Modern Family’s Julie Bowen is co-starring with Jennifer Aniston in that upcoming ensemble comedy, Horrible Bosses. In the few interviews I’ve seen with Bowen she’s been laugh out loud funny, so it’s clear she’s making a joke here but it can easily be misconstrued. Anyway Bowen tries to explain Jennifer Aniston’s accessible kind of beauty by saying that she’s beautiful like we all imagine we are when we’re drunk and squint at ourselves in the mirror. That cracks me up. Her comments could also be interpreted as saying that Aniston owes her beauty to drinking, which might not be too far off the mark.

Jennifer Aniston’s appeal is near universal. People want to work with her, protect her, be her or date her. For women, it’s fundamental, says Modern Family’s Julie Bowen – Aniston sets the mark for how they’d like to look.

“She’s one of our own,” Bowen tells PEOPLE of her costar in the upcoming movie Horrible Bosses. “She’s incredibly beautiful in the way that you think you could be if you got drunk enough and looked in the mirror just at the right angle.”

Bowen, 41, says she didn’t even have to film any scenes with Anison, 42, before being sucked in.

“In the makeup trailer, I was pulled into her orbit,” Bowen said with a laugh at the City Year’s Spring Break: Destination Education event at Sony Pictures Studios. “I’ve met her a few times before, she’s an incredibly nice person. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad word said about her, and it’s all true.”

Bowen herself has helped reinforce the sex appeal of women in their 40s. But she says Aniston’s allure is underestimated.

“You think she’s an accessible sort of beautiful,” she says with another laugh, “but you really can’t get that beautiful on your own. You’d have to drink your way there.”

[From People]

That opening line about Aniston is ridiculous: “People want to work with her, protect her, be her or date her.” This is another planted piece by Huvane about how great Aniston is, and I’ll be honest it sort-of works. It’s better to have someone who can string a coherent sentence together sing Aniston’s praises and make a joke about it than quote her directly or plant another story about how she’s dating an up-and-coming star who has previously denied having anything to do with her.

Also, Bowen kind of looks like Aniston but not in a way that at all pales to her. She’s beautiful in her own right. Maybe she has fond memories of getting drunk with Aniston on set and/or is just hoping to get blitzed later. She’s got three boys under the age of six: Oliver, who turned five earlier this month, and twins John and Gustav, who turn two May 8. (I think she’s with Oliver and one of the twins below.)

Photo credit: WENN and Fame/Juan Rico

As we heard over the weekend, Nicolas Cage was arrested for generally being a drunken dumbass early Saturday morning in New Orleans. He was so drunk he didn’t know where he lived, and instead of listening to his wife tell him that he’d picked the wrong rental house, he argued with her and dared some cops who were called to the scene to arrest him. They charged him with domestic violence (for allegedly grabbing his wife by the arm) and disturbing the peace and took him into custody. Cage wasn’t in with the general population and was just kind of hanging out there at the station. He was eventually bailed out by Dog The Bounty Hunter, who issued a statement showing his pride at having such a famous client without revealing much about Cage’s state of mind or how blotto he was. Cage was surely sobered up at that point anyway, Dog’s wife Beth tweeted that their latest client had been in “jail” for 8 hours, as if that’s not typical in New Orleans. It’s probably not typical for their clients to get to hang out behind the counter with the police officers, either.

Nicolas Cage received the help of an unlikely ally after his arrest in New Orleans this weekend – Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Reality star Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman posted the actor’s $11,000 bond after he was charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace Saturday in the French Quarter.

“I am a truly dedicated fan of Mr. Cage and will not be granting any interviews about my client as I wish to respect his privacy,” Chapman, 58, tells E! News in a statement.

“I performed my duties as a bail bondsman and not in connection with our show. This is what I do for a living. There are two sides of my job: I release my clients after they have been arrested; and pick them up if they don’t show up in court. I do not believe the latter will be the case for Mr. Cage.”

[From People]

At some point before taking a cab to a house he mistakenly believed he was staying at, Cage, his wife and some buddies went into a tattoo parlor. TMZ reported that Cage was “throwing his clothes around” there and “demanding” to get a tattoo. They’ve since posted the surveillance video without audio and you can see Cage’s wife pleading with him (probably to go home). He keeps arguing with her and at some point they seem to make up because she goes upstairs with him, presumably while he gets a tattoo.

