Paris Hilton’s cell mate has been hand picked especially for her stay.

Here we go again. Jeebus, Allah, Superman, ANYONE, please send this woman to the slammer already because I am sick to death about hearing about her preparation for a measly three weeks in jail. She’s reading the Bible because she’s going to jail, she’s training in case she gets beat down in jail, she’s making pottery in order to reflect before she goes to jail…JUST SEND HER TO JAIL ALREADY!

TMZ has the exclusive on this current segment of the Paris Hilton Going To Jail Saga:

Officials at the jail where Paris will do time have decided an inmate who is doing time for reckless driving will be the perfect match for Paris. Sources tell TMZ that jailers were looking for someone who they believe will not try to cash in on Hilton’s stay. The woman is already in the cell that Paris will be in … waiting for a touch of Hilton.

Sources also tell TMZ that jailers are already conducting searches of anything electronic — they are prohibiting cameras, cellphones and the like. We’re told a memo has gone out to the staff, warning them that anyone who takes pictures of Paris will be disciplined — i.e., fired.

Our sources say a “written protocol” has already been prepared especially for Paris’ stay, detailing “when and how things should be done for her.”

This sounds so wrong it’s untrue. There is a protocol for Paris’s stay? WTF?! This is Paris Hilton going to the Big House, not the bloody Queen going to the White House! It doesn’t look like the Department of Corrections is co-ordinating Paris’
stay, it sounds more like the E! Network is running this show now!

You know what will be the only thing that will make me feel better about this whole fiasco now? If the inmate “who is doing time for reckless driving that will be the perfect match for Paris” ends up being Lindsay Lohan. That would make everything right as rain again in my eyes. They can televise the prison fight that will ensue after two days of the celebutards rooming with each other, and the proceeds can go towards finding Paris and Lindsay proper mothers who won’t let their daughters act like complete asses in public.

Picture Update: Picture below of Paris painting a giant ceramic bear is from Buzzfoto. Header image from SplashNews.

Back in mid May I ran a story about how Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon were photographed exiting the same office building 45 minutes after each other. The tabloids were going to jump on that, I said, even though I did not consider it evidence of any kind of rendezvous, especially since they were just working on a film together and may have had a business meeting for it, or they could have been at the building for different reasons. Well OK! Magazine ran a story about it, and they say it meant something. Also, Reese went back into the building for five minutes afterwards, and seemed to wait in her car until the photographers came or something. I didn’t really understand the point they were making:

On the afternoon of May 8, Jake entered an office building and emerged 45 minutes later - only to be followed closely by a grinning Reese! “She was in a great mood,” an onlooker tells OK!, “She was grinning from ear to ear.”

Then, in an interesting play, the blonde actress got into the passenger side of a waiting vehicle and drove around the block, waited for photographers to appear, and got out of her car and snickered, “It’s about time.” She hurried into the building and emerged five minutes later.

[From OK! Magazine, print edition, May 28, 2007, via Sammie's Effluvia]

I don’t get it. Maybe Reese left something in the office she was visiting and wanted to get her picture taken again or something. It sounds fishy to me.

Reese and Jake were spotted out at lunch in LA supposedly the next day on May 9th, according to Life & Style. [print edition, May 28, 2007]. That’s all they say about it though, there is no restaurant name mentioned and there are no pictures.

Now US Weekly is blowing another office visit by Reese and Jake out of proportion, but he did head over to her house afterwards, that’s something:

Reese Witherspoon, 31, and Jake Gyllenhaal, 26, who met last summer on the set of Rendition, had a rendezvous following a May 25 visit to a doctor’s office in Culver City, California.

After the appointment, the pair hopped into separate cars and headed to Witherspoon’s house.

“Jake put his hand out of the sunroof and was waving, “says an eyewitness. “They looked totally in love.”

That’s the impression he’s giving pals: “Jake said he’s found someone who knows how to look out for both of them, and not just themselves,” a Gyllenhaal source tells Us. “Reese is more attentive than anyone else he knows.”

Again, not really buying it. They seem to be just friends if you ask me, especially since they’re rarely spotted together and when they are, it’s during the day. If they were out to lunch, what was the name of the restaurant and who is the source of that news? It’s all so vague with these two.

