Late in June, the National Enquirer reported that married former Catch a Predator host and Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen, 52, was caught on tape having an affair with a 30 year-old reporter from Florida who was not his wife. I guessed at the time that the mistress had gone to the Enquirer with the news, as it’s hard to see how a tabloid would bother busting a news anchor cheating unless they had a very solid lead. Plus the “insider” quotes suggested the mistress was upset that Chris hadn’t left his wife for her as promised. “Chris sends Kristyn flowers and tells her he loves her, but he still doesn’t seem all that motivated to leave his wife for her. He’s telling her he loves his wife too, but they’ve grown apart over the years, and she’s not sure what he should do.” It’s the oldest line in the book. If you hear “my wife and I have grown apart” from a married guy you should run.
Well all this was news to Chris’ other mistress, a Vegas area stripper who thought she was the only one and was dismayed to learn that Chris was “cheating” on her by having another extramarital affair. This is my only reaction. This second mistress looks just like the first, and they both look like Chris’ wife.
And now it appears he was also cheating on his mistress, with revelations that Hansen was also for six months secretly dating petite blonde Kathleen Collins, a stripper and aspiring country singer.
Miss Collins was said to have been shocked when she found out – through the press – that her married lover, who lives with his wife Mary, 53, and their sons in Connecticut, had also been sleeping with another woman.
A friend told the Enquirer: ‘I know this sounds crazy, but Kathleen really thought she was the only one.’ She is then alleged to have told her friend: ‘Chris cheated on me just like he cheated on his wife.’
Miss Collins is said to have been told by the high profile television anchor that he had separated from his wife and was set to get a divorce.
‘Kathleen feels like she’s been used and betrayed – Chris definitely broke her heart,’ the source told the Enquirer.
The magazine claims to have seen pictures of the two embracing in Las Vegas and read text messages and emails sent by Hansen to Miss Collins from his official NBC Universal address.
[From The National Enquirer via The Daily Mail]
As I said in our earlier story on this, there’s no comparing a garden variety cheater with scumbags who troll the internet for preteens – at all. Those two scenarios are completely different. This story isn’t amusing for that reason, but the parallels with the stings Hansen set up do explain why the story got as much coverage as it did.
You can’t “cheat” on a mistress. The dude is married, dumbass. I love that he picked two women who were not only stupid enough to fall for his lines, but who got indignant about it and went running to the tabloids. I should go easier on the stripper, though. Unlike the reporter she may not have known that Chris was still living with his wife. If he told her he was separated and about to divorce that’s on him for lying. It looks like he learned how to play this game after disappointing the last mistress by never leaving his wife for her. Those surely weren’t the only two women he cheated with.
The NY Post reported last month that Hansen was passed up for the position of lead anchor at Dateline as a direct result of the earlier scandal. They also claimed that “Hansen sent explicit photos of himself to [the reporter] and is now terrified they could be leaked.” Please don’t let that happen. We don’t need any more peen photos.
Some photos credit: WENN
Goodness! The stripper and the reporter could be sisters!
Well, he definitely has a type.
The story, to me, is not that big of a deal. He is a cheater, like so many married men out there. Nothing scandalous about that.
Why don’t you have a seat over there, Mr. Hansen 🙂
Wonder if his pickup line is “Hi there, I’m Chris Hansen from Dateline” (he can probably say it in his sleep).
Of course there is no comparing a person who trolls the internet looking for sex with minors with a jerk who just cheats on his wife.
But Hanson’s obsession with the deviance of others while he has his own dirty secrets is still kind of ironic.
Predator caught.
I have a special fondness for mistresses who are truly dumb enough to believe they were the only one – it reminds me how much evolution we have still to do!
See also: mistresses who believe he’ll actually leave his wife, mistresses who believe he and his wife aren’t sleeping together and older kids who still believe in Santa Claus.
@tapioca also add women who think it’s all the fault of the mistresses and if they could only get their man away from all of those women he’d be faithful (yeah right)
Lol @brin why did I hear his voice in my head as I read that *uuggh* anyway that stripper looks like she’s not legal. He’s gross.
When I was a kid, it was common knowledge that one of our neighbors, a surgeon, was having an affair with his head nurse. His wife knew about it and didn’t seem to care. Both the wife and the nurse drove matching Eldorados (It was the 70s) Then, he started having an affair with a local realtor.
