The Yankee captain is building a gigantic, 30,875-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms on Davis Islands in Tampa. But some locals believe Jeter isn’t thinking clearly when it comes to building in today’s economy. One insider mused to Page Six: “Can you hurricane-proof a house that big on the waterfront? And how much water and electricity will it take to run a house like that? Also, does Derek already have a possible wife in mind who’s helping him plan? Because, news flash to him: No woman in her right mind is going to move into a 31,000-square-foot house unless she has had input on how it’s decorated.” Still, Jeter must know something he already owns a five-bedroom, five-bathroom spread in nearby Avila. His rep didn’t get back to us.

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Grant who’s in town filming “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” was at Beatrice Inn Friday night. “He could barely keep his eyes open,” said our spy. But he was awake enough to entertain two women “a brunette and a blonde,” said the snitch. “He would make out with one girl, then turn to the other.” Grant’s rep confirmed he was there but told us, “There was no kissing. This is complete rubbish.”

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Zac Efron has pulled out of the musical remake of Footloose — nearly two years after he was in talks to reprise the role of Kevin Bacon from the 1984 film.

“Footloose is a project we’ve longed to see re-booted for a new generation. While Zac is no longer attached, we remain excited and committed to the collective brain trust of [director] Kenny Ortega, [producers] Neil Meron and Craig Zaden, who will reinvigorate the franchise,” a Paramount Pictures rep told Usmagazine.com Monday. “Their fresh take on the film will undoubtedly be filled with the same kind of breakout performances that we’ve come to expect from them.”

Although Efron has yet to publicly address his reasons for dropping out of the film, he is reportedly trying to take on more varied roles.

Efron — who rose to fame by singing and dancing in all three of Disney’s High School Musical movies — signed on to star in the Paramount flick in July 2007, the same time as his feature debut, a revival of the 1988 musical movie Hairspray, hit theaters.

The actor, 21, is currently promoting his film, 17 Again, which opens in theaters this April. He is also set to star in the drama, Me and Orson Welles, opposite Claire Danes. The film, in which he plays a Broadway actor who has a chance meeting with Welles in 1937, has not yet been released.

Ortega helmed the High School Musical franchise and will direct and choreograph Footloose, which is slated for a 2010 release date. No replacement for Efron has been confirmed.

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Um, ok. Let me try to gather my thoughts. So LeAnn Rimes is supposedly having an affair with co-star, Eddie Cibrian. She’s denying that. However now a new twist (and I use twist both figuratively and….). Apparently her current husband is gay.

On the radio, the so-called “Pebbles ” declared that Sheremet “doesn’t care” that Rimes had an affair with her TV movie costar Eddie Cibrian because “he’s gay.” The woman also added, “He’s been gay since he was probably five.”
Rimes’s rep’s response? “Although Dean and LeAnn never knew they had a cousin named Pebbles, they are glad to hear that she has come out of the woodwork,” he says. “Dean and LeAnn are also interested in connecting with their other long lost family members: Fred, Wilma, Barney and Bamm-Bamm. So Pebbles, please let us know if you have spoken to them, too.”

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A funeral service for actress Natasha Richardson was held Sunday afternoon in Millbrook, N.Y., where she wed actor Liam Neeson and raised their two sons.

Neeson was among the pallbearers for his wife’s coffin, made of dark brown wood, as it was taken into St. Peter’s Episcopal Church early Sunday afternoon, according to the Associated Press. He arrived with his sons, Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12, and mother-in-law, Vanessa Redgrave. Aunt Lynn Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson followed.

Actor Ralph Fiennes was also at the funeral, which was open to family and close friends.

Richardson will be buried at St. Peter’s Cemetery, steps from her beloved grandmother’s plot.

Richardson, 45, died March 18 of internal brain bleeding after suffering a head injury during a skiing accident in Canada.

On Friday, her family and friends — including Diane Sawyer, Matthew Modine and Uma Thurman, among others — paid their respects at a private wake at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC.

