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Porn Star's Husband Out of a Job

He wasn't fired because of his performance -- but his wife's.

Former Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Town Manager Scott Janke appeared on "The Early Show" Friday to discuss why he was canned from his job. And the reason -- his porn star wife Anabela Janke -- was at his side on the show.

Scott, who married Anabela in October, was fired at an emergency meeting Tuesday after the mayor and council members learned the nature of her employment. Scott, the town manager for 15 months, was unanimously voted out, terminated with six months pay.

The firing came after Anabela, who goes by the stage name Jazella Moore, was recognized by an editor of an online adult entertainment publication after a photo of the couple on the Fourth of July parade was published in the local paper.

Fort Myers Beach Mayor Larry Kiker said, "Our issue is the situation town was put in in terms of how effective we can govern and whether or not it this was going to serve as a distraction for that, and we felt like it would."

On "The Early Show" Anabela said she didn't think her husband was being treated fairly.

"When this came out, he talked to the mayor and said, 'I'm willing to resign.' And then everything just..." She then trailed off.

Scott added, "When this story began to break, I was actually called by a local reporter, who also called the mayor about a day before he was going to actually print these articles. And the mayor and I chatted on the phone. Because of my ethics, I said, 'I'm willing to resign with compensation if the town council thinks it will help the community not be so distracted." '

Scott said he and his wife were trying to keep Anabel's employment under wraps after they were married.

"We talked about it, kept our heads down a little bit," Scott said, referring to the outing this week, "and hoped it would never happen, I guess."

Scott said he was concerned about the town being hurt, but more importantly, his family.

"Paramount was our personal life being hurt. We have children and family members all over the country. So we were concerned about those kinds of things mostly."

So far, however, the couple's been supported, receiving hundreds of e-mails from people saying the town shouldn't have fired him.

"Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith said he doesn't think it will be long before he's offered a job.

Scott said, "Well that would be nice, you got something?"

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