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ABC is adding Kate Gosselin to the list of guest co-hosts for "The View."

Celebrity mom Gosselin will be subbing for regular "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Sept.

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14 and 15. Hasselbeck is on maternity leave after giving birth to her third child, Isaiah, earlier this month.

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Gosselin, the mother of twins and sextuplets, co-stars with her estranged husband on TLC's

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reality series "Jon & Kate Plus 8."

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ABC has previously announced Meghan McCain, E.D. Hill and LaToya Jackson as guest co-hosts for the daytime talk show.

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Gosselin breaks silence in interview

However, the star of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8," who continues to wear her wedding ring, said that's not because of any hope of reuniting with Jon.

Speaking on Monday's "Today Show" in her first live TV interview since her marriage ended

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seven weeks ago, Kate broke into tears as she told the program's Meredith Vieira that the ring remains on her finger because "I don't want to upset the children."

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The sextuplets and twins, all under the age of 10, "know that it's my 'married to Daddy' ring," she said.

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Repeatedly describing herself as "determined to hang in there," Gosselin, 34, said "I am as well

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as can be expected" and prepared to deal with whatever life hands her. Her chief concern, she made clear, is "the health and well-being of my children."

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Anyway, the 32-year-old star was seen that morning leaving a photo shoot with Kate and the kids. It was reportedly for the return of TLC's Jon and Kate Plus 8 this August. Since it was

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held in New York City, Kate and her eight children checked into a midtown Manhattan hotel before heading to the shoot in the afternoon.

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At around 3pm, she left the lodge with the kids and was followed by a bunch of photographers eager for a snapshot. When they all reached the City Stage studio in the Chelsea neighborhood,

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however, they were blocked by security guards. An eyewitness said that they attempted to keep the paparazzi away using umbrellas, styrofoam boards and even folding event tables.

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Another observer told People, "It must have been very upsetting for the kids." The guards tried

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their best to keep the Gosselin children unharmed, ushering them safely into the studio.