“I did not feel good about doing the interview,” mam•nificent MEREDITH VIEIRA explained on The Today Show why she turned down the coveted first sit-down with parolee Paris Hilton after she left prison in 2007. “I just said, ‘I don’t think this is right, this is all about ratings. We’re better than this. It’s good to have your own kind of journalistic compass.” Even if it routinely points south …

“Vieira Mortified By ‘Naked’ Video” trumpeted the lead story on AOL earlier this month, less than 12 hours after Jay Leno “played a series of clips showing Vieira’s early days in broadcasting. He ended,” Popeater reported, “with the most revealing—a fully exposed still of the anchor on The Naked News, leaving little to the imagination.” Actually, the obvious fake left everything to the imagination! “Wow, I feel so liberated!” {and so badly photo shopped},  Meredith mused in the silly segment—professing that she “hadn’t seen the video yet” and “was taken aback by the whole charade.”. So taken aback, apparently, that she was ready with a quip about her stint on the buff broadcast: “Just one month!”—which, supposedly shocked co-hostess Ann Curry. I mean, do they think we’re all idiots {and not just the ones who get up in the wee hours of a winter morning to hold up banners hawking their legal services on national TV}?

Naturally, the “log rolling” media lined up to flog the phony story for the Emmy-winning host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire—with over 15,000 syndicated stories cropping up on Google by mid-morning. Wow, fake news travels fast! “Who was your mentor, David Letterman?” lightweight Al Roker remarked {referring to the late night host’s ongoing sex scandal}, as Ann advised: “Well, don’t try that now!” The supposedly stunned Vieira instantly interjected, “Nooo! They’re way down here now! I wouldn’t do it now.” Actually, this lovely publicity pose is probably the last time the so-called “MILF Gold Standard” ever kept her legs closed!

“The Today Show may be losing Katie Couric’s legs,” Gawker.com lamented when the longtime morning hostess moved to evening in September 2006, “but there’s still hope if Meredith Vieira takes her place: Vieira eschews underwear in favor of nature’s breeze” {eschew on this for a bit}! As the National Ledger later expanded: “Meredith Vieira appeared as a host of The View several times without wearing any underwear. Will she take this tradition to Today ? Vieira never pulled a Sharon Stone Basic Instinct type move (or did she?) on ABC’s show {Sleuth shows its small screen equivalent}}, but according to AOL’s TMZ, she finds wearing underwear with pantyhose redundant” {as guest host David “Stretch” Gregory of Meet The Press shockingly found out}.

“I tend to mouth off now because it’s the freedom I haven’t had,” Meredith opens up. “Sometimes I think, ‘God, did I just say for the sixteenth time that I don’t wear underpants and that my husband pokes me when I’m sleeping?’” Saying she “prefers leotards and pantyhose to panties,” Vieira later seemed vexed when reminded of it: “Someone said it was in an article,” she sniffed, “and ‘Why would you give the job to someone who doesn’t wear underwear?’ What difference does it make? It’s not like I’m sitting there with my legs open” {well, on occasion}.

“How long before Meredith Vieira tells Matt Lauer she isn’t wearing any panties?” an in•quiring mind asked Yahoo when she took Today by storm {chill out, Matt}! No wonder that when Meredith asked guest Stephen Colbert this past March, “Do you Twitter…Tweet?,” the rogue Report-er replied: “I have Twatted.” “Oh my gosh,” Vieira gasped. “Well, actually, so have I !”  Indeed … but at least the first-generation Portuguese proved she didn’t have a Brazilian when she found herself going to the dogs in a hairy moment while “twatting” on Today !

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A few nights ago, a new face graced reality television for the first time. And her lips, in particular, looked familiar…

“Make Me a Supermodel exists on a different level” than Tyra’s “tired” America’s Next Top Model, opined Buddy TV when the two fashion shows aired this past Wednesday. “Not only do most of the contestants actually look like working models, the challenges they are given are worlds more believable than other modeling shows. Make Me a Supermodel is about modeling first, and then Reality TV second. And Celebrity Sleuth is always about revealing reality…

The supermodels were first “made” by fashionistas Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor, the co-hosts for Season One of Bravo’s answer to the CW’s Top Model, fronted by Top Heavy Tyra Banks. Holly Kiser, described by MenStyle.com as “the quiet one, the small-town Virginia girl saving herself for marriage (she met her fiancé in church, naturally),” beat out 13 other contestants on the initial Make Me a Supermodel “to win a spread in GQ magazine, $100,000 and a modeling contract with New York Model Management.” Not to mention this inimitable Sleuth exposure!

“There is a second season but I’m not doing it,” Taylor tersely announced in late ‘08…and not only because the pregnant poser was beginning to show. “They decided to take the show in a more…not risqué…but, just a little more” raunchy direction…and nice-girl Niki transparently balked. “Tyson Beckford has traded in a Niki for a Nicole,” it was revealed shortly thereafter. “Bravo’s Make Me a Supermodel has chosen Australian supermodel NICOLE TRUNFIO to join Beckford as a mentor to the model wannabes for the show’s upcoming season,” debuting March 4th. “Nicole will offer advice and says she may let them in on a few industry secrets”: “I have a great amount of background for them to learn from,” Nic notes, “whether or not they listen and use the advice to progress is another story.” So let’s examine the story of this mentor’s Model Behavior, shall we?

