Will Oprah dispense with Baby Jake? A while back, we covered the story of Baby Jake, a little tot deemed so cute by his mother that he was destined for fame, fortune and an adulthood worthy of Danny Bonaduce. Mom started a Web site, buyjake.com, where she hoped to be fielding offers for Jake’s inevitable Hollywood career. (Don’t visit it unless you have extra insulin in the home. It’s so syrupy that even the non-diabetic should be prepared.) Now, from Defamer, we learn that Baby Jake has allegedly gotten a call from the big “O” herself, Oprah Winfrey, offering to give Baby Jake $10,000 if he’d just go away and promise never to be used for commercial purposes again. (Since taking the offer would be a career killer, Baby Jake’s people are so far turning the offer down.) As Defamer’s source appears to be Baby Jake’s blog, we are more than a little skeptical about the supposed offer. If it were that easy to get $10,000 out of Oprah, we’d all be doing it. —Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

November 1, 2006 | Permalink

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Wow! Never thought I'd see "Baby Jake" again! If the mom wants to get anything out of this already horrible idea, she should let Big O buy the damn ad on her kid's back, otherwise she might not get to use him at all!

Posted by: Me | Nov 1, 2006 12:52:15 PM

whoa... i don't usually comment on stuff, but i'm going to in hopes that the mom reads this. you are gross and i hope no one buys baby jake... if baby jake wants to be a movie star/actor/model whatever.. it'll happen, but pushing it on him already?! did you see what happened to michael jackson? let the kid have a childhood and quit exploiting him. just gross. how does your other son feel? good god... do people have no morals?! i work in advertising and am compeletly appalled. gross. gross. gross.

Posted by: | Nov 1, 2006 2:28:02 PM

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