LONG?BEACH It was lucky number seven all around last weekend as for the seventh year in a row, Jake the Alligator Man chose a new bride, this year from seven lucky contestants.

Pin-up model Sofia Delish, AT?RIGHT?with last years winner Queen Pirate, was chosen Saturday as the 2013 Bride of Jake. The newlywed impressed her future husband and the judges with her cupcake demonstration.

Friday night, the Long Beach Elks Lodge was hoppin with punk-a-billy bands and burlesque strip-teases during Jakes bachelors party, BOTTOM?RIGHT.

But it wasnt all sideshow sexiness, during a break in the action Saturday, contestant and bellydancer Nina Nightshade, BELOW, taught the younger audience members how to hula dance.