You can see Cage’s “mug shot” on TMZ and Radar. It looks like a cell phone pic and they didn’t even make him stand up against a white walll. Cage is scheduled to appear in court on May 31 for these charges. He’s in New Orleans making his latest POS movie, The Medallion. Dude still has to pay for all those castles, exotic pets, dinosaur bones and luxury cars he blew all his money on.

Update: People has more on the night in question, and it paints a pretty vivid picture of just how much of a belligerent drunken out of control ass Cage was:

The couple were fighting over which house they were renting in the French Quarter, and Peter Bennett, a local street performer who lives near the property, tells PEOPLE he came home to two cop cars on each end of his block.

“Apparently he had mistaken the house of my neighbors for the other house up the block that he is actually renting,” he says. “His wife was trying to persuade him from disturbing the elderly couple who do in fact live in that house.”

Cage is actually renting the house three doors down, according to Bennett. When cops arrived, the barman says the actor started to get into the back passenger-side door of the police car.

“But the cop got out, walked around, and Cage ran a block south toward the river, where he tried to get into a cab,” he says. “There was a woman outside with a baby in her arms shouting, ‘Please don’t hurt us.’ ”

[From People]

You know you’re out of control when your wife is telling you you’ve got the wrong house and women with babies in their arms are pleading for their lives.

Dog and his wife are shown on 3/19/10 and 11/29/09. Nicolas Cage is shown on 2/22/11 and on 7/12/10. Credit: WENN

I used to think Nicolas Cage was kind of interesting, in a “He sold his soul to the Devil (Bruckheimer) but he’s still kind of damaged and hot” way. Then he got hair plugs and starting buying lots of bizarre stuff and he married a teenager. I still believe the dude is damaged, but his hotness is nil and what I thought was simply a bizarre “streak” is just his train wreck personality. I guess what I’m saying is that this news doesn’t surprise me: early this morning (Saturday), Nicolas was arrested in New Orleans. Nic and his wife Alice have a home in NOLA, but he was arrested on the street, somewhere in town. He was arrested for one count of domestic abuse and count of disturbing the peace. Do you know how completely off-your-head drunk you have to be to be arrested for disturbing the peace in New Orleans? Like, Nicolas must have been blitzed out of his mind. Here’s what went down:

Sources close to Nicolas Cage tell TMZ … Nic was arrested in New Orleans this morning after daring the police to arrest him following a loud argument with his wife.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Nic was “very drunk” on the streets of N.O. when a cab driver saw him loudly arguing with his wife Alice.

We’re told the cabbie called the police and said in addition to the screaming and yelling … he saw Nic grab her.

We’re told the police came and told Nic and his wife to just go home. That’s when Nic allegedly told cops, “Why don’t you just arrest me?” The cops then reiterated that he and his wife should just go home. Cage then repeated his dare to cops.

At that point, police took Nic into custody and charged him with …domestic abuse and disturbing the peace.

Our sources say Nic is still in custody and a bail hearing will he held shortly.

We’re also told Nic’s wife is not a complaining witness and does not want him charged — and says there was no physical contact.

UPDATE 10:27 AM PT — A bond has been set at $11,000.

[From TMZ]

Yeah, it doesn’t really sound like he “beat” Alice, only that he grabbed her, perhaps with some force. I’m not saying it’s any better or worse, but it is different. I’m not a wife-beating apologist (I hope you guys know me by now enough to say that I am definitely not), but right now it just sounds like a pretty typical argument between two really drunk people. My guess is that the abuse charge will be dropped and Nic will end up just being charged with disturbing the peace or whatever.

UPDATE: People Magazine has more details about this story. According to the New Orleans police spokesperson, “Cage and his wife were standing in front of a residence that he insisted was the property the couple was renting. She disagreed, and Cage grabbed her by the upper arm and pulled her to what he believed was the correct address. There were no visible signs of injury on his wife’s arm. The actor then began striking vehicles and later attempted to get into a taxi. At that point, an officer who had been flagged down by onlookers drove up on the couple, immediately observed that Cage was heavily intoxicated and ordered him out of the cab, which prompted Cage to start yelling. The officers subsequently took Cage to Central Lock-up.” Another inmate who was in jail at the same time also tells People Mag that Nicolas was “drunk” but that the NOLA police officers didn’t keep him with the other inmates: “He wasn’t in a cell, he was behind the counter with all the other officers.” Meanwhile, TMZ reports an eyewitness account of Cage wandering into a tattoo parlor and “began throwing his clothes around, demanding to get inked up….Nic seemed quite intoxicated and asked employees to call the cops. When they asked why, Cage replied … he just didn’t remember where he lived.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Just thinking about Taylor Swifty’s incessant cuddlefesting and ponies and sparkles and 12-year-old drama is enough to make me reach for a bottle of liquor. Can you imagine what it would be like to be around her 24-7? I would need a crack pipe, some blow and a baker’s dozen bottles of cheap vodka. Well, the people who are actually around Swifty 24-7 are a lot stronger than me. According to Life & Style’s Scene Queens, Swifty demands that all of her backup dancers on tour not only be drug-free, but alcohol-free too. Honestly, I don’t mind the idea of drug testing, but NO DRINKING?!? WTF?