Pictures from Buzzfoto of Reese and Jake’s hot separate office visit.

Lindsay Lohan ruined it for aspiring underage celebrities who want to get into Hollywood clubs. After Lindsay’s underage DUI bust the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board is going to place undercover cops at the trendy places in order to try and catch the under-21 crowd drinking up. It’s not enough, they say, to see the pictures in the gossip rags. They have to actually witness the star teens in the drunken act:

A wave of publicity about underage drinking among celebrities has prompted the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board to step up undercover activities at several top nightspots. The ABC is seeking a 15-day closure order for Mood, a trendy Hollywood Boulevard club that was the subject of an undercover investigation.

Paparazzi photos made last year show Lohan, actors Mary-Kate Olsen and Frankie Muniz and Jesse McCartney, all underage at the time, partying there. (Lohan did not go to Mood on the night of her accident.) One photo posted on various celebrity websites showed McCartney, then 18, drinking from a Corona bottle at Mood.

But ABC officials said it takes more than a copy of Us Weekly to prove wrongdoing.

“We can’t prove what’s in the glass or where they were,” said John Carr, a spokesman for the agency. “We need a witness on the ground.”

The case against Mood is considered an important test. Some clubs seem willing to risk being caught serving underage stars if it will bring A-list talent — and A-list publicity — to their establishments, said L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti, whose district includes part of Hollywood Boulevard and who asked state officials for heightened patrols.

“To make a club profitable, they have to be celebrity-driven,” Garcetti said. “People are willing to bend over backward to please celebrities. But you can’t bend so backward that you break the law.”

It took the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board long enough to take notice. Last year TMZ published photos of then 18 year-old Jesse McCartney drinking at Mood and said that Mary-Kate Olsen, Lindsay Lohan, and Frankie Muniz, all under-21 at the time, were regulars.

If the authorities want to build a case against an establishment, they can send in young-looking decoys to see if they get carded as well as put operatives in the crowd to check the IDs of underage-looking patrons.

Where I live in Switzerland the drinking age is 16 for beer and wine and 18 for hard liquor. I’m not saying that the US drinking age should be lowered because I think that people have to drive by necessity in the states and that the higher drinking age may help prevent a lot of teen DUIs. In Europe kids can drink earlier, but they can also take the bus or public transportation a lot easier. Here’s more information about the legal drinking age throughout the world.

Young Lindsay Lohan is shown drinking a mocktail in a picture from the NY Daily News [via]

You may have heard already, but David Hyde Pierce, best known as Niles from the TV show “Frasier” is semi-officially out of the closet. 48 year-old Pierce now has a career as a successful Broadway star, and has been nominated for a Tony award for his role in the musical “Curtains.” He also appeared in “Spamalot,” and has extensive theatre experience that predates his time on “Frasier.”

In an article about Pierce’s career, details about his life partner are given in passing. While it doesn’t seem that notable, it’s really the first time his partner has been mentioned in print:

The 1980s in New York saw the flowering of such playwrights as Durang, Wendy Wasserstein, Mark O’Donnell and Richard Greenberg, and Pierce was fortunate to appear in plays by all of them. He worked at Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park and a lot of regional theaters such as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Chicago’s Goodman and Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn. Pierce got to Los Angeles in the early 1990s when his partner, actor-writer-producer Brian Hargrove, wanted to write for television. A short-lived Norman Lear series, “The Powers That Be” led to “Frasier.” And the rest is, well …

The actor says he had no problem going from “Frasier” back into theater. ” ‘Frasier’ was theater,” he explains. “The show was written like it was a play, and we used a lot of theater actors on the show, people like Brian Bedford, Derek Jacobi, Marian Seldes.

“I loved playing Niles. People come up to me all the time because we are in reruns late night. But because we were on so long, people — I’m not so sure why this is, maybe people are just more sophisticated now — they get it. They know you are not really that person. They are just glad to see you.

