The DEA’s investigation into Heath Ledger’s death is underway. The NY Daily News reports that a doctors in California and Texas are being investigated to see if they prescribed the painkillers Oxycontin and Vicodin to Ledger legally. Officials say that “it’s not clear if there was any wrongdoing.”

Heath died from a deadly combination of six prescription medications, the painkillers Oxycontin (oxycodone), and Vicodin (hydrocodone), anti-anxiety drugs Valium (diazepam), and Xanax (alprazolam), and sleeping pills Restoril (temazepam), and Unisom (doxylamine). From the statements of the medical examiner, he died from the combined effects of those drugs and not from taking too much of a single medication.

It’s possible that Heath obtained prescriptions over the Internet, considering that one of the doctors is in Texas and that the painkiller prescriptions are being investigated. We try not to speculate too much with this case, and there were a lot of inaccurate rumors immediately following his death. He traveled all over for his job and may have been legitimately prescribed drugs by different physicians without being warned of the possible side effects of mixing them.

Either way, his death shows that combining prescription medication can be deadly. A representative for the DEA told US Weekly “We’re trying to educate that legal drugs… can be just as dangerous as more hardcore drugs when misused or abused.”

According to TMZ, the prescription bottles found in Ledger’s apartment were nearly full, suggesting that he either rarely used them or was just starting new medications.

Update: Both doctors were questioned and cleared by the DEA, according to the NY Post. Neither doctor had prescribed the Vicodin or Oxycontin, but each had apparently given him prescriptions for other unnamed medications.

Angelina Jolie elicits strong feelings in a lot of people. The comments on any post that even mentions her name can get out of hand. Some of the worst sniping over Angelina came with the recent story that she was in Iraq in her role as goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. I try to stay impartial and neutral on these Angelina posts, but it doesn’t matter what I say because someone always goes crazy with hatred for the woman no matter what she does. If she wears a loose dress she’s fueling pregnancy rumors; if she wears a tight dress she’s showing off her bump and trying to upstage her husband’s ex.

I was personally bothered by some of the comments on the post about her trip to Iraq. Millions of people have lost their homes, have lost family members, and are living in terrible conditions as a result of the war. She’s trying to bring attention to that, and no, that doesn’t mean that I think she’s an f’ing saint, it just means that I care about that cause and think it deserves attention.

Angelina wrote an op ed piece to that was published in The Washington Post today. She spoke about her trip to Iraq and the need for greater resources and more attention to the plight of refugees, many of whom have fled to nearby Syria and Jordan. Some people were criticizing her trip to Iraq, saying that she can’t make any difference anyway and just wants the publicity. In her letter, she outlined what the UNHCR wants to achieve, and with her level of fame you can bet that the Presidential candidates and Congresspeople are going to read it.

The tone is understated and sticks to the facts. She could have added a moving story about the plight of people she met, but she just gave details and statistics. With the money that it costs to run the war for just one day, countless people can be helped:

We still don’t know exactly how many Iraqis have fled their homes, where they’ve all gone, or how they’re managing to survive. Here is what we do know: More than 2 million people are refugees inside their own country — without homes, jobs and, to a terrible degree, without medicine, food or clean water. Ethnic cleansing and other acts of unspeakable violence have driven them into a vast and very dangerous no-man’s land. Many of the survivors huddle in mosques, in abandoned buildings with no electricity, in tents or in one-room huts made of straw and mud. Fifty-eight percent of these internally displaced people are younger than 12 years old…

What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made. In fact, we should step up our financial and material assistance. UNHCR has appealed for $261 million this year to provide for refugees and internally displaced persons. That is not a small amount of money — but it is less than the U.S. spends each day to fight the war in Iraq. I would like to call on each of the presidential candidates and congressional leaders to announce a comprehensive refugee plan with a specific timeline and budget as part of their Iraq strategy.

[From The Washington Post]

Celebrities are not automatically experts on the world’s problems, but if they care enough to educate themselves and to use their fame to bring attention to important causes, more power to them. Now bring on the flame war.