Taylor Swift’s squeaky-clean image is not an act. How do we know? Because she’s even insistent that her backup dancers behave as well as she does!

At an audition for dancers in LA on March 30, Life & Style’s Scene Queens heard that hopefuls were told that Taylor’s Speak Now tour will be strictly sober and that everyone will have to submit to random drug-and-alcohol testing while on the tour.

“All the dancers auditioning looked clean-cut and girlie,” a spy tells the Scene Queens. “Everyone wanted to fit the role of Taylor’s good-girl image perfectly to get the job.”

Unlike some of her pop star peers, Taylor’s very careful to project the epitome of class.

“The second you put out a song and somebody likes it, you become a role model,” she’s said. “That’s just how it happens, so I’ve always been really mindful of that.”

We won’t be holding our breath for Taylor to trash hotel suites any time soon.

[From Life & Style]

Now imagine Miss Goody Two-Shoes being pissed on by John Mayer. Look, if her deal was really and truly all ponies and sparkles and cuddlefests, all the time, across all walks of life, maybe I would see the point of all this. But Swifty just wants things to “look” classy, not actually BE classy. She’s fine with sneaking off and getting laid, douche-style, by John Mayer, but she’s not okay with her backup dancers going out and having a drink after the show? Not everybody is as obsessed with coffee as you, Swifty!

Sidenote: I’ve been doing really well with not drinking lately, but I’m totally going to have a glass of wine tonight while watching Bones – I’m already looking forward to it! The past few months, I’ve been trying to get healthier because I was tired of my flab and I was tired of walking up hungover and wretched. And I have been feeling a lot better lately! I also switched from vodka cocktails to wine when I do drink. My point? It’s MY choice, SWIFTY. And I don’t think having a glass of wine a couple of times a week makes me any less “classy” than Taylor “The Mayer Douche Nailed Me And Dumped Me And I Wrote A Song About It” Swift.

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These are new photos of Christina Aguilera at the press conference announcing her new job as one of the judges on The Voice, the new American Idol-esque singing competition. The other judges are Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Cee-Lo Green, with Carson Daly as the host, I guess. Can I just say something? Christina looks different, and not in a good way. My first thought was that she had gotten something minor tweaked to her face, my second thought was that she had just lost a few pounds and she didn’t look so puffy, and my final thought is that her wig is off-kilter. I think it’s her sketchy “hairline” that’s throwing me off – her hair normally doesn’t “start” that far down her forehead. Also: I don’t think Christina looks totally wasted, but my guess is that before she came out to pose for photos, she had three vodka martinis. Or, as Christina calls it, “an appetizer”.

Christina Aguilera faced the press last night, for the first time since her botched Super Bowl song and her arrest for public drunkenness. But she wasn’t talking about either of those things.

Sporting spiked shoes and a red dress, Aguilera joined singer Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5′s Adam Levine for a press conference in Los Angeles to talk about new show The Voice, premiering April 26 on NBC. Washington Post columnist Lisa de Moraes says reporters were kept waiting for more than an hour for a 20-minute Q & A session.

Promised host Carson Daly of The Voice: “The level of talent … is leaps and bounds beyond the winners of any other competition show.”

Explaining her coaching outlook, Aguilera said: “There is no good and bad. This isn’t about tearing people down. I want to bring these people up. ”

The new twist in this vocal show is that judges will sit in big red chairs, their backs turned to the singers while they perform.

“The Voice really does stand for what it says,” said Aguilera. “Instinctually, you can judge people based on the way they look. I love that fact we get to sit here with our backs turned away from these people and completely use just one sense to hear these voices. I’m not looking for vocal acrobatics, who has biggest range [of] high and low. I’m looking forward to getting moved.”

