The new season of Kate Plus Eight returns to TLC this evening (check out a sneak peek above) and Perez recently sat down with the mother of many, Kate Gosselin, for a very revealing chat!
We talk about her love life, her kids (they're all back in regular school now), her relationship with ex-husband Jon (her response may surprise you), how she stays in shape plus more.
AND, Kate answers YOUR reader questions!!!!
Check out a transcript of our exclusive chat… after the jump!
Perez Hilton: Hello.
Kate Gosselin: Hello.
Perez Hilton: Hi, it's Perez. How are you doing?
Kate Gosselin: Good, how are you?
Perez Hilton: I'm well. Where are you right now? Are you at home in Pennsylvania?
Kate Gosselin: I am.
Perez Hilton: that's a good thing. Do you have any fun plans for the weekend? Are you work mode promoting the new show?
Kate Gosselin: Yeah, pretty much. The kids aren't here this weekend so I have like, it's my catch up weekend to do everything that I never get done.
Perez Hilton: I'm sure that there's a lot to get done too because you're — like I can't imagine having eight, you must be super busy. So let's talk about the new season of the show. When does it premier? When can we look forward to that?
Kate Gosselin: It starts Monday night at 10 o'clock eastern time TLC.
Perez Hilton: And on the —
Kate Gosselin: And it should be fun.
Perez Hilton: And on the — what will we see on the premiere? Can you give us a sneak peek?
Kate Gosselin: It's my birthday, my surprise birthday episode. We, my best friend Jamie surprises me and whisks me away to New York. And I don't know how she got away with surprising me because nobody surprises me. And pulled it off.
Perez Hilton: You're like Oprah that way, she does not like surprises.
Kate Gosselin: No, I need to plan everything. And so when she showed up I was like, ″Whoa, what is going on?″
Perez Hilton: How did that feel like to just kind of surrender to your friends surprise and go with the flow?
Kate Gosselin: Well it was — after I got over the initial shock I mean, she caught me when I was coming back from the bus stop with no makeup on and I had just been running so I had my running stuff on, and I was all like in after school mode and she appeared. And I got over the initial shock and I was like, whoa. I mean, I spend plenty of nights here by myself after the kids are in bed, you know just me. So I was like, I got over the shock and I was like, ″Wait, this will be fun.″ Of course until she mentioned going to a club and dancing, then that was a whole different story. But yeah –
Perez Hilton: On this new season of the show, can we expect or do you, have you, would you go on any dates? Is that in the cards for you?
