Alycia Lane – the twice-divorced TV anchorwoman who got into hot water sending bikini photos of herself to married NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen – has a new pal: Channel 2 news anchor Chris Wragge.
A source says Wragge, who is married to Swedish bombshell Victoria Silvstedt, has gotten cozy with Lane, an anchor and reporter with KYW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia.
Indeed, on Aug. 15, a Post photographer spotted Lane leaving her Philly apartment at 2:45 p.m. to walk her two dogs. She then left to do her evening news shift. A few hours later, at 6:30 p.m., a casually dressed Wragge exited Lane’s home to take the same pooches for a stroll. He then returned to Lane’s pad.
Wragge’s wife, a former Playboy Playmate, has been touring Europe for the past several weeks.
Neither Wragge nor Lane responded to calls or e-mails. Mike Nelson, a WCBS-TV spokesman, said: “Chris and Alycia are longtime friends. Alycia went to school with one of Chris’ best friends . . . Alycia is divorced, and Chris is legally separated and in the process of getting divorced.”
The source said, “They went from e-mails to a torrid love affair. They have even talked marriage already. They want to be together but are afraid of what people will think because Chris isn’t divorced and Alycia is just divorced.”
The source said Wragge reached out to Lane after reading about her saucy exploits in Page Six. Earlier this year, the freshly divorced brunette made waves when she sent bikini snapshots of herself to Eisen that were intercepted by his wife, sports reporter Suzy Shuster.
Shuster fired back a catty note that read: “Boy, do you look amazing in a bikini . . . congrats! . . . Surely [you] are trying so hard to get his attention. I mean, what better way to get a guy’s attention than with skin!”
The red-faced Lane then begged Shuster for forgiveness, writing: “Oh, my God. I think you’re misconstruing this. [Rich and I] are friends, and I don’t think you know that. This is absolutely innocent. Please, let me put your mind at ease.”
The source said Lane, a Long Island native, and Wragge have a busy travel schedule in the coming weekends – they plan to visit her family in North Carolina and are set for a Hamptons getaway to see Lane’s pal, TV cutie Trish Bergin, one of Billy Joel’s former girlfriends.
Nelson denied they are planning those trips.
Bergin told The Post: “I’ve known Alycia and Chris forever. I’m having a bunch of TV friends over for a barbecue. No big deal, though.”
Wragge married Silvstedt – a 1997 Playboy Playmate of the Year and one-time member of the Swedish National Ski Team – in June 2000.
Lane’s first marriage, to minor-league baseball player Dino Calandriello, lasted three years. In 2004, as she was divorcing him, she made a dramatic appearance on “Dr. Phil” to discuss her heartache. She was also briefly married to insurance executive Jay Adkins.