The NY Post is reporting today that The Hooker was back to her old tricks on Tuesday as she and a married father of two spent the day together, and then decided to go ahead and get a hotel room together for the night.

Now look. I am all about Ashley Dupre needing to make a living and honestly, if she wants to run tricks I think that is much better than being some kind of personal slave to Joe Francis which appears to be her other option.

This post is more directed to the guy involved here who the NY Post says is TJ Earle who lives just two miles from Ashley and did all this while his wife and kids were at home wondering where Daddy was. I don’t know if this guy just decided he could afford it so he was going to see what the Governor found so fascinating about Ashley or that he doesn’t care about his wife and family any more or what? Unless he is the dumbest ass wad on the planet he must have known that being out with the most famous hooker in the world in the middle of the media capital of the world at the swankiest hotel in New York was probably going to get you noticed and blasted on the front pages of the paper.

So, that little lie you told the wife about playing some golf or the asphalt conference in Hoboken is going to be pretty much shot when the wife opens up the paper or has one of her million friends call her and tell her. She’s going to look stupid and all you are going to have to show for it is a lighter wallet and a sex date who was famous for having unprotected sex.

Good times.

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The soft-spoken “Today” show host shocked the audience when she walked onstage at Caroline’s on Broadway the other night and performed a set. “She had a camera crew from the show with her,” said our spy. “She was filming a segment on facing your worst fears, and hers is public speaking, so she did stand-up.” Curry was a huge hit, with a style similar to Margaret Cho, our source said. “Ann imitated her mother, who is Japanese. It was hilarious. She got great laughs. She also talked about how people come up to her on the street, and leave telling each other how nice it was to meet Connie Chung. She’s really very funny and you wouldn’t expect it.” Curry spent weeks prior to her official debut rehearsing at the Comic Strip with Gilbert Gottfried, who coached her.

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Tony Snow

Former Fox News reporter Tony Snow has died. Snow, former spokesman to President George Bush, was diagnosed with cancer last year. He was only 53. Snow, was a broadcaster for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as President Bush’s press secretary in May 2006. Snow served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. He resigned as Bush’s chief spokesman six months later, in September 2007, citing a need to earn more money, he then joined CNN as a commentator.

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Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton

US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton speak at the ‘Women for Obama’ breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in New York City.

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Tired Prince Harry

Prince Harry With The People Of Lesotho

British royal HRH Prince Harry visited Lesotho in southern Africa, where he is working with the Household Cavalry to rebuild a school, with the support of his charity ‘Sentebale’. It’s nice to see that the Prince is just like his mother Princess Diana. He is involved in many charties and everyone should be more like him.

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His royal Highness Prince Charles has joined the new celebrity craze of ‘going green’ by powering his vast car collection on eco-friendly fuels.The Prince of Wales, who owns huge amounts of high-powered vehicles, has turned his 38-year-old Aston Martin into a hybrid, fuelling its engine with surplus English wine.The royal’s other vehicles, including Jaguars, an Audi and Range Rovers, are powered using bio-diesel made from cooking oil. In an effort to reduce his carbon footprint, the eco-conscious prince has managed to slash his carbon dioxide emissions by 18 per cent. Charles’ chief aide Sir Michael Peat says, “Charles only travelled two or three hundred miles a year in the Aston but he wanted it to be environmentally-friendly. It just happened that our bio-ethanol supplier makes the fuel from surplus English wine.”

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BILL Clinton gave the cold shoulder to Barack Obama’s biggest supporter, Oprah Winfrey, at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in London. A source at the dinner in Hyde Park, catered by Gordon Ramsay, told us, “There was a very cold reception between them.” When Winfrey went over to Mandela’s table, where Clinton was seated, “Oprah and Bill, who used to be very close, barely acknowledged one another,” the source said. But insiders in the Clinton and Winfrey camps claim the two spoke to each other at a private reception before the dinner. Other guests included Robert De Niro, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. And despite rumors that Naomi Campbell - who calls herself Mandela’s goddaughter - was denied presenter duties at tonight’s concert for Mandela’s 46664 AIDS charity, the cellphone-hurling catwalker was seen “hugging everyone” at the party.

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Philadelphia news anchor Larry Mendte has been fired by CBS amid the FBI probe into allegations he hacked into former co-anchor Alycia Lane’s computer and leaked embarrassing stories about her to Page Six. KYW-TV’s ax fell days after Lane, who was canned earlier this year, sued the station, claiming that keeping Mendte on the payroll amounted to sex discrimination. Mendte’s lawyer, Michael Schwartz, said the newsman is cooperating with the feds and expects to resume his career. Lane had no comment.

