Sanford Mistress Dodges Press

Jessica Alba, Johnny Depp, survey shows

(NEWSER) - Dating site AshleyMadison.com, where you can go in search of an extramarital affair, recently surveyed its members to find out which celebrities they'd most like to cheat with. Fox News reports on the findings from 30,000 US members. The women:

1. Jessica Alba: Fifteen percent of the males surveyed chose the pregnant actress as their top choice.
2. Megan Fox: 14.4%
3. Angelina Jolie: 10.5%
4. Scarlett Johansson: Fox News notes that she was "the only blonde to make the cut," receiving 10.3% of the vote.
5. Halle Berry: 7.9%

And she'll sign the petition to get him fired

(NEWSER) - Protesters who showed up at the home of a prominent GOP Wisconsin state senator got a little scoop from his wife: Not only was Randy Hopper not home, she said, he also doesn't live there anymore, and in fact doesn't live in his district—owing to the fact that he's shacked up in Madison with his 25-year-old mistress. Hopper was a driving force behind the state’s new labor laws, the Raw Story reports, and his wife says she'll be happy to sign the recall petition against him. The family maid already has. More»

He 'felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness' he tells Christian media

(NEWSER) - Newt Gingrich cheated on his first two wives , maybe because he loves America so much. That’s what the ex-speaker told the Christian Broadcast Network last night, in a repentant interview seemingly designed to address one of the bigger blotches on his presidential resume, Politico reports. “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” Gingrich said. More»

It's the place they first met—how romantic!

(NEWSER) - Mark Sanford "hiked the Appalachian Trail" again last week, but this time he did so a bit more publicly: An Argentine celebrity magazine has published an eight-page spread on the former South Carolina governor that catches him frolicking with “soul mate” Maria Belen Chapur at a Uruguay resort just one week after leaving office, the AP reports. Sanford and Chapur vacationed at Punta del Este, the same glitzy spot where they first met in 2001, for six days beginning Jan. 17. More»

Fallen conservative rock star considers the next chapter

(NEWSER) - Mark Sanford leaves the South Carolina governor's mansion next week a 50-year-old divorcee whose adultery ground his race toward political rock stardom to a screeching, sobbing halt. But though he's free to head out on the Appalachian trail for real this time, the AP notes in an exit interview that Sanford also leaves a valuable legacy: He successfully weathered calls for his resignation, chosen successor Nikki Haley will take the governor's oath, and the Tea Party has firmly latched onto his preachings of fiscal responsibility. His mid-life crisis, say friends, is mercifully over. So what's next? More»