[From USA Today]

Eh. I doubt this show will do well, but I’m not good at predicting the general public’s appetite for crap. I can’t stand these types of shows, but obviously, I’m in the minority. And while I think Christina’s drunk, train wreck ass is being enabled by this kind of high-profile gig, I also think that the producers will be using Christina’s drunk ass to pull in “buzz” for the show. Tune in to The Voice to see Christina slur her way through judging! Tune in to The Voice to see her drunkenly bust her ass as she tries to walk a straight line! Et cetera. It’s going to either be a total disaster, or a heavily edited mess.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday, I covered the early excerpts from Star Magazine’s Christina Aguilera cover story this week, all about Christina “hitting rock bottom” with her boozing and diva antics. As I read through Jezebel’s tabloid round-up, it seems like most tabloids have “Christina is a drunken hot mess” stories happening. So… either it’s all true or this is a series case of tabloid group-think. Here are some of the highlights from the stories:

Life & Style – The Christina Aguilera “Refuses To Get Help” story here begins: “Looking at the concerned faces of those nearest and dearest to her, Christina Aguilera could feel her anger growing. As one of them began to tell the singer that they wanted to talk to her about her drinking and partying, she snapped, ‘This isn’t happening — and if it is, you’re all fired.” Basically, Christina’s peeps want her to get help (sure sounds like an intervention) but their jobs are on the line.

ITW – Christina Aguilera’s been drinking alone, pouring herself a glass of wine or a shot of vodka whenever she knows she has to go out in public. “It’s the only way she can get herself ready to be in a good mood,” says a source. Someone else claims she has mood swings and a severe drinking problem, and the booze contributed to the end of her marriage. She ALLEGEDLY used to scream at husband Jordan: “I make all the money. I’m the star of this family! What do you do?” And! “The real Christina is mean, nasty and horrible,” says an insider.

Star – Christina Aguilera has “lost her confidence” since she split from Jordan Bratman, and “She gets terribly sad,” and “all the awful memories” come flooding back. So! “She ends up numbing herself with booze and food.” She’s “in denial” and “seriously depressed,” says a “friend.” And, when she’s hungover, she “devours pizza, french fries, and other fattening foods,” which is just SO WEIRD AND UNUSUAL. A doctor who does not treat her claims: “She looks about 40 lbs. overweight.”

[From Jezebel]

At this point, I really do tend to believe all of the horrible stories about Christina. Of course, I believed them before her booze-soaked downward spiral. I believed the junk about her picking up women at bars while married, I believed that she cheated on Jordan repeatedly, and I believed that she’s probably a monster to work for and with. The boozing just enhances and accentuates all of the old stories, and gives them a new flavor. And the kicker is that Christina isn’t going to be getting help any time soon. She and her team have already started blaming Matthew Rutler for being a “bad influence” on poor little Christina, so once he’s out the door, she’s still going to keep on with the badness.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I sincerely hope Christina Aguilera has sent Charlie Sheen some muffin baskets, because the sheer volume of Charlie’s crazy eclipses other celebrities’ crack shenanigans, and too many of them are getting off easy. Like Christina, who is probably drunk right now, as I’m writing. Christina is a boozehound monster, and she’s been having a rough few months. Divorce, custody issues, trying to get her career on track, getting into drunken bitch-fights at the Globes, passing out drunk in strangers’ beds, being too wasted to remember the lyrics to the National Anthem, falling down drunk at the Grammys, and finally, getting arrested and held for hours for public intoxication because she was too blitzed to stand up straight, OR remember her address. Anyway, while Charlie and “The Bachelor” seem to be taking most of the tabloid covers this week, Star Magazine decided to run with a Christina cover. The “painful secret” that Star is referring to on the cover seems to be that Christina has unnamed “personal demons”. Not to be rude, but who doesn’t?

With a failed marriage, stalled career, weight issues and an embarrassing arrest for public drunkenness, Christina Aguilera’s world has spiraled out of control. In our new issue, we reveal the painful secret that caused her meltdown and detail her toxic new romance.

In the March 21 issue of Star — on sale now — we report that the singer is plagued with personal demons — and how the collapse of her marriage to Jordan Bratman last fall has completely derailed her.

“Christina’s lost her confidence since she split from Jordan,” an insider tells Star. “She gets terribly sad, and that’s when all the awful memories come flooding back and she ends up numbing herself with booze and food.”

Her new life with bad boy beau Matthew Rutler — who was arrested for DUI when Christina was busted for public drunkenness — hasn’t helped her regain stability – with her friends calling him an enabler. And Christina turns more and more to alcohol to help her with her woes – a faltering career, significant weight gain and a potential custody battle over 3-year-old Max.