This totally upset the applecart. The wife and the nurse drove down to the beach together and caught ‘their’ man doing the realtor. As a kid, I thought adults were just weird. Now, I know we are.
By the way, the surgeon left his wife and three kids, fired the nurse and lived happily ever after with the realtor.
Ok this might be inapropiate but that stripper is pretty!
And if a non single dude hits on you, tell him to get back to you when he has gone through with separation/divorce..
Or just tell em to fu** off, i would go with the last one.
LOL @ NancyMan’s story. I would totally watch that movie/read that book!
The man works for Dateline? DATE LINE? The joke writes itself.
@NancyMan best story ever!
@mln76: If you want sex, gifts/money and a total lack of commitment from a married man, then fine. It’s the women who think “it’ll be different with me!” that amuse so much. The wives (usually) didn’t begin their marriage KNOWING that they were with a cheating hound!
@tapioca
Just saying I get sick of the women always being blamed when it’s the man at the end of the day that is the cheating scum going from town to town and bar to bar with his wedding ring in his pocket.
And it’s sad to be cheated on but if you decide to stay with a man you know has repeatedly cheated on you well that’s your choice and in that case you can’t blame anyone else for choosing to take that treatment.
so, he cheated on his wife with…..his wife. and then when they “grew apart” as well he cheated on with his….wife, also. Geez. Sounds like the guy needs to patch things up with the lil ball & chain, since he’s trying sooooo hard to find her doppelganger.
PERV!
the stripper is cute.
That’s all i got.
Oh, Whoria Allred, where are you? I’m pretty sure these are your next “clients.”
That picture of Nelson pretty much sums up how I feel as well Kaiser.Had affairs one is a stripper, guy is a jerk but not a deviant (which is what I think of pedophiles). This just reeks of humor but also sucks for no upgrade at Dateline. Where is Stone Phillips to recap this when you need him
Looks like Chris Hansen “can’t control his horny level”!
A mistress AND a stripper? Oh, Chris Hansen…
I knew this was coming!
I like Chris Hanson and I liked the show he did, Catch a Predator. He did the world a lot of good. Who cares that he’s a cheater? Being a cheat has nothing to do with being a child molester. Not even in the same category. So leave Chris alone!
What I find so amusing about the last year of cheating scandals… is that there are many more to come.
Since it has become a cottage industry to be a public wh*re, there is no reason for a mistress to keep her mouth shut.
She/mistress can sell her story and destroy a man’s career and family for around 10K.
Maybe this will be the start of men with too much money and high profile jobs… to stop screwing around on their wife’s.
But I have yet to see anyone who has top Arnold and his baby Mamma. That one even out ranks Tiger Woods and his two dozen ugly hookers.
This story reminded me of Tiger Woods, first and foremost. Wasn’t there one hooker/stripper, a redhead I think, repped of course by Allred, who was inflamed (pun intended) that Tiger had more ass than a toilet seat?
He’s kinda hot. And with Viagra he’s probably good at what he does. I’d hit it!
People are very hypocritical, I never liked his show or him personally. It’s like one comedian said “Anytime a show about child predators makes you actually feel sorry for the predator’s it’s a shitty show” Don’t remember what comedian said that but it was funny and true. Good Riddance, hope his wife gets every thing.
I’m with Heatheradair. I can’t tell the difference between the 3 of them. I was born blond, but I’m so sick of seeing blondes I might dye my hair brunette!
When someone cheats, I just think “Oh look, someone who didn’t have the balls to end the relationship when it should have ended”. Grow a pair.
The stripper has no neck and looks like one of those Dollar Store Barbies. I don’t think she’s pretty at all. It seems to me that all the “klassy” strippers from upscale strip joints in general have no qualms whatsoever on sleeping with married/committed men. At least the reporter is somewhat shocking…until you look at her picture.
I think you are over weight or old or both. Am I right?
I simultaneously kind of like him as a correspondent, and am annoyed by his Officer Hansen persona on air. I do have to laugh at this, though.
Maybe when he said he was “separated” he meant he wasn’t at home, so technically him and his wife were in separate locations. Funny stuff, don’t understand it.
Why can’t you cheat on a mistress? They have feelings too. That’s like saying you can’t rape a prostitute or can’t cheat on a porn star.
He really needs to get a new wife, she’s got old and young is better than old when you are talking about women. Old women…yuck!