Jon Gosselin is "Happy" For Ex-Wife Kate
March 4 2010, Published 3:10 p.m. ET
Is Jon Gosselin growing up? The former man-child has extended an olive branch to Kate Gosselin as she prepares to blitz the ballroom on Dancing With the Stars, telling his ex-wife that he's "happy" for her.
"He is happy for Kate and supportive of her joining the season of DWTS," his rep told Radar Online.
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Kate says that she will practice on a makeshift dance floor in the basement of her Pennsylvania home. She will commute to Los Angeles once a week for the show's tapings.
Meanwhile, Kate's fellow dancers should watch out — she means business. On Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, she told him flat out, "I am going to win," reports the Huffington Post.
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Jimmy asked, "Are you a competitive person?" To which she replied: "Have you seen my show?"
But Kate confesses she has a tough challenge ahead, as she admits, "I cannot dance." Luckily she says her partner Tony Dovolani, "is a very, very positive person and even when I mess up really bad he finds something positive to say."
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How does it affect her competing against stars with dance experience, like the Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger? "I just have to work harder," says Kate.