Alan Peppard

Thanks to the Internet, where a right to privacy is sooo 2006, we can all look inside the home that Tony Romo just purchased in Cottonwood Valley. It is a shagadelic pad where one presumes he will entertain Jessica Simpson.

Gossip site TMZ.com has the best selection of photos under the heading "Romo to Jess: Don't Be a Homewrecker."

The word is that Tony paid less than $700,000 for the 5,500-square-foot stucco house near Valley Ranch.

Don't miss the pics of the master bath with a sunken black bathtub right in the middle of the room. It looks like something Hef would have used to entertain Barbi Benton circa 1971.

Last year, Tony signed a $67.5 million contract. He might get tens of millions more in endorsements, but he stayed in an apartment with a roommate. Once home prices dipped, he bought a reasonable house that is close to work and close to the golf course.

The guy is smart.

I've known Bobby Goldstein, creator of the Dallas-based Cheaters TV show, since college. While no one who knows him would call him Churchillian – he has been indicted, disbarred and repeatedly sued – it is fair to say that Bobby never, never, never gives up. That quality led to the creation of Cheaters, in which his film crews and gumshoes follow adulterous spouses and then confront them on camera. The show now runs in 198 markets and in 100 countries.

He and his pal, restaurateur Gene Street, are about to expand the Cheaters franchise to include a new show called Divorce Party, which just filmed its third pilot at the Hyatt Regency downtown.

"After the divorce we film the man and the woman for weeks, gathering material," says Gene. "Then we throw each of them a lavish party with reporters at each party. Next, we get them all together and watch the fireworks.

"The viewing audience will vote on who really caused the divorce," says Gene. "The person who did not cause the divorce gets a nice payday. We are asking all of the family lawyers to suggest recent divorced couples to 'Come on down!' and air their sides, make some money and get their 15 minutes."

How did Bobby and Gene hatch this audacious plan?

"Between the two of us, we have seven divorces," Gene says. "We're experts."

To add star power, one of Bobby and Gene's first Divorce Party subjects is Hunter Carson, son of Texas screenwriter L.M. "Kit" Carson, and actress Karen Black (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby).

Karen, who picked up a Grammy nomination for her work in the film Nashville, flew to Dallas for the filming and even sang the song "Me and Bobby McGee" on camera.

"Great and good are seldom the same man." Winston Churchill