“Everyone is worried sick,” says a concerned pal. “She needs to get help before something even more serious happens.”

Pick up the new Star today for our full story on Christina hitting rock bottom, including her troubled family life, extreme party past, weight worries and more.

[From Star Magazine]

Eh. This sounds pretty basic. They might even bring up some stuff from Christina’s childhood, which she’s already discussed – apparently, her father was an abusive son of a bitch. But I’m not a big fan of saying using childhood abuse as a catch-all excuse for an adult’s behavior. As I said, everybody is screwed up about something, you know? And if Christina was just sitting in her house, getting wasted and not hurting anyone, I wouldn’t really care. But my biggest problem is that she’s continuously drunk in public, causing disruptions and failing and putting other people in danger – AND she thinks she’s fine. She’s thinks she’s maintaining. She’s being enabled by new gigs and new jobs and she doesn’t get that the only reason most people are interested in her at this point is to simply watch the trainwreck unfold.

Star cover courtesy of CoverAwards. Additional pics by WENN.

I don’t know what to make of this news. I think what it boils down to is Christina Aguilera = The New and Drunker/More Medicated Paula Abdul. Christina got herself a job, just days after being arrested for being so bombed she couldn’t even remember her address, much less stand upright. Christina got a gig as a “musician coach” on the new American-Idol-esque competition show, The Voice. Christina joins Cee Lo Green (oh, GOD) and Adam Levine (douche with a pretty voice).

Christina Aguilera is putting that voice to good use. The Grammy winner has just been named as a musician coach on NBC’s new musical competition series The Voice, which premiers April 26.

“I am so excited to be part of such a wonderful project that celebrates music and the talent behind it,” Aguilera, who joins coaches Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5′s Adam Levine, said of the role. “To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists’ careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.”

NBC executives say the singer’s talent was what caught their eye. “Christina has a once in a generation talent – her voice is phenomenally distinctive and instantly recognizable,” Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming at NBC and Universal Media Studios said of the appointment. “Her journey as an artist, who started so young in the music business, will be an inspiration to the talent she coaches on the show.”

The news comes on the heels of a challenging week for the singer. She was jailed by police for public intoxication early Tuesday morning before later being released, while her boyfriend, Matt Rutler, was also arrested for investigation of DUI.

[From People]

So… Christina is “The Paula” right? Only much, much worse. I’m seeing buckets of drag queen makeup, mixed with a prerequisite two bottles of Jack Daniels before she makes her way to “coach” the contestants. And once there, she falls down a lot and somebody (Adam Levine) gets called a “whore.” Because she’s a boozehound monster, and everybody is enabling her drunk ass.

Photos courtesy of WENN & E! News.

Monday night, Christina Aguilera was busted for public intoxication – her drunk-ass boyfriend Matt Rutler was driving, and he’s getting charged with a DUI. Meanwhile, Christina was so wasted that she had to arrested (but not charged) with public intoxication, and she stayed in jail for the rest of the night, into the morning, and then she was released without being charged. There are new details about what went down. L.A. County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Steve Whitmore tells Us Weekly: “When she got out of the car, she couldn’t stand. We had to help her stand… She didn’t know where she was and she didn’t know her own address. We took her into custody for her own protection. It was an arrest for her own safety…It is a public welfare issue. She was incapacitated and not able to take care of herself.” Wow, she didn’t know her own address? Isn’t she still living in the same house that she and Jordan shared while they were married? The same house she’s been living in for years? THAT is drunk.

Next – PopEater has an EPIC story up about how Christina is just a poor little maligned diva who never did anything to anybody. I’ll admit that Christina isn’t horrible like Lindsay Lohan or Charlie Sheen, or some of the maliciously terrible trainwrecks. But Christina’s big problem is that she thinks she’s “maintainin’” when she’s really not. Also, remember how I said yesterday that Matthew Rutler is on the way out now? My words: “I bet the boyfriend gets dumped too. That’s next. She’ll blame him and call him a bad influence.” Guess what happened just a few hours after I wrote that?

These days, it’s easy to forget that Christina Aguilera is a four-time Grammy Award-winning singer who has sold over 50 million albums. The pop star is now better known for forgetting the words to the national anthem, stumbling on stage, being drunk at parties, the failure of her most recent album, the dismal reception of her feature film debut, a canceled tour, rumors of very inappropriate behavior at family functions and now an arrest for public drunkenness.

