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They bonded over houses; now, according to Fox News, actor Mark Consuelos will be marrying his fellow architecture lover Howard Stern and fiancee Beth Ostrovsky. Read more about the Hamptons house Stern and Ostrovsky are building here.

Forget the gift registry at Tiffany’s. When the King of All Media and his longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky get married later this summer, they’ve requested that guests acknowledge their wedding with a donation to the Hamptons Wildlife Rescue Center.

Ostrosky, who is marrying shock jock Howard Stern in a matter of weeks, tells Hamptons magazine, “We live in the Hamptons, the wildlife surrounds us, and it’s so amazing and beautiful. Howard and I want to protect and help them. Donations to the Hamptons Wildlife Rescue Center are all we want.”

The blond beauty models wedding dresses in the cover story of the magazine’s current issue. The photo shoot took place in the East Hampton gardens of interior designers Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, who decorated the 16,000-square-foot beachfront home that Stern recently built, reportedly on a 2-plus acres parcel on Squabble Lane in Southampton. Public records show that the property was bought by a limited liability corporation for $18.75 million in 2005.

Ostrosky tells Hamptons magazine that the couple will wed privately this summer and will invite their families to spend a weekend at the house they now consider home. Weekends are spent in the Hamptons, and Stern and his fiancée plan to honeymoon out East as well. “There’s no place we’d rather be,” she says. Favorite haunts include the Red/Bar Brasserie in Southampton for dinner, the Green Thumb in Water Mill for organic produce, and the Wolffer Estate for a favorite wine.

The pair will follow up their wedding with an October reception in Manhattan with 150 invitees. “It’s going to be a beautiful next few months for us,” she says

Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky's new house being built in Southampton features not one but two bowling alleys, reports Hamptons.com. And, according to a conversation overheard between two construction worker types on the Jitney, the house will feature a "shoe room" featuring "individual cubby holes with their own light on each to make it easy for Beth to find the right match for her outfit." Read more about the house here.

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Just catching up with this one: Back in January, Kelly Ripa talked about what it was like to eat dinner with husband, actor Mark Consuelos, at Howard Stern and Beth Ostrovsky's house rental in the Hamptons. In the clip from "Live with Regis and Kelly," Ripa said, "He's building a house, you know, out there, so he's renting a house and it's gorgeous." She went on to tell Regis Philbin that the salmon dinner in Southampton actually took place last summer. "The boys talked about architecture because we had just renovated our apartment, and they're building this house, and they looked over blueprints," Ripa said. Read more about the house Stern is building here.

Six of the top ten 2007 residential real estate deals in the Hamptons happened in Southampton, according to statistics compiled by the Suffolk Research Service Inc for the folks at Plum TV.

The number one spot went to Terry Allen Kramer’s 2.6 acre spread at 137 Murray Lane in Southampton, which sold for $32.75 million. Shock jock Howard Stern reportedly had rented the place in 2006 while construction began on his new home on nearby Squabble Lane. Other notable properties on the list include Andy Warhol’s former Montauk estate, which Paul Morrissey sold to J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler for $27.5 million, and “Lasata” the home where Jackie Kennedy spent her childhood summers. That property went to Coach president Reed Krakoff for $20 million.

Purchases of vacant land were not included in the list.