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 Dishonorable antics ax AFI guest of honor O'Brien
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Friday, March 25, 2005 - Updated: 11:13 AM EST
Tawdry allegations of sex harassment, kinky voice mails, very unpolitically correct office banter and a trip to rehab have apparently caused the American Ireland Fund peeps to rethink their plan to honor ``The Insider'' host Pat O'Brien on Nantucket this summer.

     The charity's Web site had advertised a July 30 ``Nantucket Celebration'' with O'Brien as the guest of honor until the Track made an inquiry about it yesterday afternoon. Then lo and behold, it became a plain old ``Nantucket Celebration'' - sans Pat.

     We have a feeling O'Brien's probably being disinvited to a lot of events this week in the wake of his decision to check himself into rehab. His trip up the 12 Steps was followed by reports in the New York tabs that alleged the tabloid TV star boasted about a penchant for wild sex, drugs and hookers and posed for a raaather embarrassing photo.

     One Insider told the New York Daily News O'Brien was reprimanded several times for sexual harassment while working on rival show ``Access Hollywood'' and that O'Brien once licked co-host Nancy O'Dell's face at a Christmas party.

     He also allegedly made derogatory remarks to gay and black co-workers, left sexually explicit voice-mail messages on a galpal's machine begging her for a three-way, and once groped a female reporter's behind, the newspapers say.

     The New York Post reports that the galpal's ex-husband is also in the mix and may have a picture of the hair-plug happy host in a ``compromising'' solo position that he might sell.

     None of which would fit at the American Ireland Fund's veddy swank, veddy snooty seaside soiree!

     ``He's known here as a failed skirt chaser,'' said one Nantucket res. ``He's always at The Pearl in that same black Italian T-shirt, hitting on the girls. Obviously, there was a lack of due diligence.''