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‘To Catch A Predator’ Host Chris Hansen Allegedly Caught Cheating By The National Enquirer

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From today’s “Terribly Awkward” file comes news that Chris Hansen, host of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, was caught allegedly cheating on his wife.

Hansen, 51, was caught – on hidden camera, no less – having a night out with Kristyn Caddell, a 30-year-old reporter from Florida. The two, who have allegedly been having an affair for the past four months, shared dinner at a Ritz-Carlton hotel before retiring to Caddell’s Palm Beach apartment. They were caught in an undercover “sting” organized last weekend by none other than the National Enquirer.

A source told the paper that “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.”

Hansen has two sons with his wife, Mary Hansen. He reportedly met Caddell in March while out with friends at Palm Beach’s Blue Martini Lounge. He has since made frequent trips to South Florida as part of his ongoing report on the disappearance of James “Jimmy T” Trindade.

h/t Daily Mail

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  • Dummy_Thy Name is Chris Matthews

    Oooops!

    Though he is a fine looking fella.

  • MediaiteCensorsSux

    Seems obvious for someone so obsessed about other people’s cheating. Too bad for this bad guy’s family.

  • Jaurez

    The irony meter has just been shattered beyond all recognition, beyond all recognition. Caught with a hidden cam cheating on his wife. Cue apologizing progressives. Wait, see post #2. Already here.

  • Jaurez

    MediaiteCensorsSux said:
    Seems obvious for someone so obsessed about other people’s cheating. Too bad for this bad guy’s family.

    Boom, you’re obsession with claiming everyone’s obsessed is, well, weird.

  • Jaurez

    your

  • Jaurez

    Scare quotes around “allegedly” would look nice. ;)

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    This was a set-up!

    Chris drove those 800 miles just to warn her about the dangers of having an affair with a married man!
    LOL!

  • illusive man

    That really is a shame. I tip my hat to anybody who’ll help bring down sexual predators. Even if he is just doing it to make a name for himself.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    He just shot a big hole in his credibility…way to go dipshit!!! I used to admire you!

  • Chuck from Tacoma

    Oops. Oh well, Kristyn is kind of cute. Certainly, his wife will understand. …..Won’t she? She has to understand. Has to.
    Crap, ouch…. My wife just smacked me on the back of the head.
    She probably won’t. Sorry.

  • Jaurez

    Can you imagine if this guy worked for Fox News? There would be 900 posts by now. Maybe more.

  • Paul G

    Jaurez said:
    Can you imagine if this guy worked for Fox News? There would be 900 posts by now. Maybe more.

    And it would be ALL over the LSM…….This is the first I heard of it. MEDIAite….Hmmmm…..Kudos?

  • Jaurez

    Paul G said:
    And it would be ALL over the LSM…….This is the first I heard of it. MEDIAite….Hmmmm…..Kudos?

    Savage told me and he said he got it from puffington.

  • AmericaSucks

    Jaurez said:
    The irony meter has just been shattered beyond all recognition, beyond all recognition. Caught with a hidden cam cheating on his wife. Cue apologizing progressives. Wait, see post #2. Already here.

    He must be a rightie. He’s got the innate hypocrisy.

  • david r

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    This was a set-up!

    Chris drove those 800 miles just to warn her about the dangers of having an affair with a married man!
    LOL!

    They should have tackled him on the front lawn and cuffed his hands in back, then shoved him the backseat with a hand on his head. Better yet, they should have paid the girlfriend a big enough bundle to get her in on it. Then the wife could have walked in on them, on camera, and said, “What did you think you were going to get when you came here?”

  • Jaurez

    AmericaRules said:
    He must be a rightie

    Keep telling yourself that and by this time next week even you’ll believe it.

  • Nature Freak

    Kristyn Caddell is 21 years younger than Chris Hansen.

    Interesting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Cooke/614691403 Bill Cooke
  • AmericaSucks

    Jaurez said:
    Keep telling yourself that and by this time next week even you’ll believe it.

    He’s a Republic Party supporter through and through.

  • Nature Freak

    Have a seat over there Chris.
    You are free to go.
    You can leave right now.
    What was your plan here tonight?
    Did you bring condoms?
    Mr. Hansen, because you got caught, that’s why you’re stunned!
    What is going on in your mind?
    It sounds like what you were fishing for is adulterous sex with a woman 21 years younger than you.
    I have been with National Enquirer for 24 years and I have very seldom been at a loss for words. I don’t even know what to ask you first, Chris.

  • Jaurez

    AmericaSucks said:
    He’s a Republic Party supporter through and through.

    rinse- repeat

    btw, is you little “republic party” thingy supposed to bother me? LOL!

  • George C

    Chris Hansen , Why don’t you take a seat over there?

  • Paul G

    Did his ‘GF’ say…”I made you some cookies, I’ll be right there” Ha!

