“To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen got schooled in irony this week when he was caught on camera cheating on his wife with a 30-year-old West Palm Beach TV news reporter. Radar Online says:

In a sting orchestrated by the National Enquirer, the magazine secretly filmed the 51-year-old on an alleged date with [WPTV 5's] Kristyn Caddell.

Hansen was reportedly caught last week while on a romantic dinner date with Caddell at the exclusive Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, Fl., before spending the night at her Palm Beach apartment.

The magazine filmed the alleged lovebirds as they arrived at the hotel for dinner and then drove back to her apartment – and even caught them the next morning leaving together.

Sources also allege the two continued to hook up in Miami and Palm Beach for the past two months and got so tight Caddell flew to New York with a few of her girlfriends to spend a weekend boating with Hansen.

I hope the National Enquirer did it right. You know, wearing a mock turtleneck and sports coat and calmly inviting Chris to “have a seat over there” as the cameras rolled. Then Chris should have stammered, “This is the first time I ever did this, I swear!” and pretend he was just there because he thought the house was for sale.