Soap Hunk Snaps!

This is a combination Afternoon Delight slash news item. It seems early this morning dreamy actor Nathaniel Marston, 32, who plays Dr.Michael McBain on ABC soap "One Life to Live," ended up in a real hospital after allegedly attacking three people in Midtown and brawling with city cops. Marston assaulted his victims with a crate, breaking one man's leg Sunday in the 4:50 a.m. incident at 45th St. and 10th Ave. Police said the 6-foot-3 actor appeared to be under the influence of narcotics, possibly cocaine, when they were called to the scene. Marston, a former amateur boxer, began flailing his arms and kicking at officers as they went to arrest him, officials said.

When reporters tried to talk to him, Marston answered the door of his Midtown apartment bare-chested, sporting a fresh bruise over his left eye."I don't want to talk to you, and please don't ever come to my home," Marston told the Daily News Sunday after his release from Bellevue Hospital. (HOT!!!!)

The angry hunk was arrested in October 1999 on criminal mischief charges after he punched and damaged an automated-teller machine(!!!) in Manhattan, police said, and was eventually fired from the show until a protest of lovesick fans got him reinstated (can you blame them?).

With Marston's leading-man looks and erratic behavior (like most studs, he even has a learning disability!), I see lots of potential for a biopic and return to Lifetime Television for Women for Tori Spelling. (NYDN)