L.A. mayor is dating local newscaster

[IndianaGreen]

Source: LA Times

L.A. mayor is dating local newscaster

Villaraigosa has been seeing Lu Parker of KTLA Channel 5 since March. An affair with another newscaster broke up his marriage two years ago.

By Phil Willon
June 2, 2009

A Los Angeles television reporter is dating Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, about two years after his extramarital affair with another local newscaster led to the breakup of his 20-year marriage.

KTLA-TV Channel 5 reporter Lu Parker, a former Miss U.S.A., has been dating Villaraigosa since March, station officials confirmed Monday. On Sunday, while working as a weekend anchor, Parker announced a story about the likelihood of Villaraigosa running for governor in 2010.

"Now that we're aware of the relationship, she will no longer be covering local politics," said KTLA-TV news director Jason Ball, who defended the journalist's ethics but declined to elaborate. "I have the utmost faith in Lu Parker's abilities."

The mayor's spokesman, Matt Szabo, said he would not comment on Villaraigosa's personal life.

Villaraigosa is separated from his wife, Corina. Their divorce is not yet final.

Indications of the relationship were made public early Monday on the NBC Channel 4 L.A. news website, which posted a story about Villaraigosa and Parker browsing in a Larchmont bookstore over the weekend.




Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-villaraigosa2-2009jun02,0,312871.story

[MADem]

1. California mayor has affair....it's getting to be a ho-hum thing, I guess.

Didn't the mayor of SF get into hot water for fooling around as well?

[Ken Burch]

5. And of course, that kind of thing never happens in any OTHER state

[MADem]

8. Well, I never thought THAT mayor had any political potential.

I did think LA and SF did.

Maybe they still do, but it's harder when there's a recent divorce (an ugly divorce is even worse) in the backstory.

[CreekDog]

2. yeah he was doing that while he was married too

:hide:

[mackerel]

3. No he was in the middle of a divorce but he

was doing his best friends wife. He broke the man code.

[CreekDog]

4. i thought that was Newsom not Villaragosa

:shrug:

[xxqqqzme]

9. It was Newsom, who was well received at the CDP

Convention in April. Villaraigosa didn't even show up.

[TheWraith]

6. Talk about politicians being in bed with the press.

:hide:

[MrModerate]

7. And we wasted perfectly good electrons on this story because? n/t

[EFerrari]

11. I can beat this. The first newscast I watched in my new LA home

headlined a story about plastic surgery -- the anchor's nose job.

At that point, still sore from moving, I realized I'd have to move back to San Francisco ASAP.

lol

[MrModerate]

14. Aieeyah! Breaking news, perhaps? n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Buck up!

I'm a transplanted San Franciscan in LA. You'll learn to love it! Or at least like it.

But never, never, NEVER ... will I root for the Dodgers.

[Tiggeroshii]

10. He reallky likes those newsacasters....

[Anakin Skywalker]

12. Politicians Can Bang Whoever They Like!

Hey, they are humans too! :-)

[brendan120678]

13. If he marries her, will he change his last name again?

What will it be this time? Villarparker? Villaraigosaparker?

[mackerel]

15. LOL

The guys charms are waning.

[Jeep789]

16. Powerful person (separate or not) has affair, this is news?

I will say that it is refreshing to see that the Obamas have a loving family relationship but so did the Reagans and what did that mean for us?

[JuniperLea]

17. He's single now... he can date whomever he pleases afaic...

This is non-news.