Babies, babies and more babies

Well, another Friday is upon us and the weekend is beckoning this redhead with a little wink and a smile, but there's gossip to be had before I can give in to its allure. Summer is here (though not officially until June 21), which can only mean one thing; celebrities must spawn. There's been an overabundance of rumors and confirmations of people getting preggers, not getting preggers and popping out those little wealthy heirs. Lets kick it off with the big one:

Angelina Jolie has not, I repeat, not given birth to the twins she's only recently confirmed to be carrying. There was lots of buzz this morning once Entertainment Tonight insisted that she had the twins last weekend in France. But there have since been about a million reports denying that very thing:

Despite rampant reports to the contrary, the Jolie-Pitt offspring count is at four, and holding.
A source close to the couple in France tells E! News that the most-watched baby bump in the world has yet to pop, denying exploding reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally welcomed twins. Likewise, Jolie's rep tells People, "Angelina has not given birth. She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France." The stork non-delivery puts the kibosh on voraciously circulating and rather detailed reports, led by Entertainment Tonight, that girls Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane arrived via C-section at a Catholic clinic in Aix-en-Provence, France, earlier this week. (source EOnline)

I kind of had a feeling that these reports were untrue, merely because the source were pretty sketchy and had a distinct lack of details. When Shiloh was born a couple years ago (in freaking Namibia of all places!) the media knew about it within 24 hours. I highly doubt that Brangelina would let five days go by before releasing this info that happened in France. Plus, you know that People and all of the other media outlets have people in every hospital withing a 100 mile radius just waiting for the Jolie-Pitts to check in. I'm guessing we won't hear about Angelina giving birth until Fourth of July weekend (the press kind of takes holidays too), even though she looks like she's ready to burst any day now. She said at Cannes that her due date wasn't until August, but she's fooled us before.
Remember her whole denial of her relationship with Brad?

Speaking of being fooled, I guess I was the only person in the world who actually believed Pete Wentz when he denied getting Ashlee Simpson knocked up a few weeks ago. I honestly thought the fact that he out right denied it meant that he was telling the truth, but I guess I was being a bit naive, because the newlyweds confirmed Ashlee's condition yesterday:

In a statement on their favorite news-spreading site, FriendsOrEnemies.com, Ashlee and Pete Wentz have confirmed that they are indeed expecting their first child together. "While many have speculated about this, we wanted to wait until after the first trimester to officially confirm that we are expecting our first child," the newlyweds wrote. "This is truly the most joyous time in our lives and we are excited to share the happy news and start our family." (source E Online)

From now on I will always believe the hype when it comes to starlets getting pregnant. I was wrong about Ashlee and I was wrong about Nicole Richie too. So from now on, anytime I hear rumors about a starlet getting pregnant out of wedlock by a guy that wears eyeliner and is in an emo band, I'm just going to have to believe it! I'm looking at you Paris! You better watch your eggs carefully, those emo guys are pretty fertile.

Ok, now that I've totally ruined any small crush you might have had on a guyliner loving musician, lets move on to an all American (Idol) boy. Reports surfaced yesterday that Clay Aiken will also be shopping for diapers in the near future:

Clay Aiken is going to be a father, PEOPLE has confirmed. "The story is true," a rep for producer David Foster, the pregnant woman's brother, told PEOPLE Wednesday, of the TMZ.com report that Aiken, 29, impregnated David's sister, music producer Jaymes Foster. "It is true Clay is the father. She was artificially inseminated by Clay. She's due in August." (source People online)

While Clay's reps haven't confirmed or denied these reports, I've learned from my mistakes and choose to believe this report. It makes me a little nauseous, but I'm still going to believe it. The report goes on to say that while Clay and his baby mama aren't together romantically, Clay will still have a large role in his sperm, I mean child's life. Sorry, but Clay creeps me out a little. As I've stated before, I'm not an American Idol fan, so all I know of him is the lame music he's been releasing since then. I'm probably judging a bit harshly, but that's my opinion.

And finally, to finish up this all-babies, all-the-time edition of ROARR, we've got another birth, this one confirmed. The youngest of the Hanson bothers, Zac, and his wife have had a baby:

Zac Hanson and his wife Kate welcomed a son, John Ira Shepherd Hanson, on Tuesday in Tulsa, the musician tells PEOPLE exclusively. The baby boy, who will go by the name Shepherd, weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz. "I am so overjoyed," the proud papa, 22, tells PEOPLE. "There is not an audience or concert that could ever stand up to the feeling of meeting your baby for the first time." (source People Online)

I haven't really paid attention to Hanson since the "Mmmbop" days, but every once in a while you hear about one of them having another baby. I think the oldest one has at least three, but like I said, I haven't really been paying attention. But congrats to the happy parents!

Well all of this baby news is making me realize that its going to be a few years before I'm ready for a little one. I can't even decide if I want to get a cat, let alone a baby. I'm going to go make sure my birth control prescription is up to date.

Happy Friday!

