A fifth potential father has joined the messy paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith's baby girl Dannielynn - her bodyguard Alex Denk. In a new TV interview, Denk claims he was the late model/actress' secret lover - and he fathered her daughter, who is the subject of a paternity fight between Smith's partner/attorney Howard K. Stern and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead.

In an interview that aired on TV show "Extra" last night, the chef-turned-bodyguard claims he had an intimate relationship with his employer for two years. He said, "She was wonderful, a very good kisser."

Denk insists Anna Nicole always talked about having his child: "She always told me she wanted to have kids with me." The bodyguard admits he can't be sure that he's Dannielynn's biological father, but adds, "There's always a possibility."

As well as Birkhead and Stern, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt has hinted that he's the father of the child, and Smith's half-sister Donna Hogan claims frozen sperm from the actress' late husband J. Howard Marshall could have been used to impregnate Anna Nicole.

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