Full House’s middle child Jodie Sweetin scored the cover of People Magazine this week with the story of her meth addiction and subsequent journey to sobriety and motherhood. She is a first-time mom to a seven week old baby daughter, Zoie, and has been married to her second husband, a “film transportation coordinator,” for 10 months. 26 year-old Sweetin’s story has helped many people who are addicted to drugs, according to her husband, who told People that “we get e-mails that say ‘Thank you so much. You saved my life.’”

Sweetin’s story is one of triumph over addiction, and shows that it can touch people from all walks of life. She says she started doing meth because of her friends, and that “It wasn’t so much the allure of it, but the people I was hanging out with. They didn’t look like the people in commercials with no teeth. They looked normal and had what I thought were normal lives. It didn’t seem scary.”

Sweetin claims her husband, a police officer, didn’t know what was going on until she ended up in the hospital 6 months after she first started doing meth. She was able to clean up with the help of her family, who she confessed to after her hospitalization. She had six weeks of inpatient treatment and six months of living with sober people from rehab, during which she broke it off with her husband. People doesn’t specify where she met her second husband or if he’s also in recovery.

Baby Zoie is a joy for Sweetin and her husband. She calls her “amazing” and says “Sometimes I just look at her and go, ‘You’re so perfect.’”

As for her future ambitions, the former child star says she’s “begging to be on Dancing with the Stars,” and that “I’ve danced my whole life.”

Sweetin struck quite a few poses on the red carpet for the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica on Sunday. She wore an unflattering lime green embroidered dress with a see-through long paneled skirt and bronze heels. She’s definitely a candidate for Dancing With the Stars, but she should ask a friend with taste to come along with her before she buys another outfit for an event. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.

Congratulations are in order for Tara Reid, who got herself a job. The job is in Australia, where I come from, which has so few celebrities even Tara Reid is considered.

Producers have broadened their search for star talent after receiving knock backs from several high-status celebrities, the Daily Telegraph reports.

The production company for Dancing with the Stars, Freehand, is reportedly keen to snare a celebrity star to increase interest in the show since taking over producing rights from Granada.

C-list actor Reid — who pocketed $3500 when she turned up to parties after hosting a “Hooker’s Ball” in Darwin last year — has reportedly been asked by Freehand to star on the eighth series of the show.

Potty-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay and US fashionista Carson Kressley have both rejected similar such offers.

Kressley’s Sydney agent Max Markson confirmed he had been approached twice by the show’s producers.

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Unfortunately, Dancing with the Stars is a few years old now. It’s in its eighth season, and I suspect that Tara Reid isn’t going to be a big enough draw to bring the ratings up. I also love the fact that she’s not even the networks first choice, coming behind Gordon Ramsay and Carson Kressley. The network is obviously confused – Gordon and Carson have jobs, you need to find a celebrity who is currently unemployed. If Tara turns you down, give Lindsay Lohan a try.

Last year Tara had a great holiday in Australia while appearing at the Hooker’s Ball, where there was speculation she had been paid as little as $3,500 to attend, dressed as a prostitute. The event also infamously had the word ‘American’ spelt incorrectly on the posters advertising Tara’s appearance.

Tara Reid is shown at the Race to Erase MS Gala on 5/2/08 and outside Foxtail Restaurant on 4/10/08, thanks to WENN.

One of the remaining six celebrity dancers on Dancing with The Stars was injured during the show last night. Chilean soap star Cristián de la Fuente was doing a samba with his partner Cheryl Burke, their second dance of the show, when he moved off to the side, clutching his left forearm. He kind of fell over on top of Burke when was supposed to catch her at the end of the dance. He was lifting his arms and flexing his gorgeous biceps so much it’s not surprising he hurt himself. He said “I pulled a muscle” before they went to commercial.

The two were judged for their performance up until de la Feunte got hurt, and they received a 21, which was the lowest score that night, according to TMZ.

Here’s the video, de la Feunte gets injured about 1:15. It’s weird because he’s holding his right arm very stiffly and trying to flex it and all of a sudden he grabs his left forearm like it’s hurt.

OK! Magazine reports that he was diagnosed with “severe muscle cramp” and given ice for his arm and that he went to the hospital afterwards to get it checked out. There is no news yet as to whether he will continue on DWTS.

In a funny moment on the show, Shannon Elizabeth revealed that she was using a prosthetic butt to add padding to her costume and seemed to suggest her boobs were fake too:

Here are links to most of the other performances of the night.

