Over the past two years or so, Matthew Fox went kind of crazy. Not Amanda Bynes crazy, more like… Mini-Mel Gibson crazy. Fox was accused of being a violent, drunken mess in Ohio last year, and a woman claimed that he punched her in the boob, stomach and biscuit. And then just a few months ago, Fox was arrested for a DUI in his home state of Oregon. Well, Fox has done his first major interview since all of the craziness, in the November issue of Men’s Fitness. Fox is promoting Alex Cross, the reboot of the James Patterson franchise with Tyler Perry as Alex Cross and Fox playing the villain. In this interview, Matthew directly addresses the rumors, the DUI arrest, and he sort of discusses the Dominic Monaghan tweet, where Dominic said Fox “beats women regularly”.

Fox doesn’t beat women: “It’s been a long, trying year of sitting on my hands on a lot of negative sh-t said about me, when they’re the furthest things from who I am. That I beat a woman in Cleveland when in fact I was assaulted by a man and did nothing but retaliate against him? In the 46 years I’ve been breathing on this planet, I have never hit a woman before. Never have, never will. But I think there’s still gonna be a lot of people out there who’ll think it’s true no matter what the f—k I say. Out of all the negative sh-t, the only thing that’s true is that I was arrested for a DUI.”

On his DUI: “It was a stupid f—kin’ decision… I got the lowest level of alcohol informational treatment the state of Oregon will allow for first-time offenders, I did my four Sundays of group informational treatment, and who know what? I learned a f—kload from that… I will bet you any amount of money that I will never get behind the wheel of a car after even one drink.”

On Dominic Monaghan saying he beats women: “The rest of it, the Cleveland situation, the [Dominick] Monaghan situation – was a pile of bullsh-t, and I’m not gonna waste too much breath on that.”

His “unbearable” life: “There is so much you don’t have control over. I’m talking all the way from the woman in Cleveland claiming I hit her to the media picking it up and making a story out of it. From waiting in a trailer for four hours when you were ready for the shot three hours before all the way to the woman who is constantly in your face fixing makeup and wardrobe. And that, at times, is almost unbearable for me. Unbearable!”

[From Men’s Fitness, November 2012 print edition]

I believed the story about Matthew being a drunken mess and punching a woman who got in his way. I believed her even if he wasn’t charged with the assault, and I tend to assume that he might have been black-out drunk when he committed the assault, so maybe that’s his “out”. He doesn’t beat women when he’s not sh-tfaced. And if I’m given a choice… I will take Dominic Monaghan’s word over Fox, any day of the week. Is that wrong?

As for the DUI stuff… he makes it sound like a dumb mistake, and I do appreciate that he says he will never get behind the wheel, even if he’s only had one drink. The problem is that I still think the dude has major issues, and only some of them are related to his drinking.

Photos courtesy of Men’s Fitness, WENN.

Last year, I discovered something new: Matthew Fox is a d-bag. I had been a Lost fan, and while I found Fox/Jack Shepherd to be severely annoying, I never really considered the possibility that he was a massive tool in real life. SURPRISE! He is. Last year, he got wasted and tried to board a party bus in Cleveland – and when the bus driver tried to stop him, Fox punched the driver in her stomach, boobs and vadge. I’m still not sure what’s happening with that case legally, although I think Fox filed a counter-suit against the woman he assaulted. I guess she walked into his drunken fist. Repeatedly. Anyway, here’s more evidence that Matthew is a d-bag with a drinking problem: he just got a DUI.

“Lost” star Matthew Fox was busted for DUI Friday in Oregon … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us, Matthew was arrested at 3:23AM on suspicion of driving under the influence. We’re told there was a passenger in the car.

Matthew was taken into custody and released later that day.

Details surrounding the arrest are unclear — but sources tell us, it was alcohol-related. We’re told Matthew was en route to a fast food restaurant for some late night eats at the time of his arrest.

Matthew lives in Bend, Oregon with his family. Calls to Matthew’s reps were not returned.

[From TMZ]

Some people claim that I treat men with substance abuse issues differently than women. Personally, I don’t see it. I’m disgusted that men AND women are still drinking and driving. Not to mention drinking-and-assaulting. What’s the difference between Matthew Fox and Lindsay Lohan, or Amanda Bynes? Matthew is WAY too old to pulling this crap. If anything, I have less built-in sympathy for him because of his age (45) and his previous issues (punching a bus driver in the vagina).