The past year was a tumultuous one for the ‘Beautiful’ singer. Aguilera simply can’t seem to do anything right, and with each new headline, her reputation as one of the most talented vocalists in music takes a hit. Critics frequently complain of auto-tuned pop stars and divas that are more style than substance, but we all know Aguilera is the real thing. She can sing just about anyone under the table and is known as a brilliant live performer, so how have things gotten to this point?

Friends of the star are pointing fingers at Aguilera’s new beau, Matthew Rutler, saying he is a “bad influence on her.” Aguilera met Rutler on the set of ‘Burlesque,’ where the 25-year-old was working as a set assistant. While not much is known about Rutler, he has been a constant presence (or active participant) in many of Aguilera’s most recent embarrassments.

There have been plenty of rumors about booze-filled nights and drunken dalliances, but one thing is for sure: Rutler was driving erratically through West Hollywood last night, with Aguilera in the passenger seat, when cops pulled the couple over at around 2:45AM. Officers arrested Rutler at the scene for misdemeanor driving under the influence and set his bail at $30,000.

On-scene authorities determined that Aguilera was “extremely intoxicated,” so much so that she was apparently unable to take care of herself and was taken into custody for public intoxication.

A source close to the singer told TMZ, “If the driver had not been arrested for DUI, [Christina] would have never been in trouble.”

[From PopEater]

Yes, I’m sure Christina’s glorified rent boy is the “bad influence” and not the other way around. Jesus, try to be a little less obvious, Team Aguilera. Oh, and remember how Team Aguilera was pissed at me for saying that Christina was drunk at the Grammys? PopEater’s sources said that “No one knows what’s going on with her, but whatever it is, it isn’t good. She was acting very erratic backstage before her performance and wouldn’t let anyone into her dressing room before the show began. Something is very wrong.” Ah, yes. Let’s see if Rutler gets blamed for that as well. I would like to hear this kid speak, wouldn’t you?

UPDATE: Christina’s mug shot, courtesy of E! News:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Okay, here is what is good about Christina Aguilera’s arrest for public intoxication: she wasn’t driving. Bitch just likes to get her drink on, and then she just gets driven places. Unfortunately, her driver/handler/boyfriend Matthew Rutler was drunk as well – probably because he was trying to keep up with Christina’s boozehound ass. So when they were pulled over, Rutler got booked for DUI, and Christina was taken in for public intoxication. Now, some of you said that you really have to be completely wasted to get a charge of public intoxication – is that how it is in California? Because in Virginia, you can get a public intoxication charge at the drop of a hat. I know people who have public intoxication charges because they had one or two drinks at a bar and then walked home, where they were stopped by a cop and arrested. Anyway, different rules, I guess.

So Christina was just released from the pokey, where it seems that cops were just waiting until she sobered up. TMZ has a photo of Christina hunched down in the backseat of her chauffeured car here. And now the sheriff’s department is saying that they’re probably not going to pursue the public intoxication charge, that it was just a placeholder until Drunky McClownFace sobered up:

Christina Aguilera was arrested for public intoxication early Tuesday morning and jailed for her own safety until she recovered. Her boyfriend was also arrested for investigation of DUI.

The singer was released from custody at the West Hollywood sheriff’s station at about 7:30 a.m., according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.

“We have no desire to prosecute, none whatsoever. It just for a public safety issue,” says Whitmore. “When she was able to navigate and to think on her own and make her own way, she was released.”

Aguilera, 30, was a passenger in a car driven by boyfriend Matthew Rutler that was pulled over at 2:45 a.m. when deputies noticed the vehicle driving erratically. Both were booked, Aguilera for public intoxication, Rutler for DUI.

“She was not capable to taking care of herself. She was incapacitated,” says Whitmore. “She was cooperative. She was not belligerent in any way whatsoever. She was just intoxicated.”

By law, a person can be held in custody if they cannot take care of themselves, he says.

“As she got better, she just said, ‘I would like to leave,’” says Whitmore, and deputies granted her request.

Aguilera’s reps were not immediately available for comment.

[From People]

Was this Christina’s wakeup call? I doubt it. There’s still a ways to go until Rock Bottom. I bet when Christina’s team brings up rehab today, Christina will fire all of them.

Also – just how drunk do you have to be for the cops to deem you “incapacitated”? Well, at least she wasn’t yelling at the cops and calling them all whores. Like she did with her brother’s girlfriend.

Oh, and I bet the boyfriend gets dumped too. That’s next. She’ll blame him and call him a bad influence.

Photos courtesy of WENN.