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Baywatcher Bergin Jail Bound
It's jail watch time for former Baywatch star Michael Bergin.
The actor/model is going to spend 30 days behind bars after pleading no contest to a felony drunken driving charge stemming from a July accident in which he ran over a rollerblader.
Bergin, who turns 36 on Mar. 19, appeared in a Beverly Hills courtroom Thursday to enter his plea. In addition to the jail time, Superior Court Judge Richard A. Stone sentenced Bergin to three years of probation, 60 days of community service (think roadside trash pickup) and a stint in a Mothers Against Drunk Driving program.
In exchange for his plea, a second felony charge was dropped.
According to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, the victim approved of the sentence.
The ex-Calvin Klein poster boy was tooling through West Hollywood in his 2001 GMC Yukon on July 16 when he attempted to make a left turn. Per a sheriff's report, Bergin rushed to make the turn and didn't see a group of 15 inline skaters crossing with the green light, striking the lead skater with his SUV.
The skater, a 39-year-old woman, flew up on Bergin's hood and struck his windshield. She was hospitalized with injuries to her leg and head.
Bergin was described by authorities as "extremely uncooperative," failing to submit to a field sobriety test, and was arrested.
The incident took place on the fifth anniversary of the death of Bergin's former flame, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
Best known as lifeguard J.D. on Baywatch from 1997 to 2001, Bergin's moribund career was briefly revived a year ago when he turned tell-all author and released The Other Man: A Love Story. In it, Bergin talked of romancing the pre-John F. Kennedy Jr. Bessette in New York City in the early 1990s, hooking back up with her when Bessette needed "a friend" one year into her high-profile marriage, and eventually losing touch with her in the last 14 months of her life.
Kennedy, Bessette and her sister, Lauren, were killed July 16, 1999, when the plane he was piloting went down in the waters off Martha's Vineyard near Massachusetts.
Bergin's book drew fire from Bessette's family and Kennedy friends for dishing reputed details of Bessette's life, including alleged abortions and a miscarriage.
In the New York Daily News, Martha Buck Bartlett, Kennedy's godmather, called the book "pure fiction and hogwash."
Other than his stint in county, Bergin will next be seen in the Lifetime TV movie Fatal Reunion.
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