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Collin Gosselin wants to join military, begin acting amid estrangement from Kate Gosselin and siblings
Introduced to cameras at just 2-years-old, “Jon & Kate Plus 8” sextuplet Collin Gosselin has aspirations that surpass the limelight.
“I’m looking at the Marine Corps. I’ve always wanted to be a Marine. So I think that’s the next step…I have a lot of dreams, a lot of goals – I mean countless,” he told Entertainment Tonight. His hope is to enlist in the spring of next year.
Life now is a constant cycle of school, work, and friends for Gosselin, he says, after being sent to a Behavioral Health Institute by his mother, Kate. His father, Jon, removed Gosselin from the institution and gained custody of him in 2018.
“The biggest misconception about me is that I’m incapable…or that I’m still kind of hung up on the things that I’ve been put through, because I’m not,” Gosselin relayed of a narrative that follows him.
In addition to discussing the nature of his relationship with his mother Kate Gosselin, Collin Gosselin opened up about his future plans as a young adult.
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For right now, he is focused on graduating from high school, however, he has not ruled out continuing his education by attending college.
“College is definitely an option,” he told ET.
Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children together. They divorced in 2009.
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In terms of television, he is not shutting that door just yet.
Although he does not completely remember his time on the TLC reality show, which he believes was the catalyst to his family’s eventual demise, he thinks he could return to that world if he wanted to.
“I think I’ve become somewhat of a natural at it,” he says of being on reality television. “I think it’d be cool to kind of do it now…I’d probably remember the memories of it.”
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There is one thing from the show’s experience that has not escaped his mind: the cameras.
“Something you never forget is the presence of a camera,” he added.
Collin added,”I’m actually interested in acting as well – so maybe that down the road.”
Jon and Kate Gosselin began their run on “Jon & Kate Plus 8” in 2007. After the couple got divorced in 2009, the show was renamed “Kate Plus 8” in 2010. The family went on to have several special episodes air on TLC.
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See Collin Gosselin’s Emotional Message For His Estranged Siblings
A few years ago, fans of the reality TV series Kate & Jon Plus 8 witnessed the drama that ensued between Kate Gosselin and her 18-year-old son, Collin. Sadly, the latter’s strained relationship with his mom affected his bond with his seven siblings. But recently, Collin Gosselin’s estranged siblings received a touching message from their brother. Here are the details of Collin Gosselin’s emotional message.
Collin On His Relationship With His Siblings
Recently, Collin sat down with ET‘s Kevin Frazier and opened up about his bond with his seven estranged siblings. The reality TV star, one of the Gosselin sextuplets, made it known that he had not spoken to his sisters and brothers for about five or six years. According to Collin, it had been a tough couple of years.
But despite everything that has happened between them, Collin still expressed his desire to have a relationship with his siblings. However, Collin Gosselin’s estranged siblings should not be expecting their brother to reach out. During the chat, Collin confessed that he had decided to respect his siblings’ space and their feelings toward everything.
According to him, he preferred to refrain from invading their space by not reaching out. Instead, he was willing to wait for the day they would finally reach out patiently. More than anything, the reality star would love to talk and have dinner with his brothers and sisters like many others.
Collin Expresses Love For His Siblings
Even though Collin has not been in touch with his siblings for years, he still feels affection toward them. Speaking to Kevin, Collin admitted to loving his siblings to death. According to him, he was willing to put his parents aside and focus on a beautiful reunion with his brothers and sisters.
The reality TV star further relayed that they were a big happy family at some point. So, he would love to see them, and someday, when he has kids, his children will know their aunts and uncles. Hopefully, Collin Gosselin’s emotional message touches his siblings’ hearts, as fans cannot wait to see them together again.
Collin Gosselin has not spoken to siblings in ‘five or six years’
Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin’s son Collin has not spoken to his most of his siblings in “five or six years.”
The teenager, 18, told Entertainment Tonight Monday that the distance from his fellow sextuplets Aaden, Joel, Alexis and Leah, as well as 22-year-old twins Madelyn and Cara, has been “tough.”
Although Collin — who does talk to his sister Hannah — “would love to have a relationship” with his brothers and sisters, he has not “reached out to them” — and they haven’t reached out either.
“I want to respect their space and their time and respect how they feel about everything, so I’m kind of just waiting for the day that they reach out,” he explained. “I don’t want to reach out.
“I don’t want to invade their space,” the former reality star continued. “I’d rather just let them do it on their own terms.”
The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” alum shared his hopes to one day “have dinner with” his family members and “catch up on … the time that [they] lost” after previously being “so close.”
Collin, who sees himself enlisting in the Marine Corps, gushed about how “happy” he wants Madelyn, Cara, Aaden, Joel, Alexis and Leah to be.
“I love them to death,” he told the outlet tearfully. “I love them very much. … I really hope that one day when I have kids that my kids will know their aunt and uncles.”
Collin hasn’t lived with his siblings since he was sent to an institution for behavioral issues in 2016. Jon was subsequently granted sole physical and legal custody of Collin.
The DJ, 45, also obtained custody of Hannah, and the Gosselin Girl creator is an important part of Collin’s “emotional support” system.
“I would do anything for my sister,” he gushed. “She helped me out a lot and still does to this day. [She] still does so much for me.”
Earlier in the interview, Collin spoke for the first time about his estrangement from mom Kate.
“It’s unfortunate that we didn’t have a relationship,” he said of the 47-year-old. “I think every son wants to have a relationship with their mom.”
Collin and his family starred on TLC from 2007 to 2017. Jon and Kate called it quits two years after the show’s premiere following 10 years of marriage.
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Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth among Davis Love III picks to fill out stacked U.S. roster for Presidents Cup
It won’t quite be Alabama’s top-ranked football team playing Akron on its home field, but the U.S. figures to be an overwhelming favorite to defeat the International team for the ninth straight time in the Presidents Cup in two weeks.
U.S. team captain Davis Love III filled out his remaining roster spots Wednesday with six of the top 26 players in the Official World Golf Ranking: Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Billy Horschel, Cameron Young, Max Homa and Kevin Kisner.
They’ll join world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Sam Burns and Tony Finau on the U.S. team.
It will be the youngest U.S. team in Presidents Cup history, with an average age of 29.6 years. The Presidents Cup is scheduled for Sept. 22-25 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Even though a stacked U.S. team will be the favorite, Love said it will have to play well under pressure.
“It’s still going to be that stadium, that first tee, American flags and ‘Go USA,'” Love said. “This is their 12-man team that has never played together before. They want to win for this team. I don’t think we’ll have to do too much messaging or motivation. Certainly, you don’t want to be on a losing team ever.”
The International team’s highest-ranked players are Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and South Korea’s Sungjae Im, who are 16th and 18th, respectively. Two of the International team’s anticipated stars, Australia’s Cameron Smith and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, are ineligible for the team after defecting to the LIV Golf circuit.
“We understand exactly the mountain that we have in front of us: Possibly the best American team ever assembled if you look at them on paper with their accomplishments and what their world rankings are,” International team captain Trevor Immelman said Tuesday.
The average world ranking of the U.S. team is 11.8; the International team’s is 48.8. The U.S. team includes five of the top 10 players in the world and 11 of the top 20. The International team has no players in the top 10 and two in the top 20.
“Trevor is going to have a team that’s got a chip on their shoulder, that’s motivated and wants to prove that they can still be competitive,” Love said. “We have to be careful. Certainly, these guys aren’t going to take it lying down.”
Love basically followed script in making his captain’s selections, after losing Will Zalatoris, who was seventh in the Presidents Cup standings, to a back injury that caused him to miss the season-ending Tour Championship. Spieth, Morikawa, Homa, Horschel and Young were eighth to 12th in the standings, and Kisner, a veteran and match-play specialist, was 15th.
Tom Hoge and J.T. Poston were just ahead of Kisner in the Presidents Cup standings, but weren’t selected for the team.
Kisner, 38, won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in 2019 and was runner-up in 2018 and this season, when he lost to Scheffler in the finals. Kisner went 2-0-2 and earned three points in his only previous Presidents Cup appearance, at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey in 2017. He is regarded as one of the best putters in the world and finished seventh at the 2017 PGA Championship held at Quail Hollow.
