Cindy Adams, the aging New York Post gossip doyenne, got a few facts wrong in her recent write-up of Harold Ford, Jr.’s engagement to fashionista Emily Threlkeld:

GENTS in love brings me to New York businessman Harold Ford, former congressman from Tennessee who is also a maybe senator from Tennessee. He is also, as of Friday, the fiancé of fashionista Emily Threlkeld. After their three-year relationship, bachelor Harold was to surprise her in Paris and propose and phone me right afterward at 3 p.m. New York time. He called 7:30.

“She was an hour late for dinner because she’s at the collections working for Carolina Herrera,” he told me. “I had champagne and a whole party waiting at the Bar Vendome at the Ritz. When she finally arrived she said she had to go back to the hotel for her charger because her phone was dying.”

The future groom gave her his BlackBerry. Also an engagement ring. The future bride is now about to give him a springtime wedding date. And a blessing on their heads, mazel tov, mazel tov.

First, Adams says Ford is “also maybe senator from Tennessee.” WTF? No, he’s not a senator from Tennessee. He lost. No doubt about that, Cindy.

Second, the power couple has not been dating for three years. If they had been, that would mean Ford was dating Threlkeld during his run for U.S. Senate in 2006. GOPers would have been less forward in labeling him a swarthy bachelor if he had a girlfriend.

Finally, sources close to the couple tell Big head DC that Threlkeld wasn’t late to the engagement dinner. Ford just told Condy that to appease her for calling her so late (for her, that is). After all, she’s usually in bed with her rollers by 7:30 p.m.

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