Lloyd Grove, one of the best WaPo tattlers who ever lived (there’s only been a handful, after all), has begun contributing a column called “The World According To…” to the much gossiped about Conde Nast business pub Portfolio. He must be on staff, too, since he’s got his own caricature on the site and everything. Fancy!

He’s holding his cards close to his chest regarding the Washington power players he’s bound to cover, telling Big Head DC that he “wouldn’t want to spoil the drama” by sharing any of his future column plans. (Maybe he’s just worried about how many columns he’ll be able to pen before Portfolio folds!)

One person you can expect Grove not to cover: His former gal pal Amy Holmes, a one-time Reliable Source source who went on to become a GOP strategist, a former aide to ex-Republican Senate leader Bill Frist, and a talking head often seen on FOX News. Boy, his back must have been sore after she stepped on it!

Good luck, Lloyd. But just don’t let them pull a New York Daily News-type trick on you!

Earlier: Lloyd Grove Was Sexier in Washington?

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Amy Holmes - a GOP strategist, a former aide to ex-Republican Senate leader Bill Frist, and a talking head often seen on FOX News - made a couple of surprising revelations while co-hosting The View today: She is registered as an Independent and is adamantly pro-choice – even though she’s said she’s Republican in the past.

So, why does the Black Entertainment Television personality tout conservative values, while espousing some pretty liberal views in private?

“Because she quickly learned as an African American woman today what would be the quickest route to air-time,” an associate of Holmes told Big Head DC this morning. “She definitely wouldn’t have been hosting The View today, if she was a liberal.”

No party line, it seems, will hold the 33-year-old Holmes back in her quest for fame. She’s said in the past that she’d like to have her own television program like Charlie Rose, has appeared as one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful,” and, we’re told, worked her sources hard to score an appearance on Bill Maher’s program in April.

“I love photo shoots,” Holmes, who once dated the former Reliable Source writer Lloyd Grove, told her alma mater’s newspaper in 2000. “I understand now why celebrities get addicted.”

But who knew that becoming addicted to the GOP would get a gal everything she ever wanted?

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