Jesus, what is wrong with January Jones? TMZ is reporting that January crashed her car into three parked cars, then left the scene of the accident “on foot”. She later returned and gave the police the old “the paparazzi were bothering me” defense. Police are investigating, as they should, but preliminary reports claim January was not drunk. I guess she’s just a really bad driver then? I can see hitting one parked car accidentally. But three? That takes some seriously bad driving. You have to concentrate on being a bad driver to pull that. Add to that the fact that she left the scene, albeit briefly? Strange. But I’ve always thought January was a strange duck.

“Mad Men” star January Jones allegedly slammed into three parked cars and left the scene.

LAPD tells TMZ January was driving a Range Rover around 9 PM last night when she allegedly lost control, hit the other cars and caused some major damage. We’re told a witness reported the accident to police and claimed that January fled on foot after saying, “I can’t deal with this commotion.”

Police tell us that while officers were on scene investigating January returned and claimed she fled because paparazzi were trailing her.

January was not cited or arrested, but her car was impounded and police have launched an investigation. Police say no alcohol or drugs were involved.

As for why paps might have been trying so hard to get a shot of Jones — photos of her doing a “walk of shame” were all over the Internet yesterday, showing her arriving home in a taxi in the same dress she wore to an event the night before.

[From TMZ]

The photos of January’s walk/cab ride of shame are here at TMZ. She really does look like the sex wasn’t that great and totally not worth the cost of the cab ride. Who is she allegedly dating now? Oh, right. Adrien Brody. Yeah, that sounds about right. I was thinking that it sounds more like the morning-after with The Piv (who January also hooked up with), but Adrien fits too. My guess? After getting shafted on the new season of Mad Men (allegedly, Bettie isn’t going to be around much), January has been hitting the bottle, hitting the unsavory dudes and hitting some parked cars.

UPDATE: TMZ just updated their story, and now we’ve got a cameo appearance by celebrity chef Bobby Flay…? Flay is married, for the record. To that blond who used to be on Law & Order: SVU (er… Stephanie March?). So this story is getting juicy, maybe. According to TMZ:

A woman who owns one of the cars that was hit tells TMZ … she heard the crash, looked over her balcony and saw Jones. She says around 10 minutes after the crash, Food Network star Bobby Flay showed up in a separate car, began talking with her and telling her to leave the scene, which she did.

We spoke with Flay, who tells us he was watching the basketball game last night at The London West Hollywood Hotel with a group of people that included Jones. Flay says he saw her drink a beer but wasn’t really watching her alcohol intake. Flay says he had only met Jones once before, and last night she asked for his number because she wanted to redo her kitchen and give his number to her designer. Flay obliged, and says he doesn’t know why Jones chose to call him after the crash, but nonetheless he drove over to help her. He says he did not argue but just wanted to make sure she was ok. The witness at the scene tells TMZ she was face-to-face with Jones and smelled alcohol on her breath. The witness says Jones left her driver’s license with another resident and left. She returned 45 minutes later in a different set of clothes, chewing gum.

The witness says she asked cops if they were going to administer a field sobriety test, but a cop told her there was no point since she could have had a drink at home and there was no way of proving she was under the influence when she was behind the wheel. Cops confirm there is no way to pin drinking and driving on someone who leaves the scene and comes back.

[From TMZ]

This is just strange. So… I don’t doubt that January was probably legally drunk. But now I wonder if she’s having an affair with Bobby Flay.