Don’t count Jon Gosselin out of the picture just yet.

Reports of his saying he’s ready to withdraw from TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 are not only premature – they just aren’t true.

“I never said that,” Jon told People while speaking outside his house on Wednesday. “A fan asked me, ‘Don’t you sometimes wish you could go back to a 9-to-5 job?’ [And my reply was,] ‘Yeah, because this is 24/7 and 9-to-5ers punch in and punch out and you have no responsibilities.’ ”

Pointing to the paparazzi collected outside his family home, Gosselin said, “Here … you have to watch what you say so it doesn’t contradict something else.”

He believes the story was the result of someone having “overheard something that was nothing.”

Clearing up other misinformation, Gosselin said, “And the other one was that the kids didn’t want to film anymore. No, they just didn’t want to film that day.”

That’s easily explained, too. “It’s 96 degrees outside and they just said they wanted to go in the pool. So guess what? They took their clothes off, put their swimsuits on and jumped in the pool … I just looked at my producer and said, ‘What are you going to do?’ ”

As for his literal fashion statement – being photographed in a T-shirt bearing the message, “Lies, Lies” – Gosselin says: “I just thought it was funny, because people can write anything about me … How can you write something about me or say something about me without actually asking me?”

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Oh snap!

Maybe Jon can’t talk smack about the hand that feeds, but that doesn’t mean his girlfriend can’t!

Jon Gosselin’s girlfriend Hailey Glassman is slamming TLC, claiming the network forced Jon and Kate to cover up their crumbling marriage.

In an interview Monday with Kate who? E! News, Glassman — the 22-year-old daughter of the surgeon who performed Kate’s 2006 tummy tuck — dubbed TLC “the lying channel.”

She added that the network didn’t allow Jon and Kate “to come out and say their marriage was done a year ago.

She said she can speak freely on the situation because “no network owns what I can and cannot say.”

She added, “People need to realize there’s two sides to every story… TLC, they’re telling something, but the truth is always in that fuzzy area. You can’t touch it, but only the people contracted can see it, but no one can say it.”

Glassman also claimed that Jon is not having a fling with nanny Stephanie Santoro – despite over-night sleepovers.

“Jon has a good heart, she has a child and he felt bad,” she said. “He knows how it feels to have a child and not be able to afford, you know, so he hired her to give her a job.”

As for her future with Jon, Glassman said, “I don’t like to talk in the future. I like to live in the present. As of right now, I want to be happy. I want Jon to be happy. I want every side to be happy.”

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Jon Gosselin says police made Kate leave their $1.1 million Pennsylvania home Thursday night after a heated argument.

“She tried to come home yesterday, and I wouldn’t let her in the gate, and I guess she called the police,” Gosselin tells Splash News. “The police came and said it was a civil matter.”

“An officer pulled me aside and I said, ‘This has never happened before and I’m just trying to spend time with my kids and she’s [Kate] gonna have to leave,’” he says.

Jon says Kate “tried to ‘cry it up’ with the cops and it didn’t work and they said, ‘You have to leave.’

“It was a miscommunication. Kate said she was coming home, and I said, ‘Well, it’s my time to spend with the kids,’” Jon goes on. “I don’t come home when she’s with the kids, and vice versa — and that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

What sparked the fight?

Jon says he called babysitter Stephanie Santoro — a 23-year-old single mother and aspiring model who has stayed overnight and partied with Jon — to watch the kids while he was filming Jon & Kate Plus 8.

“I guess she didn’t agree with my babysitting,” Jon says of Kate, adding that it was the first time he’d seen his ex wife for “a long time” (they announced they were separating in June).

When asked why Kate was upset about Santoro (who also works as a “shooter girl” selling shots at local club Legends), Jon says, “I have no idea. I guess ’cause she didn’t have approval.”

Jon says he’ll only approve of Kate’s babysitters “if she’ll approve mine.”

No one was arrested during Thursday’s fight and no citations were issued.

A teary-eyed Kate immediately checked in to a local Days Inn.

Earlier the same day day, a Live! With Regis and Kelly interview aired, during which Kate said her marriage to Jon could never be saved.

“You know, we definitely have different goals at this point,” she said. “A lot has changed, a lot of unexpected things have came up.”

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Police were called to Jon and Kate Gosselin’s $1.1 million home in Wernersville, Pa., Thursday after the reality stars got into a heated fight.

Kate arrived at the home (it was reportedly ex Jon’s time to be with the kids) because she did not approve of the babysitter. Photographers on site claimed Kate was “locked out” of her house.

No arrests were made, but she spent some time arguing with Jon at the fence of their home.

Later, she fled in tears to a nearby Days Inn.

Hiding behind dark sunglasses, Kate headed straight to her room. Her nose was red and it appeared that she had been crying.

Earlier in the day, a Live! With Regis and Kelly interview aired, during which Kate said her marriage to Jon could never be saved.

“You know, we definitely have different goals at this point,” she said. “A lot has changed, a lot of unexpected things have came up.”

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Jon and Kate Gosselin returned to TLC Monday night, but many of their fans didn’t.

After a month-long hiatus, last night’s back-to-back episodes of Jon & Kate Plus 8 brought in less than half the audience of the show’s previous episode, which earned a record-breaking 10.6 million viewers. (In that episode, which aired on June 22, the couple announced they were separating after 10 years of marriage.)

Last night’s first half hour, which featured Kate and the kids vacationing while Jon supervised their kitchen renovation, drew 3.9 million viewers. The following show, in which Kate went camping with the kids without Jon, was watched by 4.1 million.

Both episodes were also down significantly from the May 25 premiere, which brought in 9.8 million viewers.

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The same day his reality show returned to TLC, Jon Gosselin showed off his bare stomach — while wearing a shirt that says “Buddha” — outside his Pennsylvania home.

The dad of eight also smoked cigarettes, signed autographs for fans and checked his iPhone.

Where were the kids? Eating ice cream with a nanny. At one point, he chatted with one of his 8-year-old twins.

Last night’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 showed Kate spending more time with the children.

In the first of two episodes, she took the group to Bald Head Island, N.C. while Jon supervised a kitchen renovation in their $1.1-million home.

“I think Kate and I needed a break from each other,” Jon told cameras. “This landed at a good time. Kate could take the kids to the beach, and I could stay here and supervise cabinet construction.”

Jon didn’t appear at all in the second half-hour of the show, which featured Kate camping with the kids in the backyard. He’s been to St. Tropez with Hailey Glassman and then New York’s Hamptons with Kate Major over the past few weeks.

While those women weren’t featured on last night’s shows, TLC president Eileen O’Neill has said cameras may show Jon and Kate dating others “on a case-by-case basis.”

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In the first episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 to air since the couple announced their split last month, Kate Gosselin says she has a new outlook on life.

“It is my new attitude that I’m going to do things I’ve never done before,” says Kate, who is interviewed in a one-person armchair instead of the loveseat she’d shared with Jon during the last five seasons. (She also shows off her bikini bod in the same show.)

“This is what has stemmed out of all that — ‘I can do,’” continues Kate on the episode, which airs on Monday.

She also says her eight kids are doing well despite the divorce. (Jon and Kate take turns staying with the children in their $1.1 million home.)

“They are still kids, they still enjoy things,” Kate says. “They still want to do things.

“It is not their fault that what has transpired has transpired,” Kate adds.

On Wednesday, Jon took three of his daughters to the dentist in Reading, Penn. Earlier that day, he organized a scavenger hunt for his kids while TLC cameras rolled.

He spent the weekend in the Hamptons with Michael Lohan and Kate Major while Kate played with the kids at home.

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