Kat von D courtesy GFDL,CC-BY-SA

Kat von D acted unladylike, “Multiple sources tell” TMZ (they say) when she saw her ex-whirlwind suitor Jesse James (the outlaw mechanic, not the outlaw train robber) with far too much face time on her reality show.  All she wants, TMZ’s snitches say, is for all of James‘ scenes to play exclusively on the cutting room floor.

The L.A. Ink episodes that the former Katherine Drachenberg reportedly objected to was creatively edited (allegedly) to highlight her butterflying between James and her erstwhile gentleman friend Nikki Sixx.

Flashforward: Have you ever actually watched (and if so, listened) to this TLC show?  If they bleeped out the words cool and awesome, along with the other FCC seven deadly curses, there would be very little dialog.

All of James‘ video was shot when von D was dating him, and now she wants to figuratively dump him like he allegedly dumped her.  Or, (more likely) we’ve been had again with another planned PR stunt.

If all, any or part of this yarn is true, then the producers really are humping to excise James from the segments, like trying to cut into an apple core without breaking the skin.

The next show appears Wednesday and the solution may be to sew 30 old Salem cigarette commercials together, interrupted by three three-minute snippets of generic High Voltage Tatoo exteriors and von D with her open-mouthed, deadpan, 100 yard stare.  Cool, awesome.