Nicole Richie is said to have collapsed at exclusive nightclub Hyde early on Sunday morning. They must have let her in because she doesn’t take up much space.

Her friends told staff not to call an ambulance and carted her off themselves. You know if they took her to the hospital we would have heard about it:

Sources tell TMZ that Nicole Richie passed out at Hyde nightclub early Sunday morning in Hollywood.

We’re told it occurred just before 2 a.m., when Richie passed out and fell to the floor. An employee approached Richie and her friends and said he was calling 911. Sources say they told the employee not to make the call and that they would take Richie to a hospital. The friends then carried Richie out of the club through the back door. TMZ does not know if Richie went to the hospital.

Before Richie collapsed, we’re told she hung out for awhile with Lindsay Lohan inside the club.

If Richie is indeed getting treatment for not gaining weight as she claims then it must be outpatient just like Mel Gibson’s rehab. Her health is not going to improve until she gets therapy and changes her lifestyle for good.

I made some T-Shirts this weekend, and wanted to have one that said “I borrowed this shirt from Nicole Richie,” suitable for baby wear, dog shirts, and XXL sweatshirts. I did a trademark search and Richie never trademarked her name, just the dumb phrase “Loves It.” Cafe Press, the service that distributes and sells the shirts for me, said it violated her right to publicity or something and that I couldn’t use that phrase. My “I am the father of Anna Nicole’s baby” shirt was also denied.

There’s this huge security flaw in myspace that lets you read comments on private profiles, and I’ve pretty much read all the crap that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Hillary Duff, and Nicole Richie are saying to each other. Paris got told by her PR guy Elliott to cut it out and she was supposedly grounded from using the computer, but of course she didn’t comply and continued commenting.

This was up on Oh No They Didn’t and got a brief mention in The NY Daily News, but the ONTD post is private now and I learned about it through a friend’s e-mail.

The thing is, there’s a formula to it and it really doesn’t matter if someone changes their profile name or password. Once you know their numeric user ID it’s incredibly simple to do, and as long as they keep commenting it’s easy to find out their numeric user ID.

They seem to realize that people are reading their comments and are talking about all the new people asking to be added as friends, but they don’t really get the fact that changing their passwords and screen names doesn’t fix the problem.

I was really reluctant to report on this at first as 1) there’s way too much information to sift through and report 2) it feels wrong and 3) I don’t want to get sued. Plus I got sucked into the voyeuristic aspect of it and I wanted to be able to keep spying.

Best Week Ever has the links, though. I know this is Monday’s news but somehow it fell under my radar.

The juiciest news: Lindsay, Hilary, and Paris talk about doing banana and strawberry “Nesquick” and returning “needles” to each other. They could just be joking around. They’re also all friends with Jesse McCartney, and he could be screwing Lindsay, because he says:

But it’s just as likely that they’re joking around, and of course there’s no way to verify that it’s really Lindsay, Paris et. al, but I believe.

Paris also tells Lindsay:

And it looks like Paris is BFF with Lindsay again because she’s using an icon of the two of them together.

Here’s my favorite comment, from Haylie Duff to Jesse McCartney:

If you have any kind of logic skills you’ll quickly be able to figure out how to view anyone’s private comments using the links from the Best Week Ever post above.

Myspace will undoubtedly fix this soon, and it’s a huge security flaw. According to myspace’s user agreement everything on the site legally belongs to them, so I don’t know if any celebrity lawyers can sue for reposting information found on myspace, but if it gets widely distributed like Paris’ hacked Blackberry they’re sure to try.

While the rest of the world is getting heavier, Hollywood’s elite are downing horse steroids and Adderall in an endless race to be ever-thinner. It’s not surprising, then, that designers are now offering “sub-zero” sizing for the waif that needs to take in her size zero jeans.

While this may seem disturbing, designers claim that sizes are arbitrary anyway, and that almost no one is following guidelines for the waist and hip measurements for sizing. Indeed, a size 6 of today was once a 14 of yesterday. The average US woman is 5 feet 4 and weighs 155 pounds, which is 20 pounds heavier than 40 years ago.

[Thanks to Fark for linking this]

There is the worry that a double-0 or sub-zero size will become the new benchmark for anorexic pride. Nicole Miller is justifying the new sizing, saying that there’s a call for it in Asia, where women are generally smaller.

