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Alex Lambert is gay, dating Drake LaBry and proud of it.

Conversely, Simon van Kempen is straight, married to Real Housewife of New York City Alex McCord and intent on clearing up rumors to the contrary.

"If I was gay, I would be gay, but I'm not!" Simon said to Us Weekly yesterday. "I don't want to have sex with men!"

For awhile now, the stars of the hit Bravo series have mocked van Kempen for his love of shopping and general pampering. Heck, on the recent reunion show, Jill Zarin flat out told McCord that Simon is gay... he just doesn't know it yet.

"If other manifestations of gay means that I like to wear nice clothes and go shopping, then I guess that's fine!" he said. "I love fashion, but I love my beautiful wife. That makes me gay?"

No. But this sort of public denial makes you an insecure attention whore.

Kelly Bensimon has company in the reality TV doghouse.

While The Real Housewives of New York City cast member awaits arraignment on charges of battery, another star from this Bravo franchise is facing trouble.

Two weeks ago, Alex McCord was released from her position in visual merchandising for Victoria's Secret.

"Alex is a Real Housewife and a real person who is not immune to the effects of the economy as experienced by hundreds of thousands of Americans," a Bravo rep told E! News. "As such, she will be actively seeking meaningful employment buoyed by her many skills, contacts, experience and ambition. Her family supports her fully in these efforts."

Say whatever you want about Alex McCord - and many viewers of The Real Housewives of New York City certainly have - but the reality TV star at least isn't shy.

She didn't back down from any questions throw her way by Marc Malkin of E! News. Here are excerpts from their recent interview:

One of the hardest things you probably had to deal with last season was the nude photos of you that got out there.
It wasn’t fun. But I’m one of the million people out there who have them. They exist, so what? But because of the show, someone decided that they wanted to throw them out there. Um, I wasn’t thrilled about that.

How do you get along with the new housewife, Kelly Killoron Bensimon?
I did not have any fights with Kelly. [Laughs.] I didn’t actually see her that much. We filmed a few things together. I obviously don’t know what’s going to be shown and what’s not. But I filmed more with the others.

There’s a lot of speculation on the show about your husband’s sexuality. How do you deal with that?
It doesn’t bother me in the least. I know who he is. And it does make me laugh that when someone is different than they are, people feel the need to put a label on that. It’s pretty silly. I can certainly say that he’s the type of guy that if he actually were gay, he’d be out and loud and proud. But it makes me laugh. It really does.

We're less than a month away from the the February 17 season premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City.

The Bravo series focuses on Brooklyn couple Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen, of course, but this self-serving couple says their sons Francois, 4, and Johan, 2, are likely to steal the show.

“Johan, our youngest son appears more in season two because he’s a bigger boy,” van Kempen told People Magazine at a cocktail party for the couple’s upcoming, nauseating parenting book. “But with Francois, we have a star in the making.”

As for this season's new cast member Kelly Killoren Bensimon - who’s joining McCord, Bethenny Frankel, Jill Zarin, Luann de Lesseps and Ramona Singer - McCord admits she wasn’t a fan.

“She’s an interesting person. She is loud and quiet, intense and colorful like all of us,” McCord said. “She came into the mix and it’s a bit different with her but we are all strong women and even if we disagree with each other, we all respect each other. There’s all sorts of craziness going on but ultimately when someone new is added to the mix you just bring them in and have to adjust even if you like the person or not. I have learned to adjust

Alex McCord is best known for posing nude and raising a pair of poorly-behaved children.

Naturally, this qualifies the former Real Housewife of New York to pen a book.

The New York Post reports that McCord and her husband, Simon van Kempen, are writing an urban parenting tome.

"It's not about how to discipline. It's about things like how to get a passport for an infant when you don't have a birth certificate yet," McCord said. "It's gonna be fun."

It might be.

It also might be the biggest waste of time for anyone that reads it since McCord and her spoiled friends appeared on Bravo.

Alex McCord has no shame.

Her and husband Simon van Kempen were seen frolicking in his-and-hers thongs on the beach in St. Barts in an episode of The Real Housewives of New York City - and now naked photos of Alex mysteriously hit the Internet. Weird how that happens to reality stars that are desperate to remain in the spotlight, isn't it?

"I did the photos after the birth of our second son," Alex told People Magazine."I was shocked at how quickly my body came back... At that time I had the opportunity to meet a lot of photographers. And there were a couple of people who asked me to work on... projects."

That explains it. Some people, such as fellow reality TV star Trista Sutter, give birth, lose weight and grant interviews on the topic. Other bare all in the name of boatloads of money pride.

How did these Alex McCord nude photos come about? The reality TV star isn't sure.

Of course, some of post-maternity poses are not quite artful, but McCord couldn't care less:

"I'm not sure exactly how that happened. It's a non-issue. I'm one of a billion people out there who has nude photos of themselves. So what."

So we're gonna write about you and mock you for how desperate and pathetic you are, that's all. We also had no idea one out of six human beings had naked pics online. Wow.