I’m really proud of Lindsay for not drinking for a whole week and all, but doesn’t AA teach that you’re supposed to stay away from your old crowd and keep out of the bars if you can help it? Lindsay has been sipping water and Red Bull while out at the same old places she used to drink and presumably drug at.

She claims she’s been in AA for a year, and is bragging about her whole first week of sobriety. Baby steps I guess. Still, it seems like she should clam up a bit and earn her own three month chip before she starts talking about it.

It’s in a quote at the end of her rambling interview that she reveals her whole rehab strategy. She’s just going to take a stab at it, and if she’s not successful it’s not her fault or anything. It was fate:

Lindsay Lohan had a good reason to be late for a holiday party at Hollywood club Shag in on Monday. “I just left an AA meeting,” she told PEOPLE.

“I’ve been going to AA, for a year by the way,” she added. Why didn’t she say so until recently? “Well it’s no one’s business. That’s why it’s anonymous!”…

“I haven’t had a drink in seven days. Or anything. I’m not even legal to, so why would I?” Lohan, 20, told PEOPLE. “I don’t drink when I go to clubs. I drink with my friends at home, but there’s no need to. I feel better not drinking. It’s more fun. I have Red Bull.”

But, she added, “I didn’t feel bad before. I never felt bad. I just wanted to, like, find a balance. I was out too much. I was too caught up. I mean, I’m 20 years old. I was off from work, I was getting ready to start a film, and I was like going out just to get it out of my system. I was going out too much and I knew that, and I have more to live for than that.”

Lohan said she hopes to shift the focus from her partying to her career. “I was like, I don’t want to be written about at these clubs with these people. I work, I act, I have a living. That’s what I do every day. I work every single day.”

Asked if she had advice for those seeking recovery from substance abuse, Lohan said, “I think, don’t do it for someone else. Do it for you, ’cause if you do it for someone else you’re going to relapse. It’s not going to be a change. You have to really do something if you want to do it and … if it doesn’t work, you’re not meant to.”

Maybe it will work out for Lindsay and she’ll find that life balance she so sorely needs. It seems like she would do well to keep her mouth shut and try to have some success at her new lifestyle before she starts telling everyone about it. If she doesn’t stay sober, though, it wasn’t her fault or anything and she can just try again at some other point when she reaches rock bottom or needs the publicity.

Photos from linds-lo.com

Britney’s quite the mess, but it doesn’t seem she’s neglectful of her children enough to need constant monitoring by Child and Family Services. The news yesterday from Page Six that Britney is wanted for questioning by the child welfare agency was either fabricated or overblown. TMZ reports that it’s just not true, and that as long as Britney has someone watching the children she should be fine.

Paparazzi agency X17 says that Britney visited a knee surgeon this week for a consultation. She injured her knee two years ago, which sort of led her to K-Fed and derailed her music career. Speculation is that she may need more surgery on it, which could postpone her much-anticipated comeback.

Britney is now trying to mend her public image by replacing that dumb ass morphing tiger on her website with a personal message referencing her issue with undergarments, but it seems like too little too late:

It’s been so long since I’ve been out on the town with friends. [Note from Celebitchy: 4 hours] It’s also been 2 years since I’ve even celebrated my birthday. Every move I make at this point has been magnified more than I expected, and I probably did take my new found freedom a little too far. Anyway, thank God for Victoria’s Secrets’ new underwear line! I look forward to a new year, new music and a new me.

I’m just getting started… Happy Holidays everyone!

Britney

This sounds like the trite justifications Lohan uses for her partying. (”I’m 20, don’t all 20 year-olds go out?”) There’s a difference between hitting a nightclub once in a while, and going out every night of the week when you have two young children at home. Someone wrote this for her and told her that she needed to sound contrite. There’s nothing Britney can say that will erase the image of her punane from peoples’ minds.

All of Britney’s actions show that she wants to do everything as she pleases. We’re really disappointed in her and this stupid message isn’t going to change that. She may be the top search phrase on Yahoo! this year, but it takes a lot of work to look away from an accident instead of slowing down and staring.

Is it wrong of me to say that Britney is looking kind of slack recently? If she’s up all night drinking (and probably drugging) she’s surely let up on her fitness and health regime. She doesn’t look as good as she did a month ago, and that kind of partying catches up with you quick. Just look at Lohan.

Fergie looks like a fool while trying to rap about herself and standing bow-legged in a tutu at last night’s Billboard awards. She forgot some of the words near the end of the song and is clearly intoxicated. Gwen Stefani’s music might be awful too but at least she puts on a good performance:

Thanks to ONTD for linking this. Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

Danny DeVito admits to staying up all night drinking lemon liqueur with George Clooney before his appearance on “The View” this morning and it’s pretty obvious that he’s out of it.