Scheffler, Morikawa, Burns, Horschel, Young and Homa are Presidents Cup first-timers. Scheffler and Morikawa competed on the U.S. team that blasted Europe 19-9 in the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.
While the U.S. has traditionally struggled in the Ryder Cup, it has won 11 of the 13 past Presidents Cups, losing just once, 20 ½-11 ½ in Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. The teams tied 17-17 in George, South Africa, in 2003.
Behind captain Tiger Woods, the U.S. team won 16-14 in Melbourne in the last Presidents Cup in 2019.
“What we do in the Presidents Cup better than the Ryder Cup is we don’t have this fear of losing or this doubt in our head,” Love said. “We just go in with a lot of confidence and we have to keep that momentum going. It was a little closer than we wanted last time in Australia.”
Donovan Mitchell trade: Cavaliers acquire All-Star for Collin Sexton, three unprotected picks, per report
The Cleveland Cavaliers have traded for Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. The three-time All-Star guard is going to Cleveland in exchange for a package centered around draft picks and young players.
The Jazz have acquired Cleveland’s unprotected first-round picks in 2025, 2027 and 2029, plus pick swaps in 2026 and 2028, per ESPN. Also going to Utah, as first reported by Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes: Ochai Agbaji, the No. 14 pick in the 2022 draft; Collin Sexton, who will arrive via sign-and-trade; and Lauri Markkanen.
Sexton’s new contract is for four years and $72 million, according to Shams Charania.
Mitchell, who turns 26 next week, joins a Cavs core that also includes the 22-year-old Darius Garland, the 24-year-old Jarrett Allen and the 21-year-old Evan Mobley. Garland and Allen both made the All-Star team last season, and Mobley finished second in Rookie of the Year voting.
The Jazz, meanwhile, are pivoting to a full rebuild, having already traded Mitchell’s former co-star, Rudy Gobert, for a similar package in a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves this offseason.
The Cavs are going big and small at the same time
Cleveland did not have to do anything big this summer. Despite a long list of injuries last season, it won 44 games, which was good enough to qualify for the play-in tournament. Mobley was an All-Defense candidate as a rookie and has franchise-player upside. Garland is ascending, and is equally dangerous with and without the ball. Allen is a premier rim protector, and he’s developing on offense exactly as the Cavs hoped. Had they simply added Agbaji to the mix, reunited with Ricky Rubio and called it an offseason, they would have been on an upward trajectory, with cap space ahead of them next summer. Agbaji, a 3-and-D wing, is exactly the type of player they didn’t have. Maybe they could have brought Sexton back, too.
Instead, with an elite playmaker on the market, Cleveland decided to go for it. The rationale here is simple: For all the good vibes surrounding the Cavs last season, they finished with the 20th-best offense in the NBA (111 points per 100 possessions) and were absolutely horrendous (103 per 100) when Garland was off the court. Garland’s ability to shoot on the move makes him a clean fit with Mitchell on offense, and Cleveland can keep one of them on the floor at all times. Maybe this means Caris LeVert, acquired in a midseason trade with the Indiana Pacers, will be the Cavs’ long-term sixth man; maybe it means he’ll be moved before this year’s deadline.
Pairing Mobley with Allen — and starting the 6-foot-11 Markkanen next to them — was an interesting experiment in an era where bigs are routinely played off the floor in the playoffs. After a successful bet on their mobility and talent, Cleveland has doubled down, effectively announcing that it believes its exceptionally large frontcourt can mask the weaknesses of its exceptionally small backcourt. In theory, if Garland and Mitchell, both of them 6-foot-1, neither of them a versatile defender, can survive anywhere defensively, then it would be on a team that has Mobley and Allen behind them.
It is reasonable to be skeptical about that. While most of the NBA is trying to acquire as many big, strong, switchable wings as possible, the Cavs have assembled a (wildly talented) core with either one or zero of them, depending on whether or not you think Isaac Okoro can still be considered part of the core. As Daryl Morey likes to say, though, you can’t just go into the superstar store and pick the one you want. If the Cavs had waited, maybe they could have acquired another player of Mitchell’s caliber, without the obvious fit issue. But that perfect trade opportunity might never had presented itself.
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What’s next for Utah?
