KEVIN COSTNER WILL ALWAYS LOVE WHITNEY

Yellowstone hunk’s affair exposed

YELLOW STONE macho man Kevin Costner plunged into a forbidden love affair with his leading lady Whitney Houston — just like their characters in their movie hit The Bodyguard — as his first marriage crumbled from his cheating, insiders say.

The 67-year-old star of TV’s hottest drama admits he was a notorious skirt-chaser three decades ago leading to the 1994 divorce from first wife Cindy, mom of Annie, 37, Lily, 35, and Joe, 33, three of his seven kids.

“I have only myself to blame for the fact we’re not together,” says the Dances with Wolves hunk.

Their 16-year marriage collapsed just two years after he fell for 28-year-old pop megastar Whitney — on and off screen — in the 1992 movie blockbuster.

Sources say the attraction between the two A-listers was immediate after meeting on the set of the film, which features Costner as the bodyguard of Whitney’s pop star. In the movie, they end up sizzling in bed.