Maybe-couple (or they might be doing it for the publicity) Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough: Dance 1
Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough: Dance 2

Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas: Dance 1
Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas: Dance 2

Jason Taylor and Edyta Sliwinska: Dance 1
Jason Taylor and Edyta Sliwinska: Dance 2

Marissa Jaret Winokur and Tony Dovolani: Dance 1

Mario and Karina Smirnoff: Dance 1
Mario and Karina Smirnoff: Dance 2

Cristián de la Fuente and Cheryl Burke: Dance 1

These contestants on “Dancing With the Stars” just can’t seem to keep it in their pants. Season two 2006 winners, Drew Lachey (brother of Nick and a founding member of the boy band 98 Degrees), and his dance partner Cheryl Burke, have been allegedly sexing it up while on a national tour to promote the show. The only problem with this is that Drew is a married man. In fact, his wife Lea was often seen cheering him on in the audience on TV, while pregnant with their daughter, who is now 2.

Dancing with the Stars has been rocked by a major sex scandal involving two of its most popular contestants — married dad Drew Lachey and his partner Cheryl Burke.

The Season Two champion couple had an affair during the show’s nationwide tour which ended last month, insiders tell Star.

“They didn’t go very far to cover it up,” one tour insider says. “Cheryl was constantly draped all over Drew. They held hands, had their legs intertwined and were always touching inappropriately.”

Cheryl’s then-boyfriend Matthew Lawrence discovered his girlfriend was cheating when he walked in on the pair, catching them in the act, according to several sources!

Now insiders fear that Drew, father of a 2-year-old girl, could find his marriage to high-school sweetheart, Lea, wrecked.

“Drew Had To Be Restrained”
Sources say Matthew found his girlfriend cheating when he went to retrieve something from her dressing room as the tour hit Jacksonville, Fla. on January 22, an eight-week-long Star investigation uncovered. They say he ran out screaming after seeing Cheryl and Drew having oral sex.

The insiders say that the next day, as tour members prepared to get on the bus to leave town, Drew had to be restrained as he ranted at Matthew and his brother, Joey in the parking lot. “If you talk about this, I’ll bury you Matt. I’ll bury you Joey. I’m serious I will hurt you,” he screamed.

While Matthew told Star, “There are too many things going on. I can’t talk about it,” lawyers for both Drew and Cheryl are strongly denying any affair between the two.

[From Star Magazine]

What a mess. Of course, this is Star Magazine, so who knows how much of this is true. But the show does seem to bring out the horny in its contestants. Season three contestant Mario Lopez hooked up with his dance partner, Karina Smirnoff; and country singer Sara Evans had to leave the show due to an ugly divorce during which her husband accused her of having an affair with her dance partner, Tony Dolovani. The accusations were never proven, and Sara accused her husband of having affairs and watching Internet porn while their children were in the room. If Drew was fooling around, his image as the devoted family man is destroyed. He has a lot to lose if these rumors reach his wife’s ears.

Any guesses on who’s going to hook up this season? My money’s on Kristi Yamaguchi and Adam Corolla.

Update: People Magazine quotes Lachey’s rep as saying this story is “completely false and cannot be further from the truth” and that it’s an old rumor that started when they first started dancing together.

The Dancing with The Stars contestants have been announced, and as the seasons go on the celebrities seem to get more high-profile. DWTS isn’t just for D-listers anymore, but the B list still remains at a comfortable distance. Included in the latest lineup are a few almost-unknowns, but there are also sports celebrities as well as an Oscar winning actress and a prominent comic and magician:

Penn Jillette, 53, magician

Marlee Matlin, 42, Oscar-winning actress, currently on The L Word

Cristian de la Fuente, 34, Chilean-born actor and heartthrob

Marissa Jaret Winokur, 34, Broadway actress

Adam Carolla, 43, comedian

Kristi Yamaguchi, 36, Olympic gold-medalist figure skater

Monica Seles, 34, tennis legend

Mario, 21, R&B singer

Steve Guttenberg, 49, movie star

Jason Taylor, 33, NFL All Star

Shannon Elizabeth, 34, Actress

Priscilla Presley, 62, Actress

[Thanks to OK! Magazine for this list.]