“Trunfio will offer a unique perspective to the contestants,” observed zap2it.com, “because she was the winner of the Australian forerunner TV series Search for a Supermodel {in 2000 and later finished third in the international version of the show, Supermodel of the World. “I was found on the street,” Nicole recalls. “We were shopping and this lady was following me.” The girl had doubts about the proposition, but signed with the Vivien Agency: “I was 16 and going through this really rebellious stage in my life–I had just gotten my tongue pierced. And I had no interest in modeling, because I had heard all these stories about the drugs…and the sex {Sleuth unearthed this video of Naughty Nicole}…and the backstage bitchiness.” Sleuth has only seen her backstage casualness.

Asked if there is any nude modeling from the contestants this seasons on MMASM, Nicole backed off by snapping, “Next question. No, I’m kidding”—but is otherwise laid back about the subject. “Even me and Tyson got half naked {here’s the top half, inverted nipples and all}. You just have to watch {she supplies the TV set}. It was very spontaneous,” Trunfio trills…and thrills with this mirror image candid changing! “It was not planned at all.” Why, look what just turned up! “I was skinny as a stick” starting out with her 32A bust, Nicole admits, but her shadowy figure has since filled out to a model perfect 34B-24.5-34. “I’m a lot more relaxed now and comfortable in my body”…and thus ready to get down and dirrrty.

“She’s one of those models who really isn’t scared of getting her gear off in front of the camera,” says an industry insider. “A lot of models can be very reserved when it comes to posing nude” {Nic thinks they’re all wet. Which is why, when asked last week, “What do you do if some female contestant on the show says they don’t want to go nude?,” their miffed mentor mused: “Kick them off.” One thing she wouldn’t do, it’s rumored, is kick them out … of bed! “I’m just comfortable being me,” the tomboy proclaims, while an Aussie fashion friend whispers: “I have heard that she sleeps around in Manhattan.” The question is with which sex? “All the Aussies stick together in New York–we’re so tight,” Trunfio trills. “Jessie Gomes is here,” she says of the bosom buddy model who lives in the apartment right below her and is Nic’s constant—and clinging—companion.  “We hang out every day.” Gomes hangs out beautifully, while her “best mate” drools at the prospect!

“And Gemma Ward is now here too,” says of the blonde teen she beat out on Search for a Supermodel back in 2000. Eight years later, they were “getting in touch with their ‘hippie spirit’ by sharing a beach house in Australia for a month” this past Christmas–perhaps Nicole snatched this shot of Sophie waking up one morning! Yet while Ward was reportedly “still struggling with the loss of her lover, Heath Ledger” from earlier in the year, Trunfio—who’s only been linked to one man ever, Robert DeNiro’s son Raphael—was “spotted partying with blonde supermodel Cheyenne Tozzi on a luxury yacht, cozying up to British mannequin Lily Cole, and checking out Russian Valeria Avdeyeva’s lingerie and lips.

Which brings us back to where we began: with Nicole’s “lips.” Her very first words on this year’s Make Me a Supermodel—after being lowered in a giant box—were: “Well, do I know how to make an entrance or what?! That was never more true than in early April 2007,  when Nicole strutted her stuff at FashionWeekLive in Houston … and accidentally exposed her “landing strip” on the runway in plane view! “I grew up in the Bush,” says the supermodel from Down Under about its untamed Outback…but it was her Outfront that manifest itself in full “Flaps Up!” mode! “The dress only gaped wide for a few seconds,” reveals an eyewitness to the accident, “and for just a short stretch of the runway” … yet the combination of cockpit and intake ignited ample thrusters for Nicole’s career to take flight! {Headlines were still buzzing a year and a half later.}

The fallout was felt most in her native Oz—you’d think they’d be used to seeing wool, eh mate?—with a popular teen magazine named for its girl sheep being recalled for running Nic’s wind shear: “50,000 copies pulled from the shelves so teenage girls aren’t exposed to a front-on picture of a female’s genitals,” asked one editorial writer.  “Am I mistaken, or don’t they all have them? Does this make any sense at all?” And some scribes even lauded the unconcerned T-bird for her air-ial maneuver: “Australian model Nicole Trunfio is a true professional,” a reporter remarked. “Who else could glide down a catwalk totally exposed and still keep going…and going {the Energizer ‘Cunny’} ? Nice work, girl! Hey, if you’ve got it, flaunt it!” But a final observer sounded a warning: “Now watch PETA get all twisted because a model is wearing BEAVER!”

Before folding in the wings, Sleuth should notify the tower that this wasn’t the first such takeoff from the formerly Best Dressed cover girl: In 2004, she shocked spectators at the Imitation of Christ fall show {avant-garde actress Chloë Sevigny was the line’s creative director} by parading in a totally diaphanous mesh dress that had onlookers reading the labia rather than the label! “I love the runway,” Nicole gushes {her first show was Gucci…rhymes with Coochie}. “It’s something you can’t describe {oh yes we can}. I think to become a supermodel, you need to have an X-factor…it’s a mixture of outer but more inner beauty…to create iconic art that will never be forgotten.” And will never END …

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