  • Nature Freak

    George C said:
    Chris Hansen , Why don’t you take a seat over there?

    Exactly.
    LOL!

  • stiernstrahle

    This made my day – another self-serving, holier-than-thou jerk, got his comeuppance

  • Sanders Youth

    George C said:
    Chris Hansen , Why don’t you take a seat over there?

    Damn beat me to it.

  • Ivan in Phoenix

    Chris Hansen can’t understand what all the hub-bub is about this. He’s a liberal and every lib believes there’s nothing wrong with a sexually confident male having an extra girlfriend here or there. I hope he continues to bust the child predators anyway. Molesters make up a whole other class of sick depravity way down below adulterers. I’m not excusing his actions – it’s just that child molesters deserve to be castrated with no anesthesia, then hung, followed by being doused with gasoline and set on fire before they suffocate into permanent unconsciousness.

  • BoomShakalaka

    Nature Freak said:
    Have a seat over there Chris.
    You are free to go.
    You can leave right now.
    What was your plan here tonight?
    Did you bring condoms?
    Mr. Hansen, because you got caught, that’s why you’re stunned!
    What is going on in your mind?
    It sounds like what you were fishing for is adulterous sex with a woman 21 years younger than you.
    I have been with National Enquirer for 24 years and I have very seldom been at a loss for words. I don’t even know what to ask you first, Chris.

    Hehe….first thing I thought when I read it….gotta love the irony here…

  • Sanders Youth

    Ivan in Phoenix said:
    Chris Hansen can’t understand what all the hub-bub is about this. He’s a liberal and every lib believes there’s nothing wrong with a sexually confident male having an extra girlfriend here or there. I hope he continues to bust the child predators anyway. Molesters make up a whole other class of sick depravity way down below adulterers. I’m not excusing his actions – it’s just that child molesters deserve to be castrated with no anesthesia, then hung, followed by being doused with gasoline and set on fire before they suffocate into permanent unconsciousness.

    Thank you so much for politicizing Chris Hansen getting caught cheating on his wife so I could produce this list.

    Mike Duvall, a Republican politician and a former member of the California State Assembly, resigned after his sex comments were broadcast in Sept. 2009. In the video, the married family-values crusader from Yorba Linda talks in graphic detail about women he said he slept with — at least one of whom appeared to be a lobbyist with business before the utilities committee on which Duvall sat as vice chairman.

    Paul Stanley, Republican former member of the Tennessee Sen., resigned from the state Senate effective Aug. 10, after his affair with a 22-year-old intern and a subsequent extortion attempt was revealed to the public

    Mark Sanford, governor of South Carolina, disappears during Father’s Day weekend, returning to confess an extramarital affair in Argentina.

    John Ensign, Senator from Nevada, refuses to resign after confessing to an extramarital affair with a married staffer, claiming she was trying to extort him. Later, it was learned he was attempting to pay her and her husband off through his parents and finding them jobs.

    Vito Fossella, the only Republican member of Congress from New York City, admitted to police to having a child out-of-wedlock when stopped for drunk driving

    Larry Craig, Republican Senator for Idaho, was arrested on July 11, 2007, by plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd behavior in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport airport men’s room. On August 8 in Hennepin County Municipal Court in Bloomington, Minnesota, Craig entered a guilty plea and paid a $500 fine.. On September 1st, Craig subsequently announced his retirement from the Senate[]. Five days later, Craig changed his mind, renounced his retirement and began a battle to have his guilty plea overturned.[38] Craig supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, which barred extension of rights to same-sex couples; he voted for cloture on the amendment in both 2004 and 2006, and was a cosponsor in 2008. However, in late 2006 he appeared to endorse the right of individual states to create same-sex civil unions, but said he would vote “yes” on an Idaho constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages when pressured to clarify his position by the anti-gay rights advocacy group Families for a Better Idaho. Craig voted against cloture in 2002, which would have extended the federal definition of hate crimes to cover sexual orientation.

    Joseph M. McDade, 75, was issued a summons on a charge of exposure of sexual organs, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The longtime Pennsylvania Republican congressman who served for 36 years in the House and now works for a Washington lobbying firm, has been accused of exposing his private parts to two women at a beach resort on Sanibel Island.

    Ted Haggard, was fired as pastor of the New Life Church and resigned from his position as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in November 2006 after a former male prostitute alleged they had a cash-for-sex relationship. The man also said he saw Haggard use methamphetamine. Haggard confessed to undisclosed “sexual immorality” and said he bought meth but didn’t use it.[64] After the scandal was publicized, Haggard entered three weeks of intensive counseling, overseen by four ministers. In Feb 2007, one of those ministers, Tim Ralph, said that Haggard “is completely heterosexual.” As of early 2009, Haggard continues to receive counseling, and now he says that he is a “heterosexual with issues”.

    Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party, was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.[

    John Gosek Republican Mayor of Oswego, N.Y.was arrested after paying a confidential informant $250 to introduce him to two 15-year-old girls at a hotel

    Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.”

