Just weeks after former Saved by the Bell actor Mario Lopez and Ali Landry got married in 2004, rumors started swirling that he had already been caught cheating on her.

Seven years later Mario comes clean about his past infidelities on Howard Stern.

“It was my bachelor party,” the Extra host admitted, explaining that he had been “bouncing around” Mexico with his cousins. “I had no business of being in that position,” he said, offering that he “messed around” with another woman.

He elaborated a bit on the fling. “It was spring break….everybody was hanging out. That was a situation where I was not mature and man enough.”

Before heading out for his big weekend, Lopez didn’t tell then-fiancee Landry the whole truth. “I said I was going to Cabo…to go marlin fishing,” he explained. “Then my cousin surprised me and said ‘No, …we’re going on this whirlwind tour: Cabo, Acapulco, all these places.’”

Rather than telling Landry about the change of plans, “I figured at that point it was easier to ask for forgiveness [afterward]. It’s my bachelor party, we were going to have a good time. And we went, we had a good time.”

Lopez was caught in an incriminating poolside shot with another woman. “We’re partying, and somebody took a picture,” he explained. Landry’s sister eventually got a hold of that photo and shared it with her.

“I was wrong for obviously lying, and I shouldn’t have been in that position,” Lopez said.

Finally, Landry confronted him. “I dealt with all this drama, and then at that point just realize…I finally got the balls to say ‘Hey, listen I’m not ready for this, I’m sorry.’”

“At that point,” the star confessed, “I was not ready to settle down. I wasn’t man enough to know how to go about handling it. ”

Why did Lopez marry her in the first place, then? “I think when you go out for a few years you either take it to another level or you break up, right?” he said of Landry, whom he had been dating for six years. “There was nothing glaringly wrong on paper: I thought, ‘She’s beautiful, she’s a good girl, she comes from a great family, she’d make a great mom…I confused cold feet with not being ready.”

Lopez in now dating Courtney Mazza. The two have been together over two years and have a daughter named Gia. Mario claims that he is happy in his current relationship.

I hope he is behaving himself! He’s got a daughter now. What do you think? Will Mario cheat again? Is it true that once a cheater always a cheater?

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I know all baby’s are a bit freaky looking when they’re first born, but there’s something about this picture that creeps me out! That baby looks a little bit like the “real” babies they sell in those ads that come in the coupon section.

“She’s constantly changing,” new dad Mario Lopez tells OK! of his infant daughter, Gia. “But she’s got these slight dimples.” Mario opened up about become a dad for the first time in the new issue of OK! – on sale everywhere now! – and shared pictures of his little girl with girlfriend Courtney Mazza. “I’m still in that shocked, euphoric stage,” Mario explains to OK! of being a father. “Finding out the sex of the baby was the best surprise. I did a big betting pool and everyone was excited. I thought we were having a girl, and Courtney thought it was a boy.” So does he have worries about being a dad to Gia, born Sept. 11, for the first time? Not really! “I come from a big, loud Mexican Catholic family,” Mario tells OK!. “My sister also has three kids so I’m used to a bunch of babies [being] around.

Last week I posted some pictures of Mario Lopez giving friend Eva Longoria a “Love” necklace, designed by Cartier. Turns out – it was all part of an elaborately staged prank.

It’s true that Eva Longoria-Parker and Mario Lopez are friends, but the Cartier necklace he gave her on March 6 is fake! In Touch can exclusively reveal that the pair were setting up a skit for Ashton Kutcher’s new reality show with a twist, Pop Fiction. In fact, a video crew even followed the friends to the Hornitos tequila-sponsored opening of Eva’s restaurant Beso later that night. The show picks up where Punk’d left off, with celebrities acting out fake scenes in front of paparazzi.

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Hmmm….

See the necklace close up after the jump!

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