DUMPED: A pregnant Ginny Barber, who had been in the hospital, arrives at her upper East Side home yesterday, (
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Traci Johnson
He was running around town with his young mistress — while his pregnant wife spent a week in the hospital — and yesterday, Tiki Barber got tackled.
The ex-Giants star was slapped with divorce papers over his shameless gallivanting with 23-year-old former NBC intern Traci Lynn Johnson.
“He couldn’t be more heartless,” said a friend of the gridiron great and his eight-months-pregnant wife, Ginny, whose Manhattan divorce suit cites tricky Tiki’s “adultery.”
“[Ginny] is very heavily pregnant and was last week ordered into the hospital on bed rest,” the friend said.
“Meanwhile, Tiki has been spotted all over town with his new girlfriend while she was in the hospital.
“He was at the NFL draft and out dining with Traci.”
Tiki, who already has two sons with Ginny — A.J., 7 and Chason, 6 — is now shacked up with the sultry Johnson in a Midtown love nest.
When ducking out of that apartment and into his car yesterday, Tiki refused to answer a reporter’s questions and only flashed a grin when asked whether he had recently spoken with his wife.
Ginny Barber is also outraged that Tiki has been low-balling her in out-of-court negotiations over financial support, a family friend said.
“Tiki refused to give her anything close to what she needs,” the friend said. “The reason she filed is that settlement talks didn’t work.”
The divorce action was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court and accepted by Tiki’s matrimonial lawyer on his behalf.
The Post revealed this month that Barber, 35, had dumped Ginny after 11 years of marriage for Traci, whom he met two years ago when she was still a student at Mount St. Mary College upstate.
Barber had been working as a correspondent for NBC Sports and the “Today” show until he was benched by 30 Rock brass after The Post reported on his dalliance.
Sources have said that his and Traci’s torrid romance began even before Ginny, a former fashion publicist, became pregnant with twins last summer, and that Tiki has lavished Johnson with expensive gifts, clothes and dinners.
A Barber spokesman refused to answer whether Tiki had visited Ginny in the hospital last week.
The Barber family friend said: “It’s been an emotional time for her, and she is, of course, worried about the health of her unborn twins. It’s a lot to deal with.”
“She is still being closely monitored by her doctors.”
Meanwhile, a source told The Post that the “Today” show has booted Tiki as a high-priced correspondent amid fallout from the scandal.
Representatives for both NBC and Tiki refused to comment on that claim.
Additional reporting by Amber Sutherland