New York Daily News

Parents are the babies!

- Joanna Molloy jmolloy@nydailynew­s.com

Have Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook finally grown up? Not quite. After a judge implored them to think of their children for once, the supermodel, nearly 60, and the Hamptons architect settled their vicious custody battle Monday — just 24 hours before they were about to drag their kids’ business into court again.

Daughter Sailor is 13 and son Jack is 17 — but it’s their mother and father who will need a baby-sitter.

In the Hamptons, they call it a “parental coordinato­r” — and it’s apparently some sort of nanny for adults who will make sure ex-spouses play nice together.

With so much vitriol they’ve splattered in public for half their children’s lives, you have to wonder what the two ever saw in each other — besides their obvious good looks.

But beautiful people have rarely been uglier.

Cook whined, “I only did it less than 10 times,” after Brinkley was tipped off about her philanderi­ng hubby bedding a teenager.

She hasn’t been the model for maternal maturity, either, blabbing in divorce court that Cook spent thousands of dollars a month on Internet porn.

That was one humiliatin­g dig on Christie’s part — for Sailor and Jack.

It must’ve ricochette­d around the kids’ private school within minutes — a big ol’ target for teasers.

That’s water under the bridge.

There is no turning back the clock — the dirty laundry will always be there, right on the Internet.

But now, with a court war averted, there is a chance for Brinkley and Cook to finally behave like adults, for their children.

It would be a novel concept for these beauts.

And if they can’t play nice, that’s where the parental coordinato­r comes in to nanny the narcissist­s — for the sake of the kids, and everyone else sick of their saga.

 ?? Stephen Barcelo ?? Christie Brinkley outside Long Island court. The supermodel and ex-hubby Peter Cook (at r. with new wife, Suzanne Shaw) revealed Monday they had reached outof-court settlement.
Stephen Barcelo Christie Brinkley outside Long Island court. The supermodel and ex-hubby Peter Cook (at r. with new wife, Suzanne Shaw) revealed Monday they had reached outof-court settlement.
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