I have to admit, I find the relationship between Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson to be really cute. Like, really really cute. Lindsay seemed to exclusively date douche bags when she was dating men. But Samantha seems pretty awesome – and really into Lindsay. And she doesn’t seem like the sort to sell LiLo out, unlike a few of her past paramours. And in a sense, perhaps it says something about their relationship that they haven’t made some big announcement or blogged all over their respective MySpaces. It seems like they’re with each other out of genuine affection, and that’s pretty sweet to see.

On the heels of reports that Samantha Ronson recently changed her Facebook relationship status to “in a relationship,” she and Lindsay Lohan stepped out in New York City in coordinated fedoras on Thursday. At the Sephora Celebrates Ten Years of Glamorous event, the pair kept mum, but Lohan’s mom Dina gushed about Ronson.

“I love Samantha,” Dina Lohan told reporters. “She’s like a child to me. They’re great friends and as long as my daughter is happy and healthy, it is what it is.” Ronson, wearing her usual skinny jeans and shirt, spun a mix of ’80s tunes and current hits throughout the night, and Lohan, in a slinky multi-colored sequined dress, jammed alongside her. Lohan spent the evening, drink-free, texting friends on her phone, playing with Ronson’s deejay equipment and posing for pictures.

At midnight, the two left together, holding hands.

[From People]

Aww. I never thought Lindsay Lohan would do anything that would make me say that. Here are the Lohans at the Sephora Celebrates Ten Years of Glamorous on Thursday in New York City, where Ronson deejayed for the night. Images thanks to PR Photos.

All celebrities take note: if you want to live your life with some measure of privacy and not have the paparazzi give a crap about you, you need to become friends with David Beckham. It seems that when Becks is around, no one gives a crap about any other celebs. Any and all who hate being followed by the paps: get yourself a David Beckham. Or a David Beckham impersonator. Hell, even a well crafted cardboard cutout might work well. According to E! News, it worked great for Lindsay Lohan – who was pretty much completely ignored in Beckham’s presence.

If Lindsay Lohan ever decides to be keep a lower profile, she should consider spending more time around David Beckham. Lohan and her gal-pal Samantha Ronson were on the same flight to New York today as the soccer hunk.

When the two girls got to the luggage carousel, there wasn’t much fuss: Some kids asked for autographs and a single paparazzo snapped some pics.

Then Beckham sauntered to the carousel…

“About 25 people ran over to him, and there were at least five photographers who showed up out of nowhere taking photos,” a source reports. Beckham had to hightail it to NYC after last night’s ESPY Awards in Hollywood to get ready for Saturday’s Los Angeles Galaxy game against the New York Red Bulls.

[From E! News]

I am currently papier-mâché-ing (that’s a really hard word to conjugate) a life-size Beckham as we speak, to keep the paparazzi from following me. Every morning when I leave the house there’s this guy across the street with his camera. Always sitting on his couch, aiming the zoom out the window at my apartment. Oddly he does it a lot at night, too. Into my window. Weird.

I’m absolutely convinced he’s with X17 and is following me. He just bought that house 7 years ago knowing I’d move to the fanciest part of Brooklyn, become crazy famous, and be a great paparazzi target. Now that I have my faux-Beckham to carry around with me, the guy will have something better to do. Plus, being seen with David Beckham makes me look cool. It’s a win-win.

Here are David and Victoria Beckham (last photo with Candace Parker) at the 2008 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.

DJ Samantha Ronson is the sister of famed music producer Mark Ronson, 32. Mark Ronson dates British model Daisy Lowe, 19, who told The Mirror that she had the chance to meet Samantha and her girlfriend, Lindsay Lohan, recently. She called them “a lovely couple,” and said that they’re “genuine” and “so sweet together.”

“I met Lindsay and Sam for the first time during the weekend before the Coachella festival.

“Sam is an amazing girl. The four of us had a brilliant time - a real laugh.”

And it seems that Daisy is also really taken with legendary party girl, Linds, 22. “Lindsay is really down to earth. Her and Sam make a lovely couple - they seem really happy.

“Their relationship is totally genuine. And they’re just so sweet together.

“Mark totally approves. But we’re not going to double-date again - I mean, would you go on a date with your brother? It’s just a bit weird and anyway they live in LA, so it’s kinda difficult.

“But I’d definitely love to see them again.”