He brags about screwing his wife Rhea in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House when he was a guest there during Clinton’s reign, and does a whole weird Three Stooges impression meant to make fun of George Bush, a lot of which is bleeped out. He seems to have called Bush a “numbnuts” but that didn’t make it past the censors.

Right after he says that the Lincoln bedroom was “utilized” Barbara Walters changes the topic to his new movie “Deck the Halls.”

He burps and has to hold his hand over his mouth when he’s trying to describe the predictable plot of the movie!

Christina Aguilera has been photographed out drunk off her ass several times, but at least she’s usually with her husband and keeps it in her pants/mini skirt. She also doesn’t have any kids at home to worry about, so more power to her.

She was carried out of a London club by one of her staff at 5:00 AM after having a few too many glasses of champagne with the Black Eyed Peas:

TINY Christina Aguilera is clearly a bit of a lightweight when it comes to drinking.

The Dirrty singer looked far from Beautiful as she was carried out of London’s Kabaret’s Prophecy club on a pal’s shoulders after a private party.

And amazingly the petite star had only sipped a few glasses of Veuve Clicquot and one vodka shot.

Our source explains: “Not only is she very little but she was quite tired because she’s in the middle of her tour.

“Her party still ran up a pretty sizeable £2,000 bar bill, mind you.”

Sexy Aggy, 25, looked demure in a fitted white jacket when she headed for the Soho club at 1.30am.

She grooved merrily with her dancers and The Black Eyed Peas until 5am when she made her piggyback exit and slumped into a limo.

Here’s Christina trying to hide under a jacket after her wild night out. Contrast the pictures below of her hiding her face with Britney’s recent drunken pictures letting it all hang out.

She is shown in the header image while out on November 21 in Dublin outside another club. Pictures from Christina-A.net

Paris loves closing down parties while lip synching to her album. Janet Jackson left her own birthday/album release party in disgust when Paris tried to steal her limelight with an impromptu performance.

Jay-Z was pretty tired after playing 7 gigs in 24 hours and it’s doubtful that he cared when Paris took to the stage after his recent show in Vegas. She kept checking her face in the mirror and turned her back to Jay-Z while he performed. Afterwards she gave all the remaining bemused concert-goers a little something to remember her by:

The partying heiress was performing in Las Vegas, when she “puked” on stage, according to crooner Joshua Radin.

Radin was visiting Vegas with the cast of “Scrubs” and went to a nightclub to hear Jay-Z perform.

“Paris Hilton …was sitting next to me the whole night. Seriously, next to me, like our legs were touching for a good 5 hours,” Radin wrote on his MySpace site. “Now don’t get the wrong idea. She never once said hello, nor even looked in my direction. Five hours. And it was unreal to watch. She must have pulled a compact out of her bag every 6 minutes to stare at herself and pose while Jay-Z was performing 18 inches from us.”

When Jay-Z left the stage, according to Radin, it was Hilton’s moment. “Paris, who had been swilling straight vodka from [a] Grey Goose bottle for hours, gets up on stage, has the people in charge throw her ‘record’ on the house stereo for her to lip sync two of her songs,” writes Radin. “She gets up on the stage, pukes, leaves. . . I find the music business charming.”

Paris is shown leaving Vegas with a massive hangover in a picture courtesy of Splash News. She may have failed to lip synch on stage, but she was successful at getting Britney Spears to take her pants off. That’s something.

In a brilliant follow-up to his line of T-Shirts celebrating his fragile sobriety, Pete Doherty and Liam Gallagher, the less arrogant brother in Oasis, are planning to open a retro-themed pub together in North London.

The 34-year-old Oasis star came up with the plan after being persuaded by the Babyshambles singer during a chat in a boozer near the home of Pete’s lover Kate Moss.

An insider said: “Liam loves the old days of north London where his group would hang at cool boozers such as the Good Mixer in Camden.

“But there just isn’t the same vibe anymore, even at the live music venues there. Pete knows Liam through singer Lisa Moorish, with whom they both have children, and got talking to him one night and suggested they start their own cool venue. Somewhere with traditional ales, lagers and spirits with a good old-fashioned pub grub vibe – square pies, bangers and mash and all that. But the main element is somewhere late where up-and-coming artists and bands can showcase their new music.

