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Did Former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey And Wife Have Threesomes With A Male Aide?

Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey may have officially one-upped Eliot Spitzer in terms of "goobernatorial" sex scandal sordidness. McGreevey, who left office in disgrace in November 2004 after admitting to an affair with a male colleague, is now being accused by another former male employee of having with the then-Governor and his wife, Dina Matos. Theodore Pedersen, who was McGreevey's driver and traveling aide, has told the Newark Star-Ledger that from 1999 to 2001, he had "weekly romps" with Dina and Jim "that typically began with dinner at T.G.I. Friday's and ended with a threesome at McGreevey's condo in Woodbridge." Jesus, Jim. Fridays? Are those Southwestern egg roll tequila shooters really a turn on? More »

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Lauer On Spitzer: Some Political Wives "Become Almost An Appendage Of Their Spouse"

Okay kids, we've got another clip from the Today Show featuring more critique of New York governor Eliot Spitzer's indiscretions. This one features Dina Matos, the aggrieved former first lady from New Jersey whose onetime hubby famously cheated on her with another man. Ms. Matos was thoughtful and sensitive during her interview with Today's Matt Lauer, but we can't say the same for the show itself. First off: What was up with the show's split-screen of footage of Ms. Matos and her ex-husband during his public declaration of infidelity, and that of Governor Spitzer and his wife Silda? (Tasteful blue suits on the women! Red striped ties on the men!) It was creepy and unnecessary. Secondly: What the fuck is Matt Lauer talking about? As explanation as to why Silda Wall Spitzer stood by her man, he said, "Some of these political spouses create their own identity based on their spouse's identity...and perhaps they're worried that if they don't stand by that person at that time they somehow lose their own identity." You sort it out. Clip above.
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Paris Hilton's "It's All An Act" Turns Out To Be An Act Itself

• We are loathe to believe anything we read in OK magazine, but we thought you should know: This week they're saying Paris Hilton's remorse is not actually genuine. [MSNBC]
  
• Barbara Walters seemed ready to sign on Paris Hilton to co-host The View but even we think having her and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the same show is unfair to blonde women. [People]
  
• Paris comes and goes from prison cells more often than we come and go from our house. [ABC News]
  
• We forgot to tell you about Lindsay Lohan's bodyguard, but yesterday in Star we read this: "One night, Lindsay and Nicole were making trip after trip to the bathroom... But the more wasted they got, the less [Lindsay] cared. In the end they carried in a mirror from the bedroom, laid it on the coffee table and emptied a mountain of coke onto it... After 10 hours, I'd had enough."
  
• Following Dina Matos McGreevey's accusation that her ex-husband's "badmouthing in the gay community" sabotaged her book sales, the ex-New Jersey governor disses her in the gayest way possible. [USAToday]
  
• Gigi Levangie Grazer, who wrote The Starter Wife and one of the more obnoxious articles ever to appear in Vogue magazine (more on that later!) splits with her Da Vinci Code and Beautiful Mind- producing starter husband. [Page Six]
  
• Posh Spice reality show has been downgraded to a one-hour special. They're not saying why, but we're going with the whole "she might be big in the UK, but she lacks the immense watchability of American celebreality giants like Brooke Hogan and Donnie Bonaduce" theory. [Reuters]

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