A zero of today may be a four of yesterday. Author Pam Danziger claims that she uses old Vogue sewing patterns in a size 14 when she regularly buys a size 6 at the store. That doesn’t make me feel depressed or anything.

Here’s Nicole Richie with what looks like her butt hanging out, but it’s hard to tell. [via]

Her matchstick body must not be able to withstand more than a few minutes pounding, because this is the third story I’ve heard that Nicole Richie is a fan of the quickie:

Back in the spring, Nicole was forced to deny that she had a bathroom quickie with Jason Mewes of “Jay and Silent Bob” fame after his pal, director Kevin Smith, let the news slip during a speech at a school. He said that Nicole “made a man” of Mewes in less than a minute in a bathroom stall.

Homophobe Busta Rhymes also claims to have given it to Nicole “real quick.”

This news of Nicole and Brody’s bathroom tryst contrasts both of their public statements about their failed relationship. Nicole said on her myspace that they “were never really together,” while Brody recently told Star Magazine that he really “just wanted to be friends:”

Brody is now with “The Hills” star Lauren Conrad while Nicole is dating a French fashion editor, Samuel Plouchart.

The header is an old candid of Nicole and Brody out in Malibu on 9/3. Here are Nicole and her stylist, the incompetent Rachel Zoe, out at a party for fashion designer Charlotte Ronson. Thanks to Just Jared for these pictures

Paris and Nicole have amped up their “we’ve made up, watch our dumb reality show for yet another season” campaign. They were photographed all around town: visiting Nicole’s dad on 10/8, leaving touching notes on the grave of a friend on 10/9, shopping for dog beds and visiting a book store on 10/10.

When the news first came out that Paris and Nicole had made up, I said “I would love to see these two together again. I’m kind of sick of each of them separately, but if they became friends again there might be some fun stories and pictures.” Boy do I ever take that back. How stupid could I be? These two are even more annoying together. Please forgive me for publishing these pictures. They’re kind of like the Schwarzenegger fingering that girl picture – I couldn’t resist. [via]

Update: here’s a video of the two trying to walk while surrounded by a swarm of photographers:

Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton have famously buried the hatchet with a public visit to a Hollywood steakhouse. We reported last week that Nicole and Paris met up at Nicole’s dad’s house, and now they’ve made sure to let the whole world know they’re friends again by stepping out together.

Commentor xiaoecho says that Paris and Nicole never really broke up, and that they kept up the “not talking” act to drum up publicity for their terrible “Simple Life” reality show. If that’s true it’s the first I’ve heard of it, and it seems like they would have been caught together at some point since the paparrazi are camped outside both their houses. They would probably like the public to believe that recent problems in their lives – Paris’ DUI and fight with Shanna Moakler, along with Nicole’s breakup with Brody, brought them back together.

Publicity for the new season of “The Simple Life” is probably the main motivation for their high-profile reconciliation. Indeed, this is supported by a statement from the series’ producer, who admits that the public wants to see them as friends again and that new show will begin taping next month:

“The Simple Life” producer says he wanted to put Nicole and Paris on a desert island with a “bunch of survivalists” and the idea bothered them so much that they teamed up to make sure they didn’t have to go through with it.

Now they’re set to be incompetent camp counselors, if you give a shit, and the series will use their estrangement and manufactured make-up as fodder for more shows. It’s sure to be as bad or worse as the previous seasons of the “Simple Life,” and I’m content to sit back and read other people’s accounts of how awful it is.

Here are pictures of Nicole and Paris’ dinner taken by X17.

Nicole Richie found a Brody replacement just in time for fall. She was seen out with a new guy with her crown died strawberry-blonde and some more obvious twirly extensions sticking out. I’m not liking her new hair and wish she would just get rid of the fake locks.

It’s unknown who this new guy is, but chances are he’s in some band. If he’s a famous musician or something, please clue me in.

Nicole was seen out with two different random guys with their arms around her in early August before she settled with Brody in what many people claim never seemed like a legitimate relationship. One of the guys was semi-hot and one was weird. (The weird guy was identified as Alex “Orbi” Orbison from the band White Starr, and commentors on DListed note that the relationship was probably platonic.)

