Lindsay Lohan’s rumored gay lover, DJ Samantha Ronson, has been setting up her friend for the paparazzi in exchange for some cash, says Celebrity Babylon. The site has some exclusive photos of Lohan looking flirty with Ronson, and imply that Ronson tipped them off as to where she would be. It’s not like Lohan would mind, she once said she would wonder why no one was interested if the paparazzi stopped tailing her, and she’s gone out of her way to make her whereabouts known to them too.

What’s more is that Ronson is said to have planted the coke in Lindsay’s car after the accident, and to have deliberately left it there for cops to find. When Lohan asked her about it, Ronson didn’t give her a straight answer:

Celebrity Babylon has learned that while her DJ pal Samantha Ronson, 29, looks like she’s there to help her pal through thick and thin, she’s really making a tidy profit on the side, shilling Lohan, 20, out to photographers eager to get her photo looking passed out and wasted. While an “out of it” Lohan thought she was just going home after a night out at Teddy’s in Hollywood on May 27, Ronson made a side trip to a gas station. A source tells Celebrity Babylon, “The car was only down a quarter tank, and yet Samantha stopped for gas. She has a side deal with a photo agency and they paid her to make the pit stop!” If that wasn’t shocking enough, sources say that it was Ronson who was holding the cocaine later found in Lindsay’s car. “There were three of them crammed into the Mercedes sports car and Samantha was the one that had the cocaine with her. Lindsay later questioned her about leaving it in the car for the cops to find and Samantha blew her off.” Ronson, who makes anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000 a night deejaying at clubs and private parties, has accumulated a substantial side income taking her pal in front of paparazzi cameras for money.

There is an EXCLUSIVE set of Celebrity Babylon photos (in this story photo viewer) of Ronson and Lohan chatting outside a restaurant after a wild night out. CB was accused of setting up the pix with Ronson, and we are going to plea the Fifth Amendment!

[via ONTD]

We reported after Lohan’s DUI that she was seen arguing outside her house with Ronson before she headed off for that fateful drunken ride. News outlets are saying that Ronson was pleading with Lohan to stop drinking and drugging that night. She told Lindsay to cool it, but she wouldn’t listen.

If Ronson planted the drugs in Lindsay’s car, they might not be friends anymore once Lilo is out of rehab. Then again, Lindsay doesn’t seem to have high enough self esteem to dump someone who betrayed her. I bet she would have taken Calum Best back if he would have kept on having her.

Ronson is shown below at the Disney Couture Party with Nicole Richie. Pic from DListed via ONTD.

Header picture is from Celebrity Babylon, where you can find more exclusive pictures of Lohan.

- Tony Romo took time off from Carrie Underwood to get with Jessica Simpson [The Blemish]
- Jennifer Aniston is the new spokesperson for smart water [PopSugar]
- Kate Moss and Pete Doherty dress alike [Agent Bedhead]
- Artist Damien Hirst covered an 18th century skull in over $8,000 diamonds at a cost of $28 million. The work is going on sale for $100 million [DListed]
- Women mud wrestling to promote the Xena DVD release (site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- Courteney Cox says she’s open to plastic surgery, but her husband dissaproves. When I tell my husband I’m getting a face lift in a couple of decades he says no, too. Just wait. [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Keri Russell in Interview Magazine [The Grumpiest]
- Britney Spears’ huge pimple [Bastardly]
- Hilary Swank on the Today Show [ICYDK]
- Denise Richards’ kids look miserable [Evil Beet]
- Vanessa Williams’ pooch was dognapped! [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Donald Trump’s scary steaks [Gallery of the Absurd]
- Nicky Hilton pretends to defend Paris [yeeeah]
- Jessica Alba says men were more interested in her when she was a blonde [Hollywood Rag]
- Diesel store opening featuring Greasy Bear, Calum Best, and Kim Kardashian [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Calum Best is due to take a paternity test for a five month old baby that a woman claims is his [CelebWarship]
- Rihanna says she doesn’t understand why people keep harping on her non-relationship with Jigga [Bossip]
- “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix” will be released two days early, July 11 [Glitterati]
- Matthew McConaughey embarrasses his girlfriend [CityRag]
- Christina Aguilera is pregnant, I’m telling you [The Skinny Website]
- Jack Black helped a guy propose to his girlfriend [Gabsmash]
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is really Julian Lennon’s friend from school that he made a drawing of that impressed his dad, John. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]

