Jon and Kate, and their separation, helped buttress ratings for the reality show last spring, but the future of the show will showcase a new Jon and Kate. This time as separated parents, the reality show features clips of them as they shuffle custody of the children between themselves, and the show still produces respectable ratings. For TLC, the show became a tent pole that executives attributed with boosting the ratings of other shows on the network.

While Jon and Kate is currently still on the air despite protests from some viewers, TLC is continuing with developing human centered dramas to fill out its reality programming, hoping that another show will reach the fame of Jon and Kate should the couple or executives decide to pull the plug.

Recently, Jon was reported to have spent the night with a babysitter, Stephanie Santoro, that he had hired to help with the children. The twenty-something aspiring actress and model is just another in a string of younger women that the 32 year old television personality has been linked to.

Many viewers are upset that the focus of the show has shifted away from the struggles of raising eight children, to the courtroom and steamy details about Jon Gosselin’s single life.

The paparazzi have staked out Jon new digs in an apartment above the garage at his family’s house, and spotted the would-be-babysitter arriving late night and leaving the next morning in the same clothes.

While Jon’s string of romances is not being specifically cataloged on the reality show, stories about Jon’s romances have been the subject of tabloid magazines and mainstream media for months. Perhaps TLC will eventually decide that continuing this media circus only distracts viewers from the more “human” stories the channel wishes to tell, but only after the public gets bored keeping track of the latest developments.