- Awesome Isabella Rossellini viral video [Best Week Ever]
- Ellen gets Barack Obama to dance [DListed]
- Rihanna performing in one of her S&M outfits in Ireland [Bossip]
- Quarterlife doesn’t suck [Pajiba]
- Gisele Bundchen’s hot photoshoot for Dave LaChapelle [Celebslam]
- Jessica Simpson to perform for the troops in Kuwait [yeeeah]
- Tom Cruise And Katie Holmes Double Date With The Smiths [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Lohan looking beat [Bastardly]
- Lohan still looking beat [CityRag]
- Playboy wants Lindsay Lohan to get nude for them too [Egotastic]
- Sandra Bullock and Jesse James out to dinner [ICYDK]
- Scarlett Johansson has been giving relationship advice to Jessica Biel [Hollywood Rag]
- Hayden Panettiere and Miley Cyrus visit America’s Best Dance Crew [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- The Rock is going to play The Tooth Fairy [Agent Bedhead]
- Tyra Banks says she knows what it’s like to be homeless since she pretended to be for a day. I want to bitch slap her so bad. [The Blemish]
- Halle Berry to get her own perfume [PopSugar]
- Loni Anderson is a Hot Sexagenarian [The Grumpiest]
- Kate Beckinsale says her crotch is spectacular, says “Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh’s Tomb” [CelebNewsWire]
- Prince Harry Serving on the Front Lines in Afghanistan [Evil Beet]
- Celebrity shoe sizes. [Gabsmash]
- Britney’s boys got hair cuts [CelebWarship]
- O MLY? [Glitterati]
- Uma Thurman out with her son [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Gwen Stefani’s full V Magazine spread [popbytes]
- Selma Blair Caught On Another Man’s Lap By Her Ex [Socialite's Life]
- John Stamos shirtless [Just Jared]
- Ashlee Simpson says of her ring that “It just means that he hasn’t asked my dad yet.” [Lifeline Live]

Once upon a time, Culture Club lead singer Boy George was an openly gay icon in an era where famous people lived double lives, because coming out of the closet would ruin their careers (cough George Michael cough). These days, Boy George, aka George O’Dowd, is more well known as a drug addict who likes to order male prostitutes from the Internet, chain them to a wall and refuse to let them leave. Not exactly helping the gay rights movement there, Georgie boy.

George pled not guilty to false imprisonment charges in a London courtroom today, claiming that the young prostitute, Auden Carlsen, was free to leave his apartment at any time.

Boy George has pleaded not guilty to falsely imprisoning a male escort by chaining him to a wall.

The singer and DJ, whose real name is George O’Dowd, is also accused of assaulting Audun Carlsen during the alleged incident on 28 April last year.

Prosecutors claim the 46-year-old former Culture Club frontman chained Mr Carlsen up at his home in Ravey Street, Hackney, east London.

He was released on bail until a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in November.

[From BBC News via DListed]<

No word yet on how George and his attorney will attempt to explain away the whole "chained to the wall" thing.

After Culture Club broke up in the 80s, George became addicted to heroin and nearly died. In 2002, he attempted to revive his career by appearing in a musical on London's West End called "Taboo." The show ran for two years and was a success in the UK, but a Broadway version produced by Rosie O'Donnell didn't fare as well. The US "Taboo" received abysmal reviews and closed after 100 shows. George now works as a DJ, and toured throughout the world last year. At least he has some money coming in to feed his need for sadistic sex acts with male prostitutes.

Boy George is shown outside of court on 11/22/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

I once went to a concert where an audience member told the singer “I love you!” to which he replied “How can you love me if you haven’t even smelled me?” That’s not a bad point, since bad body odor is often an automatic turn off for people. It seems that those of you out there with a celebrity crush on Orlando Bloom might need to consider this.

“Miranda (Kerr) thinks Orlando is too smelly. Recently, she asked him if he could wash his clothes and perhaps shower more often,” an insider told Star magazine.