” ‘Frasier’ was a good show. I can say when I watch it now, ‘Oh, this lasts.’ It was not specifically of its period. It’s still funny. There are not a lot of cultural references of the moment that would make the show lose its impact. It’s really about the characters and how they interact. And then, there’s that great writing. It still holds up.”

[From CNN.com, thanks to After Elton.com for the top.]

While Niles always seemed a bit too fussy to be straight, the way I saw it was that he was playing a character, as brother Frasier was very particular too. Those two just seemed like old biddies who had to have things their high-class way while their ex-cop father and his old chair served as funny contrast.

Supposedly a lot of people already knew that Pierce had a male partner, but it’s kind of nice that the news is coming out like this and is not met with much fanfare. While some say it’s no one’s business if a celebrity is gay or straight, it’s the type of information the public is interested in, but the news should be secondary to their career. (Not that we’re paying more attention to any celebrity careers here. It’s all about the gossip.)

Pierce’s admission is most likely deliberate. AfterElton.com notes that he was outed by columnist Michael Musto in an article in Out Magazine’s “Gay Power List” issue, which also outed Anderson Cooper and Jodie Foster on the cover.

David Hyde Pierce is an advocate for Alzheimer’s research and treatment, having watched both his father and grandfather suffer from the disease. He lives in LA with his partner Brian Hargrove and their two Wheaten Terriers, Maud and Mabel.

Billy Joel married his wife, chef Katie Lee, in 2004 when she was just 23 years old and he was 54. She was only five years older than his daughter, Alexa Ray, who was the maid of honor at the wedding.

It’s not that surprising that Joel’s wife is now said to be fed up with her boozing husband, who is more than old enough to be her dad. Katie hosted Bravo’s “Top Chef” in 2006 and has made appearances on Martha, Today, and Iron Chef. She’s growing up and says “If that’s movin up then I’m movin out.”

“The marriage has turned into a nightmare for her - she misses her young friends, and she’s bored with Billy,” says an insider.

“When she first met him, she was an innocent kid - but she’s grown up and her friends say she thinks it’ts time to move on.”

In a revealing snub, she took off during her husband’s May 9 birthday, divulged the insider.

“Katie went out with her friends on Billy’s birthday. She rarely goes on the road with him, and he’s lonely.

[From The National Enquirer, Print Edition, June 4, 2007]

The article goes on to say that Joel sold the sprawling $37 million mansion in Long Island that he loved because Katie said it was too big for her. They now live in a $6 million townhouse in Manhattan.

Joel was in rehab for alcoholism just five months after they were married. He spent 30 days at the Betty Ford Center.

Billy Joel, Tom Petty, Prince, Dave Matthews and James Taylor are among the musicians that will play a mega-expensive series of concerts in the Hamptons this summer called “Social” A pass for all five events will cost $15,000, or $3,000 for each show. It’s being marketed to wealthy executives and socialites.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are filming in NY city for their film Revolutionary Road, their first together since multi-Oscar winning Titanic in 1997. Here’s the plot outline from IMDB:

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

The film is directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, who also directed Oscar-winning film American Beauty.

I love how Winslet and DiCaprio look in their 1950s outfits. DiCaprio’s hair is particularly cute here, but I’ve always had a thing for him.

Leonardo DiCaprio is not a vegetarian, according to a waitress in a Syracuse, NY restaurant who served him a chicken club and fries during his visit to the upstate, NY city last weekend. While the enthusiastic young woman said she knows celebrities and recognized him immediately, DiCaprio was not noticed by the other customers at the restaurant. Waitress Erika DeSocio says “he looks like a normal guy,” is not heavy, and “looked like he was from the Gap.” He paid with a $20 bill for a $9 meal and let her keep the change. DiCaprio was thought to be visiting his girlfriend, Bar Rafeali, who is filming a movie there.

Here are the pictures of DiCaprio and Winslet filming. Winslet is shown talking to her husband in two of these pictures, and leaning over co-star David Harbour in another.. Pictures from Splash News, This is London, and Hello Magazine.

Jennifer Lopez had the inspiration to create a Spanish language musical mini series while she was relaxing in the bathtub. She wrote up a 12 page description, and the show was picked up by Univision where it will air in August. It will be based on her CD, “Como Ama una Mujer,” and will air in five one-hour segments.

