Take note, single dudes: there's apparently no better chick bait than being a single dad of eight. Being obnoxiously famous for no particular reason also probably works better than five litres of pheromone musk, too -- particularly on the type of lady who calls taking a faceplant into a potted ficus a successful Saturday night.
Where did we get this foolproof plan for sexy-times? Jon Gosselin, dear lovelorn readers. Frolicking on the Riviera with Hailey Glassman doesn't seem to be enough for octo-dad, as he was photographed this weekend out for dinner with Kate. No, not the one with the hockey-hair who's been avoiding eight sets of jam-hands in Pennsylvania. We'd be referring to a certain blond Star Magazine reporter named Kate Major.
Gosselin and Major spent Saturday night dining out at an Upper East Side resto, the New York Daily News reports. According to the paper's sources, Major's reporting on the Jon & Kate debacle for Star, but according to witnesses' accounts, this dinner wasn't strictly business.
"If it was simply a work thing, couldn't they have just spoken on the phone or met for coffee?" one source told the Daily News. "Meeting a subject for dinner -- on a Saturday night, no less -- is a pretty bold move."
Us Weekly's spy says that there was no too-hot-for-TLC monkey business going on between the pair, saying they didn't appear to be dating. However, they noted that Major "was flirting shamelessly with Jon."
The reporter and subject -- or, as Major told the Daily News, "friends" -- were also photographed together by the paps. But only because, the Daily News reports, she made sure to jump into the frame. According to the paper's spies, paps asked for photos of Jon alone, only to have Major jump into the frame with him.
Way to ensure more than your byline gets in the tabs. Next time, though, she might want to try jamming her current issue into Gosselin's open hand, or maybe just plaster him with promo stickers. Now that's guerrilla marketing. We smell a promotion.
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