New York Post

Tanqueray gins up pod plan

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VIRAL sensation Tanqueray says she’s been offered book and documentar­y deals — but for now she’s launching a podcast.

After she shared some eye-opening tales of her days as a stripper in the ’ 70s with the blog Humans of New York, a horde of new fans — including Hilary Swank, Jennifer Garner and Busy Philipps — demanded Netflix sign her up. But Page Six got the latest on her plans from publicist JDot of the JDot Agency, who told us that he spotted the mysterious Tanqueray in Chelsea earlier this week.

“[My friend and I] were finishing lunch and we looked over to the left and there she was!” said JDot. “She looked at us and said, ‘Yes, it’s me.’ She said she’s been approached by everyone you can imagine — from book deals to movies to documentar­ies. She’s going to shift her attention first to a podcast. She said it seems most ideal because she’s a storytelle­r. We talked for about an hour before she got on the bus.”

Added the publicist, “She used the exact same colorful language that was in the blog post.”

He said that Tanqueray “told us about the places she frequented and how people would go to these places to do things they couldn’t with their spouses, like S&M and cross-dressing.”

He added that, while they talked, “people recognized her and stopped to take photos.”

She shot to Internet fame last week after telling Humans of New York yarns including how a high-class madame “set my best friend Vicki up with the president” every time he came to New York (though she wouldn’t say which president she was referring to) and how a Hasidic rabbi once tried to pick her up, thinking she was transgende­r. “I had to tell him: ‘Baby, this is real fish!’ ” she told the blog.

She also claimed that her own mother once had sex with Tanqueray’s parole officer in an attempt to “keep me in jail.”

Garner commented, “Why is this not a [Netflix] series?”

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