I was dismayed to learn that Kate Gosselin (do I really have to qualify who she is) would be on this season’s Dancing with the Stars — I was even more disgusted when I saw her “dance” for the first time.

It’s not Gosselin’s first attempt at reality TV (exhibit A), but nothing about this woman comes across as real to me.

Last fall we were all forced to pick sides in the Jon vs. Kate debacle. But really, it was Kate who’s side we had to be on because she got all the press. She was on People magazine every week lamenting about what happened to the Jon she knew and how sad she was and how she was left to raise these eight kids all by herself.

So instead of closing up her reality show and getting a real job, as a real mother would do, she did DWTS.

Fine. Whatever.

Then this week, Kate showed her true colours as far as I’m concerned, and her professional partner nearly quit on her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azWhSqCI-zg

I mean, really can we say what a nag? Seriously. This man teaches dance for a living. He doesn’t make much money from DWTS (if anything, the professional dancers are left unable to compete in the ballroom circuit because they are so busy with the show). And if Kate was really upset by Tony storming out, the human thing would have been to run after him. Not to sit and stare at the camera AND CONTINUE TO TALK TO IT!!

It was bad enough Kate survived elimination (she should have gone home. To be a mother. To her kids). But it’s just gotten worse.

E! Online is reporting the two are planning a “Jon and Kate inspired” dance routine for this week. I wish I was kidding.

Why ABC and DWTS allowed this woman on their show is really beyond me. I know reality TV is not “quality” programming, but there is nothing enticing about Kate Gosselin: she’s not even that good of a reality villain (here are some better ones).

Instead, Kate comes across as the woman she says she’s not: someone in her 30s who desperately wants to be famous and is willing to do so at all costs. She’s already lost her marriage, and she’s basically sold her kids to being filmed everyday of their lives, so what else is there to lose? Not much.

Kate claims she took this job because she needs the money. After all, she’s a single mom to eight kids and can’t count on her ex to contribute. And if she were to go back to nursing (what she was before she was Jon and Kate Plus Eight), then she would be spending just as little time with her kids as she is now.

That’s a load of bull.

Kate reminds me a lot of the girl I was in high school: desperately wanting to be a part of the in crowd. But the fact is, she’s not and she never will be (partly because we can feel the desperation so bad we want nothing to do with it).

Someone has to draw the line with Kate Gosselin, because otherwise God knows what will happen to her children.