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Scandal! Real Housewives of New Jersey Star's Hubby Caught Cheating!

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Joe always seemed so devoted to his wife. Then again, looks can be very deceiving!
Teresa Giudice of the Real Housewives of New Jersey can add this to her laundry list of problems: her husband, Joe Giudice, is rumored to have cheated with a co-worker!
Reports from Life & Style say that Joe has been spending a lot of time at a strip club in West Orange, NJ, where one of the dancers admitted that Joe enjoyed the "hanky-panky that went on in the club’s basement."
Yucky!
On top of boozing it up with the boobies at the strip club, Joe allegedly has developed a too close for comfort type relationship with a "young female staffer" at work. He was frequently seen inviting the girl back to his upstairs office, which has ben nicknamed the "boom boom room."
Charming. A gazillon dollars in debt and you want to screw it up for a little boom boom?! You know, if Tre leaves you, you have to deal with half of that debt all by yourself. You don't have her Bravo check to lean on anymore.
Think about that, Joe!

 

Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz Welcome First Child!

Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz (real name Kaseem Dean), have "joyfully welcomed their first child," reps for the couple confirmed to People.
Egypt Daoud Dean was born Thursday, October 14, in New York City.
This is the duo's first child, and Alicia's first as well. Little baby Egypt "is welcomed by Beatz's three other children," the couple's statement adds.

Congratulations to Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz!

The couple are not only new parents together – they are also newlyweds. The singer and the rapper-producer got married in a private ceremony in July.
On Thursday, the night of Egypt's birth, he seemed to be in a reflective mood, Tweeting, "I'm so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life."
Well said, Swizz. Here's wishing the new parents all the best.

 

T.I.: The Road to Redemption Has No GPS

T.I.'s road to redemption has no GPS - and must maneuver around a huge roadblock.
The embattled rapper faces another 11 months in prison after violating probation on drug charges stemming from a September arrest with wife Tiny.
Still, the star is determined to rise again. "I want drugs out of my life. If I can get the treatment and counseling I need ... I can beat this," T.I. said.

PEACE OUT: T.I. will be back behind bars soon enough.

In vain, he told the judge who sentenced him how "I need help. For me, my mother, my kids, I need mercy." What he needs is to stop sippin' dat sizzurp!
His relapse is sad in light of his heroic actions last week, when he raced to the scene and helped talk a suicidal man off a 22-story ledge in Atlanta.
But the law is the law.
His lawyer Dwight L. Thomas said T.I. is disappointed, "but at the same time, [the jail sentence] is far less than what the government asked for. This is not what he expected and this is not what he wants in his life at this point."
As for the drug use allegedly confirmed by diluted urine samples:
"There are lots of reasons for diluted urine. One can drink a lot of alcohol at night ... you could be very tired, very dehydrated and hydrate excessively. That could give an indication of diluted urine but not necessarily intentionally diluted urine."
Wait ... one can drink alcohol at night? Insane.
The rapper was paroled after serving just 366 days of a seven-year sentence for weapons charges. Having violated his early release terms, back he goes.
Hours after T.I.'s sentence was handed down, he dropped the new single "Get Back Up," which features vocals from fellow embattled star Chris Brown.

 

 

