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It was just a year ago that Real Housewives of DC star Tareq Salahi reported his wife Michaele missing and kidnapped. It soon emerged that the now 47-year-old blonde had run off with her 'friend' of many years, guitarist from the rock band Journey Neal Schon. ******* The Salahis gained national attention in November 2009 by crashing a White House state dinner in honor of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

OK, so it may not have worked out quite to plan for Michaele and Tareq Salahi. Their reality TV hopes look, if possible, ever more desperate in the light of today’s reports suggesting they’ve been busted trying to settle a $2,000 debt with a fake designer watch. But hey, at least, in the words of White House Party Crashers, they got to “shake their booties with the most powerful people in America!” And newly beefed-up White House security needn’t stop you doing the same, since AddictingGames (the online genius’ behind ‘Tiger Parking Slam’) have just launched this new game based...

Should we have seen this one coming? The watch Tareq Salahi turned over last week to satisfy a debt owed to a landscaper is a fake, according to court records and the jeweler asked to authenticate it. Ray Cosey told our colleague James Hohmann he knew the timepiece - said to be a fancy Patek Philippe, which can cost more than $15,000 - was a phony the second he saw it.... Cosey, in the business for 36 years, appraised it at about $100. Presumably, this shouldn't be a problem anymore for landscaper Mike Dunbar, who took the Salahis to court...