[From The Mirror via The Huffington Post]

Last month Mark Ronson told The Mirror that Sam and Lindsay “make a cute couple,” so I think we have confirmation from Samantha’s family. Her brother and his girlfriend sound supportive, and it’s nice to hear someone close to the couple say kind things about them.

Lindsay’s family hasn’t been so gracious in their public comments about her relationship with Sam and have never acknowledged it. Her dad once sent an e-mail to US Weekly which dismissively said their relationship “is evident to anyone with half a brain,” but then tried to take it back and claimed that he never saw photos of his daughter holding hands or kissing Samantha. Lindsay’s mom denied that her daughter was anything more than friends with Sam. In an interview in mid May she said “They’re best friends. They’re just friends. It’s pathetic what people say.” She went on to call the rumors “Silly.”

Lindsay and Sam do make a cute couple, and by most accounts Sam is a great influence on Lindsay. It’s a shame Lindsay’s mom calls the rumors that her daughter is in a healthy and supportive relationship “pathetic,” but then that adjective has also been frequently applied to Dina herself. It’s also possible Lindsay hasn’t come out to her family because she assumes they’ll have a problem with it. Dina can justify her daughter’s partying and flitting around, including multiple DUI arrests, but when it comes to acknowledging that Lindsay has settled down into a relationship with a woman she just can’t wrap her tiny mind around it. You know that if Dina was ok with it she would have made some kind of statement, because she never hesitates to talk about her daughter to the press if it means she’ll get some attention too.

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are shown on 7/16/08 on the set of Labor Pains. Credit: JC / WENN. Mark Ronson and Daisy Lowe are shown at the Glamour Women Of The Year Awards on 6/3/08. Credit: WENN

The eternal optimist in me finds it really nice when messed up people get their lives together. Case in point: Britney Spears. Now Brit did it with the help of her parents, older brother, the courts, psychiatrists and a team of lawyers. But she’s really doing a good job of getting her life in order.

Someone who hasn’t gotten as much attention for improving her life is Lindsay Lohan. Perhaps it’s because Lindsay didn’t fall quite as far as Britney – she never ended up in a mental ward, and had no children to lose. But she did spend what seemed like three quarters of her life either drunk in clubs or in rehab. She was also very publicly shamed for her poor work ethic on the set of Georgia Rule by Morgan Creek CEO James G. Robinson in the summer of 2006.

However Lindsay is clearly trying to turn things around. Cheryl Hines, one of Lohan’s costars in the upcoming comedy Labor Pains, has praised her work ethic.

Cheryl Hines can’t curb her enthusiasm for working with Lindsay Lohan on the set of their film Labor Pains. “I have had a great time shooting with her, and when we have scenes together we have a lot of fun improvising… It usually ends in a big laugh fest, and they have to cut because we can’t talk anymore.”

Hines, who has starred with Larry David in the HBO hit Curb Your Enthusiasm since 2000, insists she expected nothing less from the 22-year-old star – even in light of Lohan’s past troubles on set. “It was what I expected,” Hines said of Lohan’s professionalism. “I honestly expected that she’s gotten herself together, and really wanted to work and that’s what she’s showing us. I’m very proud of her.”

Lohan’s movie career has been stalled by stints in rehab, but a Labor Pains producer confirmed to PEOPLE in June that those days appear to be over – Lohan showed up for work June 9 on the L.A. location and has consistently been early and well-prepared for the grueling 12-hour shoots.

[From People]

It took Lindsay almost two years to get her act together (I’m not going to go so far as to say she’s cleaned it up entirely) but it seems like she’s managed to gain a bit of maturity. And to be fair, Lindsay had to do it without the help of her parents.

No one’s saying Britney Spears’ mom and dad are examples of awesome parenting, but they at least saw their daughter had a problem and tried to step up. Dina Lohan has always maintained that nothing’s wrong with Lindsay, while Michael has begged her to find God. They’ve pretty much done whatever they could to make her problems worse.

It seems like whatever improvements Lindsay has made, she’s made on her own, or perhaps with the help of her not-quite-acknowledged girlfriend Samantha Ronson. And Labor Pains looks like it might actually be funny. Good for her.

Here’s Lindsay Lohan on the set of ‘Labor Pains’ in L.A. on Friday. Images thanks to WENN.

