The Josh Duhamel-stripper scandal is the cover story of both People and Us Weekly this week. The news of Josh’s alleged affair with a Georgia stripper broke in last week’s National Enquirer. The Enquirer paid the stripper for her story, and she (and the publication) are not backing down from the epic story of pr0n-filled seduction and sketchiness. Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Enquirer even reported that Josh was “in the doghouse” with Fergie because she knows there is something to the report.

Neither People nor Us Weekly has released their full cover stories online yet, but I’m going to take a wild guess and say that People’s story (“Rocked By Scandal”) is going to basically be written by Fergie and Josh’s publicist. Meanwhile, my guess is that Us Weekly’s story (“Cheating Shock: Fergie Betrayed”) will have some denials, but probably some juicy stuff too. Here’s the version People has online now:

Josh Duhamel and wife Fergie are denying another round of allegations from an Atlanta stripper that she had a one-night stand with the actor.

“This is not the first nor will it be the last time that a stripper was paid a large amount of money to sell a false story about a celebrity,” says Duhamel’s rep. “This story is absolutely ridiculous.”

A rep for Fergie adds: “These allegations are nonsense.”

In her latest interview, Nicole Forrester says she had sex with Duhamel in an Atlanta hotel a week after he came into the Tattletale club, where she works as a dancer. Forrester says she has text messages and polygraph test to back her up.

“We did hook up and had lots of sex and we had a really, really good time,” Forrester told Atlanta radio station Q100’s “Bert Show” on Monday.

Forrester, who originally sold her story to the National Enquirer for more than $20,000, says she now regrets coming forward because her children, a daughter, 10, and son, 13, hadn’t known she was a stripper.

“My son’s like: Mom are you doing anything different now? He doesn’t want me to do this anymore. He doesn’t want me to dance and I feel like I can’t dance,” she says. “I feel like people are just looking at me. It’s just bad. It’s just an uncomfortable situation with my children and all their friends know.”

But when the National Enquirer told her that it would run the story with or without her cooperation, she agreed to an interview and a polygraph, which she says she passed.

“It’s the truth,” she says. “I’m not lying about anything. I have nothing to hide and he’s just guilty as I am.”

[From People]

Meanwhile, Radar has an interview with “polygraph expert” Kenneth E. Blackstone, who conducted Nicole Forrester’s (the stripper’s) polygraph test for the Enquirer. Blackstone claims that Nicole was telling the truth:

Blackstone is a board-certified polygraph examiner and expert witness regarding the proper use of polygraph in civil, clinical and criminal testing settings about allegations of rape, child molestation, child abuse, and child homicide. He has thirty years of experience and has conducted more than 15,000 examinations and has more than one hundred court appearances as an expert witness. He conducted the polygraph test of Forrester at his headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Blackstone tells RadarOnline.com, “In my 30 year career I have conducted between 15,000 and 20,000 polygraph examinations. The polygraph examination showed Nicole Forrester was being non-deceptive, telling the truth when she answered my questions. One of those questions was had she had sex with Josh Duhamel. And she answered yes.”

Forester’s account of Duhamel in her strip club has been verified by another eyewitness. And RadarOnline.com has learned that there are other incendiary charges affecting both Forester and Duhamel – charges that haven’t become public YET. Story developing.

[From Radar]

I’ve said before, once I read the full story in the Enquirer, I believed that Josh had cheated. I’m not saying the stripper is being 100% honest, but I do think she and Josh had sex. I’d really like to hear Fergie’s thoughts on this whole thing. If she married Josh knowing that he had a zipper problem, and she’s willing to stick by him, then God bless. But if she is just taking his denials at face value, I’m worried for her. Poor Fergie.

UPDATE: I told you guys that Us Weekly would have the dirt! Us Weekly just released their excerpt of this week’s cover story, and it’s pretty hardcore. Nicole Forrester’s lawyer claims that Nicole didn’t seek out the Enquirer, they came to her, offering to pay for her story. Apparently, they knew about the affair because, in the lawyer’s words, “Josh bragged about what happened on the set of his movie [Life As We Know It], and someone called the Enquirer with the tip. The Enquirer then came to Nicole.”

Us Weekly also reports that “various women” have come forward “across the country” claiming to have had sex with Josh. Us Weekly reports: “During San Francisco’s JV on Wild 94.9 radio show on Oct. 30, a woman named Serena called in to say that while the then-engaged actor was filming the Transformers sequel at a New Mexico Air Force base in 2008, he slept with her best friend who was stationed there. “She also said she knew two other people whom he hooked up with,” the program’s producer, Jon Manuel, tells Us Weekly.”

Meanwhile, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas says: “We know the story is bulls–t. When you’re as famous as Fergie and Josh, people are going to say stuff.” And Fergie’s friends claim that “Fergie says nothing is wrong. Every time I ask her how married life is, she says, ‘Awesome!'” Another friend adds: “Josh told her it didn’t happen, and she believes him.” Poor Fergie.

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