Anyway… I wouldn’t be surprised if Fox’s reaction to this incident would be to finally go into rehab and deal with some of his issues. Or maybe he’ll take the Lohan-Bynes route and just keep on partying, driving and assaulting.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

“I’m about to show that vagina the back of my hand!” – Matthew Fox

Back in August, Matthew Fox was completely wasted in Cleveland, Ohio. Allegedly. While hammered out of his skull, Matthew Fox decided it would be funny or interesting or a cool experience to have if he boarded a private party bus. Allegedly. When he tried to enter the party bus, the bus driver, a woman named Heather Bormann, tried to stop him, as the bus was private and rented out for a specific group of customers. Allegedly. That’s when things got violent. Allegedly. Bormann claims that as she attempting to get Matthew Fox off of her bus, he began punching her in the stomach, legs, boobs and vagina. She claimed that she struck back, but only in self-defense. She told her story to the cops and to the Cleveland prosecutor, and Matthew was not only arrested, but he was formally charged with assault on Bormann.

Funny story – Matthew is now suing his alleged victim. Because she told the world that he punched her in the vagina! SHE’S SO MEAN.

is striking back — not in the vagina, in court — claiming the woman who accused him of punching her in her private parts is a blatant liar.

Fox is countersuing Heather Bormann, who filed her own lawsuit in September, claiming a drunken Fox tried to board a party bus she was driving in Cleveland, Ohio. Bormann alleged Fox attacked her after she ordered him to stay off the bus. That’s when Bormann claims Fox struck her in the breast, arm, leg and, of course, the vagina.

Fox alleges in his countersuit … she’s just lying, and in reality he didn’t provoke her but she’s the one who physically attacked him.

Fox claims he’s lost work because TMZ and other media outlets have reported her lawsuit, and she has subjected him to “public hatred, contempt, ridicule and shame.”

Fox is suing for unspecified damages.

[From TMZ]

I’m sure I’ll get yelled at for making this comparison, but what would your reaction be if Chris Brown sued Rihanna for physically defending herself against his attack? That’s what this is. Granted, Matthew hasn’t been technically found guilty of anything, but Bormann’s story convinced the cops and the district attorney’s office, and just my opinion, but Matthew Fox has been a massive d-bag for YEARS. So I have no problem believing he’s just a violent, drunken douche who is just trying to save face here. Stupid vagina-punching a–hole.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

On Saturday, Matthew Fox got completely and utterly wasted in Cleveland, Ohio. Once he was fully blitzed, he tried to board a private “party bus” with a female bus driver named Heather Bormann. Heather tried to stop Matthew from boarding the bus, considering it was only for paying guests. Matthew then began punching Heather in the boobs, stomach and biscuits. Heather punched him back in self-defense, landing a giant wallop to his face. Fox was handcuffed, detained and released. Since then, prosecutors have heard Heather’s story and they’ve investigated her side of the story, and they decided to go ahead and charge Matthew Fox with assault.

A party-bus driver filed assault charges against Matthew Fox Tuesday afternoon, two days after the “Lost” actor allegedly punched her repeatedly in an incident outside a Cleveland, Ohio, nightclub.

“He got me pretty good,” Heather Bormann, 29, told CNN as she described an early Sunday morning fight with Fox.

Representatives for Fox, who is in Cleveland to film a movie, have not responded to repeated CNN calls for comment on the allegations.

Police who investigated the incident Sunday did not arrest Fox and instead let him take a taxi back to his hotel, according to a police report.

The Cleveland prosecutor’s office said it was reviewing Bormann’s complaint against Fox.

The prosecutor’s office did photograph bruises on Bormann’s legs and arms that she said she suffered from Fox’s blows.

“He was swinging at my legs and, ultimately, my chest and my crotch area,” Bormann said in an interview Tuesday.

She suffered a wrist injury when she punched him back, Bormann said.

The fight started when Fox tried to board her bus, which had been rented for a bachelor party that he was not part of, Bormann said.

Fox had one leg in the bus and one leg on the ground when she warned him to step off, which he refused, she said. That’s when he started throwing punches at her, she said.

“He reeked of liquor,” Bormann said. “You could just smell it coming off of him. He had glassy eyes and a blank stare the whole time.”

