The Sun, Britain's most gossip-y publication, printed a story last August that put Teri Hatcher in a van, having sex with some guy right outside of her house. And now the paper is pretty much saying that they made it up, it isn't true, and that they're really, really sorry.
The Sun now admits the article was "totally incorrect" and regrets "the embarrassment caused" to the Desperate Housewives star, reports the Associated Press.
Hatcher's London-based legal firm, Schillings, said the Sun had agreed to pay undisclosed damages as well as Hatcher's court costs. It also said the celebrity magazine Heat agreed to apologize for printing the same allegations in August.
See, that's how gossip works on the other side of the ocean — the papers pay the people they write about. Not the other way around.
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