Kerr, a Victoria’s Secret model, is fed up because 31-year-old Bloom often wears the same clothes for days.

“He’ll wear the same jeans for a week before he throws them in the washer. Same goes for his sweaters, T-shirts and socks,” the source added.

To make matters worse Bloom sleeps with his dog.

Daily Telegraph

Why he isn’t grooming himself? Is he just lazy, or is it a desperate measure to conserve water? When I look at Orlando Bloom, I think he probably smells of freshly chopped wood, not bad B.O.

The same source says that Orlando sleeps with his dog. You’re dating a Victoria’s Secret model, and you’re making her share the bed with a dog. Clearly, Orlando needs to learn some basic dating etiquette as well as personal grooming habits.

Actually, this could all be an elaborate attempt to get his girlfriend to do laundry with him. My husband holds out on doing the laundry until there is nothing left in his closet, even wearing old school uniforms, to try and get me to do his washing.

On a side note, the couple have been dubbed with a name, in the tradition of Brangelina that I really like: KerrBloom.

Note by Celebitchy: I think someone made up this story entirely, but it’s still funny. Even if he smelled like McConaughey I wouldn’t kick him out of bed.

Miranda Kerr is shown on 1/26/08 at the Australia Black Tie Gala. Orlando Bloom is shown at the BAFTA Awards on 2/10/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

The new issue of People Magazine features Nicole Richie and 6 week-old baby Harlow on the cover. In the accompanying interview, Richie and her boyfriend, Joel Madden, talked about their experiences having a baby and how it changed their lives. Both Nicole and Joel said that the baby helped bring their family closer together, and that their parents and Joel’s brother are a big help. As for how her life has changed, she said that it’s like she doesn’t remember what it was like before, but it’s not like she “was in an opium den.”

Nicole admits that she struggles with her identity now that she’s had a baby. She said “I used to be fun! What if I’m not fun anymore?” She concedes that she’s still fun but just in a different way.

In terms of whether Nicole is going back to work, she said she has a lot of projects underway including a perfume, clothing line, maternity, children’s line and jewelry line:

What was the experience of going to jail like when you were pregnant?
Joel: For her and for me, it was just like, “Let’s just get this over with,” Nicole was just doing what she had to do, doing the right thing, going in and facing it and taking care of it. We wanted to close that chapter.
Nicole: And move on.

Do you feel healed? You said getting pregnant saved your life.
Nicole: Did I?
Joel: So dramatic

You said it to Diane Sawyer
Nicole: Now that I look back on it, I was a different person last year than I am now. And listen, sometimes I’ll be here and I’ll think to myself, “I used to be fun! What if I’m not fun anymore?” I have all these feelings. But you know what? I am who I am. I’m still fun, just not in that way.
Joel: People have this perception that Nicole was, like, in an opium den.
Nicole: And I wasn’t
Joel: She made some mistakes. But look at where we’re from. I’m in a rock and roll band. Nicole is who she is. It’s not like we had to give so much up because of the baby. It’s just time to be parents.

Do you plan to go back to work anytime soon?
Joel: She’s working on a perfume, she’s working on a clothing line.
Nicole: A maternity line and a children’s line. And a jewelry line. I’m doing it with Mouawad (Thanks KatyAlia for the designer name)

[From People Magazine, print edition, March 10, 2008, transcribed from scans available on PopSugar]

Nicole says earlier in the interview that she doesn’t have a nanny, and that she doesn’t deserve criticism for going out occasionally because Harlow is with family when she’s out and she’s with her all the time otherwise.

Do you have help at home?
We don’t have a nanny. We have our moms. They’ve helped us a lot.
Nicole: And we have to give credit to Benji. He lives six houses down. He babysits, like really babysits.
Joel: There was a day when I’d been at work all day and Nicole hadn’t left the house for 48 hours, and I was like “Let’s go to a restaurant down the street,” and Benji was with the baby. Then someone said they read somewhere that we were out all the time. It’s crazy. You leave the house for one hour and everyone’s like “She’s out! She’s leaving the baby!”

