*Video includes partial DWTS interview, dancing begins around 2 minute mark*

Oh, Kate Gosselin, will the hilarity never end? After last week’s epic suck-fest paso doble dance to Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi”, perhaps there was nowhere else to go but up. Not that Kate Gosselin’s dance last night was good – it really wasn’t. But Kate just didn’t suck as hard as she did last week. Where Kate had previously stomped around, looking like a dazed, angry and constipated drag queen (for real), this week she just kind of walked around, not even bothering to pace herself in rhythm to the music – an Adam Lambert song. Oh, and her hair, makeup and costuming was an improvement too, so maybe she stopped pissing off “the help” for a change. Apparently, walking around is better than stomping around, because her scores improved, like that matters. But now Kate thinks she’s a star!

On Monday’s Dancing With the Stars, Kate Gosselin was praised for her best dance so far, the tango, scoring a 32.

Despite still being the night’s lowest scorer, “I feel very proud of myself, I feel very proud of both of us,” she told Entertainment Tonight during a post-show interview with her partner Tony Dolovani. “I’m like totally addicted and on fire and I cannot wait to do this again. Please go and vote. My gosh, I want to keep going. I love it!”

Gosselin’s DWTS colleagues are also proud at how far she’s come.

“She looks great, and she is what the show is about — she is improving every week,” said Evan Lysacek, who earned the night’s highest score of 52). He told UsMagazine.com all the contestants are “in the same boat. I am just happy to be improving every week, and she is doing the same thing, so she can’t ask for much more. She looked great tonight, and we are all cheering her along because we all like her so much and want her to do well.”

Said Cheryl Burke: “At the end of the day, she is doing what any mother should do — which is work for their kids. She just happens to be on Dancing With The Stars and getting paid for it at the same time … she has to make a living somehow.”

[From Us Weekly]

“She has to make a living somehow”? Oh, Cheryl Burke, get a grip. I think Kate issued talking points to everyone at DWTS, because Kate’s sentiments on the Today Show were oddly similar:

Responding to her ex-husband’s accusations that she’s an absentee parent, Kate Gosselin says she has no choice but to work, which takes her away from her eight kids – but that she tries to make every moment with them count that much more.

“I’ve got to work harder now than ever because I am a single mom,” the former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, 35, said Tuesday on NBC’s Today show. “In my heart I’m always in my kitchen, baking and cooking for my kids, and I’ll always be there. It’s a struggle to be here [in New York], to be anywhere. The emotion that you see is because I would rather be at home with them.”

But that’s not always possible, she says. “I have to work. I have to provide for them. And it’s a struggle that every working mom, especially single moms, go through, and I’m really feeling it now, and it’s really hard.”

The best she can do, Gosselin says, is carve out as much time with them as possible. She says she leaves Los Angeles, where Dancing With the Stars is filmed, every week to spend time in Pennsylvania.

“If I had 24 hours a day seven days a week with eight kids, it wouldn’t be enough time in my book,” she says. “So, to minus out the working days is really hard. But I make the most of every minute I have with them … When I’m home, we make those little spots of time really big in our memories.”

Gosselin speaks to her kids directly in her new book, I Just Want You to Know, and offers them “advice for now, advice for the future and for always, kind of like a legacy.” She says the children are doing well, though of course divorce is tough on any child.

“I don’t think any child likes it,” she says. “They still say things like, ‘I wish Mommy and Daddy could be together.’ They still have their same innocent love for each of us, and I appreciate that.”

[From People]

Oh for the love of… I really need Kate to shut the hell up. This pity party is getting so old. And you know what it basically boils down to? “My ex-husband is a bigger douche than me, so that’s why you should like me.” As Gawker points out, Kate Gosselin “sucks at dancing, she sucks at practicing, she sucks at feigning likability… she just sucks.” Kate has forgotten – or maybe she never realized it: we can hate her and her ex, both. We don’t have to choose.