The series will be about a woman’s self discovery after heartbreak, and seems to be based on Lopez’s real-life experiences:

“Como Ama una Mujer” Superstar Jennifer Lopez joins Univision, Home of the Stars, as creator and Executive Producer of this unique 5-part dramatic mini-series inspired by true-life events and based on her first Spanish-language CD of the same name. Como Ama una Mujer is the story of lost love in the glittering lights of Hollywood and an emotional journey in the search of self-discovery and true happiness.

Meanwhile Lopez has been ordered to testify at a June 11th hearing about whether her now-cancelled widely panned UPN show, South Beach, was stolen from another writer. The writer claims that his show South Beach Miami, which had a pilot in 1999, was ripped off by the 2006 series. Lopez was an executive producer, but her lawyer says she didn’t develop the series and is not responsible.

Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, appeared at a charity event for Paul Simon’s Children’s Health Fund in New York City last night. It was the 20th anniversary of the charity, and Marc Anthony performed. Former President Bill Clinton was also said to be in attendance.

I don’t like either of these two, but I have to say they look really comfortable with each other and I don’t think they’ll be splitting any time soon.

Thanks to WENN for these pictures.

Life & Style says that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie plan to adopt another child from Africa and have one more biological child this year. This could be why Angelina made a public statement that she would take a year off working to spend time with her family - it’s going to grow even more.

Brad and Angelina hope to add two children to the Jolie-Pitt clan within the next year - one through adoption, and the other via pregnancy, reports In Touch Weekly. The plan is to ‘balance their family, with one black adopted child and one white natural born child. The report claims that the pair are ready to go and are not wasting any time. Brad,43, and Angelina have begun the process of adopting another boy - this time from Africa - once she has finished filming Wanted in June, insiders say.

They’ve discussed visiting an orphanage in Ethiopia, where Zahara was born, or Namibia, where they spent last spring and had Shiloh. “The idea of finding a child from Darfur refugee camp has also been mentioned,” says a friend. They hope to bring home a child by the end of the summer.

If this report is true, it means that they’ll have six kids. They’ve made no secret of the fact that they want a large family, with Angelina talking about balancing out the faces in her family, and Brad joking that they want a soccer team. Aren’t there 11 players on a soccer team? They’ve got a while to go.

Brad and Angelina may be working on that new bio-baby already. They were seen kissing in the back of a car after the premiere of Oceans 13 at Cannes. Much ado was made over that little makeout session, with all sorts of speculation over whether it was “staged” or real. They were just at a big movie premiere and everyone was fussing over them. Of course they were feeling a little randy afterwards.

Brad is currently in Montreal filming, while Angelina remains in Prague. She was seen dropping off Maddox at school this morning. Angelina looked quite happy and was smiling while walking with her bodyguard, Mickey Brett. Thanks to INFDaily for this photo.

Lindsay Lohan’s dad is speaking out about his daughter’s high-profile DUI. Despite the fact that he hasn’t seen her in three years he claims to know that she’s addicted to the painkiller Oxycontin, often called “hillbilly heroin.” It sounds like he got the information by calling up the rehab facility and getting them to tell him about his daughter. He sends her his good wishes and hope for God’s salvation through yet another media outlet, E! Online this time:

Lindsay Lohan is currently undergoing a rigorous detox program to help wean her of multiple addictions to alcohol and drugs, including the powerful painkiller OxyContin, E! Online has learned exclusively….

“I spoke to the people treating Lindsay, because I wanted to make sure she was getting the right care,” said Michael, who is studying to be a drug rehab counselor with the faith-based addiction recovery organization Teen Challenge. “And I’m satisfied they are doing the right thing for her, helping her detox from the painkillers and things. That’s a very important step.”

Michael, who says he became a dedicated Christian after his recent release from jail for a DUI and assault charge, said he also wanted to make sure Lindsay would be getting religious counseling.

“And I learned they use the 12-step program,” Michael said, “which includes a lot of lessons based on God’s teachings, so I was satisfied with that. First she needs to get clean, then she needs to let God into her life.”

