The Revelation of a Blind Item

Remember this blind item:

A Hollywood superstar performed a sex act on himself while enjoying a massage, a hotel worker has claimed. The American A-list actor is said to have dropped his towel and exposed himself to the stunned masseuse. The woman claimed he then carried out the “disgusting” act in front of her in the hotel spa. The star - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was on a golfing holiday with his wife and staying at the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Scotland. […] “Throughout the massage, he kept putting his hand underneath his towel but he never kept it there long enough for me to suspect anything. “Then I moved to the top of his body to massage his head.” She told the tribunal the actor grabbed her wrist forcefully, whipped off his towel, exposed himself and performed the sex act.

Well, it's been confirmed as...DRUM ROLL PLEASE....

Kevin Costner

Here's the story: Hollywood actor Kevin Costner was accused at a British employment tribunal of performing an indecent act as he received a massage at a Scottish hotel. A former spa worker on Tuesday claimed the actor exposed himself and carried out a sex act as she gave him a massage at the Old Course Hotel in Fife, Scotland, in October 2004. Costner was visiting the hotel with his wife. The allegations made by the 34-year-old woman -- who brought a claim for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the hotel -- were not taken seriously by hotel staff, papers said. Costner "This was never about Kevin Costner. It is a dispute between a hotel and an ex-employee," Costner's spokesman Paul Bloch told reporters. Tribunal chairman Nicol Hosie lifted a restriction imposed at an earlier hearing to prevent Costner's identity being revealed (this is why we first saw this in the news as a Blind Item), claiming there was no reason for it to be withheld from reporting. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had agreed to settle her claim against the hotel out of court. [source]

I bet his wife wishes that restriction wasn't lifted...his PR team was doing such a good job at denying it. God, how embarrassing. Oh well, maybe she'll get another diamond ring out of it or something.