{"id":4635,"date":"2019-01-21T04:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2019-01-21T04:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:06:50","slug":"chris-hansen-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/chris-hansen-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say bad things come in threes \u2013 unless you\u2019re referring to the triplets from Bratislava I vacationed with in Fort Lauderdale last week.&nbsp; We have a trio of bad stories about&nbsp;<strong>Chris Hansen<\/strong>, the former NBC anchor best known for hosting&nbsp;<strong><em>To Catch a Predator<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; First we heard he\u2019s being evicted from his New York City apartment where he hasn\u2019t paid rent since August (his rent is $3,600\/month, quite reasonable by NYC standards).&nbsp; Then we found out he\u2019s been charged with \u201cissuing bad checks\u201d \u2013 which might explain why he hasn\u2019t paid rent.&nbsp; Turns out, the problem goes back to 2015 when Hansen was trying to relaunch&nbsp;<em>To Catch a Predator<\/em>&nbsp;via&nbsp;<em>Kickstarter&nbsp;<\/em>with a campaign target of $75K \u2013 or, what he calls roughly two years of rent!&nbsp; Contributors were promised various perks, including some custom-made shirts, mugs, etc.&nbsp; The guy he hired to make the&nbsp;<em>tchotchkes&nbsp;<\/em>was paid with a bad check\u2026to the tune of $13K!&nbsp; But, here\u2019s the kicker (so to speak) \u2013 the fundraising brought in $89K, which means Hansen got to keep the money.&nbsp; What did contributors receive?&nbsp; The phrase that comes to mind is, \u201cI Contributed to Chris Hansen\u2019s Kickstarter Campaign and I Didn\u2019t Even Get a T-Shirt!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest twist is that Hansen\u2019s wife&nbsp;<strong>Mary Joan&nbsp;<\/strong>filed for divorce after 30 years of marriage.&nbsp; I\u2019m shocked she hung in there this long.&nbsp; I thought she\u2019d have left Chris back in 2011 when the&nbsp;<em>National Enquirer<\/em>&nbsp;got a video showing him in a hotel with a reporter 20 years his junior.&nbsp; Back then, the only one who dumped him was&nbsp;<em>NBC&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 where he\u2019d been for 20 years.&nbsp; He probably convinced his wife he only stopped by for some lemonade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say bad things come in threes \u2013 unless you\u2019re referring to the triplets from Bratislava I vacationed with in Fort Lauderdale last week.&nbsp; We have a trio of bad stories about&nbsp;Chris Hansen, the former NBC anchor best known for hosting&nbsp;To Catch a Predator.&nbsp; First we heard he\u2019s being evicted from his New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}