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A former Manhattan madam who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers also counted Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez as a customer - and found him so charming she dated him herself for free, former employees of the call-girl agency tell the Daily News.

A-Rod wooed ex-madam Kristin Davis with flowers, jewelry, persistence and heated e-mails, according to the sources.

“Throughout the years, there were a number of clients that I befriended and it was not uncommon for them to want the women they can’t have whether it be the phone bookers or the madam,” Davis said.

“In regard to Alex, all I can say is our paths have definitely crossed personally and professionally.”

Davis met Rodriguez in June of 2006 in a gym in Philadelphia, shortly after she opened a branch of her call-girl service in the City of Brotherly Love, sources said.

Davis told a friend the then-married Rodriguez asked her, “What are you doing tonight?”

The shapely madam didn’t know who A-Rod was but found him “hot as hell,” she told the friend. “I said, ‘I’m having dinner with my boyfriend. But if you’re looking for someone to hang out with, here’s a number.’ I gave him my agency’s card.”

That night, Davis told a friend, Rodriguez booked a two-hour “date” with one of her girls, who met him at the Four Seasons on Rittenhouse Square.

“He gave his real name,” Davis told the friend. “The next day we found out who Alex Rodriguez was. The girl we sent freaked out. Her father (works for) another Major League Baseball team.”

Rodriguez soon became a repeat customer of one of Davis’ three Manhattan agencies, two former employees said.

In an e-mail exchange provided to The News by a former booker for Davis’ Wicked Models, Rodriguez purportedly told Davis on Nov. 17, 2006: “Thanks for setting me up with Samantha. She was gorgeous. But she is not you. When can I see you you are gorgeous . . .”

The exchange goes on:

Davis: “Hi Alex. You don’t want to see me. I’m no fun. lol. Just because your (sic) so sweet, here are some pics of me and I appreciate the compliments. Your (sic) a doll. Thanks, Kristin”

Rodriguez: “You have been playing hard to get for a year now, your (sic) killing me.”

Davis: “It’s not playing I am hard to get. Maybe you should try harder.”

Rodriguez: “Kristin, I definitely will and I love the pics. I put the one on my cell so I can look at you all the time. Alex.”

Davis: “You are too sweet. I’ll let you know when I get someone you like.”

Two former agency workers said A-Rod hired prostitutes more than a half-dozen times, often meeting them at the Four Seasons hotel on W. 57th St.

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British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu.

People Magazine reports the pop songstress wed California businessman Matthew Robinson in a 30-minute outdoor ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

About 150 guests watched Bedingfield walk down the aisle in a Vera Wang dress beside the chateau at the Church Estates Vineyards.

Bedingfield’s albums include “Unwritten,” “N.B.” and “Pocketful of Sunshine.”

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Bruce Willis wed his girlfriend, model Emma Heming, Saturday at his home on Parrot Cay, on the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean, his rep said.

His rep tells Us Willis’ daughters, Rumor, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallulah Belle, 14, and their mother, Willis’ ex Demi Moore, were present, as was Moore’s current husband, Ashton Kutcher. A source tells Us that Madonna was also among the guests.

“The couple will be having a civil ceremony when they return to California,” Willis’ rep tells Us.

This is the second marriage for Willis, 54, and the first marriage for Heming, 30.

Rumors of a wedding surfaced earlier this week: Rooms and private villas had been reserved for his guests at a hotel near his home there.

Willis and Heming have been dating since last year.

Willis was previously married to Moore. They split in 2000 after 13 years of marriage but have remained friends. He even has referred to Moore and Kutcher as his “extended family.”

“A lot of people have a hard time letting go of the things that can end a relationship, but we’ve managed to put the kids first,” Willis told Ryan Seacrest in 2007. “Here’s the trick: Try not to take your time on earth for granted. … Death waits for us all. The only answer is to get out there and live each day.”

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