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A White House wedding reception for first daughter Jenna and new husband Henry Hager on Saturday night drew hundreds of friends and family, including President Bush, who took to the dance floor.

The United States Marine Band played a selection of standards and other “oldies-but-goodies,” one of the guests tells PEOPLE, for the Republican-heavy crowd of 600 including secretaries of state past and present, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.

President Bush danced, as did First Lady Laura Bush and their two daughters, Barbara and her newlywed sister Jenna, who is just back from her Hawaiian honeymoon, the guest says.

“The President looked pretty cool,” says the guests. “He was a good dancer. He was having a great time.”

After the reception, the groom’s parents, John and Maggie Hager, invited friends to join them at the Old Ebbitt Grill a few steps from the White House and a favorite hangout for politicos.

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Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s wife, Cindy, and Bill Clinton have cooked up a controversy in Family Circle.

Cindy and Bill along with Michelle Obama submitted cookie recipes for the magazine’s 5th Presidential Bake-Off, but it appears that the former president and Mrs. McCain swiped their recipes from well known sources, according to The Huffington Post.

The July issue features a recipe for “Cindy McCain’s Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookies.” The only problem? It appears to be directly copied from the Hershey’s website.

“They are an absolute must whenever the whole family gets together,” Cindy raves to Family Circle.

Although Bill attributes his oatmeal cookie recipe to a longtime Clinton family cook, the recipe is identical to a Betty Crocker recipe. The Huffington Post published both recipes and they appear the same.

This isn’t the first time Cindy has come under fire in the kitchen.

A McCain intern lifted Rachael Ray’s recipe for rosemary chicken (as well as other Food Network recipes) and posted them as “Cindy’s Recipes” on her husband’s presidential campaign site.

But Ray told Usmagazine.com in a statement: “These recipes are supposed to be accessible to everyone – interns, senators, students and families alike!

“I am flattered when anyone cooks my food.”

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The first annual George Burns Memorial Sugar Daddy Awards are being announced today with top 10 honors bestowed to New York’s former Governor Eliott Spitzer. He joins celebs and athletes such as Woody Allen, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, OJ Simpson, Hugh Hefner, Verne Troyer, Bill Maher, Tommy Lee, and Fred Durst, The winners have dated girls 20 years their age. The award is named after Hollywood legend George Burns who was famous for dating younger women till he died, claiming it kept him young. The awards are being sent to the celebs for a fathers day treat. Honors will be announced tonight on June 14, 2008 at 8pm at VIP club, located at 20 West 20th Street, in NewYork City. Younger women and older men will join the host for the announcement of these awards. Our nation’s history is reflected by this lifestyle… even US President John Tyler at age 54 married Julia Gardner at age of 24-years-old while in the White House.

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Tim Russert’s chair was empty on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, two days after his unexpected death.

But Russert was very much present on the full-hour tribute to this giant of political journalism who hosted NBC’s public-affairs program for more than 16 years.

“His voice has been stilled,” began Tom Brokaw, who led the conversation, “and our issue this sad Sunday morning is remembering and honoring our colleague and our friend ….”

Brokaw and a half-dozen others were seated in front of the “Meet the Press” set and its angular table, left vacant, where Russert had presided as recently as last week.

Brokaw noted that Russert had a large wooden sign in his office that read: “Thou Shalt Not Whine,” which Brokaw then supplemented with “Thou shalt not weep or cry this morning. This is a celebration.”

But a bit later he choked up, recalling Russert’s words of awe at how far a working-class kid from Buffalo like himself could rise: “What a country!” he would marvel.

Among those gathered were presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and political pundit Mary Matalin, with Maria Shriver - the former NBC News correspondent and currently California’s first lady - on a remote hookup.

All agreed that Russert was tough but fair in his interviewing, and that he, as a former political operative himself, loved politics and politicians.

What he didn’t like, said consultant-pundit James Carville, was an elected official or anybody else who wasn’t prepared to face him.

“The biggest insult to him was someone who came on and … didn’t take the show seriously,” Carville said.

It was a mistake they quickly regretted, because Russert took his stewardship of “Meet the Press” as a sacred trust.

“He would spend all week preparing,” said executive producer Betsy Fischer.