We don’t get this show in Germany, but I watched a few episodes from last season when I visited the states and it was a lot of fun. My mother was really into it. DWTS can really raise someone’s profile, and while performing on the show used to be seen as an act of desperation, it’s gaining more acceptance and many celebrities are clamoring to get on. Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino said that she wanted to go on the show, but that her management told her not to, and Tori Spelling was also said to gunning for a spot this season. Tori is currently pregnant with her second child, so we can probably assume that was the reason she wasn’t accepted.

I would like to see how waxen-faced Priscilla Presley fares. At 62 she’s the oldest one on the show this season, but isn’t the oldest competitor on the series. 65 year-old Vegas staple Wayne Newton was on in the fall of last year and was third to be eliminated. It’s also nice to see a deaf celebrity competing. Marlee Matlin, 42, currently stars on Showtime’s “The L Word.” She has four children, Sarah Rose, 11, Brandon, 7, Tyler, 5, and Isabella Jane, 4.

Dancing with The Stars airs on March 17 on ABC.

I live in Europe, so I don’t watch American television yet, (although I’m trying to get JayBird to install one of those Slingbox devices so I can.) Right now I’m on “vacation” in the states, though, and my mother loves Dancing with the Stars and we watched a couple of episodes, fast forwarding through the results episode because they just drag that shit out as long as possible.

The show is quite entertaining, and it’s easy to see how people get hooked. When excellent dancer and Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan was eliminated in an upset last week, I suspected that she was involved with her partner, because of the way he was clinging to her and she called him “baby” all romantic-like. Sabrina and her partner, Mark Ballas, are indeed dating, with Sabrina confirming their romance to TVGuide, saying that “I always call him ‘Baby Marky.’ I absolutely love and adore him.” She also said they were going out on a date the next day. Sabrina and Mark were spotted out at Hollywood hotspot Hyde, and TMZ has video of a photographer asking them when they’re getting married, with Sabrina answering “August of 08.”

With all the attention and fame that comes with competing on the dance show, many c and d-listers are vying for a place. Tori Spelling is said to be anxious to appear next season, and to follow her 90210 cast mates, Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering’s, lead. The thing is, she’s also gunning for her husband, Dean McDermott, to be on the show, and since he’s only known as Mr. Tori Spelling, producers don’t want to take him on:

[Tori Spelling] is campaigning to be on next season’s Dancing with the Stars after seeing how it helped Beverly Hills 90210 pals Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering. “She is hoping it will open doors,” says an insider. “At the very least, she can earn some money from touring with the dancers after the show. She’s the breadwinner in her family and needs to keep her career alive.” There’s just one hitch - Tori has hinted that she wants her husband, Dean McDermott, on the show. The show’s producers “don’t want Dean at all,” adds the source.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 12, 2007]

I can see Tori appearing on the show, but she seems so gawky to me that you wouldn’t expect her to get the hang of it. Maybe it’s just her um, features, that give you that impression and she could be a surprisingly good dancer.

Jane Seymour and her partner were eliminated from last night’s Dancing with The Stars, with Jennie Garth also in the bottom two. Four couples remain on the show, Melanie B and Makshim, Helio Castroneves and Julianne, Jennie Garth and Derek, Marie Osmond and Jonathan, and Cameron Mathison and Edyta. Marie Osmond was absent from last night’s results show due to the death of her father. Jane Seymour also missed a results show in week two due to her mother’s death that day.

Nearly 50 million people watched the premiere of Dancing With The Stars this season, so you can see how the show appeals to minor celebrities like Tori.

Tori and Dean are shown on 9/28/07 in Vegas before Tori’s appearance with The Pussycat Dolls.

48 year-old Marie Osmond passed out after her live samba dance with partner Jonathan Roberts on Dancing with the Stars last night. She was standing in front of the judge’s table with Roberts, initially jumping up and down a lot from excitement after her performance. She was smiling and joking around and then all of a sudden she closed her eyes and slumped to the floor. You can see judge Len Goodman, who was critiquing at the time, look visible concerned. The audience fell silent and host Tom Bergeron cut to commercial.

When they came back from commercial she had recovered and handled it well, saying she was fine and that “Once in a while this happens to me when I get winded and I stop breathing. I’m so sorry.” Osmond and Roberts received 21 out of 30 possible points from the judges for their routine.

Here’s the video. She faints at about 48 seconds in.

Four couples have been eliminated so far on Season 5 of Dancing with The Stars, with eight remaining. Melanie B of The Spice Girls and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy scored the highest last night with 29 points for the samba. Marie Osmond and her partner were tied for last with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and his partner Kym Johnson. The results show airs tonight and will depend on call in votes from viewers as well as judges’ ratings. Since Osmond fainted, she probably got a lot of sympathy call in votes and it’s unlikely she’ll be eliminated this week.

