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Breast in show

She loved to talk about her boobs.

A former NY1 reporter — whose doctored photo of former colleague Adele Sammarco with cartoonishly large breasts is at the center of her sexual-harassment case against the news channel — testified yesterday that Sammarco had a “raunchy sense of humor” and enjoyed chatting about her rack.

“Adele used to talk to me so openly about her breasts,” onetime NY1 education reporter Jeff Simmons told jurors.

“Doesn’t this bra make my boobs look bigger?” he said she would ask him.

In her Brooklyn federal lawsuit, Sammarco also accuses the station of hobbling her career because she’s a woman and then firing her after she complained about an alleged sexual attack by a colleague.

Simmons, who left NY1 to work as a spokesman for then-City Comptroller William Thompson, testified that he created the “boob photo,” as it is being referred to in the trial, as a practical joke to get back at Sammarco for wrapping his desk in toilet paper.

Simmons, who is gay, said that he was a close friend of Sammarco’s for most of the time they worked together — they double-dated and even yakked to each other about their boyfriends.

“Adele had a really raunchy sense of humor,” he said. “I felt I could play a joke on Adele and she could take it.”

But the joke went sour the next day when someone plastered copies of the doctored photo all over the station’s newsroom.

Sammarco said that she felt humiliated and that newsroom managers condoned those kind of locker-room antics.

Simmons said that he was scolded by the station’s human-resources rep, Elizabeth Fanfant, a codefendant in the case.

“In the newsroom [Fanfant] told me it was inappropriate and that I should apologize to Adele and I did,” he testified.

Current daytime anchorwoman Roma Torre told the jury in her trademark monotone that Sammarco “never seemed terribly happy.”

Rebecca Spitz, the station’s Manhattan reporter, also testified, describing Sammarco as always writing down “perceived injustices.”

“Adele always struck me as someone who was depressed,” she said. “She had what I would describe as a persecution complex.”

janon.fisher@nypost.com