Lis Smith may need to polish up her resume.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is looking for a new communications director to take to City Hall now that Smith, his current spokeswoman, has been outed as Eliot Spitzer’s girlfriend, The Post has learned.
Top de Blasio aides interviewed several possible replacements this week after The Post ran exclusive photos of the 54-year-old ex-governor ducking in and out of the 31-year-old Smith’s Soho walk-up, sources said Thursday.
Smith, who was de Blasio’s mouthpiece during his general-election campaign, is one of five p.r. people on his transition team.
De Blasio’s other representatives wouldn’t say whether Smith was working this week.
She did not respond to a Post reporter’s e-mail Thursday on a matter unrelated to her affair with Spitzer.
De Blasio — described as having been blindsided by the news of the relationship — said at a press conference Monday that he hadn’t decided whether he would keep her on staff.
Lis Smith leaves her apartment with Eliot Spitzer.Photo: New York Post/ William C. Lopez
Smith was absent from the conference, and sources said Thursday that her future with de Blasio was uncertain.
De Blasio has been critical of Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 over a prostitution scandal.
In August, a month after Spitzer launched his bid for comptroller, de Blasio called the real-estate scion a “child of the elite.”
He also praised Spitzer’s rival in race, Scott Stringer, for his “real integrity” and said the Love Gov’s hooker habit had disqualified him from politics.
“Dare I say he invalidated himself by his actions when he was in public office,” he told The Huffington Post.
The exposure of the affair prompted Spitzer and his estranged wife, Silda, to announce late Tuesday that their marriage was officially over. They have three grown daughters together.
The next day, Smith brought Spitzer to a Christmas party at her parents’ home in the tony Westchester village of Bronxville.
Outside the Fifth Avenue apartment building where Spitzer has been staying since his split, a female worker called his behavior deplorable.
“I’m a believer in ‘to each his own,’ but in my opinion, it’s ridiculous. And the age difference? Come on!” she said. “At least date somebody closer to your own age.”
“Can you imagine that Christmas-dinner conversion yesterday?” she added. “And she works for the new mayor — what is she thinking?
“The whole thing is just ridiculous.”
Additional reporting by Kevin Fasick & Josh Saul
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