Ben Affleck completed his transformation from J.Lo ex and ridiculed action hero to all around good guy on Friday when he spoke at the graduation of a disabled young fan. Affleck befriended then 10 year-old Joe Kindregan at Dulles Airport in 1998 while filming a scene for Forces of Nature. The wheelchair-bound Kindregan suffers from the rare genetic disease ataxia-telengiectasia. Affleck struck up a conversation with Kindregan, and has since invited him to visit the set of every movie he’s worked on. Affleck has also helped raise money for research into the degenerative disease afflicting Kindregan.

Affleck spoke at the Fall Church, Virginia high school graduation to the delight of students and parents, and was given a standing ovation afterwards. Affleck’s wife Jennifer Garner was in the audience and was seen wiping away tears during her husband’s speech.

“Everything I learned about life that really matters … I learned from Joe,” Affleck told the audience.

Kindregan suffers from ataxia-telengiectasia, a rare, degenerative genetic disease. Over the past decade, Affleck has helped Kindregan raise money to develop a cure for the disease.

The close nature of the pair’s friendship was evident at Friday’s ceremony; Affleck planted a kiss on Kindregan’s forehead after being introduced and later playfully swatted him with a rolled-up program.

The two met in 1998 when the Kindregans came to Dulles International Airport to watch a crew shoot the film “Forces of Nature,” which starred Affleck. The actor noticed Kindregan, then 10 years old, in his wheelchair and struck up a conversation.

Affleck jokingly explained to the 284 graduating seniors — who most likely never saw the film — that “it was very similar to another movie called “Citizen Kane.’”

Affleck said Kindregan has since been on the set of all of his films — “He liked being on the set of `Daredevil’ a lot more than being on the set of (box-office bomb) `Gigli.’ But he was too polite to mention it,” Affleck said.

Kindregan introduced Affleck to the audience by saying “He is married to the cutest girl (
Jennifer Garner) … but most important he is the best friend you could ever have.” Kindregan declined to be interviewed.

Affleck, dressed in a traditional graduation gown, sat on the dais next to Kindregan and other school officials and shook hands with students who came up on stage to receive their diplomas. A few were bold enough to ask for a hug, and Affleck obliged.

[From Yahoo! News]

That’s really kind of Affleck. Although there have been some stories about his friendship with the disabled teen, he didn’t milk it for publicity and seems to have a real friendship with him. It’s impressive that he invited Kindregan to all of his movie sets.

Affleck’s career is on a comeback after he took a lot of high-paid roles that weren’t the best choices for him. He’s married to the genuinely lovely Jennifer Garner and has really taken to family life with their one and a half year-old daughter, Violet.

Thanks to Oh No They Didn’t for linking this story.

Pictures from WENN.

A former star of A&E’s most popular show, “Flip this House,” has been accused of investment fraud and of faking all the renovations and home sales on the show. Sam Leccima portrayed a successful real estate investor on the reality series last year, but the truth is that his real estate license was revoked by the Georgia Real Estate Commission in 2005 amid concerns of his poor reputation. People say he took thousands of dollars in investment money from them, up to six figures in one case, and that they haven’t received their money back and think they were cheated.

Leccima often ordered surface-level renovations to homes that were not owned by him, and would call in friends and relatives to portray homeowners and interested buyers. The whole show was faked under Leccima’s watch:

McGee and others say Leccima’s episodes of “Flip This House,” A&E’s most popular show, were elaborate hoaxes. His friends and family were presented as potential homebuyers and “sold” signs were slapped in front of unsold houses. They say the home repairs — the lynchpin of the show — were actually quick or temporary patch jobs designed to look good on camera.

Leccima says he never claimed to own the homes. While not acknowledging his televised renovations were staged, he didn’t deny it and suggested that A&E and Departure Films, the production company that makes the show, knew exactly what he was doing.

“Ask anybody who works in television how a reality show is made and you’ll find that ours was a very typical approach,” Leccima said in a telephone interview…

Dan Ward, an Atlanta-area youth minister, said he told state investigators that Leccima took about $100,000 from him to invest in real estate, but, as far as he knows, Leccima never developed anything with it. He hasn’t received his money back.

