clear. there is no question what went down. sanders is married with two kids. his wife of almost nine years was also in snow white and the huntsman. surveys actually suggest cheaters are in the minority, just 16% of married men and women according to one study. in fact the survey suggests men and women are equally likely to cheat. as animals we approach it differently. women are more likely to come clean. and more likely to initiate divorce. kristin did apologize for the hurt and embarrassment the affair caused. this momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person i love and respect the most, rob. i love him. i love him. i m so sorry. bella swan could not have put it any better. i m david wright in hollywood. ironically, a couple months ago, robert told italian vanity fair, there is a thing i never got.
married man, the director of her latest film. here is david wright with more. reporter: right now, actor, teen heartthrob, robert pattison might be wishing his twilight character hadn t bothered to block the swerving chevy minivan because his love interest on and off the screen in the vampire saga, the actress who plays bella swan confirmed she s been cheating on him. say it out loud? say it. reporter: kristin stewart came clean, driving a stake through the heart of every teenage girl who pines for edward. and more particularly through the heart of the actor who played edward, rob pattinson. he said he wants to marry her. i think this is devastating for her. reporter: who is the other guy? turns out it s a guy old enough to be her father. 41-year-old rupert sanders who directed stewart in snow white and the huntsman. paparazzi caught the two, in a public park overlooking the hollywood sign. this week, us weekly published the pictures. the photos in us weekly are
torrential rains leave parts of the gulf coast flooded with more wet weather expected later on today. good morning, everybody. welcome to the monday edition of early start, i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. the united states secretary of commerce, john bryson cited for felony hit and run after a series of crashes this weekend. christine romans has been working this story. she joins us with the live latest. this is shocking news. it s not very often you hear the commerce secretary involved in a felony hit and run investigation. according to the police and the l.a. times and the pasadena star this all happened in california, around 5:00 p.m. he rear-ended a car that was stopped waiting for a crossing train. bryson in his lexus pulled over, told the driver the other car something to the effect of let s exchange our information, but then instead, accordin
greg: welcome back to meet the press. [ laughter ] some little people are pissed off they cast non-dwarf actors as dwarfs in snow white and the huntsman. faces were added to the bodies and robbing tiny actors of roles and that appalls those not tall like actor danny woodburn who tells the new york post owned by the parent company awesome people incorporated it s like white actors dawning black face. baloney. this is an attack on the tiny. what is worse, that some of our nation s biggest little people aren t speaking up. where is tom cruise? dennis kucinich? danny devito? dana perino?
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