WWW- A FORMER friend of Nicolette Sheridan is trying to sell nude photos of the “Desperate Housewives” hottie to the highest bidder. Mark Mauriello claims he has a dozen naked photos of Sheridan he shot over the last 10 years. “I think they are beautiful pictures and they should be seen,” he told us. “She doesn’t want me to sell them. But the way I look at it, if Mr. Blackwell named her the worse-dressed person, she might as well be the least-dressed person.”

Mauriello says Playboy passed, but Larry Flynt’s sleazy Hustler has expressed interest. Sheridan’s mouthpiece did not return calls.