[From CNN]

“He had glassy eyes and a blank stare the whole time.” It sounds like Matthew was black-out drunk, right? I wonder if he even remembers punching this poor woman in the vadge. Not that I consider being blackout drunk a mitigating circumstance. Matthew Fox is 45 years old! He should know how to hold his liquor by now, because the thought of a 45-year-old drunk blacking out and then assaulting a woman is just sad and pathetic.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

You know how I said that Matthew Fox was an egotistical jagoff? Guess what? He punches women in the biscuits too. TMZ initially reported that Matthew Fox drunkenly assaulted a woman in Cleveland two nights ago when he punched her in her breast and her vadge. Then TMZ changed the story to “breast and stomach area” because I guess that sounds better…? The woman says he definitely punched her in the biscuits though.

Matthew Fox was detained by cops in Cleveland, Ohio Saturday night after allegedly assaulting a woman outside of a bar … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources at the scene tell us … the “Lost” star allegedly tried to enter a party bus — even though he wasn’t a guest on the vehicle.

We’re told the woman who was driving the bus tried to block Fox from getting on board — at which point, he allegedly punched her in the breast and the “stomach area.”

Fox was handcuffed by an off-duty officer — and was later detained by police. Fox was released without being formally arrested. An assault report was taken and the matter remains under investigation.

We have not been able to reach Fox for comment.

UPDATE: According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, the woman PUNCHED BACK — and struck Fox “in the mouth … causing a cut on his lip.” The woman told police she may have broken her hand during the altercation. Fox was later released to a friend … who put the actor into a taxi and accompanied him back to his hotel.

[From TMZ]

TMZ then got an exclusive with the woman with the punched boob, who told them that she only punched back in self-defense. I believe her too.

The woman who punched Matthew Fox in the face this weekend tells TMZ … she HAD to let her fists fly because the actor struck first and she needed to defend herself. TMZ spoke with Heather Bormann … who tells us she was driving a party bus for a private party Saturday night in Cleveland — when Fox boarded the vehicle.

Bormann claims she told Fox he wasn’t welcome on the bus — but he was too drunk to understand. Bormann says, “He just kept staring at me with his mouth wide open and not saying anything. I told him, ‘You have to leave buddy. You are trespassing on my bus.’”

That’s when Fox “leaned in and started punching my crotch and breast.”

Bormann says, “I took one hand to his jaw and he was spitting blood. He stumbled backwards.”

“This was my self-defense,” Bormann says … adding, “This was the only way I could protect myself…..from a man beating up on a woman.”

Bormann says she’s meeting with prosecutors today — and may press charges.

[From TMZ]

I can’t even imagine being punched in the biscuits. Why would a man (or anyone?) do that? “This woman is pissing me off, let me sock her in the vadge!” For why? Notice I’m not talking about being punched in the boob – I’ve been punched in the boob before, accidentally. They’re just so big! I accidentally hit myself in the boob all the time.

Anyway, this is your woman-beater post of the day. I was thinking about writing something on Chris Brown, but really, he’s not worth my time. And I will seriously believe any bad story about Matthew Fox. He seems like a narcissistic bastard, a drunk, a womanizer and a loser.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Matthew Fox sat down with the Mail on Sunday for an extensive interview. Fox is in London to do a play – he’s made his “West End debut” in Neil LaBute’s A Forest, Dark and Deep. He’s doing the play with Olivia Williams, an actress I actually like a great deal. Anyway, part of the interview took place in Matthew’s home turf, his remote, adopted hometown of Bend, Oregon, and part of it took place in London. Two continents, two different sitdowns, and both times, Matthew Fox comes across as an egotistical jackass. He compares himself to Matt Damon, complaining that Damon gets all of the good parts that he (Fox) is up for, and Fox describes his current career thusly: “Some Hollywood studios see me becoming a leading man on the big budget vehicles, playing the kind of roles that Steve McQueen used to excel at.” For real? Dude, you were on Lost. And Jack was nobody’s favorite character. You are not Steve McQueen. You are not even a budget version of that. And you are definitely not at Matt Damon’s level. The full Mail piece is here, and here are the highlights:

Fox bitching about 3D and M. Night Shyamalan: ‘Look at 3D,’ he says. ‘That’s a major setback to good storytelling. I took my little boy to see The Last Airbender. It was an awful film. The director M Night Shyalaman [sic] hasn’t directed a decent movie since The Sixth Sense.’

He and Matt Damon are at the same level: ‘I’m disillusioned with the drift towards gratuitous entertainment, which so much of Hollywood is now. Because of the state of the economy people seem to want pure escapism. But if the roles I fight to get all go to Matt Damon, then I won’t work. I turn a lot of stuff down – big, big movies, the kind I wouldn’t want to go to the cinema to see.’

On romantic comedies sucking: ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t make a movie with the blonde from ER who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy. Unless they reinvent the wheel in terms of romantic comedies – in other words, they start making them funny and romantic again – I’m not going to be starring in any of those movies.’ [Editor’s note: who is he talking about? Is he thinking about Katherine Heigl on Grey’s Anatomy?]

On not needing any of this: ‘After Lost, I never need to take a job for the money again. I could just stay in Bend and fly my plane. A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It’s just not manly. I don’t do anything in life because I love doing it. It’s because I want to be good at it. It doesn’t make for an easy life.’

On London versus Bend, Oregon: ‘Central London has taken a bit of getting used to. I haven’t lived in an intensely urban environment like this for a long time, so it took a few days to get used to the 24/7 hum of people and traffic. It’s not easy for me to live in a busy city for too long as after a few days I begin to crave those wide open spaces. Bend is a town of 80,000 people. But I can drive out of town for a few minutes and I’m in the middle of nowhere, not a soul to be found for miles. There’s something special for me about the feeling of being completely alone in a space like that with those great big horizons. I grew up with that solitude and I love the fact that I’m still able to find it.’

On his childhood: ‘We didn’t have neighbours when I was young. The nearest shops were 80 miles away. I had to travel 45 miles to school. In the summer I’d go months without speaking to anyone outside my immediate family. In that part of the world, manhood is defined by how much punishment you can take in terms of alcohol consumption, fighting, chasing girls, general wild living. For me and my two brothers, it was a matter of daring each other to do more and more crazy stuff. We had no TV or anything like that so we made our own entertainment. We were a family of pyromaniacs. There was always dynamite and gunpowder around the farm and I loved setting things on fire or blowing them up. But there was a dark side to all this recklessness. By the time I was 16, ten of my close friends had died. Some were suicides. Others got into brawls and had the life beaten out of them. Others went out and got roaring drunk, drove home and fell asleep at the wheel. It’s what happens in places like Wyoming. It’s the most beautiful country imaginable; at the same time it lends itself to hopelessness. For some people the place becomes a trap. I could easily have gone that way myself. But my dad stepped in. He’d caught me growing dope in one of his farm buildings. Up to that point there was a part of him that was amused by the hell-raising his kids got up to. But it got to a point where he felt he had to nudge me in the right direction. He sent me to boarding school and that saved my life.’

Once again, he doesn’t need any of this: ‘The fact is that I’m far more comfortable sitting on a horse and herding cattle than walking up a red carpet. People think I’m being disingenuous when I say I don’t like the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. But truthfully, I can’t stand it. There are very few situations I’d less like to be in than a Hollywood premiere or an awards ceremony. They’re not what my life is about.’

Seriously, HE DOESN’T NEED THIS: ‘My passions lie elsewhere. There’s flying my plane, cruising in my car, and lots of other things that keep me occupied. If I’m going to party I prefer to do it outdoors. I love climbing on top of my custom-built Indian Bobber motorcycle and zooming off to the edge of the horizon. I love to fish. Few things beat the feeling of standing chest-deep in very cold, clear mountain water and waiting for the brown trout to take the dry fly. The beauty of catching a trout lies in how long you’ve had to work and how much of a challenge that trout has been; how many patterns you’ve had to put over him without spooking him, then getting him to take the fly and seeing the fish break water and perform somersaults as he tries to shake you off. I also love to hunt. I’m a pretty good shot with a rifle or a bow. I go bird-hunting. I shoot pheasants and then I eat them. A fine way to pass the day.’

He‘s Steve McQueen: ‘I don’t really see any difference between my job and my pastimes. They’re things I’m interested in. I know some Hollywood studios see me becoming a leading man on the big budget vehicles, playing the kind of roles that Steve McQueen used to excel at. But I’m not in any hurry. I’d be just as happy sitting back and watching the seasons change. There’s a possibility I’ll give up acting and do something altogether different. Become an astronomer, maybe. I can think of worse ways to spend the rest of my days.’