    Jim West, Republican Spokane Mayor. Supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that “any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person” among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy

    I could literally be here all night posting these. Please think before you post in the future. Don’t be such a dummy. As you can see most of these men could have appeared on To Catch A Predator. Why do you people make it so easy? Why???

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  • ElCapitanAmerica

    I think I understand some of the schadenfreude going on here, but let’s put into context, the people Hansen was exposing were violating the law.

    I saw somebody point out that he’s *gasp* cheating with somebody 20 years old younger than him, but people, she’s a 30 year old adult woman. Let’s not be so dumb to equate that with a 30 year old trying to have sexual relations with a 10 year old, c’mon people.

    Cheating is not a good moral trait, but last time I checked it is not illega, and as offensive as it is to me personally in the moral sense; it’s not comparable with child abuse.

  • Tedderman

    As long as he wasn’t going after a fourteen year old girl or a thirteen year old boy, no big deal. Even if his wife wants a divorce, FLORIDA’S A NO-FAULT state where divorce is concerned.

  • Dem4Ever

    Big deal…if his wife can’t/won’t make him happy he has the right to find someone who can/will.

  • Nature Freak

    BoomShakalaka said:
    Hehe….first thing I thought when I read it….gotta love the irony here…

    Irony in spades. Chris was naive.

    Obviously Hansen was not breaking the law. Chris has every legal right to his wicked ways. .

    I am fascinated by the fact she is 21 years younger than him. That is a significant age difference. Normally I would not care, but Hansen is in the business so to speak. It is interesting.

    I am against adults having affairs with the underage. Despite this, I still find Chris Hansen’s television show “dirty”.

  • Nature Freak

    Dem4Ever said:
    Big deal…if his wife can’t/won’t make him happy he has the right to find someone who can/will.

    Listen troglodyte. If you actually had a woman in your life she would bitchslap you. This is why Dem4ever is still a virgin.

    I suspect you would be signing a different tune if this was a Democrat. Grow up, life is more complicated.

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  • bigbrainbrad

    Ivan in Phoenix said:
    Chris Hansen can’t understand what all the hub-bub is about this. He’s a liberal and every lib believes there’s nothing wrong with a sexually confident male having an extra girlfriend here or there.

    wow, I didn;t know that John Ensign was a liberal. This site is SO EDUCATIONAL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Miriam-Valle-De-Hernandez/723465554 Miriam Valle De Hernandez

    Find out more about Kristyn Caddell here including, video, pictures and bio http://celebritydaily.net/?p=793.

  • MediaiteCensorsSux

    Jaurez said:
    Boom, you’re obsession with claiming everyone’s obsessed is, well, weird.

    you make no sense. there was no claim of everyone being obsessed.

  • justanotherconservative

    Dem4Ever said:
    Big deal…if his wife can’t/won’t make him happy he has the right to find someone who can/will.

    oh yeah, it’s the wife’s fault. naturally.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    AV Club’s article about this had the best opening line I’ve ever seen.

    “In a story in which irony took a seat right over there”

  • tatboy

    So is every reporter cheating on his wife (with an adult) a story. Or just the one that used to expose child rapists?

  • notimportant

    The guy’s a liberal..there isn’t such a thing as morality in their world. Besides, Bush made him do it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shomari-Hines/1664268173 Shomari Hines

    Hey at least she wasn’t under age!

  • justanotherconservative

    this guy is too much the ken doll. creepy.

  • valkyrie101

    Dem4Ever said:
    Big deal…if his wife can’t/won’t make him happy he has the right to find someone who can/will.

    Yea baby.

  • purveyor

    John 8:7 “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”

    I can’t think of a more fitting fate for Hansen. Perhaps now he will know empathy?

    Every so often I would catch fragments of Chris Hansen’s show, whereby he was helping to catch the bad guy pedophiles and rapists.

    Hansen struck me as so creepy that I even felt bad for some of the bad guys. In fact, I’d have much rather have a beer some of the bad guys as with Hansen. Chris Hansen was probably the kid in school that was always the hall monitor or tattling on his classmates. Yecch!

    I know it is a curious phenomenon, but, I found Hanson’s demeanor so awful he made my skin crawl. Like watching an Episode of Cops, where the Cops make a big deal out of a roach in the ashtray.

    Enjoy the ride Hanson. Lets see what the wrecking ball does to you?

    Purveyor

  • Nachi

    “Come in. Have a cookie. The Lord sure works in mysterious ways.”

  • Melba Narberth

    Hansen needs to go after MSNBC commentator Mark Ames (Dylan Ratigan Show), who bragged of having sex with a 15-year-old while he was in his mid-30s:

    http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762

  • Anonymous

    It’s hard passat to find knowledgeable people on this topic, but you sound like you know what
    you’re talking about! Thanks

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