Former child star Maureen McCormick, who in the 1970’s played the oldest daughter Marcia Brady on the long-running family sitcom The Brady Bunch, has confessed to becoming a cocaine addict and trading sex for drugs. 

In her new tell-all memoir called “Here’s the Story,” McCormick, now 52, reveals how her life became the polar opposite of her character.  “I had played Marcia Brady for five years,” McCormick says in her book.  “But I wasn’t her in any way, shape or form.  She was perfect.  I was anything but that.” 

Over the years, McCormick battled drug addiction and bulimia, was treated in a psych ward, and went in and out of rehab.  Shockingly, McCormick also revealed she traded sex for drugs with a Hollywood cocaine dealer who later went to jail, and once allowed an older man she met at the Playboy Mansion to videotape her naked in exchange for drugs.

After several attempts at drug rehab, McCormick now lives a Brady-like life in a suburb of Los Angeles with her husband and their 19-year-old daughter.  McCormick says she has finally made peace with her past as a Brady.  “It took most of my life, countless mistakes, and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance,” she writes in her book.

More at Telegraph UK

There must be something in the water in Florida.  In 2006, Republican U.S. Representative Mark Foley stepped down when it was discovered that he sent sexual text messages to male teenage pages who worked for him on Capitol Hill. 

Replacing Foley was Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Mahoney.  On Tuesday it was revealed that the married congressman was having an affair with a former aide and paid her $121,000 to keep quiet and avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit.  But apparently one mistress was not enough, as Mahoney was having an affair with a second woman around the same time, according to a person close to his campaign. 

Mahoney acknowledged he had caused “embarrassment and heartache” to his family but denied doing anything illegal.  “No marriage is perfect,” Mahoney said, “but our private life is our private life.”

Mahoney, 52, won his seat in 2006 by promising to return morals and family values to Washington after the resignation of Foley.  Let’s see: infidelity, a cover-up, and infidelity again.  Yes, these are the family values we wish to espouse to our children.  Just another example of the moral failure and corruption in Congress.

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Britney Spears’ ex-boyfriend, paparazzi photographer Adnan Ghalib, has told British magazine Heat that he has a sex tape of himself with Spears.  Of course, the Spears camp is denying it.

"There is such a tape," Ghalib said.  "But I won’t discuss prices for hypothetical inquiries.  Unless there is a locked-in deal, I will go no further.  I am not interested in selling out any other details about Britney."  I guess even scumbags have standards.  He’ll sell out her naked body, but no naked details.

The two-hour X-rated video allegedly features Britney fully nude, wearing only a pink wig.  The tape supposedly features 20 minutes of full intercourse between Britney and Adnan after lengthy foreplay.  A source said, "The video starts with Britney undressing.  At one point in the tape, Adnan asks Britney to remove the pink wig but she refuses, saying, ‘Take what off? There’s nothing left to take off.’ "

The video was shot in Mexico, where Ghalib and Spears vacationed together in January, right before Britney’s famous meltdown.

Once again, reality follows fiction.  David Duchovny, who plays a sex addict on Showtime’s "Californication," has entered a rehab clinic for sex addiction. 

The lawyer for the 48-year-old actor released a statement saying that Duchovny entered rehab voluntarily.  He also issued the standard plea for some privacy, saying "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

Showtime must be licking its chops at all this publicity.  What better to promote a show about sex addiction than to have its star become a sex addict?  "All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," Showtime said in a statement. 

The second season of "Californication" begins September 28.  If you haven’t seen Californication yet, you should definitely check it out.  It has terrific writing and acting, well-developed characters, a sexy story line, and lots of naked women. 

Duchovny is famous for his role as Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in two films.  He married hottie actress Tea Leoni in 1997, and the couple has two children.

There is no wrath like a woman scorned.  An Australia woman is airing her husband’s dirty laundry to the world by auctioning on eBay his lover’s panties and an empty condom packet.  The auction listing includes a photo of lacy black panties "size humongous" and an empty condom wrapper "size small" she found in her bed after her husband allegedly had extramarital sex with a woman named Kylie.

Originally, the jilted wife "Anna" tried to sell the actual panties on eBay, describing them as "so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl, or even better, something for Halloween perhaps."  But eBay closed the original auction because of its policy against selling secondhand underwear.  So now the woman is just selling a photo of the panties.  Apparently someone is stupid enough to pay $33 for a photo of underwear.

Anna promises this listing will not be the last, saying that her husband’s Harley Hog motorcycle is the next item to be auctioned.

Read more at CourierMail

So what’s the deal with beauty queens lately?  They can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

In 2006, Miss USA Tara Conner went to rehab because of cocaine and alcohol addiction.  Then Miss Washington was embarrassed by raunchy photos.  Now, semi-topless photos of Venezuelan hottie Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza have appeared on the Web.

But fortunately the photos are only sensual and not explicit.  Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart said the photos are artistic in nature and actually prove her to be one of the most beautiful women in the world.  "We embrace and respect her success as a model and the artistic beauty captured in these photographs," Shugart said.

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Perhaps it’s time to change the church window…

Mattel’s new "Black Canary Barbie" is is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name.  The doll comes dressed in kinky fishnets, a motorcycle jacket, black gloves and high boots.

But parents think her S&M look is "filth."  The Christian Voice religious group said, "Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far. A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible — it’s filth."

Remember, this is the same doll that if it were a real woman, she would be over 7 feet tall and have the measurements 39-18-33.  So it’s probably appropriate that Mattel finally dresses her like the tart that she is.

Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto apologized for embarrassing photos of her made public by TMZ.  In a press conference, Umemoto claims the pictures were stolen and police have been contacted, though Seattle police have no knowledge of this incident. 

Umemoto says the pictures were taken in a private setting before she was Miss Washington.  The photos show her flipping off the camera while wearing a crown, playing a drinking game, and making suggestive hand signs.  Umemoto was second runner-up in the Miss America Pageant.

In a lengthy, philosophical statement, Miss Washington Scholarship Organization’s field director Mike Miller says Umemoto will not be disciplined for the photos.  Umemoto will keep her crown for the rest of her term, which ends Saturday night when she crowns her successor.

A British woman is facing six years in a Dubai jail after police arrested her for having sex on a beach.  Michelle Palmer, 30, a publishing firm manager, says she is "panicking" after being arrested and charged with having sex outside marriage, indecent public behavior, public drunkenness and assaulting a police officer.  Palmer faces a sentence of between three months and six years in jail in the state, one of seven that makes up the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.  Her male partner faces a similar sentence.

"Because this is known everywhere they’re going to make an example of us and we’re going to get a higher sentence," Palmer said.  "We are in so much trouble and my family and everybody are affected.  Until someone is in this situation they could never know what it’s like.  It’s bad — it’s so, so bad.  I’m panicking. I can’t say anything else."

With its warm weather, beautiful beaches, luxury hotels and incredible modern architecture, Dubai has become a popular tourist destination.  In 2006, more than a million British visited the UAE, and more than 100,000 British nationals live there. 

But for all its hospitality, UAE has a dark side that reflects the broader clash between civilizations.  In Dubai, many freedoms that Westerners take for granted are illegal and harshly punished: public displays of affection, sex outside marriage, cohabitation, adultery and homosexuality.  Recently British tourist Keith Brown was sentenced to four years in prison after Dubai customs officers found a 0.003g trace of marijuana stuck to the bottom of his shoe.  Yes, simply walking through the Dubai airport can land you in prison.  Tourists beware!

More at the UK Times