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ON THE HUNT

- Martha Hunt John

DIt’s hot in Miami. Victoria’s Secret model

hit the beaches there, where her long limbs were on full display, coming and going. She also posted an Instagram photo on Friday of her hanging out with Brazilian model

She captioned it “minha gostosa.” Google translatio­n: my delicious. to abandon New York for Texas any time soon. The veteran actor holds no love for the Lone Star State, which he says “hates its Latin people” — an opinion that wasn’t too popular when he spoke in Dallas recently, and was booed by the crowd. “I do these college talks, and I talked about what my people have brought and about Texas being a difficult state because they have been disempower­ing Latin people,” he told Confidenti­al. “It’s just an ugly state that does not respect its Latin people’s contributi­ons and I was saying that and it made people very angry.” The overlooked contributi­ons of Latin people to American history and culture is a big topic these days for Leguizamo, who’s currently appearing in the one-man show “Latin History for Morons,” at the Public Theater. In the 95-minute show — inspired largely by the absence of Latinos in his son’s history class — he runs down the “buried and forgotten” history of Latinos in the Americas going back to the Mayans. It’s a lesson that he would have welcomed during his own school days, Leguizamo told us.

“When I was a kid if there had been anything in my classes that said that 10,000 Latin people fought in the American Revolution, that we had generals and officers, or even that Latin people participat­ed in the Civil War in huge numbers, it would have had a significan­t impact on my self-worth,” he says. (Part of the issue, he believes: “Textbooks are made in Texas.”)

The more he learned while researchin­g the show, the more it became his “mission to get this out there,” the Colombia native said. And Trump’s election added fuel to the fire. “His disparagem­ent of Latin people, it’s disgusting, it’s enraging and it definitely makes my show more pointed.”

On a happier note, we asked Leguizamo about the massive success of the “Ice Age” movies, in which he gave voice to Sid the Sloth.

“Yeah that was an incredible run, man. It was a beautiful thing,” he said. “It got me my beach houses and country house.”

Note that was dos beach houses, not uno. Por que?

“For my guests, so they’re not living with me,” he explained.

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