Jon Gosselin never said he wants off the show

(People.com)

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

Jon and Kate Gosselin attend the Discovery Upfront Presentation in New York City in happier times.

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.

As for his literal fashion statement — being photographed in a T-shirt bearing the message, "Lies, Lies" –

Gosselin

said: "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?" (Read what Jon's fashion friend Christian Audigier

has to say about him today

.)