PBS’ Gwen Ifill, a former NBC correspondent, called the program “The Church of Tim.”

“I would actually get a pass from my own pastor to not be in church on Sunday if I was gonna be on `Meet the Press,’” she said with a smile.

MSNBC commentator Mike Barnicle added that Russert’s son, Luke, had told him the day before that the program was “Tim’s second son.”

However fitting Sunday’s tribute, it was a cruel irony that Russert had become the big story, particularly in the midst of a like-no-other presidential race that he was covering with his customary gusto. Guests he had planned to grill Sunday were senior officials from both campaigns.

All that changed with Russert’s death from a heart attack Friday. He was stricken while preparing for the broadcast at his network’s Washington bureau.

NBC aired a prime-time tribute Friday night, then devoted Saturday’s “Today” show to his life and career. His passing dominated rival cable-news networks and news-talk shows.

St. Albans School in Washington said a wake was scheduled there Tuesday evening.

Wednesday at 4 p.m. EDT, a private memorial service from Washington’s Kennedy Center will be televised by MSNBC and made available for airing by other outlets, the network said.

Russert was the face of political news for NBC as well as cable sibling MSNBC, serving as chief political analyst, a frequent correspondent and an election-night fixture, besides his off-camera duties as NBC News’ Washington bureau chief.

He had become almost synonymous with the top-rated “Meet the Press,” the TV institution he reinvented while becoming an institution himself. He had been its host since 1991 when the show, the longest-running on television, already was in its 45th year.

Several tape montages on Sunday’s tribute displayed Russert in action, pressing subjects from Ross Perot to Louis Farrakhan. Politicos including John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton were seen telling Russert they had no interest in running for the White House.

The abrupt void Russert leaves is unprecedented in network TV news. Even the tragic death of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings in 2005 followed his much-publicized battle with lung cancer and his four-month absence from the airwaves.

There was no immediate word on who would host “Meet the Press” next week, or in the weeks after that.

Drawing the program to a close, Brokaw observed “this would not have been just another Sunday for Tim: This is Father’s Day.” Any regular viewer of “Meet the Press” knew Russert was a devoted son (of “Big Russ,” about whom he wrote in a best-selling memoir) and father (to Luke).

But the final moments - eerily yet aptly - were of Russert signing off from his host’s chair, proud and cheery, with Father’s Day greetings to all. For an instant, viewers might have wondered: Who will Russert be grilling next week?

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The plans were set. Sunday morning, Father’s Day, Tim Russert would finish taping his NBC show Meet the Press and fly from Washington, D.C., to his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y.

His sister Kathleen Russert-Hughes, 52, would pick Tim up and the pair would spend the day with their dad, Timothy J. Russert, Sr., fondly known as Big Russ. “We were going to take him out to eat, drive around, whatever he wanted to do,” Kathleen tells PEOPLE. “We were going to spend the time with my dad.”

Timmy, as she calls him, always spent Father’s Day with Big Russ, to whom he paid tribute in his 2004 memoir Big Russ & Me. He would either fly to Buffalo or fly Big Russ down to Washington, D.C.

“His family was the most important thing in the world,” Kathleen says. “And he always had time for family.” Kathleen declined to elaborate on how Big Russ is doing after the sudden death of his son from a heart attack on June 13 except to say: “My dad is doing fine.”

“Timmy Loved Life, He Loved People”
Kathleen and Tim had recently struggled with the painful decision of helping Big Russ move from his small, neat Buffalo home with the NBC peacock on the front door into an assisted living facility on June 6. “It was very difficult,” says Kathleen. “It weighed heavy on Tim.”

Kathleen last spoke to Tim on Thursday. “He was checking on my dad,” she says, noting that Tim spoke to Big Russ at least every other morning, sometimes once a day. “Timmy loved life, he loved people,” she says. “I was very proud to be his sister, it’s such a tremendous loss.”

When asked what she will miss most about Tim, Kathleen begins to cry. “He was always there for me,” she says. “No matter how busy he was he would always take our calls or call us – family is number one.”

Luke, Russert’s son, had been spending time with Tim on a family vacation in Italy, and would still have been overseas on Father’s Day. Kathleen hasn’t yet spoken to Luke, a recent graduate of Boston College.

“Tim was a great dad, they were the closest a father could be to a son, a bond as strong as I’ve ever seen,” she says. “The love was unimaginable from the day he was born.”

