Metro

TV big a slave to flashin’

A New York TV news producer accused of flashing his privates to passing kayakers is finding out the hard way that what happens in Michigan doesn’t stay in Michigan.

Manhattan prosecutors plan to revoke a sweet deal they had offered accused Central Park flasher William “Howie” Masters III because of his arrest Saturday for exposing his johnson to two Wolverine State kayakers, who were actually undercover cops, sources told The Post yesterday.

The new hard line by the District Attorney’s Office means that Masters — the son of famous Masters and Johnson sex researcher William Masters — will face renewed charges for masturbating in Central Park in broad daylight last spring, instead of getting the case tossed.

After his May 9 arrest for that case, Masters accepted prosecutors’ offer of an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal in Manhattan Criminal Court.

That deal required the 60-year-old Emmy winner to do two days of community service and stay out of trouble for six months.

The case was scheduled to be dismissed outright Oct. 17 — leaving the married Masters with no criminal record.

But on Saturday, Masters was busted about a dozen miles from his family’s ritzy Michigan vacation home after the two female cops, posing as kayakers, spotted him yelling at them from a river’s shoreline while naked and “making obscene gestures,” authorities there said.

The undercovers from the Huron County Sheriff’s Office set up the sting because of a series of recent flashing incidents in the area.

The Post’s Page Six revealed Wednesday that Masters was the man busted in Michigan — which led the Manhattan DA to seek revocation of his adjournment for the Central Park case, sources said.

Masters, of Southampton, LI, is due back in a Michigan courtroom next month.

Erin Duggan, spokeswoman for the DA’s Office, declined to comment yesterday, as did Masters’ lawyer, Irwin Rochman.

Joseph Tacopina, a criminal defense lawyer not involved with the case, said that the DA’s decision was appropriate.

“Under an ACD [adjournment in contemplation of dismissal], the only things you really can’t do for six months is, one, get arrested, and, two, have the prosecution find out about it,” he said.

“If you’re ever going to open an ACD again, this is the case,” Tacopina said, noting that such a move is extremely rare.

“He’s been re-arrested for exactly the same act that the court gave him a slap on the wrist, or other parts of his anatomy, for.

“Clearly, he’s either the unluckiest guy in the world and he’s been falsely accused twice, or he’s got some serious issues,” Tacopina said.

“If you can’t, even for six months, keep your stuff in your pants and ride out an ACD, then you’ve got some serious problems.”