McGee said appearing on the TV show made it easier for Leccima to find such investors: “As soon as that first episode aired, he got phone calls from people saying, ‘I love you. Where can I send you some money?’”

A&E has denied any knowledge of the faked episodes and is no longer working with Leccima. They have taken his picture off their website and will not air any reruns of his shows.

While A&E might not know about Leccima’s fraud, the production company surely does. A landscaper says he was hired by them to fake planting and landscaping. Departure Films, the company that does A&E’s video shoots, did not respond to questions by Fox 5 Atlanta, who had an in-depth investigative report on Leccima.

Here’s that investigative report by Fox 5 Atlanta. The audio is bad but you can hear it if it’s turned up loud enough

In an upcoming interview in Marie Claire, Angelina Jolie revealed that she has a tattoo somewhere for her boyfriend, Brad Pitt. She also said that she finds Brad sexiest when he’s with their four children, and that it’s children and hard work that make their relationship solid, which is why they don’t need to make it official with a marriage certificate.

As for getting pregnant with Shiloh, she says it was a one-shot deal and that she got pregnant the first time they tried:

Pregnancy and Brad
She said this about getting pregnant.. Everyone told her it would take about 6 months, but it seems as if the first time they tried, Brad hit the spot. She talks about Namibia, the birth etc…She LOVED being prenant and Brad found it sexy too..

She says a lot about Brad, but this stood out: “He ’s much more of a man, than any man I’ve ever met.”

Angie finds Brad HOT when he’s with the kids.

She’s got a tattoo for Brad. The interviewer asks her where are Brad’s coordinates (since she has one for all her kids) Angie: “Brad’s is somewhere else!”

On Marriage
We are not against it. It just doesn’t seem necessary. He & I have never discussed in detail, but I would assume-because we both went down that road before - its not that contract or that cermony that makes you feel solid. We’ve gone the back way around, and maybe there is something to that - that its hard work and the exhaustion and the children that really make you solid.

Zahara and the other kids
“She’s a smartass” (Angies words)
One day Zee says to Angie.. “I need a cookie.”
And Angie says to her “You need a cookie? You don’t need a cookie”.
Zee says “Daddy’s gonna cry.”
Angie says “Why is Daddy going to cry?”
“Daddy wants me to have the cookie!” Zee said.

Oh yeah and about Zee’s hair, as soon as they comb it she loosens it out….

Pax is the wildest person in the house, Madd is the tough guy and Shiloh is walking and trying to eat everything in her path.

The death of her Mom.
She talked about her mom dying. She’s happy her mom met her kids and that Marcheline picked the name Pax. Brad was there for her and took care of everything. Also her strongest memory of that day her mom died, was Brad consoling Jamie while he cried. She got there an hour before she passed. BillyBob also helped her and gave her advise.

Hollywood
She did Wanted because she/the family thought it would be a good idea for her to work, do some light work. She realizes that things were getting heavy and she needed something to help pick her up

Like she said in Cannes, she and Brad plan to take an extended break from Hollywood.

[This is a synopsis of the interview found at SoulieJolie forums, and is credited to TheMuse25 at Bafans.]

It’s not like there’s a lot of new stories there, but maybe she figures she may as well keep talking now that she’s on a roll. She told Ann Curry that she has nothing to hide or defend, and I would assume her strategy is to keep giving out information so that people stop speculating so much about her. Given how much her words get twisted around and taken out of context, that’s not likely.

According to Mike Walker’s column in the National Enquirer, American Idol plans to get rid of non-essential judges Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul next season. The show is still doing well, but since ratings are down producers want to make some changes. They’re even said to be considering Britney Spears for a permanent judge position!

Here’s hush-hush from the Top Dawgs at “American Idol” - a major house-cleaning triggered by sinking ratings means Randy Jackson’s out as a judge next season, Dawg… and so is ding-dong wack-a-doodle Paula Abdul! “Ratings this year were the lowest in two years - one week, even ‘House’ beat it,” said a show insider. “The belief is that things have gotten stale, and ‘American Idol’ is now ‘American Idle.’ They really want to mix things up, create a whole new set, institute format changes - and get rid of Paula and Randy, replacing them with younger faces.”