I never thought I’d say this, but I am really impressed with Lindsay Lohan. At least for her. If you were to hold Lindsay up to a regular person, probably not so much. But considering she’s nearly on par with Paris Hilton, she’s made some pretty big changes in her life – for the better. Lindsay’s relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson has really seemed to mellow her. She’s been acting much more mature lately, focusing on her work, not getting into any car accidents, and seemingly not drinking to such a ridiculous extent that she ends up in rehab. All big steps for her.

And it seems pretty clear that Sam is just as in to Lindsay. For her 22nd birthday last week, Ronson bought her a $22,000 diamond ring from Cartier. Not too shabby.

Samantha — the sister of super-producer Mark Ronson — reportedly splashed out the hefty amount on a Cartier diamond ring for Lindsay’s 22nd birthday.

Lindsay was later seen sporting the band when she and Samantha were shopping in LA. A source says, “Sam took Lindsay shopping to celebrate her 22nd birthday.

“Although Lindsay is the major breadwinner, Sam has her own money and is very proud.

“It’s not an engagement ring - simply a token of her commitment. Lindsay is thrilled and she and Sam are very content.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

According to a good deal of internet gossip, Sam not only pays her own way, she generally pays for Lindsay too. Considering the rumors of money problems that have been hounding LiLo for well over a year, that’s not too surprising.

Lohan made a cryptic comment about her birthday wish to Ryan Seacrest - and everyone is saying it’s as good as if she actually admitted that she and Sam are together.

“I just wanna live a happy, healthy year, continue on the path that I’ve been on and be with the person that I care about. And my family.”

[From the Mirror]

Samantha also posted a picture of the two of them kissing on her MySpace page. I’m not sure what else the two of them can do to make it more obvious to us that they’re together. You know, except actually publicly acknowledging it.

Here’s Lindsay and Samantha on their way to eat with friends at La Scala in Beverly Hills on July 2nd, Lindsay’s birthday. They went to Cartier earlier that day. Images thanks to WENN

I have no idea how she’s done it, but Lindsay Lohan has somehow defied the odds and is now aged a fine 22 years. She’s also managed to go an entire year without any new arrests, car crashes, or rehabs. Though to be fair she was in rehab on her 21st birthday last year, and for a couple months afterwards as well. But she hasn’t been admitted into rehab again in a whole year. This is big. Huge.

She’s been working on her next film, Labor Pains, and has actually been complimented for her good work ethic. Supposedly she shows up on time, knows her lines, and generally gets along with everyone. It’s not like she’s made as dramatic a change as Britney Spears – though you could argue that’s because her life didn’t fall apart to quite the same extent.

But either way, she seems to have spent the last couple months getting her act together a bit more – and many attribute that to the positive influence of her never-officially-acknowledged girlfriend Samantha Ronson.

LiLo definitely has reason to celebrate this year – and apparently plans on doing it right.

Lindsay Lohan’s 22nd birthday throw down is toned down from what it was supposed to be — ‘memba this? — but that doesn’t mean it won’t be a wild affair.

We’re told her full sister Ali and loony mom Dina are flying in for the private party. It’s being held tonight at Teddy’s inside the Roosevelt Hotel — where LiLo has several suites lined up. There won’t be a sponsor, but word is it will be a celeb-infested soiree. Sam Ronson won’t be working the gig — the two pals wanna be able to spend some precious time together.

And don’t think about crashing the celebration — sources tell us that security is so tight, everyone entering the party must be cleared by La Lohan herself.

[From TMZ]

I’m not going to go all out and actually say that Lindsay is all better now. But she’s definitely less messed up than she used to be. Baby steps. That’s all we can ask for. It seems like seeing less of her parents and more of Samantha has brought a bit of much-needed stability into her life. Let’s hope the next year is even saner.

Here’s Lindsay Lohan learning her lines on the set of “Labor Pains” in North Hollywood yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

Heaven forbid a Lohan ever act with any dignity. “Patriarch” Michael Lohan admitted on Friday that Lindsay and company have a 13-year-old half sister. And I have to admit, I was pretty excited. It was some of the better Lohan drama I’d heard in a while. Michael made it sound like it was all pretty much a sure thing – and what better way to get some new press?

Well now that reality is kicking in – and by reality, I mean the possibility of having to pay some serious cash – Michael’s critical thinking skills are also kicking in. And he’s decided that the whole thing doesn’t quite add up – even though he’s had about seven years to do the math. Never let it be said the Lohans are anything but slow. But apparently the seven years to do some basic math has led Michael to the conclusion that it’s time to take a DNA test – which he did today. How very Maury Povich.