Country singer Sara Evans, 36, left “Dancing with the Stars” halfway through the last season after she abruptly filed for divorce from her husband of thirteen years, Craig Schelske. Evans had supposedly found out that Schelske was having an affair with Alison Clinton Lee. Lee was Evan’s close friend and also the nanny to the couple’s three children, Avery, 7, Olivia, 3, and Audrey, 2. Evan’s cited the affair as reason for the divorce in her filing. At the time Sara’s departure last October, her anonymous “friends” also told all the gossip magazines that Schelske was addicted to internet porn and that he was also having an affair with a woman he met on the internet.

“In the papers, Evans alleges that her husband committed adultery, was verbally and emotionally abusive, and drank excessively. She also says that he ‘frequently watches pornography’ and has ‘at least 100 photographs’ of him posing in a state of arousal, as well as ‘several photographs showing [Schelske] having sex with other women.’ Evans also attached details from Schelske’s postings on CraigsList where he allegedly requests ‘three party sex and anal sex.’”

[From Us Magazine]

Lee has completely denied any affair and has filed a $3 million defamation suit against Evans. A 118 page court document was released over the weekend that details the allegations in the divorce, and it appears that Evans is now the one having to defend her behavior. She’s accused of multiple affairs, and frankly the papers make her come off as a whore. It’s hard to tell if her husband’s lawyer is just on the attack and trying to defame her, or if there’s truth to these allegations and Evans was smearing her husband’s name in the first place. I’ll let you all read and be the judge.

“The document, filed Tuesday in Williamson County chancery court by attorneys for Evans’ husband, Craig Schelske, asks Evans to admit to affairs or romantic relationships with at least 11 people, including members of her band, members of the band 3 Doors Down, Kenny Chesney, Richard Marx and Tony Dovolani, her former Dancing With The Stars partner. The questions are included in documents used to obtain information from opposing parties during legal proceedings. Evans has not yet responded to the questions, and the court filings provide no evidence that Evans actually had relationships with any of the named people.

“John Hollins Sr., Evans’ attorney, said he could not comment because of a court-issued gag order. Evans’ publicist did not return calls. Schelske’s attorney, who is also bound by the gag order, did not return a call seeking comment. A publicist for Chesney and a former manager for Marx declined to comment. Calls left for Universal/Republic, the record label of 3 Doors Down, were not immediately returned.

“The court filing calls on Evans to state whether she admits to ‘an affair/sexual relationship/romantic involvement’ with Chesney, Marx, Dovolani, any member of her band, or Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrell, Chris Henderson (members of the band 3 Doors Down). It also asks Evans to:

“‘Discuss in detail the romantic communication between you and Chesney. Include in your answer whether he sent flowers; expressed emotions of love and/or physical attraction; and whether the two of you communicated by cellphone or calls to your home, all unknown to your husband continuing to present.’

“‘List and/or describe each text message you sent and received to or from Dovolani including, but not limited to the ‘I love you,’ ‘good morning darling,’ which Schelske viewed the night before you filed for divorce and terminated Allison Clinton Lee.’”

[From USA Today]

The article also says that Evans filed for divorce “the day after a blow-up between the couple in a Los Angeles restaurant. In previous court filings, Schelske alleged that he had learned of his wife’s ‘intimate relationship’ during the dinner, which had led to an argument.” If that’s true (and of course it’s only one person’s side) then it really casts a cloud over Evans, considering all the horrible things she publicly accused Schelske and Alison Clinton Lee of. Whichever side is lying is really going all out to drag the other one through the mud. Though I’m guessing the truth lays someone in the middle. The court documents also request that Evans, “provide all records of communications between herself and several friends and colleagues, including country stars Martina McBride and Chely Wright, and Dancing with the Stars co-stars Mario Lopez, Willa Ford and Joey Lawrence.”

It seems like Schelske’s lawyer is trying to drown Evans in paperwork and impossible requests. Who in the world could remember the details of each and every text message and communication with all these people? It’s utterly ridiculous. I can’t remember the last time a famous divorce was so acrimonious. Whoever did the cheating (and maybe it’s both or neither) – both parties are so vengeful it’s hard to see how they’re ever going to get through all this drama.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Header picture via Gay Socialites.