Warning: Put on your dark glasses before reading this blinding lash, Idol fans - at the top of Fox’s wish list is… Britney Spears!

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker's column, June 11, 2007]

Both Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson have three year contracts that they signed in 2006, meaning they both have two more years left. If this is true Idol will probably have to give them both substantial payouts if they want to replace them.

It sounds a little like fake news to me, though, especially since Britney Spears is being dragged into it. We’ll have to see what happens. She would make for an interesting judge, that’s for sure.

Today’s Page Six has another story of Paula acting weird in public. She was said to be 30 minutes late for the Fifi fragrance awards last week and to have slurred so badly while presenting that it was impossible to understand her. It’s kind of surprising to me that Idol has kept her this long.

Paris Hilton avoided the journalists and paparazzi camped out waiting for her at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood by arriving at the men’s Central Jail in downtown LA around 10:30 p.m. last night. Her surrender to police was not photographed, although she was videotaped sobbing in her car while sitting next to her somber-looking mother, Kathy. Yesterday the LA Sheriff said that he wouldn’t allow Paris to be paraded into jail all forlorn-looking in handcuffs, as he didn’t think she should be able to profit from her jail time. Paris was thought to be planning a high-profile entrance on Monday for her 23 day stay, where she was required to report by Tuesday. She was even said to have hired a hairstylist and makeup artist to make sure that she looked glam for her photo op before prison. That didn’t happen, and it is thought that the Sheriff made her change her plans in an effort to forgo the media circus.

While earlier reports had Paris sharing her cell with a roommate who is already serving time for reckless driving, Paris is now said to be serving in solitary confinement in a special wing of the jail 23 hours a day. She will avoid contact with the general population by having her one hour of free time a day in a “pod” that is attached to her cell. A shower, telephone and television will be provided for her use.

Paris said in interviews on the MTV Movie Awards red carpet that she was scared but ready to face the consequences of her actions. She said “I am trying to be strong right now. “I’m really scared but I’m ready to face my sentence.” Paris also claimed she had a chance to go to a paid prison, which is what Martha Stewart did, but that she decided to do her time in the correctional facility. It may have changed, but the judge specifically said that Paris could not pay to go to the facility of her choice. I don’t think she’s telling the truth here:

“I did have a choice to go to a pay jail,” said Hilton, without giving details. “But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I’m going to be treated like everyone else. I’m going to do the time, I’m going to do it the right way.”

If this was true I doubt she would be reporting to the LA County jail now, and this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Host Sarah Silverman made a pretty raunchy joke about Paris at the MTV Music Awards. She said that Paris was going to get special treatment in jail, and that the guards have painted the bars of her cell to look like penises. “I’m just afraid she’s going to break her teeth on those things.” Paris smiled but looked uncomfortable during Silverman’s joke at her expense.

Here’s the video (NSFW language)

The prison bosses have banned all cell phones and cameras inside the prison, but the temptation may be too great for staff not to take pictures of jailed Paris. The first photos of her behind bars are thought to be worth 1/2 a million.

Here’s Paris at the MTV Movie Awards along with a still of her in the car with her mom before she surrendered to begin serving her jail sentence. Header image from TMZ.com.

Everyone told me I was dead wrong when I called Nicole Richie pregnant after these pictures of her came out with a little belly. That’s just malnutrition bloat, people told me. Some commentors said they struggled with anorexia in the past or knew someone who had and that type of belly is common when someone doesn’t eat enough and can no longer digest food.

One source that agreed with my visual assessment is the National Enquirer. They say that Richie was seen leaving a OB/GYN’s office on May 21st and that she checked into quickie rehab last month, which she denies, to detox from medication after she learned she was pregnant.

Nicole Richie rushed herself back into rehab after announcing to close confidantes: “I’m pregnant!”

That’s the stunning secret behind the 83-pound reality TV star’s decision to get help for an eating disorder and drug abuse….

We have learned exclusively that Nicole went to rehab after she took a home pregnancy test that came back positive, according to an insider. She then broke the news to Joel, 28.