On Friday, the 48-year-old Lohan patriarch acknowledged having sexual relations on two occasions with Kristi Kauffman, a woman he met in Houston in the mid-’90s. He said he initially believed Kauffman’s claims that her daughter, Ashley, was his, but now Lohan says the math doesn’t make sense.

“We were together in July of ‘94. I think it was just before The Parent Trap came out because that’s when Dina and I were separated,” he tells E! News. “[Kristi] left me and went to Houston, Texas, and she met a guy she lived with there for a year.” According to his time line, Lohan says, Ashley, now 13, was born in June 1995—a difference of 11 months—which is why he ran out to get this test done right away.

“She had me so convinced. She had me snowballed,” he says, adding that he even communicated with the girl he believed was Lindsay’s secret sis by telephone, even helping her with her homework. Here I was sitting in jail going through a divorce, felt like I had no hope and then someone sends me a letter and says I have a baby. And I thought maybe this is what I’m supposed to do next,” he says.

[From E! News]

So at first I was thinking this story was pretty much about how anything with the last name Lohan isn’t bound to the basic rules of evolution, at least in terms of intellect. But it gets pretty seedy – it sounds like this poor girl’s mother is trying to pimp the whole situation to get some kind of acting career going for her daughter.

On Friday, Kauffman, a 44-year-old massage therapist, told E! News that Lohan promised “to do for Ashley what he did for Lindsay’s career, the whole thing,” but then had second thoughts.

“He was supposed to take a paternity test seven years ago , but he disappeared off the face of the earth,” she said. “I just want this to be resolved and the truth to be told.”

[From E! News]

Boy, none of this sounds fishy at all. I truly pray for this girl that Michael Lohan isn’t her father. Because the only thing worse than having a shady parent is having two of them. Oh, and being genetically linked to Lindsay Lohan. Nothing’s worse than that.

Here’s Michael Lohan and guests at the wrap party for his TV project ‘Wanna be me’ held at Ritual in L.A. on June 27th. Yes it’s normal to feel upset by these pictures. Images thanks to WENN/Fayes Vision.

Michael Lohan dropped a bomb on his family – he has a secret love child. Michael claims the girl, now 13, was conceived when he and now ex-wife Dina were separated, thus implying that he wasn’t cheating on her. This is the first I’ve heard of an earlier separation. Michael’s definitely not talking about the separation that eventually led to divorce – he and Dina have 14-year-old daughter Ali and 12-year-old son Cody.

Linds’ father, Michael Lohan, has admitted to OK! that, while married — but at the time separated — to now-ex-wife Dina Lohan, he had a relationship with another woman which resulted in a pregnancy. In a statement to OK!, Michael says, “Years later [the woman] contacted me, convincing me that I was the only person she was with and that she had my child.”

In fact, OK! has seen letters Michael wrote to the girl’s mother where he says that his secret daughter “is beginning to look a lot like Linds, with a mix of [younger brother] Cody, believe it or not.” He also sent his daughter a photograph of himself while he was still in Collins Correctional Facility which he signed “Love Daddy.”

Michael’s secret daughter has had many conversations with her dad, the girl’s mother tells OK!. He even called her for her 13th birthday on June 12. But he has never visited her or provided financial support. “It’s time for Michael to take responsibility,” the girl’s mother tells OK!

[From OK! Magazine]

Can you imagine finding out that Lindsay Lohan is your sister? I would throw up so hard. This poor girl has obviously known for a little while, since Michael got out of prison a little over a year ago. Though he never specifies how long ago the girls’ mother contacted him, so who knows how long this girl has had to grow up knowing she’s genetically linked to the Lohan clan.

I have to wonder if the other Lohan children were informed before Michael dialed up OK! You’d think Dina would have used it against him publicly by now, had she known. So I’m guessing this is brand new information for most of them. I can only imagine what the first family picnic will look like. I imagine it’ll involve fried chicken, alcohol, and tears.

Here’s Lindsay Lohan on the set of her upcoming new film ‘Labor Pains’ in Los Angeles yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

Lindsay Lohan’s epically terrible film I Know Who Killed Me won a record 8 Razzies, which I’m pretty sure makes it legally the worst film of all time. That’s right, it’s so bad you actually have to invoke the law to explain how awful it is.

Starz – one of those premium movie channels (the sucky kind that makes HBO look really, really good) – must have gotten a pretty good deal on the rights to the film. Which I’m guessing means the studio is actually paying Starz to air it. Needing some kind of advertising – and sensing that the also needed to justify airing such unmitigated crap – Starz came up with a novel approach to market the film to its subscribers.

