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As the recent shenanigans of Tiki Barber and Traci Lynn Johnson remind us, celebrity infidelity and breakups sell magazines and drive gossip on the Web. Tiger Woods and Jesse James may never see the end of their sex-news cycles, and the Jim Carrey/Jenny McCarthy breakup has recently been announced on Twitter. The Peeping Toms of the world can’t get enough.

In the case of the Tiki Barber girlfriend from NBC, Traci Lynn Johnson, Barber is leaving his wife of more than a decade, Ginny Barber, so he can be with Ms. Johnson. What makes this situation even more disturbing is that Ginny Barber is eight months pregnant with twins, according to the New York Post. This will be the 3rd and 4th children from their marriage. Sons A.J. and Chason are 7 and 6 years old, respectively, too young for the world of payday loans and auto loans, let alone cheating fathers.

Traci Lynn Johnson is an NBC intern at NBC, where Tiki’s a sports commentator

At age 35, Tiki Barber apparently likes them young. Sure it’s not a disgusting age difference, but it’s definitely significant know Traci Lynn Johnson is 23. According to Huliq, Tiki Barber girlfriend Traci Lynn Johnson has accompanied the former NFL running back in recent months to Senegal for a Travel Channel documentary and was with him in Vancouver as he blogged the Vancouver Winter Olympics for Yahoo.com. A family friend, whose name was not mentioned, told the Post he was “shocked to find out that (Tiki Barber) could walk out on his wife of 11 years while she’s pregnant with twins.”

Tiki Barber’s statement

In a press conference, Tiki Barber kept it simple, perhaps so as not to jam his foot into his mouth:

“After 11 years of marriage, Ginny Barber and I have decided to separate. This decision was a painful one, but we are moving forward amicably and will continue to work together to raise our children with the love and dedication they have always known.”

On behalf of Tiki Barber’s intense pain, Traci Lynn Johnson has not commented publicly.

“I want to be an honorable man” says Tiki

In his 2007 memoir “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond,” that’s exactly what Tiki Barber had said, but it appears the part “beyond” is now trickier than what he’d expected. He revealed to the New York Post back in 2004 the disappointments he had with his father’s abandonment, and now he’s doing the same thing to his children. Tiki hopes he will provide the very support soon-to-be ex-wife Ginny Barber needs and that amicable visitation can be arranged.

Children deserve both parents in their lives, and parents owe it to their children to be present in their lives. It matters little what Tiki Barber and girlfriend Traci Lynn Johnson choose to do with their own personal time. Yet the those thing should never come between him being a father, provided that father is, indeed, an honorable man.