TLC is addressing the rumors that Deanna Hummel -- the 23-year-old woman said to have been photographed leaving a bar with Jon Gosselin earlier this year -- will be joining the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8."

"There are no plans to use her," the network said in a statement released to ET.

Hummel defended her relationship with Jon last May to People, saying the two were just friends. "It's absurd that anyone would think otherwise," she said.