In a relatively novel approach to movie marketing, cable TV premium film channel Starz has launched a promotion for its airing of Lindsay Lohan’s box office bomb, “I Know Who Killed Me,” by urging people to tune in not because it is good, but because the movie is so bad!

… Starz’s June 14 airing of “I Know Who Killed Me,” tells of twin girls stalked by a serial killer. Lohan plays both twins. The movie not only tanked at box offices ($7.5 million U.S.), it was killed by critics (only 8 pct had good things to say, according to review aggregator rottentomatoes.com).

With its promotional tongue firmly planted in its TV cheek, Starz trumpets the bad reviews in its ad promoting the movie. “A disaster that exerts a perverse fascination,” Variety wrote in its review last year, as it appears on the Starz ad.

While promoting bad movies is rare, it is not unheard of. A few years back, Starz did the same thing for 2003’s ”Gigli,” another poorly reviewed film that tanked at box offices. It starred Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. “It did extraordinarily well” for Starz, said the spokesman, although he did not have exact viewer figures. “More people watched on Starz than probably went to the theaters to see it.”

[From Reuters via Gossip Rocks]

Lohan was so terrible in the film that she was actually nominated for two Razzies for her acting – one for each twin she played. I’m sure what applied to Gigli will apply to I Know Who Killed Me. If 14 Starz viewers just leave the television on while they clean the house, that’ll be more people than actually sat through it in the theaters. I was going to try to watch it, just to see why it was so terrible. But then my illegal download failed, and I realized I’d been saved by some cosmic force. Though I commend any of you who try.

Here are stills from the film, courtesy of Allmoviephoto.

I believe that the bigger the celebrity ego, the more second careers they try to have. And if they keep trying new careers instead of working on just doing one thing right… well that’s what I like to call the Lindsay Lohan formula. No one would really call Lohan a good actress anymore. She was great in Mean Girls and a few other films back in the day. But everything since Herbie Fully Loaded has pretty much sucked – the pinnacle of suckitude of course being I Know Who Killed Me.

Instead of working on becoming a non-sucking actress (yes I mean that the way it sounded) Lohan decided to get her ass to the music studio, with varying results, depending on your opinion. Now that that’s done with, Lohan has moved on to the number one favorite celebrity second career: fashion designer, or more accurately known as product endorser. Lohan has put out a line of leggings, which will range from $40 to $140.

LINDSAY LOHAN’s leggings are getting closer to store shelves! ET has learned that the starlet’s new line, named “6126″ after MARILYN MONROE’s birthdate, has been picked up at L.A.’s posh Fred Segal boutique and online retailer www.revolveclothing.com and will start shipping around August 30th, “6126″ LLC partner KRISTI KAYLOR says.

Last month, Lindsay caused a frenzy in Beverly Hills when she and two models posed for publicity shots wearing the pieces. So far, the “6126″ collection includes “footless tights” made from “Supima cotton and Modal ribbed knits” along with other fabrics spruced up with zippers, foil prints, yarn dyes and sexy metallic and screen prints.

Cashmere leg warmers and something called an “ankle glove,” a modified warmer that covers the ankle, are also part of the line, which will start at $40 and go up to $140.

[From Entertainment Tonight]

Well thank goodness. I had this extra $140 sititng here, and I was trying to figure out the best way to completely blow my money on something generally unnecessary and ridiculously overpriced. And $140 for leggings seems to be just about the stupidest thing I could possibly do – so I’m going with that.

In other LiLo news, she and Samantha Ronson haven’t broken up. The pair had a fight at a sushi restaurant the other night, prompting mass blog panic that the two were headed for splitsville.

Forget those break-up rumors. On Monday, Sam Ronson visited Lindsay Lohan on the Los Angeles set of her new comedy Labor Pains.

Blogs had speculated that the pair were on the rocks after they got into a fight Saturday at Glendale, California, sushi hot spot Katsuya. (A witness tells Usmagazine.com that Lohan, 21, stormed out of the restaurant in tears. Ronson, 30, was overheard saying “it was just a joke.”)

But on the Pains set, the two were photographed hugging and laughing.

[From Us Weekly]

Here’s Lindsay having dinner with Samantha Ronson and Lily Allen at Il Sole in Los Angeles last night. Images thanks to WENN.