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Andy’s Sandy will feast on new NY role

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Only New York could have a “First Girlfriend” who is possibly more famous than her other half.

Sandra Lee — highly rated cable-TV star, best-selling author and editor of her own eponymous magazine — is beamed into American homes every day, dispensing folksy advice aimed at time-pressed moms on how to make foie gras Pop-Tarts and Almond Joy layer cake.

Her boyfriend, Andrew Cuomo, might have the famous last name, but thanks to her Food Network show, books and domestic-arts empire, Lee’s wealth and celebrity easily eclipse the newly elected governor.

Her homey poise and effortless ease in front of the camera have helped her remain a calming, unobtrusive presence throughout the grueling campaign.

Unlike Cuomo, son of a popular governor, or his first wife, Kerry Kennedy, born into the country’s most fabled political family, Lee has nothing in her background to prepare her for being half of a political power couple.

But her humble beginnings do show she’s got the thing that anyone needs in Albany — grit.

Her parents were childhood sweethearts who married after her mother got pregnant at 15 but split when she was a toddler. One of her earliest memories is of her mother dropping her and a sister off at their paternal grandmother’s house, saying she’d come back soon to pick them up — and then disappearing for years.

Lee was eventually reunited with her birth mother. But unfortunately, her mother wasn’t up to running the household.

At age 11, Lee said, she basically took over the house — stocking the kitchen and paying the bills.

Her relationship with Cuomo began in 2005. He and Kennedy, who cheated on him with a polo-playing dandy, had just divorced.

While promoting her newest cookbook, Lee was asked by a reporter how she felt about the possibility of being New York’s first lady.

Laughing, she said she was focused on being the “first lady of cookbooks right now.”