[From The Mail]

Seriously, we get it. You get offered tons of movies, but the only scripts you really like go to Matt Damon, but still you feel the pressure from all of these Hollywood studios to be Steve McQueen, but you would rather be doing anything else. You would be rather be hunting, or flying a plane, or fishing, or bitching about other people in your industry. Look, I don’t really have a problem with an actor who prefers to be outside of Hollywood, and doesn’t want to be part of the machine. I don’t have a problem with an actor turning down work, either, or not doing films that he thinks will suck. That’s fine. But in this particular case, it just feels like Matthew is an unprofessional, egotistical ass with a huge chip on his shoulder.

Oh, and one of the last times we even cared enough to cover Matthew Fox was about a year ago when the story broke that he was cheating on his wife with some stripper. The stripper he banged gave an interview to the tabloids about how he didn’t even want to use protection. Because he’s a genius.

Photos courtesy of WENN & The Mail.

Can you believe that I actually forgot that Matthew Fox was alleged to be a douchey cheater? The rumors about Matthew boning some stripper in Oregon came out before the Sandra Bullock-Jesse James marriage explosion, so maybe I was just paying attention to something else? Or I just was concentrating so hard on the plotlines of Lost? Could be. In any case, there were rumors about the alleged affair, and the stripper (named Stefani Talbott) gave an in-depth interview to In Touch Weekly, telling all about the affair. I kind of bought her story – not every single detail, but I believed Matthew and Stefani probably screwed around. Matthew never really got around to denying the story himself (his rep did though) as the story broke, which also made me think that there was some truth to it. However, Matthew denies the “story” in a new Playboy interview, but he still seems kind of weird about it:

Did Matthew Fox cheat on his wife Margherita with a stripper?

“The story is not true, and I’m not going to comment [further] on it,” the Lost star says in a new interview for Playboy’s May issue.

Fox, 43, says he and his wife bring out the best in each other. “Margherita and I have been best friends and best lovers,” he says. “She’s the love of my life.”

What makes their relationship work?

“We have managed to both be intensely independent and maintain that strength in our relationship,” he says. “I am a man, and I am an appreciator of women. At the same time, Margherita is the sh-t. I can honestly say we’re good together.”

And their union has stood the test of time. Says Fox: “We’ve been together for 23 years, so let’s leave it at that.”

Once Lost wraps for good, Fox and his family – including daughter Kyle and son Byron – plan to relocate to somewhere a little less tropical than Hawaii, where the hit ABC show films. “I miss having four seasons,” Fox, who plans to move to Oregon, says. “My brothers are two of my closest friends in the world. I want to spend time with them and my mother while I can. I want our two kids to be close to their first cousins.”

Of course the transition to the mainland won’t be easy.

“It will be hard for the kids to leave their friends in Hawaii,” he says. “They love it here, but with all respect to the good people of Hawaii who’ve been so good to us, I can’t wait to leave.”

[From People]

Does anyone else think that when Matthew says “We have managed to both be intensely independent and maintain that strength in our relationship. I am a man, and I am an appreciator of women. At the same time, Margherita is the sh-t. I can honestly say we’re good together,” he actually means “My wife lets me screw around. Mind your business.” I want to mind my bidness, honestly, but I find Matthew’s denial strange. Whatever.

In addition to those revelations, Matthew also told Playboy about how he lost his virginity, and about the time he threw his brother under the proverbial bus by telling his father that it was his brother’s marijuana garden out in the backyard.

Lost star Matthew Fox landed his brother in big trouble in his teens – by lying about a stash of marijuana. The actor was a hellraiser in his youth, but managed to keep the extent of his wild ways from his parents.

However, he feared he’d lost his lucky streak when his father found his “weed crop” hidden away on the family farm in Wyoming.

Fox tells Playboy magazine, “I blamed it on my brother Francis, who’s five years older than I am. He was in Mexico City on an exchange program for about six months. I thought, since Francis was so far away, the old man wouldn’t double back on him. My father wasn’t happy about it, but I think he was probably smiling through his anger… We smoked a lot of pot and were goofing around with that type of thing from a very early age.”

Fox lost his virginity by a river in his native Wyoming when he was 12.

The actor admits the sex session with a 14 year old was “terrible” and “awkward” – and nothing like the romantic notion he had in his head of what his first time would be like.

He tells Playboy magazine, “It wasn’t her first time… It was in Dubois, Wyoming, where the population sign probably says, to this day, about 1,000. It happened literally on the ground by a river while a rodeo was going on in town.

“It was absolutely terrible and awkward – just two f**king kids lying down and pulling our pants down.”

