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According to a piece in the Chicago Sun-Times titled, “Don’t get Fergie started,” things “got a little testy backstage at ‘Saturday Night Live’ this weekend when [musical guest] Fergie spied a couple of copies of People magazine — featuring the cover story about her hubby Josh Duhamel‘s alleged fling with that stripper.”

The paper goes on to report that Fergie, who performed with her band the Black Eyed Peas, threw “a mini-hissy fit,” and that she ”was in a big funk” because of lingering allegations that her husband was unfaithful.

Really?

No.

First, if you’ve been to SNL, like Gossip Cop has on more than a dozen occasions, you would know that backstage isn’t a place where copies of magazines just sit around. Everything is essentially streamlined for the sets to be moved on stage, props to be put in their proper place, and cast members to change quickly.

Second, why would old copies of People be sitting around? The Fergie-Duhamel cover story is two weeks old. (This week’s People features children who have “Vanished Without a Trace.”)

Notwithstanding, Gossip Cop checked with an SNL source, who said the Chicago Sun-Times’ story was completely made up.

And a rep for the show added, “Not true at all.”

We love when gossipers try to create drama for comedy shows.

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“Even though Josh Duhamel has denied the National Enquirer story he had a fling with a stripper,” writes Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker, “I’ve learned wife Fergie doesn’t believe him.”

The columnist reports that the couple had ”a very intense and heated” conversation about the alleged infidelity, and that Duhamel is now “definitely in the doghouse,” according to a source.

Covering all bases, the Sun-Times gossiper adds, ”But Fergie’s hanging in there — at least for the time being.”

At the time the story came out, Duhamel’s side called the allegations “absolutely ridiculous.” And they still are, which is why there aren’t any problems between the “Transformers” star and Fergie. In fact, as Gossip Cop is writing this, the two are together in Atlanta, where Duhamel is filming “Life As We Know It” with Katherine Heigl.

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Did “Transformers” star Josh Duhamel, who married Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie in January, really have a “Georgia breach” of fidelity with an Atlanta stripper?

The National Enquirer claims Duhamel “has cheated on his gorgeous new wife Fergie – secretly having a wild fling with a buxom, blonde stripper.” Nicole Forrester tells the supermarket tab she met Duhamel at Tattletales Lounge, the club where she works, and later agreed to visit him in his hotel room, where they allegedly had sex. Forrester goes on to claim the actor became worried about being caught after their night together and didn’t answer her phone calls.

Yeah, Gossip Cop isn’t buying it. The Enquirer paid Forrester for her story, and the dancer later tried to wring the tab for more money. The rag’s entire “investigation” appears to be based on her story, which features no independent eyewitnesses except the one placing Duhamel at Tattletales – a visit he’s never denied.

The Enquirer says its “investigation” “proved key parts of Nicole’s story” – but doesn’t reveal which parts or how.

Duhamel’s representative didn’t mince words when speaking with Gossip Cop, saying, “This is not the first nor will it be the last time that a stripper was paid a large amount of money to sell a false story about a celebrity. This story is absolutely ridiculous.”

After Gossip Cop stripped the story down, there seemed to be no truth to Forrester’s tattletales.