The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck broke down on the show this morning during an apology to sportscaster Erin Andrews.

Hasselbeck explains how her daughter compelled her to apologize to Andrews after Hasselback made a somewhat tasteless crack about her high-profile peephole stalking case. Hasselbeck originally poked fun at Andrews’ skimpy on-show wardrobe, saying:

“In light of what happened and as a legal [matter] — and as inexcusable as it was for that horrific guy to go in and try to peep on her in her hotel room,” Hasselbeck said. “I mean, in some way if I’m him, I’m like, ‘Man! I just could’ve waited 12 weeks and seen this — a little bit less — without the prison time!’”

After she learned of Hasselbeck’s remarks yesterday, Andrews deemed them “a slap in the face to victims of stalking and sexual predators.” Andrews also said:

“The thing that I was most upset about is I felt she was mocking a situation,” she said. “As a mother and a woman, I’m disappointed she went there.”

Clips of Hasselbeck’s teary apology are not readily available, but you can watch the original statements Hasselbeck made below.

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The man accused of secretly filming sportscaster Erin Andrews in eight videos later posted on the internet has been arrested at Chicago O’Hare airport.

Michael David Barrett, 48, was taken into custody and held on charges of interstate stalking. The FBI discovered that Barrett checked into the same hotel as Andrews in Nashville in September 2008, requesting a room adjacent to her and using his home address. The peephole on Andrews’ room was tampered with and a total of eight videos were recorded in two separate hotel rooms.

Barrett attempted to sell the eight videos to TMZ, whose employees assisted in the investigation. He faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted.

[CNN]

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Oh, snap!

Earlier this week, the venerable NYC-area paper of record the New York Post posted some stills of the internet sensation Erin Andrews peephole video and published them in print. Despite the sensitive handling of the story- (quote: ESPN HOTTIE ERIN ANDREWS IN PEEP SHOCKER, NUDE HOTEL VIDEO SPLASHED ONLINE) ESPN has banned the Post and any staffers from the network following the coverage. In a statement, senior VP of communications Chris LaPlaca explained the decision:

“While we understand the Post’s decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism.”

So, did the Post respond with a well-worded reply? Nah- they decided to address the matter as all esteemed journalistic professionals might- on Page Six. In the gossip column, the Post contends that Andrews would have gone un-ID’d in the salacious video had ESPN not outed the sportscaster in a legal letter.

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Erin Andrews, popular reporter and blogger for ESPN is back in the news this week after the owner of a site uploaded video of her taken through a peephole while she was nude.

The Erin Andrews Peephole Video was uploaded to the site, NSFWpoa.com, yesterday with the description written as “Hot naked blonde who looks a lot like a sports blogger favorite in her hotel room.” Attorneys for ESPN immediately sent the owners of the site a threatening notice warning them to remove the video and they complied.

It’s not yet known whether anyone saved and re-uploaded the video clip, but chances are it’ll turn up soon, if it hasn’t already. Some surfers are claiming that the Erin Andrews Peephole Video can still be accessed in Google cache, and there also hundreds of clips showing up on Youtube claiming to be the real video, but are nothing more than people trying to get view and subscriptions to their own videos.

Erin Andrews was in the news just last week after she attended a baseball game where she was hit on the chin with a foul ball.

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