There are so many reality shows that I’ve never heard of. I thought that most of the new ones involved cupcakes or baking, but there also seems to be this trend of making reality soap operas around jet setting people in cities like Dallas. There’s “A-List Dallas,” “Most Eligible Dallas,” and “Dallas Divas and Daughters.” Anyway there was a show on VH1 in 2010 called “Secrets of Aspen” which tanked in the ratings and was cancelled. One of its famewhore wannabe stars, the “villian” on the show, Laura, was desperate enough to risk a burial in the rose garden and hooked up with Mel Gibson briefly. Laura Bellizzi, 35, is pregnant and according to Star Magazine [via Radar Online] is telling friends that the baby is Mel’s. That’s one way to secure a future filled with large child support checks, scary drunken tirades and abuse.

A pregnant reality TV star, who dated Mel Gibson briefly during the summer, is telling friends that the Braveheart actor is the father of her unborn baby, Star magazine is exclusively reporting.

Both the mother-to-be, Laura Bellizzi, 35, and Gibson denied the claim when contacted for comment, and a source close to Mel insists that it’s “physically impossible” for the 55-year-old actor to have fathered the child.

However, a close insider says that Bellizzi has confided to friends that Mel is the baby daddy, but does not want the news to go public.

“Laura’s being as secretive as she can be about it,” the insider told Star. “But she’s really showing now, and people are beginning to ask the question: ‘Who’s the daddy?’”

The well-placed source says that Laura is more than four months pregnant, and indeed, photographs, exclusively obtained by Star, show the Orange County based mom-to-be with a visible baby bump.

Bellizzi, who appeared on VH1’s Secrets of Aspen in 2010, dated Mel during the summer and the couple were last seen together at the Mondrian hotel’s Skybar in West Hollywood on June 15.

“Laura and Mel met through some mutual friends in Malibu, and the chemistry was instant,” the source revealed.

A member of Laura’s family has also confirmed to Star that she is in fact pregnant by “an A-lister” and that the child will have “a famous father.”

If Laura’s sensational claims prove to be true, this will be the ninth child for Mel — he has seven children with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Robyn Moore, and a daughter, Lucia, from his relationship with Russian pianist/singer Oksana Grigorieva.

Laura already has three other children of her own, from two previous relationships.

You can read the whole sensational story in this week’s Star magazine — on newsstands Wednesday.

[From Radar Online]

Rumorfix has some photos from Laura’s facebook of her out with Mel. They also have the detail that she has “three daughters from two different fathers.” It could be worse, all of her kids could have different dads. They also claim to have a source who tells them that, just like Oksana at first, Mel is taking care of this woman, has bought her a “luxurious home in a prominent gated community in Ladera Ranch in Orange County” and is planning to provide for the future baby’s education. That will last until this chick denies Mel a beej, and then all hell will break lose. Mel’s people have denied this story though, and call it “complete and utter nonsense.” There’s plenty of evidence that he dated her at least. It’s not that much of a stretch to think the baby could be his.

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