[From Wonderwall and The Post Chronicle]

Jesus. Matthew wins the “how did you lose your virginity” game. I’ll give to anyone whose story involves the words: ground, river and rodeo and Wyoming. As far as the pot story… dude, he was growing his own crop?!? He wins with that story as well. I’m starting to get the feeling that Matthew is nowhere near as conventional and family-friendly as his old Party of Five image would have us believe.

We covered the early details of this story this morning, so go here for the initial story. The National Enquirer and Radar seemed to break the story first thing this morning – apparently, Matthew Fox may have cheated on his wife of 19 years, Margherita Ronchi, with a 26-year-old stripper. This alleged cheating happened in Oregon, and the stripper, Stefani Talbott, seems to have sold her story to both the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly. While the Enquirer is just running a simple “Fox cheated on his wife” story online, In Touch released part of their interview with this Talbott woman, and it’s just as bad as you would think. Here’s a photo of Talbott and the In Touch excerpt:

“He didn’t tell me to keep it a secret or anything. He didn’t even use protection. He didn’t seem concerned at all,” Stefani Talbott tells In Touch exclusively, about the married Lost star.

In an exclusive interview with In Touch, 25-year-old stripper Stefani Talbott claims that she slept with Lost star Matthew Fox twice in the past year.

While Matthew’s rep says “These accusations are false,” Stefani says she first met the 43-year-old last July, soon after she started working at Stars Cabaret in Bend, Oregon.

“I was dancing onstage, and I made eye contact with him immediately. I got so excited,” Stefani tells In Touch.

Since she was a big Party of Five fan, she recognized him right away — but she soon found out he was much different from the clean-cut characters he plays. Matthew, Stefani says, started by buying her a drink, then paid for four private dances, each worth $20.

“He asked me, ‘Why are you working in a place like this?’ I told him that I am a single mom and needed the money,” Stefani says. “He absolutely did not mention a wife or family, and I don’t remember him wearing a wedding ring.”

Despite the club’s strict rules about dating customers, Stefani left her 5-year-old son with a babysitter and claims she met Matthew later that night at the house he was staying in with his entourage.

“We sat around and talked about his show. He complimented me and was saying how down-to-earth I am. He told me he was going to be in town for a couple of days,” she tells In Touch. Pretty soon, things heated up.

“He didn’t tell me to keep it a secret or anything. He didn’t even use protection. He didn’t seem concerned at all,” says Stefani.

[From In Touch Weekly]

Ugh. Jesus. Fox is 43 years old, he should know better. The Enquirer reported that Talbott had kept voicemail and text messages from Fox, and Radar reports that there’s an eyewitness account of Fox getting physical with Talbott – the cab driver who took them back to Talbott’s place. In a piece that has now been taken down, Radar had the taxi driver saying: “They kissed and touched each other in the cab… [afterwards] they were more romantic than before, kissing a lot more and hugging each other.”

At this point it just seems like Matthew wanted to be caught, right? Dumbass. Matthew and Margherita Ronchi have two children together, daughter Klye Allison (age 12) and son Byron (age nine). And you know this isn’t the end of this sh-t, either. Once the print editions of the tabloids come out, there will be even more sketchy details floating around.

When I was looking for new photos of Fox, I found this adorable one of him and Josh Holloway. Let’s leave this post on a high note… mmm, LaFleur.

Photo of Stefani Talbott courtesy of In Touch Weekly. Photo of Fox and Josh Holloway on January 30, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Do you know how much I dislike Dr. Jack Shepherd? SO MUCH. He’s the worst character on Lost, jointly with Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly). The fact that those two are supposed to be the “leads” of the show is the worst joke of all. It’s not even that Jack is a poorly drawn character (he’s not, really) or that Matthew Fox is a bad actor (he’s not the best, but not the worst), it’s just that the character is so sanctimonious, so self-righteous, so asinine, that I absolutely dread when an episode revolves around Jack. Like last night. Ugh. Anyway…

Maybe I’m reading Matthew Fox the wrong way, but he always seemed to have a touch of self-righteousness in his real life too. Which makes this story from the National Enquirer very interesting… according to their reporting, Fox has been cheating on his wife Margherita Ronchi with a 26-year-old stripper in Oregon named Stefani Talbott. Talbott tells the Enquirer that they had sex, and that she “kept the voice mails and text messages from him.” Oh, God, an electronic trail. Men are so dumb.

Matthew Fox’s squeaky-clean image as a family man could soon be “Lost” for good after he was caught up in a cheating scandal involving a tattooed stripper.

