NBC's Chris Hansen of 'To Catch a Predator' Caught on Video Cheating on Wife

The National Enquirer is getting pretty good at catching cheaters (or alleged cheaters who turn out to be actual cheaters). If they keep it up, they just might win a Pulitzer Prize. Their latest catch, 52-year-old NBC newsman Chris Hansen, seems to have been having an affair since March with a 30-year-old Florida NBC affiliate reporter, according to the tabloid's sources. But the most ironic aspect of the story is that the Enquirer has video footage from a hidden camera of Hansen with his alleged lover.

According to the tabloid's sources, Hansen has been spending time in Florida while working on a story about the disappearance of James "Jimmy T" Trindade, a sportsman who vanished after leaving the Bahamas for Florida in 2006. In fact, their sources say he has been spending more and more time in Florida, some of it in the company of Kristyn Caddell, a blonde anchor for WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Hansen spends much of the rest of his time in Connecticut with his wife Mary, 53, and two children.

Details of the expose recounted in the Daily Mail indicate that National Enquirer investigative reporters acquired video footage of the NBC "Dateline" correspondent having dinner with Caddell at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marlapan before the two went to her Palm Beach apartment. They did not resurface until 8:00 a.m. the following morning, where witnesses say they exited the apartment wearing different clothes than those they had on when they entered and with Caddell's hair looking "disheveled." Caddell then drove Hansen to the airport.

What makes the story so ironic is Hansen's claim to news-reporting fame. He is the host of the controversial and popular NBC News series of segments-turned-full-hour-investigations for the news magazine "Dateline" called "To Catch A Predator." The show, which partnered with Perverted Justice, an online group that catches child sex predators by posing online as young females and luring the predators to a rendezvous, focused on predation and capturing pedophiles. The show added the twist of a hidden camera and Hansen appearing after the "john" intent on predation had met his "date" (usually an actress), with Hansen identifying himself and questioning the would-be predator, who would be subsequently arrested.

Sources told the Enquirer that Hansen and Caddell met at a Palm Beach lounge in March. Caddell was so taken with Hansen, they said, that she spent the night in his room, boasting to friends about it later.

The Enquirer has been behind the expose of several high-profile cheating scandals in the past few years. Enquirer reporters were first to divulge that Tiger Woods was cheating on his wife with New York club manager Rachel Uchitel. That scandal allegedly sparked the events that led to the break-up and divorce and revelation of numerous alleged affairs between Woods and several -- rumored to be over a hundred -- women.

The National Enquirer also followed leads that directed them to a 2008 rendezvous between Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his former videographer Rielle Hunter. It was later disclosed she had become pregnant and bore him a child. The investigative reporting that revealed Edwards would be nominated for a 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

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