Collin Gosselin Returns to TV Before Memoir Release

Kate Gosselin's estranged son Collin is making an unexpected return to . 

The former child star, now 22, is one of the celebrity cast members on the next season of Fox's Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

In an awkward turn of events, Kate actually starred in the first season of the competition series back in 2023, but was the first contestant eliminated.

The 51-year-old is now bracing for the release of Collin's bombshell memoir, which promises to lift the lid on their estranged relationship and his tortured childhood in the spotlight.  

Collin joins fellow reality stars like  alum , father-daughter duo  and daughter Alexia, and 's Breana Tiesi on the upcoming fifth season of Special Forces. 

Other cast members include Full House alum Candace Cameron Bure, actress , disgraced politician , Baywatch icon , comedian Hannah Stocking, and actor Oliver Hudson.

Sports figures round out the rest of the cast, including Super Bowl champion LeSean McCoy, Olympian Maxim Naumov, NBA legend Matt Barnes and boxer Alycia Baumgardner.

According to Fox, season five of the series will premiere on September 24.

Collin's bold reality TV comeback comes as he prepares to release his tell-all memoir, In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, which drops October 13.

While it's unclear what exactly will be featured in the book, Collin has promised to lift the lid on what it was really like growing up on reality TV as part of one of America's most infamous families.

He previously lashed out at mom Kate in a 2023 documentary with Vice TV and then again in a shocking interview with The Sun in 2024, in which he accused his mother of abuse and of alienating him from his siblings. 

Collin also revealed that Kate had him when he was 11 after he was diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and bipolar. 

Kate refuted Collin's allegations of abuse in a statement to People at the time, saying, 'My son Collin, whom I love with all my heart, has .

'For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs.' 

Collin was later re-diagnosed as an adult and was found by a clinical psychologist not to have any current psychiatric or behavioral issues.  

'Kate had no idea this book was in the works,' an insider recently told the . 

'Collin hasn't spoken to his mother since she abandoned him in an institution as a young child. She didn't expect any of this to ever come out. Now she's spiraling because she knows it's about to hit the fan.' 

Kate has already told people around her that any wild accusations against her are based on 'zero facts', .

All of the alleged abuse happened after Kate ended her acrimonious decade-long marriage to ex-husband Jon in 2009, when she gained primary custody of all eight of their children and starred in six seasons of the rebranded Kate Plus 8 reality TV show on TLC.