Anybody who read my Times colleague Bill Levesque's most-excellent profile of media savvy attorney John Trevena could not be surprised to learn that the lawyer is now representing the two Oldsmar girls who earned headlines not long ago by claiming Southwest Airlines treated them badly because they were too pretty.

The girls -- Nisreen Swedberg, a 19-year-old University of South Florida student, and her best friend, Sarah Williams, 18 -- will appear in today's episode of the popular daytime talk show Dr. Phil, where they are expected to encounter some serious skepticism from the tough-talking doctor.

Today's show is focused on recent allegations from young women that they were treated poorly on Southwest flights, presumably because of their beauty (waitress Kyla Ebbert made similar charges last year and scored a pictorial in Playboy before the dust settled). But Swedberg and Williams' charges were greeted coolly by many media outlets, despite the fact that their allegtions earned them attention everywhere from the cover of TBT* to Inside Edition.

Host Phil McGraw apprently shared in the skepticism exemplified by a travel writer for MSNBC, who noted: "Ladies, it wasn't that you were 'too pretty to fly.' You were too rude. And, sadly, stereotypically clueless."

Looks like a typically juicy Phil fight-a-thon is in the works.

Here's a CNN story on their allegations....

And Southwest Airline's response: