A man has been charged in the weekend hit-and-run death of two-time American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen.

Daniel Bark, 23, was arrested around 6 p.m. Sunday and charged with causing Cohen’s death by reckless driving and leaving the scene of a collision, The Asbury Park Journal reports.

Bark, currently being held in Ocean County Jail in Toms River, N.J. on $35,000 bail, faces 10 to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Cohen, 25, was struck early Saturday morning in Seaside Heights. She was found around 4 a.m. by two passerby who called 911, Deputy Chief Michael Mohel of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office tells the Morning Call newspaper of her hometown, Allentown, Penn.

She was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J. Autopsy results show she suffered chest, head and abdominal injuries, Mohel says.

Cohen auditioned for the seventh season in Philadelphia in 2007, but the show didn’t air until January 2008. Idol cameras followed her to to her Allentown, Penn. studio apartment, which she shared with her mother, two cats and her dog.

“I march to the beat of a different drummer,” admitted the memorable contestant. After Simon Cowell didn’t vote her through to Hollywood, Cohen ranted he was “egotistical” and declared she was going into acting.

She later appeared on The View, Live With Regis and Kelly and Howard Stern’s radio show.

Cohen unsuccessfully tried out again during Idol’s eighth season.

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Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony photographed at the Hotel Griffou in New York City on July 24, 2009. Anthony surprised his wife with a small birthday dinner for Lopez’s 40th Birthday with family and select friends, including manager, Benny Medina and her “Backup Plan” costar – Alex O’Loughlin.

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He was there shooting a spot for his late-night show.

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When did he get so… manly?

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LeAnn Rimes has been separated from her husband of seven years, Dean Sheremet, a source close to the couple tells Usmagazine.com.

“They have been separated for awhile, but are still trying to work on how to handle the problems they are having,” the source tells Us. “They are leading separate lives and not staying together most of the time, but still in each others’ lives as best friends.”

“They are still not divorcing yet, but are working through things and taking time apart — as they have been — while they figure things out,” the source continues.

A rep for Rimes has no comment.

The split announcement comes the same week the new issue of Us Weekly confirms that Rimes is still carrying on an affair with her former Lifetime movie costar, Eddie Cibrian, 36.

Us broke the news of their relationship after spotting the pair on a three-hour tryst at a Malibu Beach Inn last March. Rimes, 26, was also caught on video sucking Cibrian’s finger during a dinner date in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Rimes — who was spotted at Los Angeles’ LAX airport Thursday without her wedding band — married Sheremet, 28, a former backup dancer, in 2002 when she was just 19.

The new issue of Us also confirms Cibrian’s wife, Brandi Glanville, left him in light of the fling.

“Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart,” says Glanville, 36, mother of Mason, 6, and Jake, 2. “I want to do what is best for our children. Eddie and LeAnn [Rimes] deserve each other.”

According to Us Weekly, the final straw came after Cibrian and Rimes were caught again together in the early afternoon of July 17 outside the Malibu home of Jeff Berger, a longtime friend of the singer and Sheremet.

Sources tell Us that Berger has been facilitating similar meetings at his home for about a month and that Rimes and Cibrian also made use of a rental house on L.A.’s west side. (Berger denies he has been enabling an affair. Another source insists Cibrian and Rimes “hung out a bit, but that was it.”)

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Gerard Butler, who packed on some pounds after “300,” is hitting the gym hard to get back in shape, but he doesn’t want anyone to know.

“He’s so embarrassed that his six-pack abs have gone, he works out wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses,” gushed our spy.

“Can you imagine the ladies’ response when they think they scored a Spartan warrior but instead see that gut! He joined a private gym in Chelsea, Peak Performance, that’s so discreet, it’s on the eighth floor and strictly limited to approved members” — one of whom ratted Butler out.

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