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Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz in A-Rod feud

Spin doctors for two of Hollywood’s reigning beauties ducked for cover yesterday over a report that they’re bitterly feuding over their sequential flings with Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez.

Top Tinseltown publicist Brad Cafarelli, who represents both Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz, didn’t respond to our numerous phone and e-mail messages yesterday about a report in the new issue of Us Weekly. The magazine claims that the rivalry between the actresses reached an all-time, tense high, after A-Rod, 34, recently hooked up with Diaz. 37. “Kate hates Cameron,” an insider tells the magazine. “She’s pissed Cameron is dating A-Rod.”

Page Six reported last month that the A-Rod/Diaz affair was “casual, with neither pushing for commitment,” and that the third baseman had also been linked to a bevy of Miami beauties. But even that was apparently too much for Hudson, who was constantly at Yankee Stadium last year, cheering on her then-boyfriend. Superstitious Bombers fans even heaped praise on Hudson for A-Rod’s clutch playoff performance.

They broke up in December, opening the door for Diaz to swoop in and pick up A-Rod at a Super Bowl party weeks later.

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Hudson’s said to be convinced Diaz is striking back at her, because the “Almost Famous” star hooked up with Justin Timberlake in 2007 — only days after Diaz ended a four-year relationship with him.

“Kate thinks it’s payback, pure and simple,” the insider told Us Weekly. But things have been tense between the women for some time. Hudson has been happy to remind pals that she scored a coveted spot in the musical “Nine” that Diaz had craved.

“Kate thinks Cameron is an aging old-lady actress struggling to remain sexy and relevant,” a source close to Hudson said.

A pal of Diaz’s scoffed at any barbs Hudson might fire Cameron’s way: “She [Diaz] thinks it’s a joke Kate would be mad . . . Kate is only upset because she hates being single.”