Joel told her to get into rehab immediately. And he warned “that if she didn’t go into rehab and get healthy for the baby’s sake, he would dump her and never look back,” said the insider.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, June 11, 2007]

Richie is trying to stay sober, claims the Enquirer, and needs to kick her addictions to the painkiller Vicodin and the sleep medication Soma. They don’t say whether she’s been successful or not, just that she went into rehab briefly and is now seeing a general practitioner with a specialty of drug addiction treatment along with the OB/GYN.

The article has an inset story with analysis from a doctor who says that skeletal Richie could definitely be putting her unborn baby at risk. The obstetrician asks “How in God’s name did she get pregnant?” [at that low weight of 83 pounds] and says that the baby is at risk for a condition called intrauterine growth restriction, which can lead to premature delivery and birth defects.

If the Enquirer is doing anything more than looking at the pictures and jumping to conclusions, like I did, I would be surprised. Still, they may be on to something if she was seen outside an OB/GYN’s office recently. She may have just been there for a checkup, though.

If you check out recent pictures of Richie, available through WENN (I do have a subscription for WENN, but don’t have rights to publish those specific pictures here), she’s still sporting that maybe-baby bump. In most of the pictures she’s clutching her sweatshirt over her chest, but in others you can definitely see something there. The bump is not going away, and neither are the rumors.

Richie was seen taking a hike with at Runyon Canyon Park with an “unknown male companion” and was then seen eating a plate of watermelon at La Conversation restaurant in West Hollywood. (Details from Splash News and WENN)

Pictures of Nicole Pictures in the orange dress from INFDaily. In the other pictures Richie is shown in Beverly Hills on 5/30. It’s hard to see anything in that printed dress, but I’m telling you the stomach has not gone away.

The title is not a typo. Sophia Loren showed double nip slips at the Italian Australian Film Festival opening premiere of Anita on Saturday. It must have been a deliberate attention-seeking ploy by the 72 year-old Italian sex symbol, and it worked because we normally wouldn’t be talking about her. She looks pretty damn good, and considering how she looked in her prime, her assets are all natural. It’s possible she didn’t realize how low her dress was before she went out, as she was seen holding her arm across her chest. Still, it’s hard to believe she couldn’t have borrowed a scarf or made a last-minute adjustment.

On Sunday night Loren was the host at a charity dinner to raise money for pediatric burn research. The Day of Difference Foundation was set up by the parents of 6 year-old Sophie Delezio, who suffered serious burns and injuries from two car accidents. Plates went for $800 a head, and an eight-course meal was served. Loren surely dressed more conservatively for that occasion.

Thanks to WENN for these photos and INFDaily for the watermarked photo. Loren is also shown in some older pinup photos. ONTD alerted me to these pics.

The National Enquirer says Britney Spears is using both an amphetamine prescription diet pill as well as a powerful prescription diuretic to lose weight. The diet drug Britney is said to be on, Adipex, can cause users to develop a tolerance so that they must continually increase their dosage to lose weight. It can also lead to paranoia, anxiety and mood swings. This doesn’t sound like a good idea for a recovering addict who is rumored to suffer from bipolar disorder.

Britney Spears is using a potentially deadly diet drug to lose weight - that’s the dark secret she’s hiding as she displays her newly trim body while making comeback appearances, say alarmed insiders.

Britney is taking the appetite suppressant Adipex, say those close to her. A medical expert says the drug is like a type of “speed” that can have horrific and even fatal side effects if not used properly.

To make matters worse, sources say the 25 year-old mother of two has also taken heavy doses of Lasix, a powerful diuretic normally used to treat fluid retention in patients with congestive heart failure or liver disease.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, June 11, 2007]

The article says that Adipex can cause irregular heart rhythms, high blood pressure, and heart damage. The diuretic Britney is on can lead to severe dehydration, although considering all the Red Bull she drinks she’s probably got that covered.

Given all of Britney’s issues, it doesn’t sound that surprising that she’s on prescription diet pills to lose weight. She is also said to be planning tens of thousands in plastic surgery to retain her pre-baby figure.

We haven’t heard as much about the Britney trainwreck now that Paris is going to jail. Britney is said to like it that way, although she’s sure to pull another dumb stunt this week to get her name back in the papers. Britney was vacationing for a few days in Mexico at the Four Seasons in Puerto Vallarta. She was seen in an obscenely small bikini and was there with her “cousin”/personal assistant, Alli.