Flying can be 'hell' for tall passengers

(CNN) -- Standing 6 feet 11 inches tall, Quartknee Kwatek couldn't take it anymore when he was once forced to sit in an economy class middle seat on an international flight.
"Right after takeoff, I'm like, I can't deal with this, I'm totally boxed in," Kwatek recalled. "So I just went and sat in the bathroom."
The San Francisco, California, resident closed the door, put the seat cover down and relaxed with a book.
In those pre-9/11 days, he was able to lock himself in the lavatory for a long time before anyone became concerned, Kwatek said. When a flight attendant finally demanded to know what was going on, he explained his plight and she moved him to first class.
Most average-sized Americans already feel squeezed in like sardines when it comes to air travel in coach, but few can truly understand the discomfort of passengers who are much taller.
"Imagine being in a seat and you can't put your legs down at all," said Everard Strong, a magazine publisher in Concord, California, who is 6 feet 9 inches tall.
"Your toes will never touch the ground for the whole flight because your knees are resting against the seat in front of you. ... If the person in front of you decides to lean their chair back, then you just sort of enter a whole new level of hell."
As debate rages over how to accommodate overweight passengers on planes, some tall fliers who can barely wedge themselves into seat configurations designed for much smaller bodies are speaking out too.
"There are many, many ways for you to change your weight, but you cannot change your height," Strong said.
With his stature, the tray table doesn't click all the way down when he sits, while Kwatek's doesn't come down at all. The seats are also too low for Kwatek to rest his head, so he can rarely sleep on flights. Meanwhile, Strong worries about deep vein thrombosis, a potentially deadly condition that can develop when people sit still for a long time.
Precious legroom
You don't have to be as statuesque as Strong and Kwatek to feel cramped, but tall fliers don't have a whole lot of options in coach.
There are no Federal Aviation Administration regulations or guidelines on accommodating tall passengers, said FAA spokesman Les Dorr.
"It's entirely up to the airlines how they do that," he added.
The FAA does require passengers be able to sit belted and with both armrests down to comply with safety standards, so most carriers now have policies on travelers who are too obese to fit into one seat.
Many airlines require fliers who spill over into their neighbor's space to buy a second ticket, which may or may not be refunded later.
But tall passengers without weight issues generally have no trouble with the horizontal dimensions of a coach seat.
Their main concern is legroom, especially on long flights. If they can't afford first or business class, they try to snag precious emergency exit row seats, which allow more space for long limbs; or the bulkhead area, which can sometimes offer some relief too.
But it's not so easy anymore.
With more planes flying full and with some airlines saving those seats for their frequent fliers, the options are becoming more limited. Delta, for example, has "Preferred Seating," in which a number of "choice" economy seats are set aside for the airline's Medallion status members.
Other airlines, such as United with its "Economy Plus" program, now charge extra for extra room. A passenger choosing United's option on a 1½-hour flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas, Nevada, for example, would pay $24 extra each way for up to 5 extra inches of legroom.
"Such a small price to bring such happiness to your legs," United says on its website.
Uncomfortable experience
Critics say airlines should do more to accommodate passengers of all sizes, including those who are tall, and stop taking a one-size-fits-all approach to fliers.
"It doesn't take rocket science to see there are people who are not going to fit within those parameters," said Brandon Macsata, executive director of the Association for Airline Passenger Rights.
"The passengers who do contact us who are tall, very tall, all express how they had a terrible flying experience because they simply were uncomfortable."
Macsata said one solution would be for airlines to retrofit one or two rows in the coach cabin with seats that are larger and have more legroom, which would be set aside for passengers who have trouble squeezing into the traditional configuration.
Kwatek -- the 6-foot-11-inch webmaster for The Height Site -- supports such a move.
But 6-foot-9-inch-tall Strong doesn't, saying that he's not demanding special rights. He'd rather see airlines give tall fliers first dibs on already-existing roomier seats and acknowledge that "some guy who is 5-foot-2 does not necessarily need to be in the bulkhead just because he wants to be."
For now, Kwatek and Strong try to at least book aisle seats, and both arrive at the airport hours before their flights, hoping that once gate agents see their impressive statures in person, they will be more likely to find them better seats. The strategy works most of the time, Strong said.
Once in the air, both men say they ask passengers in front of them who try to recline their seats to be considerate and not do it. When someone still insists, Strong just pushes back, he said.
"People are getting taller. At some point, there are going to be enough people complaining that something is going to have to be done," Strong said.

If you are tall, how do you deal with flying in economy class? What options do you think airlines should offer? Let us know in the comment section below.