The Jazz felt they’d hit their ceiling with Gobert and Mitchell, so lead executive Danny Ainge charted a new course. They got four first-round picks for Gobert, only one of them (lightly) protected, plus a pick swap. The Cavaliers sent them three more unprotected firsts, plus two swaps. Between Agbaji and big man Walker Kessler, picked No. 24 by Minnesota in this year’s draft and then included in the Gobert trade, they essentially got two more first-rounders. Utah picked up another first in the deal that sent Royce O’Neale to the Brooklyn Nets. And in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers, it turned veteran Patrick Beverley, acquired from the Timberwolves, into 21-year-old Talen Horton-Tucker.
And Ainge isn’t done.
Mike Conley, who turns 35 next month, is not part of the Jazz’s long-term plans. Neither is Bojan Bogdanovic, who will turn 34 during next season’s playoffs. Jordan Clarkson, 30, figures to be available as well, and the same is likely true of Malik Beasley, who turns 26 in November. ESPN reported that Utah considers Sexton, 23, and Markkanen, 25, to be keepers, but there’s no guarantee that they finish their respective contracts in Salt Lake City.
The Jazz have a large collection of future picks now, and they’ll have even more by the deadline, if not by the beginning of training camp. They’ve set themselves up to lose a ton of games next season, and, if the lottery breaks right, they might get to draft their next franchise player. The losses will be painful, but they’ll come with a side of hope. The same can’t be said of banging your head against the same wall year after year.
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New York Giants lose promising WR Collin Johnson to torn Achilles
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants lost wide receiver Collin Johnson for the season Wednesday on the same day that veteran Sterling Shepard returned to the practice field.
Johnson tore his Achilles tendon during Wednesday’s practice, per the team. The big receiver (6-foot-6, 220 pounds) out of the University of Texas had been receiving first-team reps in recent weeks at practice with Kadarius Toney and Shepard among those on the sideline.
Coach Brian Daboll had noted earlier in the week that Johnson and fellow wide receiver David Sills were making a strong impression. Johnson started Sunday’s preseason win over the Cincinnati Bengals and had three receptions for 41 yards; Sills had five catches for 56 yards, with most of the damage coming with the first-string offense.
“Collin Johnson, David Sills, they’ve stepped their game up,” Daboll said. “And they’re right in the mix, not just to make a team but to play.”
The Giants’ opener is in 18 days in Tennessee. Toney (right leg), C.J. Board (ribs) and Darius Slayton are also dealing with minor injuries.
Shepard, meanwhile, was making his way back from a torn Achilles suffered last December. He returned to practice for the first time Wednesday since the injury.
“It felt great, man,” said Shepard, who snuck in some reps during live drills and even caught a 20-yard pass from backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor. “Just being back on the field, it’s a blessing. Especially when you go through an injury like that and you’ve been on the sidelines for so long watching those guys get after it. You have to take every day and cherish them because you never know when you’re going to have to sit out that long.”
It had been eight months and five days since Shepard tore his Achilles. He is the longest-tenured Giant and has 349 catches for 3,884 yards and 21 touchdowns in his career, all in New York.
Shepard’s return made it appear as if the Giants were actually getting healthier at the position. Toney, Board and Slayton participated in the early portions of Wednesday’s practice.
But Toney was seen grabbing at the back of his leg during the workout, and Johnson and Marcus Kemp (hamstring) suffered significant injuries. Both Johnson and Kemp landed on injured reserve later in the day.
The Giants claimed wide receivers Bailey Gaither and Jaylon Moore on Wednesday to fill the voids. They cut tight end Jordan Akins to make room on the roster.
Johnson, 24, has 29 catches for 377 yards in 26 career games with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Giants. He made his mark with the Giants last year as a blocker.
But this summer it appeared he had taken his game to the next level. He was making plays consistently throughout training camp, earning him the trust of starting quarterback Daniel Jones and some first-team reps.
Johnson even had 10 catches for 123 receiving yards in the first two preseason games this season. With Toney still banged up and Shepard coming back from a serious injury, it looked possible that Johnson could have started — or at least played a substantial role — Week 1 against the Tennessee Titans. Instead his season came to a premature end.