She claimed that she was “never really together” with Brody so it’s possible that she just was hanging out with him and that all the PDA in public was a put-on. It’s also possible that he broke her heart and she’s trying to save face.

She can’t shake the paparrazi at this point and is clearly playing to them so this latest guy could be just a friend she convinced to put his arm around her, maybe someone she met at a crystal meth anonymous AA meeting. His arm is draped around her loosely, and he’s looking down at her somewhat amazed, so she might have asked him to do it and he’s trying to be polite and not too grabby. Still, they seem kind of happy and she has the kind of self-satisfied look on her face that is easily achieved through great sex with a new guy.

Nicole is shown with the new guy in Beverly Hills on 10/7 and outside of a hair salon with her old, better ‘do on 10/3. Pictures [via]

Nicole Richie was photographed outside the West Hollywood Recovery Center on 626 N Robertson Boulevard. I Googled the center and learned that it’s an informal recovery center that focuses on 12-step meetings. At the top of the search were results for Crystal Meth Anonymous meetings that are held there on Wednesday nights.

These pictures of Nicole Richie outside the West Hollywood Recovery center are said to be from 9/27 – Wednesday – the same day Crystal Meth Anonymous meetings are held there.

Here’s the schedule of meetings at the West Hollywood Recovery Center on Wednesdays. It is possible the Nicole went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting “step study” and not a Crystal Meth Anonymous meeting as they are held at the same time. There is also a Nicotine Anonymous meeting at 8:30, but these pictures seem to be taken earlier than the 9:45 PM ending time:

Nicole has denied that she checked herself into an eating disorder clinic, as has been recently rumored. She wrote an exasperated message on her myspace blasting the rumors and saying that she’s annoyed that people keep bringing it up:

It’s long been rumored that Richie’s notorious stylist, Rachel Zoe, keeps her clients thin by serving as their drug dealer. Nicole may indeed be telling the truth that she doesn’t have an eating disorder, and her thin frame could be evidence of another addiction entirely.

If she is getting help, good for her. She seems really happy with Brody and hopefully she’ll kick whatever demons have been keeping her rail thin.

I’m calling this an exclusive because I believe I’m the first blogger to jump to this conclusion.

Richie is shown outside the 12-step facility on 9/27 and with Brody Jenner out to dinner on 9/24. [via]

Update: It looks like late afternoon in these pictures not 8PM, the time the meeting ended, as commentor Red Beet mentions. It’s unknown what Richie was doing at the 12-step center.

Nicole Richie needs some intensive therapy and a big ‘ol IV. The girl is wasting away. She seemed like she was doing better this summer, but then quickly lost the little bit of weight she had gained and now looks like she’s going to snap in two.

Her dad said a doctor evaluated her and said that her weight loss was due to stress, but was it a doctor that specializes in eating disorders? Is she really going to a clinic to get help as recent candids suggest?

Scarlett Johansson has spoken out about the Hollywood trend to be rail-thin, calling it unhealthy and unrealistic:

Commentors on the board where we found the pictures note that the woman out with Nicole may be a new assistant. She is shown taking her dog to the vet on 9/15.

Pictures from Nicole-Style.com via JJB.

Summer may be over, but Nicole Richie is in denial. She was spotted out buying yet another bikini to hang on her skeletal frame while cavorting for the paparrazi at the beach. Nicole revealed in an interview on the Tyra Banks show that it bothers her that the paparrazi want to photograph her eating and wearing bikinis, but she obviously gives ‘em what they want:

Richie can wear weird scarves around her neck while at the beach, but it must be too much trouble to put on a shirt over her bikini if she hates being photographed so much.

Nicole’s father, pop singer Lionel Richie, recently told a Swedish newspaper that he took Nicole to a doctor to get evaluated for anorexia, and that the doctor’s conclusion was that she was losing weight due to stress, not an eating disorder.

Most of us gain weight due to stress, because a nice piece of chocolate really calms the nerves, but what do I know about Hollywood?

Lionel also said that he worries for Nicole’s safety because of the hoards of paparrazi that follow her everywhere.

Here is Nicole shopping and looking um… polished and beautiful. Hopefully she’ll be too filled out to fit into that bikini next year. [via]