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TV news star Tim Russert’s abrupt collapse at the NBC News studio in Washington, D.C., Friday came as a shock – even to his doctor.

In a statement detailing autopsy results, Dr. Michael Newman said his famous patient had passed a stress test on April 29 and had even worked out on a treadmill the morning of his death.

“Russert, age 58, was known to have asymptomatic coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis), which resulted in hardening of his coronary arteries,” Newman said. “The autopsy revealed an enlarged heart and significant atherosclerosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery with (a) fresh clot which caused a heart attack resulting in a fatal ventricular arrhythmia.”

Russert’s stress test on April 29 was “normal,” Newman said. “At a high level of exercise he had no symptoms,” Newman said, adding that his blood pressure and cholesterol were “well-controlled.”

The newsman collapsed while preparing for his show Meet the Press Friday afternoon. Resuscitation attempts began immediately and after the Washington, D.C., paramedics arrived on the scene a full code was initiated, he said. He was taken to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., where resuscitation efforts continued to no avail. Studies show that survival is only 4 to 5 percent with sudden cardiac arrest, even with immediate medical attention like Russert had, Newman noted.

His Final Morning
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a nationally renowned forensic pathologist, said Newman’s description of why Russert died makes sense. “The left anterior descending artery is well known among pathologists as the widow-maker,” he tells PEOPLE. “That tells you a lot, doesn’t it? It’s a classical situation that one encounters with great frequency in sudden unexpected death where you get a blood clot, or a thrombosis, or bleeding and if he had an enlarged heart, that adds to it.”

Clots can be caused by any number of things, he said. “Sometimes it’s associated with stress and exertion, physical and/or emotional,” he said. “Was he flying a long time? Was he tired? People shoveling snow in the wintertime can get them. People working excessively hard. Or people under great physical and/or emotional stress and that can include flying.”

Russert had flown in from Italy late Thursday night, where he’d been celebrating his son Luke’s recent graduation from Boston College with his son and his wife, Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth.

CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood and Gerald Seib, his co-author on the new book, Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, had seen Russert the morning he died. They were with Russert to tape an hour-long discussion of their new book for his CNBC cable show, The Tim Russert Program.

“We walked out of the taping around 10:15 and Gerry said, ‘You know, I don’t think Tim felt very well,’ ” Harwood tells PEOPLE. “I knew he was tired because he had flown in from Rome the night before, but I didn’t think much of it.”

Wecht said only one thing does not make sense to him – Newman’s claim that Russert passed the stress test on April 29 and that he could have passed one an hour before his death. “This hardening of the arteries is something that builds up over a period of years,” said Wecht. “So he wouldn’t be able to continue the stress test. He’d get short of breath.”

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WAS dethroned Philadelphia newsgal Alycia Lane the target of a diabolical plot by her former co-anchor to destroy her career?

That bizarre scenario seems possible, say pals of the dark-haired beauty. It’s popped up now that Emmy-winner Larry Mendte of CBS affiliate KYW-TV has been booted off the air because of an FBI probe. Last month, the feds seized Mendte’s computer to determine if he was the person who hacked into Lane’s private e-mail hundreds of times, then anonymously dished gossip to Page Six and Philadelphia media via an untraceable e-mail account, sources told us.

“Larry has been jealous of Alycia’s success since she brought the ratings from third place to first. She got all the credit and his ego couldn’t handle it,” a TV insider said. “Larry worked hard to take Alycia down . . . Now he’ll get what he deserves. Sure, this is a competitive industry filled with big egos, but [this] is downright creepy.”

In 2006, photos of Lane dancing and holding hands with Monaco’s Prince Albert at a party were leaked. A year later, an e-mail surfaced that was sent to Lane by the wife of NFL anchor Rich Eisen, ripping her for sending her husband photos of Lane in a bikini. Then came word of a romance between Lane and WCBS-TV anchor Chris Wragge.

CBS cited the gossip as one reason for firing Lane in January after she was charged with hitting a female NYPD cop in Chelsea. The case was later dismissed.

The FBI was called in after a KYW staffer noticed Lane’s e-mails on a computer that Mendte had access to. Mendte’s lawyer, Michael Schwartz, said he was “cooperating fully” and expected to resume his career.

Mendte, who could face jail if charged and convicted of unlawfully accessing e-mail, is wed to Dawn Stensland, a co-anchor at Philly’s Fox 29. A source said: “She’s an older version of Alycia, which I find a little freaky.”

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