Today show contributor and NFL star Tiki Barber, 35, is pushing Jesse James and Tiger Woods out of the spotlight for a minute, in light of his announcement that he's splitting from wife Ginny, who's expecting twins next month, after the New York Post trumpeted that he's left her for a "hot" 23-year-old NBC intern.

A Miami Herald headline: "Tiki Barber: cheater du jour"

New York's Daily News reports today that Barber's girlfriend, Traci Johnson, convinced her family she was just babysitting for the ex-Giants star as their romance heated up and his marriage fell apart.

"That's what [her dad] Ernest told me," Johnson family neighbor Bob Drabik says, according to the paper. Drabik said he believed Barber wrote a letter that helped Johnson, a communications major, land an internship with NBC in 2007. A year later, Barber visited her Mount Saint Mary College campus in Newburgh, Orange County, to address students.

Barber has not commented, other than his statement yesterday announcing his split.

"After 11 years of marriage, Ginny and I have decided to separate," Barber said in a statement yesterday. "This decision was a painful one, but we are moving forward amicably and will continue to work together to raise our children with the love and dedication they have always known."

As if it was not enough that they were having an affair behind the back of Barber's pregnant wife, it has been reported by the New York Post that Traci Lynn Johnson pictures with Tiki Barber were posted by Johnson during their December 2009 Senegal, Africa trip. But soon Traci realised that it was not prudent to leave the pictures on facebook and removed all but one.

Really, I can not even begin to imagin what Ginny Barber, Tiki's wife must be going through realizing that she was made a fool of for so long while she completely trusted her husband. And Traci flaunting her affair with Tiki- definitely not in good taste at all.

Ginny is a former fashion publicist and full-time mom to the couple's two sons, A.J., 7, and Chason, 6.

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