[From People Magazine, print edition, March 10, 2008, transcribed from scans available on PopSugar]

At one point Nicole is asked if Harlow has met Paris Hilton and you can almost see her roll her eyes when she answered “Yeah. They went to the Ivy. Just kidding.” She then talked in general terms about how her friends are reverent and careful around the baby, but didn’t mention Paris again.

It’s clear that a baby only changes you so much. It doesn’t take away your personality.

Congratulations to Nicole and Joel on their new arrival.

The National Enquirer has a story in the latest edition claiming that Pink’s two year marriage was marred by multiple affairs she had with women, which she was initially open about but then started hiding from her husband, Carey Hart. 28 year-old singer Pink and 32 year-old motocross star Carey were married in January, 2006. There have been rumors that these two were having trouble for some time, with many people wondering if Pink played for the other time. While Carey has been said to have a girlfriend or two on the side, Pink might have had a few herself. The article says that they both were cheating, and that it was too much for the marriage to withstand:

Pink kisses Kristanna Loken in 2003

“It’s no secret Pink likes women - and Carey’s a notorious bad boy,” an insider told The Enquirer. “But when pink walked down the aisle, she was intent on trying to give Carey unconditional love and he promised not to cheat in return. But in the past six months, they were both cheating…”

Recently Pink has been spotted hanging with the openly gay cast members of Showtime’s “The L Word” at Hollywood’s hotspot Falcon and watching the nearly-naked female go-go dancers at Truck Stop, a popular ladies’ night in West Hollywood, said the insider.

She and a posse of girlfriends also hit Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood, posing for pictures with the buff star of lesbian movie “The Gymnast.”

A recently internet report also said Pink was seen cavorting with a woman on Feb. 7 at Macy Gray’s private showcase at The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles…

A pal of Carey’s said: “They had an open relationship and it worked for a while. But at some point Pink quit telling Carey about her affair with women. Then he’d find out and confront her. Eventually, he went back to womanizing and all that was left… was to divorce.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 10, 2008]

It’s not clear from the way the Enquirer words this that they have any insider information, and it sounds like they’re relying on reports of what Pink was up to and who she was with. Still, it’s not that much of a logical leap to jump to the conclusion that if she was going to gay bars and women’s-only strip clubs she was doing more behind the scenes too.

For his part Carey was recently photographed with a Vegas hostess draping her leg around him, but it wasn’t clear that they were together or if they were just posing like that.

In 2006, Pink said that blowjobs were disgusting and that she didn’t give them. She said: “My God. That’s disgusting. I don’t do that.”

There has been a buzz building for the last few weeks that our favorite rehab fixture, Lindsay Lohan, has fallen off the wagon in a big way. In January, the starlet was videotaped sneaking chugs of champagne straight from the bottle in a club in Italy, but her lawyer insisted she “called her sponsor and got back on track.” Now, sources close to Lohan say she’s up to her old tricks again.

Lindsay Lohan has fallen off the wagon so many times, she should be covered with bruises! And sources reveal she’s up to her old tricks of trying to hide her drinking.

The troubled 21-year-old actress–who did three stints in rehab last year– is filling water bottles with booze and asking friends to hide alcohol bottles for her at clubs, according to insiders.

“Lindsay thinks she’s pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes, but it’s obvious that she’s drinking again big time,” an insider told the Enquirer.

The “Mean Girls” star boozed it up at the trendy Los Angeles hotspot Avalon on February 8, according to the source…

…”She was sitting at a table topped with different kinds of juices, water and one of her favorite beverages- the energy drink Red Bull. But she had people stash bottles of Grey Goose vodka under the table.”

Lindsay’s party pals poured vodka into the Red Bull, then quickly slipped the Grey Goose back under the table, said the source.

“I saw Lindsay down close to 10 Red Bulls that night,” the insider revealed. “And a clubgoer told me that she’d been watching Lindsay all night- and she’d take a big slurp of Grey Goose when she thought no one was looking.”

