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Last year it was revealed that Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony were working on a reality show with TLC. They’ve had a lot of bumps along the way – mainly because J Lo wants the show to be just about her and her career/business ventures, whereas TLC wanted to show her as a mother and feature her twins. J Lo was an absolute on putting her kids in front of the camera. Now the show is completely dead – but not because of Jennifer’s demands. TLC has had so much success with “Jon & Kate Plus 8” (thanks in large part to all of their marital scandals) that they’ve passed on the J-Lo project all together.

Sources at TLC tell us the J.Lo reality show they wanted so badly a year ago is dead as a doornail, thanks in large part to the success of “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”

It was just a year ago that TMZ broke the story that J.Lo and TLC were trying to come to terms on a reality show but J.Lo was adamant that she would not put her kids on TV — she wanted to focus on … yawn … behind the scenes on creating a new J.Lo fragrance. TLC, we’re told, wanted to show the kiddies.

Fast forward to Monday night — Jon & Kate scored an astonishing 9.8 million viewers. TLC sources tell us it’s pretty clear the J.Lo ain’t gonna sell tickets anymore, so they have shelved the show. As one TLC source put it, “It was on life support for awhile, and now we’ve just lost interest.”

The moral — even big stars have their 15 minutes, so they should make the most of it while they can.

[From TMZ]

It’s funny because while “Jon & Kate” did get a record number of viewers, the season premiere also got a record number of terrible, horrible, awful reviews. No critics seemed to like it at all, which makes me wonder how stable the show really can be. But clearly TLC doesn’t see the need to invest in yet another “follow the famous family” show. Though in J Lo and Marc Anthony’s case, they were obviously already famous before their reality show, whereas the Gosselins are only famous because of theirs.

Here’s Jennifer Lopez on the set of her new film ‘The Back-Up Plan’ in Pasadena on May 14th. Images thanks to WENN.com .