Tucker and Sherry, in happier days

Former New York Giants first-round draft pick and north county developer Tucker Frederickson has been hit by a divorce filing.

His wife of 22 years and the mother of his four children, homemaker Sherry Frederickson, filed in Palm Beach County family court last month and alleges that he squandered marital assets on people other than her.

Sherry, 51, claims her relationship with the college football hall of famer has undergone “an irretrievable breakdown” and their marital bond was severed.

She also accuses Tucker, 68, an All-American at Auburn University in 1964, of “dissipating assets by conferring them upon associates, relatives, paramours.”

Said Sherry’s attorney, Stuart’s Josh Ferraro: “We’re hoping we can resolve this matter quickly and quietly.”

Tucker’s lawyer didn’t return calls for comment but his response to the divorce petition shows he denies wasting marital dollars and keeping galpals.

Still, Sherry wants “a disproportionate” share of the marital assets because she always depended on Tucker for financial support.

She also wants the couple’s $1.5 million home at Seminole Landing, the fancy North Palm Beach community that golfer Tiger Woods‘ ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, now calls home.

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Heigl, made up!

Actress Katherine Heigl wasn’t looking anything like what fans have come to expect (right) from the former Grey’s Anatomye beauty recently in Miami Beach.

No matter! The makeup-free, sun-baked film and TV star,  above with hubby and singer/songwriter Josh Kelley, still seemed to have a good time.

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The couple vacationed in SoFla after Heigl wrapped up her part in New Year’s Eve, a big-screen fare starring Robert DeNiro.

Not too far from Camp Heigl, meanwhile, The Real Housewives of New York City’s Kelly Killoren Bensimon (below) wouldn’t be caught dead without eyeliner and base, even on the sand. She graciously posed for the Page2Live shutterbug while packing it in for the night.

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Even with a brand-new business administration degree from the University of Miami, Robert Riva hasn’t really been in high demand on the job market.

So he did the next best thing to getting a job: He used his boyish good looks, soulful eyes and fancy Palm Beach breeding and set out to be a reality TV star!

Riva, 22, is expected to become one of the main staples on a trashy-but-popular reality fare, Love Games. How trashy? Well, the house where the action takes place boasts a “boom-boom room.” Season 2, taped in the winter, premieres on the women’s cable network Oxygen on April 18.

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The program’s premise: Natalie Nunn, Lea Beaulieu and Amber Buhl, stars from Oxygen’s scandalous The Bad Girls Club, are vying for the affection of 15 boys. By the eighth and final episode, only one of the girls and a boy are left and viewers try to figure out if the relationship will last.

As Riva puts it: “It’s the poor man’s (The) Bachelor.”

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Riva, a graduate of Palm Beach Day School and Benjamin School, is the son of well-known marketing exec Maribel Alvarez. He knows instinctively the kind of exposure he could receive from the average million-plus of viewers per episode, especially when involved in on-air challenges that include doing jumping jacks in his Speedos.

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Where the Boys Are actress singer and actress Connie Francis (above), aka Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, was honored by Il Circolo, the Italian American Society of the Palm Beaches, as Woman of the Year Sunday night in Palm Beach.

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The group picked Francis, 72, as her 1950-60s songs found renewed interest over the past months because of the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking teen cult movie.

To a male fan at a table who shouted “We love you!,” an unflappable Francis replied: “I love you, too! Where were you when I married all those stiffs?” (Francis was married and divorced four times.)

The singer of such classics as Who’s Sorry Now and Where’s Your Heart lives part-time in a downtown West Palm Beach highrise.

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Among the 200-plus at the wingding: Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach Bishop Gerald Barbarito; Consul General of Italy Marco Rocca; and Palm Beach philanthropist John Scarpa.

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– Fort Lauderdale’s declares Connie Francis Day

– The Historical Society of Palm Beach County’s Antique Row walk

– The Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s first Palm Beach gala

– The Everglades Foundation Gala, with Kenny Chesney

Blumenkopf

Today personality Hoda Kotb has been trying her darnedest to keep her new man’s identity under the radar, but even her best isn’t good enough for Page2Live.

Meet Boca Raton lawyer and single dad of two Jay Blumenkopf, the corporate law guru who, sources say, has been sharing the NBC morning star’s life for the past six months.

With Kathie Lee Gifford on Today’s fourth hour Monday through Friday, the oft-imitated (on Saturday Night Live) but-never-duplicated Hoda has been squawking about how sweet and gentlemanly her “Jay” is.

Never, however, has she mentioned his last name.

But insiders at the New York/Boca lawfirm of Yoss LLP tell me Blumenkopf has been telling his colleagues he’s da man!

“You could say he’s pretty proud of himself,” one informant told me. “So he makes no secret of it.”

Hoda (right) and Gifford last November (Bruce Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)

When I called Hoda, 46, in her New York City condo to confirm, what had started as a pleasant conversation was cut short when I brought up Blumenkopf’s name. Hoda’s publicist declined comment. And neither Blumenkopf nor his daughters have returned calls or emails.

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