Four nights later, Lindsay partied at the club Villa, where an eyewitness from the x17 photo agency says that Lindsay “was drinking vodka cocktails- several of them. She is not sober anymore. I know this for sure.”

[From The National Enquirer, print version, March 3, 2008]

Meanwhile, video footage of Lindsay falling down as she left the Villa nightclub that night is steadily making its way around the Internet. Many sobriety experts say vodka is the alcohol of choice for secret drinkers because they think it’s odorless, and can mix in with juices and water because it’s colorless.

Star says Lindsay can’t even help herself while dining with friends in a restaurant:

Lindsay Lohan ordered water and tried to act demure during dinner with friends at West Hollywood’s Madeo restaurant on Valentine’s Day. But it didn’t last long. “One of her pals was drinking wine, and she was sneaking sips of it under the table,” says a witness.

In public, Lindsay is keeping up a facade of sobriety, but her friends say she’s partying again. During the week of February 11, Lindsay holed up with pals at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “It was a wild party,” says an onlooker. “People were smoking pit and doing coke all night.”

“Lindsay is a really nice girl,” says a pal. “She’s also very lonely and insecure. She hates to be alone and she’s terrified of the dark. She’s like a little kid. And the worst thing is, no one helps her.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, March 3, 2008]

Here’s some free advice for you, Linds: If you want to stay sober, STAY THE HELL OUT OF NIGHTCLUBS, YOU IDIOT!! But something tells me that not only does Blohan NOT want to stay sober– she never was.

Note by Celebitchy: Lindsay Lohan was photographed outside an AA meeting this week, and while part of me wants to give her credit the other part thinks it’s just damage control due to the tabloid reports which came out earlier in the week. She also talks at length in the March, 2008 issue of Paper about how she got sober. She also says that she was up for a role in a movie about silent screen star Clara Bow, but since she was in rehab and all it went to Sienna Miller. STFU Lindsay. I’m no fan of Miller but she’s a better actress than you are and she actually shows up to work.

Here are photos from Lohan’s Paper Magazine spread, thanks to Linds-Lo.com. Look - she’s wearing the same dress Kate Hudson did to the Fool’s Gold premiere. That’s what it needed - a belt.

Blake Fielder-Civil appeared in court yesterday to plead not guilty to the charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice (The wordy U.K. equivalent of witness-tampering). What’s notable about this appearance is that his devoted wife Amy Winehouse was not there to cheer on “my Blaaaake, incarcerated” like she usually does. Instead, Amy was getting settled in at her new apartment while spending time with her sober companion, Blake Wood.

Fielder-Civil, standing in the dock alongside three other men, also facing conspiracy charges, spoke only to confirm his name and enter the not guilty plea.

Grammy Award winner Winehouse, who recently spent time in rehab, has previously appeared in court to support her husband.

When he appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court in November, the singer blew kisses and mouthed: ‘I love you,’ to him in the court room.

But it was a very different scene today.

Wistfully staring towards the public seats, greasy and unshowered Fielder-Civil, wearing a grey sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms, ruffled his hair in apparent agitation.

After he and co-defendant James Kennedy, 19, from Hatfield made not guilty pleas for conspiring to pervert the course of justice Blake offered a rueful smile to the dock officer and kept glancing towards the public gallery.

While lawyers discussed the date and format of his trial Blake was visibly distracted turning round every time somebody came into court. By the end of proceedings as he was led from the dock he looked fed up.

[From The Daily Mail]

Awww, poor widdle Bwakie.

People Magazine notes that Amy’s visits to “Blake, Incarcerated” are becoming less frequent.

Amy Winehouse failed to turn up to court in London Friday to see her husband Blake Fielder-Civil plead not guilty to charges stemming from a pub brawl.

Fielder-Civil’s mother Georgette, a fixture at his court dates, also did not appear.

