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Tattle: Jon Gosselin thrown 'mantrums,' girlfriend says

NO DOUBT Jon Gosselin has seen a few meltdowns - eight kids means there should be a tantrum at least every 15 minutes, and that's before Kate comes in the room.

So it's no surprise that his new girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, says the "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" dad throws "mantrums," taking out his frustrations on her.

The 22-year-old tells "Inside Edition," "He's like Jekyll and Hyde. But I still love him."

Gosselin, in a statement to the show, said that he regretted "any pain that my actions have caused her" and that he was committed to making things right with Glassman.

Woodshed bound

Playing hooky could cost the two child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" their $120-a-month allowance. And if they don't graduate from high school, the children might sacrifice the entire trust fund (nobody's saying how big it is) that the filmmakers set up for them. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 11, is showing up at school only 37 percent of the time and Rubina Ali, 9, has only a 27 percent attendance rate, the trustee said.

"It's pathetic," said Noshir Dadrawala, who helps administer the Jai Ho trust established by the filmmakers to provide an education, living allowance and housing for the stars, who grew up in Mumbai's real-life slums.

The kids aren't skipping school to play in the streets of Mumbai; they are "constantly going to Paris and Cochin and Chennai," the trustee said. "That's fine, but go over the weekend, not at the sacrifice of school."

Ashar's mother, Shameen Ismail, has a less glamorous explanation. She said her son had been truant because he was inconsolable after his father died in September of tuberculosis.

"He would cry often, so I kept him home from school for a while," she said.

Out of the closet

Andy Warhol is out of the closet. Not that the Pittsburgh-born artist ever was in, but his self-portrait was recently discovered in a New York City closet, 40 years after the King of Pop-Art painted it. It belongs to Cathy Naso, who was a part-time receptionist at Warhol's Factory when she was a barely legal 17. The artist gave it to her and for a short time she had it hanging on her wall in Brooklyn. Then she stuck it in a closet. Smart girl. When it's auctioned by Sotheby's New York on Nov. 11, it's expected to bring more than $1 million.

Scaredy cats

As we approach this Halloween weekend, the Associated Press' Ryan Pearson asked some celebs to confess their secret fears. Existential angst plagues some - Elijah Wood says he's always scared by things that challenge him - but most fear the same stuff we do. And it's not ghosts.

Snakes, for example, make us shiver and scares the daylights out of Vivica A. Fox, who grew up in West Point, Miss., and said she almost got bit by one. "So they're taboo. I don't bother them. They don't bother me."

"What scares me is having a gun pointed to my head," says Gerard Butler. How often does that happen, Gerry?

Maybe he hangs out with Rob Zombie, who seems to attract random acts of violence.

"Growing up, when I moved to New York in the '80s, New York was such a violent town," Zombie said. "I remember standing in line on 42nd Street at McDonald's and all of a sudden, this . . . guy stabs this other guy right in front of me. Like boom! It's like this whole bloody mess. And you're like where did that come from?"

But the Doggfather of Hip-Hop has a different take on terror. "When the media asks me crazy questions and I don't know how to answer them, that's what I fear," says Snoop Dogg. "But that ain't never happened, so I guess I have no fears."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments

Posted 09:21 AM, 10/30/2009

thin slice of life

What do you execpt Gossellin got a Berks County mentality ! ( ring blonga an pretzels)

Posted 09:34 AM, 10/30/2009

sewell guy

Who cares,this guy is a loser moron who got a TV show because he had 8 kids, big deal.A no talent idiot obviously who let this pathetic show go to his head and you lowlifes that watch it are just as disgusting.Never watched it never will this nothing but the dumbing down of America.Ridiculous.

Posted 09:49 AM, 10/30/2009

chaseformvp

Ashar's mother, Shameen Ismail, has a less glamorous explanation. She said her son had been truant because he was inconsolable after his father died in September of tuberculosis. Who is Ashar? This name is not mentioned anywhere else in this story.

Posted 10:25 AM, 10/30/2009

jphil

@thin slice...with 3 words spelled wrong, horrible grammar, and bad punctuation, what "county mentality" do you have? My guess is you are a Kenzo.

Posted 10:34 AM, 10/30/2009

rothstein12

what a joke that this made news..i hope this guy get stabbed

Posted 10:41 AM, 10/30/2009

Trips

Chase...Ashar = Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 11,...showing up at school only 37 percent of the time.

Posted 11:10 AM, 10/30/2009

JonKap

The problem is that these people got fame based on no talent or any real accomplishments. The guy and his wife went to a fertility clinic and ended up with 8 kids they obviously don't really want. This story will end very badly eventually.

Posted 12:41 PM, 10/30/2009

Bob1

If the editor for this column had allowed my last message to be posted, you would know that ths fertility clinc responsible for this unethical and irresponsible medical treatment is Reproductive Science Institute of Reading, Pa. It's common knowledge in the Reading area. Practices that do this sort of thing are to be condemned.

Posted 02:58 PM, 10/30/2009

cuso20

Wouldn't it still be a tantrum? I didn't know the word was age specific

Posted 03:49 PM, 10/30/2009

donnybrook

or gender specific.

Posted 03:51 PM, 10/30/2009

barlowjames

I have a really hard time referring to John Gosselin as a man. He is a male, and a biological father, but is certainly not a man nor a parent.

Posted 03:56 PM, 10/30/2009

Trixie123

Can we please stop with this stupid hipster trend of adding unnecessary words to the national lexicon? "Mantrums??" Really?? Are they manly tantrums, or just plain old tantrums? Do we really need a new word that encompasses the nuance of Jon Gosselin's latest jack assery?