Soap Star Bares Assets

DEVOTEES of soap operas might think they've seen it all, but they haven't seen the bare bottom of "One Life to Live" star Timothy Gibbs. For that, they'll have to tune in to HBO's cheeky "Sex and the City."

Soap Opera Weekly reports that Gibbs appears in an upcoming episode of "Sex" playing a detective who is called in when the Sarah Jessica Parker character gets mugged for her Manolo Blahnik shoes. Like everyone else on the envelope-pushing show, he ends up in bed and shows his tush.

It was no problem, Gibbs says. "I bared my a- - in an Italian soap opera in '92. I've got to be honest with you - I think it's in better shape now."