Vince Shlomi, the man better known as the ShamWow guy, made headlines when he was arrested on felony battery charges back in February for punching a prostitute in the face because she intentionally bit, and refused to release, his tongue! Fast forward to Saturday, August 8th, when we found Mr. Shlomi himself at the prestigious Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge at Blue Star Jets Field in Bridgehampton! (Say what?) After doing a double take, I couldn't resist walking over with my trusty recorder and asking Shlomi, a former Scientologist, about his infamous run-in with the law – and I’m so glad I did! Otherwise we never would have known that it was GOD who actually served up a bitch slap!

“You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life,” Shlomi told Blog Hamptons, “God slaps you around a little bit when you drink too much. So like, uh, I think I got slapped a couple times, and uh, [I thought] ‘Oh, OK, I get it - you want me to go in this direction.’ So that’s kinda what happened.”

See folks, that’s all it was. God saw Vince steering himself in the wrong direction and sent a hooker to bite his tongue off and get him back on track. No biggie. (Talk about working in mysterious ways!)

As hard as it was to come up with a follow-up to that, I just had to know what the Slap Chop and ShamWow pitchman has up his gadget loving sleeve now. Is there a new must-have gizmo on the horizon that’s going to make America “love his nuts” even more than we already do? It seems Shlomi has been branching out from infomercials and has been in NYC working on “a movie project” and – no joke – “designing some swimwear lines” with his new business partner, Courtney Bingham. I’m afraid that’s as far as we got in our interview, because once my mind’s eye started conjuring up images of Vince sporting a Speedo made of Sham-scraps, I knew it was time to move on.

But I will say this, before I left to cleanse my psyche with an Awesome Auger, I had to give him props. It’s not every day that a guy pays $1,000 for a prostitute only to wind up on the evening news with a bloody tongue and a rap sheet. I expected the surprisingly calm & soft spoken Shlomi to cut me off with a standard issue “no comment” as soon I asked about that ‘fateful’ night. But to his credit, he kept a great sense of humor about it and took it all in stride. And that’s gotta be worth something right? (At least $19.95 plus shipping and handling!!)

We were as curious as you probably are as to how Vince came to be at Polo in the first place. He joked that he came “by bus”, but someone we spoke with told us he came as a guest of a guest and was just in town for the weekend. I tell ya, you really never know who you’re going to run into over there. Movie stars, politicians, CEO’s, doctors, lawyers, socialites, musicians, athletes, models, and the occasional tabloid sensation...you just never know who’s going to pop up at Polo!