Heidi and Cougar Zank, the guy she allegedly is cheating with

A few days ago, I kicked around the idea of covering a story about Heidi and Spencer suspecting each other of cheating and hiring private investigators to check up on their hunches. Ultimately I skipped that one as there are just too many reports that everything coming out of Heidi and Spencer’s camp, including this “legal separation” and supposed breakup, is staged in order to reel in more cash. Heidi has a new reality series coming up in which she lives in a beach house with another female friend, and she has to be single in order for the show to have some kind of plot. Insiders say that Heidi will reconcile with Spencer as part of the finale and that it’s all pre-planned.

Earlier this week, Radar reported that Heidi was maybe cheating on Spencer with one of their security guards, a guy with the porn star name Cougar Zank. There were vague allegations that Heidi thought Spencer was cheating on her too. Then Radar ran a laughable follow-up that Spencer had fired all his security staff because he was upset that someone was phoning in tips to the paparazzi as to their whereabouts. As if Heidi and Spencer can go two minutes without clamoring for someone to take their picture.

The NY Post is reporting that the adultery story is a total hoax, and that Speidi was trying to sell it to the tabloids for a whopping six figures, which of course none of them were interested in:

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag won’t let anything get in the way of their quest for fame — not even reality. They’ve been pushing their split by trying to sell a made-up story that Heidi may be cheating with Spencer’s close pal, Marine-turned-bodyguard Cougar Zank. A source told us, “Heidi and Spencer are try ing to play out a fake reality show in the press and get paid along the way. They’ve been approaching magazines and Web sites to buy the fake story of Zank having an affair with Heidi. They’ve been asking for $100,000. But no one is interested as they don’t sell magazines.” A rep for Pratt and Montag didn’t get back to us.

[From The NY Post]

I want to know if Radar paid for that story or if they got a freebie to drum up interest in those two. Heidi and Spencer could definitely use the money. We reported last week on a story from In Touch that claimed they’d already squandered the millions they made on The Hills through huge expenditures including a half million on cars, a half million on “healing/protection” crystals, and $400,000 on security staff. If they wanted to maximize profit they should have gone with the baby plotline instead of the breakup. It’s best that these two never reproduce though.