“It would have a retro feel and be somewhere cool where luvvies, music industry types and models could feel at home…”

Our mole added: “Pete and Liam are looking at a place in Kentish Town near the Pineapple pub on Leverton Street.”

What a great idea for a guy who went to rehab multiple times to open a pub. Alcohol is probably not forbidden in Pete’s recovery plan, but at least he’s supposedly off the smack.

Pete and Kate Moss are said to be planning to marry in late December, with Alexander McQueen designing a unique black and white wedding dress for the affair. Now they’ll have a place to hang out at as a happily married drunken couple. They’ll even be able to bring their eventual kids there!

Rachel Weisz drew collective gasps from prenatal experts everywhere by saying she’s of the mind that it’s ok to have an occasional glass of wine while you’re pregnant.

In Europe they supposedly say it’s ok to have an odd glass of wine while you’re pregnant, which is how Weisz defended her statement. In America, though, it’s strictly forbidden and even most European obstetricians advise against it:

Oscar-winnng actress Rachel Weisz has sparked controversy by saying it is acceptable for pregnant women to drink alcohol.

The 35-year-old, who recently gave birth to her first child, said she thought it was “fine” for expectant mothers to have a glass of wine after the first three months.

British-born Miss Weisz added: “I mean in Europe they drink it”.

Her comments, which were made while she promoted her latest movie The Fountain, were immediately criticised by medical experts who described them as “ill-informed” and “dangerous”.

The Government is currently reviewing guidelines on drinking alcohol when pregnant after experts warned that even very small amounts could result in Foetal Alcohol Syndrome which can lead to learning difficulties, poor co-ordination and attention deficit disorder.

Current UK guidelines say pregnant women can drink one or two units, the equivalent to one or two small glasses of wine or single measures of spirit, once or twice a week.

In the US and Canada complete abstinence from drinking is advised for expectant mothers.

Last night foetal alcohol syndrome specialist Dr Raja Mukherjee, of St George’s Hospital Medical School in London, said: “If Rachel Weisz has drunk during her pregnancy and the baby is fine then that’s just pure luck. The problem is that you don’t know who is at risk and who is not…

Miss Weisz, who won an Oscar last year for her role in The Constant Gardener made her comments in an interview in New York to publicise the film, in which she appears with actor Hugh Jackman.

Asked whether she thought a glass of wine was fine she replied: “Personally I do. They say not in the first three months though, but I think that after that it’s fine. I mean in Europe they drink it”.

Gwyneth Paltrow personally thanked her and took another sip of Guinness.

Before Keith Urban was whisked off to rehab for “letting his guard down” on his recovery, Keith and his new wife Nicole Kidman were trying to conceive a child with the help of fertility drugs.

Nicole suffered from an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage during her marriage to Tom Cruise and she’s now less fertile at age 39. According to The Enquirer, she and Keith have visited a fertility clinic.

Keith’s sperm were judged motile but groggy, and Nicole has started taking fertility drugs, which may explain her bloated abdomen that all the bloggers (like me) were mistaking for a baby bump:

Nicole recently began taking the fertility drug Clomid to induce ovulation before she left to finish shooting the fantasy film “The Golden Compass” in London.

“Meanwhile, Keith has had tests done, and he was found to be able to have kids,” said the insider.”

“He knows how much Nicole wants to get pregnant.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition. October 30, 2006]

Nicole’s past history of a failed and ectopic pregnancy makes it more difficult for her to get pregnant, while the drug she’s on adds to the risk of another ectopic pregnancy.

The article notes that Nicole and Keith haven’t had a lot of time to conceive a child as their work schedules keep them apart.

With the latest news that Keith has checked into rehab to get treatment for his alcohol addiction, it might be a while before they’re able to start trying for a baby again.

National Enquirer story [via]

Here are pictures of Nicole Kidman in Kosovo as a goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM on 10/14. [via]

According to a Courtney Love fansite, Mel Gibson once visited her in her hotel room and staged an intervention for the troubled rock star. When a high Courtney refused to let Mel in, he waited until a delivery guy came to the door and then busted in. It’s unknown exactly what happened in that hotel room over a year ago, but Courtney got sober soon afterwards and now considers Mel her personal saviour:

That’s ironic and all considering that Mel never went to rehab himself after his high profile DUI arrest over a year after supposedly saving Courtney. He entered a “program of recovery” which was presumed to be outpatient since he never checked himself into a facility.

I didn’t pay attention to Mel Gibson’s two part drawn-out interview with Diane Sawyer because I was really sick of him at that point, but considering that he said he felt “powerless over everything,” it’s safe to assume that he’s going to AA meetings.