Tiger update…..

What’s next for Tiger Woods, and can Oprah save him? Tigergate continues as his various mistresses continue to cash in by telling all about the “Tiger” experience. The latest count of women is closing in on ten, and there have been reports of alcohol and prescription drug use. Woods’ life changed instantly when he crashed his car on Thanksgiving night and opened a huge can of worms. Who knew Woods was such a playboy? Who knew a recession would cause women to sell him out for money? Since his knee surgery last year, is Tiger hooked on prescription meds? So far, only one company, Gatorade, has dropped him from endorsement deals. Will others follow? Experts feel Tiger should lay low. His rankings among women are horrible. He is seen as a liar and a cheat, and who wants to support that? Oprah Winfrey has reached out to offer support and advice. At this point, she is probably the only one who can help get Woods back in the good graces of women. There is also his identity problem. When Tiger denied his blackness, referring to himself as caublanasian, he turned a lot of African Americans off. There has been no support from the African American community because Tiger thinks he’s colorless. I guess he’s figuring it out now! At this point, he has a major identity crisis going on, and he needs to lay low and try to repair his family. The mistress payoffs are not going to help his image. Tiger needs to find out who he is and reconnect to his family.

Tiger’s Wife Buys Island in Sweden. Tigers Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, is not wasting time using some of that alleged “stick around” money. According to Sphere.com, she’s bought a $2.2 million dollar castle that has no road to it. She’s probably looking to fill a moat with gators and electric eels and retreat there with her man and dare his “harem” to show up. She’ll push them in it.

ONE OF TIGER’S WOMEN APOLOGIZES: ‘I couldn’t describe how remorseful that I am to have hurt her family and her emotionally,’ said Jaimee Grubbs. California cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs, one of the women alleged to have had “transgressions” with Tiger Woods, has apologized to the golfer and his wife Elin Nordegren in an interview with TV show “Extra.” “I couldn’t describe how remorseful that I am to have hurt her family and her emotionally,” Grubbs said in Wednesday’s broadcast. “If it wasn’t me, it was going to be other girls. …I did care about him — I didn’t do it for superficial reasons. I didn’t do it to purposely hurt her.” Grubbs earlier told gossip magazine Us Weekly that she had a 31-month affair with Woods, and presented voice and text messages as proof. The 24-year-old, who said she last saw the athlete on Oct. 18, added she was especially hurt by reports of his affairs with other women. Woods made her “feel like I was the only girl,” Grubbs told Extra, so hearing about the other women “was devastating. It hurts.” Nevertheless Grubbs thinks Woods and his wife should “try to work” out their relationship. If not? “I can’t say that I would ever go back to him,” Grubbs said. “I would definitely have a relationship with him … but as far as going back to him emotionally like I was — I don’t know if I can put myself through that again.” If she had a chance, “I would tell him that no part of our relationship was fake and I cared for him,” Grubbs told Extra. “I am sorry that everything is coming out and happening the way it did, but I needed to get everything off my chest.”

Tiger Gets Order Blocking Nude Photos, Videos. TMZ is reporting that Tiger’s British lawyers have obtained a court order from the High Court in London, prohibiting British publications from publishing any nude photos and videos of the golfer. Essentially UK media outlets are on notice that the court order “prevents the publication of private and confidential information contained in the Order…. this Order is not to be taken as any admission that any such photographs exist, and in the event they do exist they may have been fabricated, altered, manipulated and/or changed to create the false appearance and impression that they are nude photographs of our client.”

PLAYGIRL OPTS AGAINST NUDE TIGER PICS: Magazine says it received photos of someone appearing to be golfer, but could not verify authenticity. A rep for Playgirl says it will not publish a series of photos that appears to show Tiger Woods in the buff. Daniel Nardicio, the director of marketing for the online adult magazine (which plans to re-launch a print version in the spring), told People.com his magazine received photos of a man who looks like Woods, but “Playgirl has decided to turn down the alleged Tiger Woods nude photos, reportedly taken by camera phone by Woods himself. They were impossible to one 100 percent verify, hence the unwillingness to go there.” Nardicio added that Playgirl’s editorial policy tends to favor shoots that have the blessing of the subject. “This is a prime example of the direction Playgirl does not want to take,” Nardicio said. “I prefer subjects who are willing.” Last week, TMZ.com reported that Woods’ lawyers in Britain secured a court order barring British publications from printing naked pictures or videos of the golfer. News of the order, issued by the High Court of London, has been circulated by Woods’ lawyers to British publications and blogs, according TMZ. The letter stresses, however, that the order is not an “admission that any such photographs exist.”