All that proselytizing gets on my nerves, and people can quit drugs and alcohol in all sorts of ways that aren’t based on God, a Higher Power or AA, not that there’s anything wrong with that, it should just be a personal choice.

Lohan’s upcoming role in Poor Things looks like it may be held to give her time to complete rehab. While a lot of people with a low-paid 9 to 5 would get the axe for taking a month off work, producers are going to film around Lohan’s rehab stint, and will wait to do her scenes until after she gets out. According to E! Online, that is contingent on Lohan taking rehab seriously and keeping her head down, unlike her last time at Wonderland rehab when she was seen out multiple times shopping and lunching with her friends. She was also said to have had people on call to give her massages and style her hair while she was there.

One thing Lohan won’t be able to hold onto in rehab are plans for her 21st birthday. After sponsor Svedka vodka pulled out, so did the nightclub, Pure, as well as the restaurant.

In terms of Lohan’s Oxycontin addiction, I had a friend who was addicted to the stuff after he started taking it for back pain. It changed his personality a lot and he became very self-centered and domineering. He ended up getting a divorce over all the issues he had with his wife concerning his addiction. If Lohan can quit the stuff, maybe she’ll be a whole new person. One that doesn’t dominate the damn news with her stupid antics every week.

Update I forgot the story about how Lohan supposedly tried to commit suicide. It’s hard to keep up. She was said to be cutting herself and to have run into the bathroom with a bottle of Advil saying that she wanted to die.

Thanks to INFDaily for the amusing header image. Used by permission.

Paula Abdul tells OK! Magazine in its new issue that she does not drink or do recreational drugs, but she is on prescription medication for extreme pain that often makes it hard for her to sleep.

About a year ago Paula told news outlets that she suffers from a rare condition called complex regional pain syndrome, which may have been brought on by a 1987 car crash. She told OK! that she has had 14 surgeries and has 4 titanium plates in her neck. She admits to taking the autoimmune drug Enbrel and the painkillers Relafen and Lidocaine. She says “If I appear exhausted on television, it’s because I am! I have a lot of sleepless nights because I’m in so much pain. I was taking far more medication on earlier seasons, and nobody said anything.”

The NY Post has details of a rant Paula had during a conference call with some publicists. She cries on tape about how badly she’s being treated by people, and talks about her health problems, including Addision’s disease. Addisons is an adrenal insufficiency and is treated with steroids. She must be on more drugs than she admitted to OK! if she has Addisons, as none of the drugs she listed is a steroid.

Paula also talks smack about her old publicist, and that seems to be who she’s mostly complaining about.

Abdul, who seems to be talking to a group of publicists at some point during the last week, trashes her former rep, Howard Bragman; reveals she’s dealing with challenging medical problems; and states she’s had enough of the terrible treatment she receives from the “people who are supposed to be taking care of things.”

She sobs on the tape: “I’ve never been treated this way and I’ve never seen anybody treated this way. This is just too much to stomach.” Abdul is assured by those hearing her wails, “You will be treated better starting right now.”

“I’ve been going through tremendous amounts of a difficult time,” said Abdul, who recently fibbed to her fans when she said she hurt her nose tripping over her Chihuahua. (We reported the real story last week - that Abdul threw a glass against the wall and a shard of it cut her face.)

Abdul, the former wife of Emilio Estevez, also outlines her health problems, including an adrenal disease called Addison’s.

Ranting about Bragman, who apparently didn’t appreciate her enough, the petite former pop star says: “I do a call-in every week for OK! Magazine on ‘American Idol.’ Because of my brilliant job, they want to do a cover on me. I’m being told by Howard Bragman that I’m too old and no one will ever want to do a cover.

It’s funny that the new publicists Paula is crying to tell her that she’s about to be treated better, because someone there had to have leaked the tape to the NY Post. If only they’d sent it to TMZ, we could hear it ourselves.

I feel bad for her that she’s dealing with all those medical problems though. Addison’s causes extreme fatigue, and can make sufferers irritable and depressed. It doesn’t cause slurred speech though, that’s probably due to all the drugs she’s on.