NBC’s Chris Hansen gets caught cheating on wife…… by hidden cameras

TO QUOTE Mary Chapin Carpenter, “Sometimes you’re the windshield/Sometimes you’re the bug.”Predator-catching Chris Hansen, of “Dateline NBC,” made such a big name for himself luring unsuspecting kiddie pervs to suburban homes that “Saturday Night Live” turned him into a sketch character. 

Well, now there’s a new punchline.

The National Enquirer, gunning for another run at the Pulitzer, has turned the tables on the married Hansen and tracked him with hidden cameras, catching him in a sex scandal with a sexy Florida blonde who’s a lot younger than Hansen . . . but not young enough to be a minor.

For nearly four months, Enquirer sources say, the 51-year-old father of two sons has been cheating on his wife, Mary, with Kristyn Caddell, a news anchor at the West Palm Beach NBC affiliate, who just became the lead story on the West Palm ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates. Hansen lives in Connecticut, but he’s been spending time in South Florida investigating the disappearance of a missing boater – and his thorough investigation seems to have brought Ms. Caddell to Chris’s hotel room and him to her apartment.

Really, Chris, what are you doing here? And why are you a carrying a six-pack and condoms?

Freedom

It probably doesn’t carry the gravitas of the release of the Iranian hostages or the rescue of the Chilean miners, but Lindsay Lohan is free.

After 35 days of imprisonment in a 3,000-square-foot house with a roof deck, Lindsay’s electronic monitoring equipment was removed shortly before 10 a.m. yesterday.

All that’s left now is 480 hours of community service at an L.A. women’s shelter and the county morgue, and the completion of an anti-shoplifting class.

What do they do in that class? Teach you how not to shoplift?

Even Lindsay should be able to pass the mid-term.

Rules of engagement

After recently stating he was too busy for dating, when asked about a possible relationship with Pippa Middleton, Prince Harry has a new girlfriend.

The London Sun says he’s started seeing underwear model Florence Brudenell-Bruce and that former girlfriend Chelsy Davy is out of the picture.

An unidentified source told the Sun: “It’s very early days but Harry and Florence are an item.

“She is a lot of fun, blonde and very good-looking. Harry really likes her.”

But Florence isn’t merely a hot, blonde underwear model, she also lives in a multi-million dollar home in Notting Hill and is a descendant of the seventh Earl of Cardigan.

So she probably also looks good in a sweater.

* Two-time “Bachelor” Brad Womack is no longer engaged to Emily Maynard, she told People.

Brad took the blame, saying in a statement that “the demise of our relationship was completely my fault.”

Tattle also finds serial-enabler ABC culpable.

* Preparing to walk down the aisle on Friday are superdupermodel Kate Moss and The Kills‘ frontman Jamie Hince.

According to London’s Daily Star, Kate wants the wedding to be fabulous and has reportedly set up a collection of costumes for guests to wear and hired transvestites as chaperones.

Said one anonymous invitee: “Kate has hired a small team of transvestites to chaperone guests to the toilets and back to their seats. Most of them will be 6 foot-5 inches in their heels.”