The stripper, nearly young enough to be his daughter, claims she began an affair with the 43-year-old star – who plays Dr. Jack Shephard on the hit ABC series – after meeting him at a strip club in Bend, Oregon.

Stefani Talbott, 26, who danced at the Stars Cabaret club in Bend, confessed to the ENQUIRER: “Yes, I’ve been having an affair with Matthew Fox. We had sex together. I’ve kept voice mails and text messages from him.”

Stefani has told others of her incredible boasts about her alleged sexual exploits with the actor. Yet the actor vehemently denies he had a sexual relationship with Stefani.

“Matthew’s partying is out of control. He’s boozing and carrying on with women. His carousing is at an all-time high,” a source revealed.

[From The National Enquirer]

If the Enquirer is talking to the stripper, and the stripper is claiming to have proof, we’ve been down this road before with the Enquirer. I’m not so much thinking about Tiger Woods, but Josh Duhamel and his epic pr0n-filled seduction with a stripper. We’ll see how this thing shakes out, but right now, I am going to give Fox the benefit of the doubt, just because something doesn’t seem right to this story. To me. And I’ll admit it if I’m wrong!

Meanwhile, Fox is on the cover of Emmy Magazine, talking about the end of Lost (sob!). He told the magazine, “I have a lot of mixed emotions. It’s been an incredible experience for me, and the creative part of it has been beautiful. I’m really enjoying working with this character. It’s going to be sad when it ends. But at the same time I’m looking forward to moving on.” Then why doesn’t he ask to be killed off? Right now?

UPDATE: Radar has a few more details about this alleged affair. Apparently it’s an even bigger story (in the Enquirer) and it includes an “eyewitness account” of a taxi driver who drove Fox and Talbott to Talbott‘s home: “They kissed and touched each other in the cab… [afterwards] they were more romantic than before, kissing a lot more and hugging each other.”

Matthew Fox on Emmy Magazine, courtesy of CoverAwards.

Cop shows are my thing, but I occasionally find a medical show that I get invested in. E.R. failed me years ago, but then I found House, and I was happy. My cop shows (anything Law & Order related, or The Closer) are like a warm blanket to me, probably because I enjoy formulaic dramas with surprisingly good writing.

I don’t really watch House because I think Hugh Laurie is hot (though I do have a thing for bitter curmudgeons), I watch it because I like the mystery of it, the “detective story” aspect. But if I was watching shows based on how hot the fictional doctors were, who would win? George Clooney’s Dr. Ross? Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House? Or Zack Braff’s Dr. Dorian? The question was posed by a British company called Yakult, and considering the names on the list, I think only British women were polled. Surprise, surprise, Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House beat out Clooney. But both of them lost out to “Doctor Jack Shepherd” on Lost. The horror!

Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney has lost out to Hugh Laurie in a poll of favourite TV doctors.

Clooney’s character Dr Doug Ross came out fourth behind Hugh’s Dr Gregory House in third, in a top 10 of the most fancied on-screen medics, despite delighting fans with a welcome return to hospital drama ER, the show which shot him to global fame.

First place went to Matthew Fox’s character Dr Jack Shepherd in the hit series Lost, followed by Dr Sam Strachan of Holby City, who was played by Strictly Come Dancing champ Tom Chambers.

The survey of 1,000 women was carried out by probiotic drinks company Yakult.

Here are the top 10 favourite TV doctors: Dr Jack Shepherd (Lost); Dr Sam Strachan (Holby City); Dr Gregory House (House); Dr Doug Ross (ER); Dr Adam Truman (Casualty); Dr John “JD” Dorian (Scrubs); Dr Mark Sloane (Diagnosis Murder); Dr Derek Shepherd (Grey’s Anatomy); Dr Karl Kennedy (Neighbours) and Dr Christian Troy (Nip/Tuck).

[From The Press Association Hosted by Google]

Oh, yeah. I have a thing for Dr. Christian Troy of Nip/Tuck too… but not for the “doctor” aspect – because Dr. Troy is a freak and not a very good doctor. I love the actor Julian McMahon. And Dylan Walsh, for that matter.

As far as Matthew Fox’s Dr. Jack Shepherd beating out everyone, what were they smoking? Dr. Shepherd’s not really a great doctor, and the character is incredibly weak. I like Matthew Fox and everything, but there’s no way he beats my favorite bitter curmudgeon Dr. House.