July 28, 2005

MELANIE Griffith - the over-the-hill actress who plays an over-the-hill lingerie model on her new WB Network sitcom "Twins" - enraged staffers at a photo shoot to promote the show last week when she wouldn't stop smoking. When her wardrobe minions advised Griffith that her incessant puffing was ruining the pricey outfits she was posing in, the "Working Girl" star snapped, "I'm a [bleep]ing movie star, you're going to ruin my day over this!" "Twins" producers quietly took her aside afterwards and asked her to stop smoking at work. She responded by saying that "everyone knows I smoke," and claimed she'd been assured she would be allowed to light up wherever and whenever she wanted when she signed on to do the show. "You'd think she knows better by now," a snitch told The Post's Don Kaplan. "California is a no-smoking state." On "Twins," to debut this fall, Griffith plays a former underwear model rockily married to the head of a lingerie company. Their hot-blooded, teenage fraternal twin daughters have nothing in common and must deal with a wacky mother whose marriage is falling apart. A rep for Griffith did not return calls or e-mails.

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