The normally merry Fielder-Civil – dressed in a gray Gap sweatshirt and jeans – was subdued during the two-hour hearing. He pleaded not guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice, a charge which arose from his being accused of causing grievous bodily harm to a pub landlord in June 2006.

A source close to Winehouse says, “She’s a mess at the moment. I don’t think she’s visiting him much either.”

Fielder-Civil is allowed two visits per week while incarcerated. And because of Winehouse’s fame, the couple’s visits are no longer held in the prison’s communal area, which the source describes as “like a really nasty [cafeteria].”

Winehouse moved to a new apartment in London’s Camden neighborhood on Wednesday as a hearing on her and Fielder-Civil’s appeal of a fine for marijuana possession was postponed.

[From People]

I would love to speculate that Amy is finally wising up about this manipulative little twit she calls a husband, but I don’t think that’s the case. Most likely, Amy was busy with moving and didn’t have time to haul her skinny butt all the way to the courthouse just to see “my Blaaaake” for, like, five minutes while he pled not guilty. She was photographed moving her stuff out of the old place and showed photographers a famed photo of her with Blaaaake, so I’m sure she is still pining away for him just like always.

Note by Celebitchy: There are rumors that Amy is doing drugs again, and she was recently photographed with scratches up and down her left arm, suggesting they may have been self-inflicted. She also caused a mess at her hotel room before the Brit Awards, with champagne bottles laying around, booze on the floor, and black hair dye in the tub. She even supposedly put a big mirror on the floor. Stay sober, Amy!

Amy is shown out with a friend, not the good Blake, on 2/27/08, thanks to Splash News.

Katherine Heigl is anxious to continue her film career and doesn’t want to be tied to the role that made her famous, Dr. Izzie Stevens on the hit show Grey’s Anatomy. - possible spoiler alert -

Word has it that Heigl has asked producers to kill her off her character on the show because she doesn’t want to be known as just a television star, and wants to break into movies full time.

After starring in the hit films Knocked Up and 27 Dresses, Katherine believes she has outgrown the small screen - and her agent is working overtime so she can devote herself full time to movies, sources say.

“Katherine has even suggested to ‘Grey’s’ producers that they kill her character Dr. Izzie Stevens in dramatic fashion so her exit could bring in huge ratings,” a pal of the 29-year-old Emmy winner told The Enquirer. Newly married to rocker Josh Kelley and riding high on her box-office appeal, Katherine has formed a production company with her mother Nancy, whos her manager, and she’s being swamped with movie offers, said the pal.

But leaving “Grey’s Will be an uphill battle because her contract with Touchstone and ABC is ironclad for the next two years, according to another source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 10, 2008]

The article goes on to say that Heigl might have to fight this out in court if producers don’t agree to let her out of her contract. You can see her trying to do this, and given all the stories that have come out about the fighting and sniping on the Grey’s set, it’s probably not the easiest place to work. Heigl said earlier that she didn’t know where producers were going with the series and called her character Izzie’s storyline a “ratings ploy.”

Heigl was really nervous as a presenter at the Oscars and her voice was shaking and cracking. She said afterwards that she felt out of her league and like a fan rather than someone who belonged there. “It was kind of surreal. I just felt very out of my league, you know? I was sitting behind Cate Blanchett and Jack Nicholson and sitting next to Renee Zellweger. I kind of wanted to get out my iPhone and take pictures.”

She’s explaining why she was nervous, and that’s nice I guess, especially considering how much smack she normally talks whenever she has an audience. I think she’s full of herself and courts the paparazzi too much. Other people like her because she’s so outspoken, but she shares too much for my tastes.

Splash had some photos of the police arriving at Heigl and her new husband Josh Kelly’s house on Tuesday. A neighbor had called them because he was sick of the paparazzi hanging around outside all the time.

Here’s Heigl having lunch with her mom and two interior designers yesterday. I hate it when people smoke when I’m trying to eat. Even when you’re outside it still gets in your space and makes your hair and clothes smell. Thanks to Splash News.