GILLETTE TO ‘PHASE OUT’ TIGER WOODS: Parent company P&G to stop running print and broadcast ads featuring golfer. Following the decision of consulting company Accenture to remove its main pitchman, Tiger Woods, from its website, Procter & Gamble Co announced it will begin phasing the golfer out of promotions for its Gillette brand. Company spokesman Mike Norton said they will stop running print and broadcast ads featuring Woods, and will phase out Web site and retail promotions in the coming months. “As Tiger takes a break from the public eye, we will support his desire for privacy by limiting his role in our marketing program,” Gillette said in a statement on Saturday. AT&T, also a Tiger sponsor, said in a statement Sunday that “we are presently evaluating our ongoing relationship.” As previously reported, Gatorade was the first of Tiger’s major sponsors to jump ship in the wake of his “transgressions” scandal, although, the company claims it had made the decision in the week prior to news of his alleged extramarital affairs.

Accenture kicks Tiger to the curb, too: Accenture also announced Sunday that it’s ending its six-year sponsorship of Tiger Woods. In a statement at its website, Accenture says that “given the circumstances of the last two weeks, after careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising.”

TIGER MISTRESS SAYS SHE WAS THERE WHEN HIS DAD DIED: Jamie Jungers says ‘I didn’t want to be in the way so I arranged a flight home to Vegas.’ One of Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses claims she was in bed with him at his Florida home in 2006 when he received the call that his father lost his battle with cancer. “I was beside him wearing nothing but a pair of panties,” Jamie Jungers, 26, tells London’s News of the World. Jungers tells the tabloid that she and Woods, 33, had sex after he returned from visiting his father for the last time at a hospice. “When he came back, I could see he was preoccupied and worried about his dad – but when we went to bed he still wanted to have sex as usual,” said the Las Vegas cocktail waitress. “Tiger looked utterly devastated and didn’t say a word. He didn’t even cry but I could tell he was heartbroken. I told him, ‘I’m so sorry’ and gave him a hug. I didn’t want to be in the way so I arranged a flight home to Vegas.” On Friday, Woods confessed to “infidelity” for the first time before announcing he is taking an indefinite break from golf to “focus attention on being a better husband, father, and person.”

MEDIA FOCUS TURNS TOWARD TIGER’S CADDIE: Steve Williams issues a statement distancing himself from scandal. Tiger Woods’ caddie Steve Williams told a newspaper in his native New Zealand that the golfer’s extra-marital affairs have put media pressure on his own wife and family. “My head is in a spin right now, mate,” Williams told Sunday News. “The media has made it very difficult for my family. There is no question about it. Obviously, I understand Tiger has got a problem. And we [Woods and Williams] discussed that.” Williams repeated he had no knowledge of Woods’ long list of lovers, and said anyone who doubted his sincerity didn’t understand that the “indiscretions” happened while Williams was back with family in New Zealand. “What people fail to realize is I [just] work for Tiger Woods,” he said. “I live in New Zealand, I travel to and from New Zealand to caddie for Tiger Woods. I am not with him 24/7. Whilst I am a very good friend of his… I don’t know what he does off the course. Some nights we go to dinner. His indiscretions have probably been [when he wasn't playing]. “When he is not competing, I am back in New Zealand. I have no knowledge of what he is doing. Yes, I talk to him on the phone, ask him how his practice is going, how he is hitting the ball, how his family is, [but] I don’t know what he is doing, just like he doesn’t know what I am doing.” Williams came under fire from ESPN, The Magazine columnist Rick Reilly, who wrote that the caddie was among those who would have to go if Woods was to save his badly-damaged marriage to former Swedish model Elin Nordegren. “[Woods] needs to clean house,” Reilly wrote. “If he wants to keep his wife, he has to get a new agent, a new caddie and some new friends. …It’s hard to believe all this went on without their help or knowledge. …How can she see them as anything but enablers?” Williams strongly refuted Reilly’s suggestions. “I had no knowledge of what Tiger’s indiscretion was. And for Rick Reilly to turn around and say that I am a liar and there is no way I couldn’t know – and that I should be fired – that is sensational journalism at its height right there. “I am an honest person. I had no knowledge of what was going on [with Tiger]. If I did, I would say I did.”

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