Parents group wants kiddie-porn probe of 'Skins'

MTV HAS LONG been a network brimming with bad taste.

Now it may be a network for child pornography - at least what Tattle's good friends at the Parents Television Council consider child pornography.

The folks at the PTC have refused the advice of Daily News TV critic Ellen Gray (who, in reviewing MTV's raunchy "Skins," said the PTC should keep quiet and not draw attention to the show) and yesterday called on the chairmen of the U.S. Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the Department of Justice to immediately open an investigation regarding child pornography and exploitation on the show.

Rarely are the PTC and the New York Times allies, but the PTC sourced a Times report that MTV itself is concerned about violating child-pornography laws. The PTC counted 42 depictions and references to drugs and alcohol in the show's premiere episode. But more important from a legal perspective is that "Skins" contains sexual content with cast members as young as 15.

In related news, "Skins" viewership among 15-year-olds is about to skyrocket.

Hairdos and don'ts

 Maria Gabriela Hashemipour, owner of Beverly Hills beauty salon Chez Gabriela, has agreed to plead guilty to using credit-card information from celebrity clients to ring up bogus charges. She could face up to 10 years in prison for fraud.

Hashemipour also may face a fine of up to $250,000 and must pay restitution of up to $1 million to her clients. Her attorney, Nina Marino, says her client accepts responsibility for her mistakes - and for leaving anyone with uneven bangs.

Hashemipour was arrested in August at her salon. Her website says her clientele includes Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and Cher. Oh, and Liv Tyler. An affidavit says two of Liv's credit cards had about $214,000 in fraudulent charges from the studio over a five-month period last year.

New Jersey's best

 Tattle thinks it's weird for a state the size of New Jersey to have a hall of fame, but the hall's newest inductees include John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Bruce Willis, Tony Bennett, Martha Stewart, Franco Harris, Joe Theismann, World War II heroes John Basilone and Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, novelist Mary Higgins Clark, jazz great Bucky Pizzarelli, former New York Jets owner Leon Hess and former Gov. Brendan Byrne. Gov. Chris Christie announced the list of 13 inductees yesterday in Trenton. Recipients were chosen by fellow New Jerseyans, who voted online from a list of 30 nominees, and by a voting academy made up of 100 state organizations. Previous inductees include Bruce Springsteen, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Yogi Berra. Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Les Paul, Count Basie and Carl Lewis. They were inducted in May. Danny DeVito got in before Tony Bennett?

Tattbits

* "Nicky's Family," a Slovakian

documentary about a Briton who organized mass evacuations of children to help them avoid being sent to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps, was set to have its world premiere last night in Prague.

Sir Nicholas Winton arranged eight trains to carry 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia through Germany to Britain at the outbreak of World War II.

Amazingly, Winton, who is now 101, was expected to be at the premiere.

Sometimes having a good soul pays off.

* People.com says Sandra Bul-

lock snake Jesse James is engaged to tattoo artist Kat Von D.

That's a shrewd way for Jesse to save money on ink.

No wedding date has been announced.

James and Von D. began dating over the summer after his very public split from Bullock.

Jesse calls Kat his best friend. Kat (a/k/a Katherine von Drachenberg), says Jesse is "the one."

* Meanwhile, John Mellen-

camp officially filed for divorce from Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp in Indiana.

Elaine is John's third wife. They married on Sept. 5, 1992, and have two teenage sons, Hud and Speck Mellencamp.

* Just yesterday we joked that

Billboard has more charts than ever and now comes word from the music bible that there's going to be a new chart for artists . . . who don't chart.

The music-industry trade magazine and website announced yesterday that it is launching a chart called "Uncharted."

Seriously.

Rankings will be based on a variety of factors, including YouTube clicks, MySpace Music page views and Twitter traffic - all those ways new artists offer up their content for free to their friends.

The first act to get the No. 1 ranking will be a California-based rapper named Traphik.

Yo, dude, my song is No. 1 on the list of songs that aren't selling.

* In case you missed Katy

Perry's announcement on Facebook, her California Dreams 2011 world tour will stop at the Wells Fargo Center (or whatever it's called by then) on June 24.

Swedish pop singer Robyn and Welsh singer-songwriter Marina and the Diamonds will open for Katy. Pre-sale tickets will be available today; regular tickets go on sale next week.

* In another mixture of strange

bedfellows, Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church yesterday thanked former Culture Club singer Boy George for returning an 18th-century icon of Jesus that it says was stolen from a church in the breakaway north of the divided island.

Boy George bought the icon from a London art dealer in 1985.

"Before this, I had no idea who Boy George was," said Brussels-based Bishop Porfyrios.

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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