Trust nobody
teacher on `Millionaire' also promoted `C-P!'
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By JIM WALSH
Courier-Post Staff
I've always suspected reality shows aren't exactly real.
So, I was only mildly surprised when the construction worker posing as a rich guy on Joe Millionaire turned out to be an underwear model.
And I was amused to learn that Sarah Kozer, the oh-so- sophisticated blonde who's one of two finalists for Joe's affections, has appeared in fetish and bondage films.
So much for her career in "sales and design."
But I'm aghast at the secret past of Joe Millionaire's other girlfriend, New Jersey's own Zora Aldrich.
The shy, sensitive substitute teacher from Lambertville. The 29-year-old brunette who's so modest she wore a tank top over her bikini during a not-so-hot-tub scene.
Well, I have a videotape of this same woman prancing around in a negligee - in public.
And oh the horror: She's doing this in an ad for the Courier-Post.
It seems Zora has been an actress-model in this area for several years. And before Fox-TV sent her to a chateau in the French countryside, we put her outside a generic house in Gloucester Township.
Zora appeared in a TV ad campaign in early 2001 touting doorstep delivery of the Courier-Post. In one spot, a sleepy-looking woman in a bathrobe opens her door, ADVERTISEMENT - CLICK TO ENLARGE
reaches for the paper - and encounters Zora and a male model in their undies.
Now, speaking of reality TV, this doesn't actually happen to many readers. Instead, the scene's a metaphor " for all the different things that we put on your doorstep each day," says Carl Lovern, the paper's director of market development.
And since a more literal approach to this paper's contents might put people like me on your porch in a thong, I'm all for Carl's creative vision.
Lovern recalls Zora as an easygoing professional who didn't let the day's subfreezing temperatures affect her performance.
But modest? Not really.
"She was trying on different negligees with no problem," he says.
And Zora's agent, Annie Holvey, says her client is nothing like the near-zombie shown on painful-looking dates on Joe Millionaire.
"I asked her about that," says Holvey. "She said, ` Annie, you can't believe how much they edit out.'"
The charade ends tonight, when Joe - who's actually Evan - makes a final choice and a confession. But Fox is promising one last twist.
I'd like the show to end with Zora and Sarah wandering through the chateau, searching for Evan. They throw open the front door - and find him embracing his true love.
No, not the butler.
Instead, it's Spot News, this paper's mascot.
Hey, it's fresh. It's kinky.
And it just screams "doorstep delivery."
I remember why I don't have many female friends. 
