Nip Tuck

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Sanaa Lathan is getting back in the swing of things.

The 'Love & Basketball' star signed on to star in the sensational FX network series 'Nip/Tuck,' reports 'The Hollywood Reporter.'

For the hit show's fourth season, Lathan will reportedly play a beautiful young woman married to a wealthy, elderly man who buys the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery practice, which the show revolves around.

Earlier this year, Lathan, who starred in films like 'Brown Sugar,' and 'Disappearing Acts,' was in the midst of media controversy when she broke her silence and addressed long-standing rumors about an alleged affair with Denzel Washington, whom she co-starred alongside in the 2003 thriller 'Out of Time.'

The torrid scandal erupted when news circulated that she was carrying the long-time married Academy Award winner's illegitimate baby.

"(The rumor) got started because the movie had a love scene with Denzel, and people took that and translated it to real life," she told 'Vibe' magazine. "They said I was pregnant with Denzel's child, and people were calling my mother, saying I'm having his baby. It's frustrating."

The Yale Drama School alum, who is also TV producer Stan Lathan's daughter, was reportedly slated for a cover of top-selling black women's magazine 'Essence' -- timed to hit stands with her latest movie 'Something New.'

But Tyler Perry and the female cast of 'Madea's Family Reunion' graced the cover in the slot that was supposedly reserved for the bronze beauty. Before the magazine went to press, New York City tabloids reported that Lathan didn’t mince words about how 'Essence' writer Jeanine Amber probed her about the Washington scandal.

The Sanaa Hamri-directed interracial romantic comedy, now available on home video, didn't live up to box-office expectations only bringing in $4.8 million opening weekend.

Nevertheless, Lathan, who garnered a Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the 2004 revival of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play 'A Raisin in the Sun,' is expected to join fellow cast members -- Sean "Diddy" Combs, Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad -- in the Kenny Leon-helmed television adaptation, which is set to start production later this year.