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Today's Page Six paints a not-so-pretty picture of 73rd percentile hottie Teri Hatcher, claiming the Desperate Housewives star was quick to dump longtime manager Eli Selden when the going got cancerous:

The actress - who suffered a serious drought of roles after her turn in "Lois & Clark" - left her longtime manager Eli Selden (a woman) last year during Selden's fight with breast cancer. One source said: "Eli got her the role in 'Desperate Housewives,' and soon after that was diagnosed with breast cancer and fought it valiantly." One source says Hatcher "left Eli because she told her, 'You can't focus on me right now during this important time in my life,' " but another source said: "I think it has more to do with Teri didn't want to be reminded of how she used to be nobody." Selden and Hatcher's agent Steve Small at Paradigm didn't return calls.

We're shocked Small refused to jump at commenting on either of the two attractive options Page Six put on the table. ("So tell us, Steve, did Teri fire Selden because she was dying, or because Eli's name marinates in the stench of failure?") In the grand scheme of Hollywood strategic realignments, however, dismissing one's rep for focusing too much on their own malignancies and not enough on their client's well-deserved career comeback isn't really seen as callous—it's just basic business sense. Those kind of brave, personal struggles are only beneficial when they happen to the client themselves, after which they can sob the words into a triumphant memoir, then promote its sales on a sympathy-garnering whirlwind media tour.