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ESPN’s Steve Phillips’ mistress returns to Connecticut home

Brooke Hundley, the shlubby seductress whose tawdry trysts with fellow ESPN employee Steve Phillips helped wreck his marriage, finally returned to her Connecticut home yesterday where she picked up some fresh clothes, gave the media the “finger” and then sped off back into hiding.

“Don’t touch me,” snarled Hundley, 22, to photographers as they snapped her picture when she exited her apartment.

Hundley had disappeared from public sight Tuesday night when The Post confronted her at her Bristol residence, which is near ESPN headquarters, to ask the portly production assistant about her affair with the handsome married baseball analyst Phillips.

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Hundley drove up to her apartment building in a blue Toyota Yaris, exited the car wearing a pink fleece jacket, carrying a backpack and wearing a Yankees cap on her head, which she kept down as she strode inside the building.

She waddled out about two hours later, wearing a black coat and the same baseball cap, to hop into the car. She peeled off after extending her middle finger to a group of reporters and photographers, and raced through before getting onto I-84 headed toward Waterbury.

Phillips, 46, an ex-Mets GM with a long history of extramarital affairs, and his family told cops in their hometown of Wilton, Conn., that Hundley began stalking his wife and 16-year-old son in a “Fatal Attraction”-like fashion after he ended a brief dalliance that began in mid-July.

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Hundley allegedly posed as classmates of the Phillips’ son to grill him online about his family, and then dropped a bizarre, taunting letter for Marni at the family home. Cops suspect she used ESPN computers to create the fictitious online identities.

Hundley also allegedly hired a woman through Craigslist to call Marni Phillips, 40, and inform her of silver-haired Steve’s cheating,

But Hundley was not charged after Phillips told cops he preferred not to pursue a criminal complaint.

Marni Phillips sued Steve for divorce last month.

On Wednesday, after The Post exclusively exposed the scandal, Phillips admitted his last incident of straying, and began an “extended leave of absence,” where he has worked since 2005. Hundley – who was removed from baseball-related assignments by ESPN after the network learned about the affair — also went on a leave of absence on the heels of the report.

Phillips took an eight-day leave of absence as Mets general manager in 1998 after he admitting to cheating with multiple women, among them a Mets employee who was then suing him for alleged sexual harassment. That lawsuit later was settled out of court, and Phillips remained with the Amazins’ until he was fired in 2003 after a pitiful start to the season that year.