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Back in the Saddle Again

Its been a while since I've had a chance to blog. The week before a holiday weekend tends to get a bit crazy here at the station and we were out a morning show host too, so things got extra crazy. But the holiday is over and things have calmed down slightly, so its back to business. Lots of random little pieces of gossip are going around the web today and I feel the need to make a comment or two, so here we go!
I'll start with the worst and move to the happiest I think. So, the Cannes Film Festival was going on all last week and lots of movies premiered and all of that fun stuff. While I'm always mildly interested in what's going on at Cannes, I'm more interested in the antics of Sharon Stone at Cannes. She is always there raising money for AmFAR via a huge star-studded fundraising dinner that's held every year. They did pretty well this year (thanks to Madonna's purse) and Sharon (who always hosts the event) was then free to roam around France, flash the paparazzi and run her mouth off about things she doesn't really understand. Like China. And karma. Here's the deets on her latest faux pas:
Sharon Stone left Chinese journalists stunned at the Cannes Film Festival in France last week when she suggested the country's recent earthquake was "karma." The outspoken actress was talking to a Chinese media outlet on Thursday when she linked the recent disaster, which left more than 67,000 people dead, to China's recent treatment of Tibetans. She said, "All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma?' When you are not nice, bad things happen to you. I'm not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine." (source: imdb.com)
While I also don't agree with a lot of the things happening in China right now, I also don't agree with Sharon blaming a catastrophic earthquake on karma. Because I'm pretty sure the people who were affected by the earthquake had nothing to do with all the crap going on in Tibet. Its just a thought. I guess the Chinese agreed with me, or maybe they just didn't like Basic Instinct, but either way, they now want to ban Stone from the country:
China is considering a boycott of the actress' films (yeah, she's got a few coming up) in light of her comment last week that the recent devastating earthquake, which resulted in at least 65,000 deaths, could be a karmic response to the government's hard-line policy against Tibet. Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex, one of China's biggest theater chains, called Stone's comments "inappropriate" and said actors should not mix talk of natural disasters with personal politics. (source: Eonline)
Is that karma too? You can check out Sharon's rant here.
Moving on to lighter topics. The always popular Miley Cyrus is back in the news (actually I'm not really sure she ever left it, but why quibble?). Earlier today the story came out that the band Lustra, who had previously claimed that Miley's song "Rockstar" very closely resembled their song "Scotty Doesn't Know" (Which can be heard in the movie Eurotrip), doesn't mind trading their song for a little more free publicity:

Figuring the kid didn't know any better, the L.A. band Lustra, which previously spotlighted the similarities between its tune "Scotty Doesn't Know" and the Hannah Montana tune "Rockstar," has invited the fictional pop star and the real live girl she inhabits to join them onstage this week and let the audience decide for itself. "We don't want anything other than credit for the music we worked so very hard on," Lustra guitarist Nick Cloutman said Tuesday. "We don't believe for a second that Ms. Cyrus knew what was happening and was only following instructions." A statement that's either a gracious attempt to let bygones be bygones or a dig at 15-year-old Miley Cyrus' business acumen. But just in case Cyrus is unable to perform at Lustra's show Thursday at the Viper Room in West Hollywood, the band has also declared its willingness to appear on Hannah Montana as the singer's musical influence. A Disney Channel rep had no comment on Lustra's magnanimous offer. (source: Eonline)

I haven't heard the song "Rockstar", but I'm pretty sure that there has to be a few similarities for a band to risk going up against the Disney Channel's lawyers. You know those guys could probably bury a little obscure band, even if they are from L.A. Its nice to see that Lustra is handling the whole thing with a sense of humor instead of immediately calling a lawyer to get all sue-happy. I just found this a bit amusing. Pair this up with reports that photo agencies are willing to pony up some serious cash to get the pictures of Miley's first public kiss and Billy Ray might want to beef up her security because she's going to be hounded like crazy for the next few weeks (or years, who knows?) I kind of feel bad for her, but I'm guessing she knows what she's doing. Or her daddy does.

So on to even better news, there's a pretty good possibility that there may not be an actor's strike happening this summer after all.
SAG and the majors have resumed talks on the heels of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists signing a primetime deal that will ease -- but not eliminate -- the town’s fears of an actors strike hitting this summer. Following nine consecutive days of negotiations, AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers reached a tentative three-year agreement at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at AMPTP headquarters in Encino. If ratified, the deal will go into effect July 1. Less than seven hours later, the Screen Actors Guild and the AMPTP re-started their feature-primetime negotiations with a June 30 contract expiration looming. (Source: Variety)

This is fantastic news to those of us who really hated all the crap that got put on TV during the writer's strike. A lot of people lost a lot of jobs during that strike, I'm not sure the industry could take another strike so soon after the resolution of the last one. And then where would I be? I would have nothing to blog about! (Yes, it is always about me, just ask my husband!;))

And finally, the happiest news of all is about that beacon of original cool: The Fonz.

“Happy Days” will return again to Milwaukee for a first–run reprise performance Tuesday, August 19 when the show’s stars Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham), Tom Bosley (Mr. Cunningham), Erin Moran (Joanie), Don Most (Ralph Malph) and Anson Williams (Potsie) return to their “adopted” home for the dedication of the bronze Fonzie statue on the RiverWalk in downtown. Stars of the “Happy Days” spin–off, “Laverne & Shirley,” Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams (Laverne and Shirley respectively) are also expected to attend along with the show’s creator, director/producer Garry Marshall. The statue dedication ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. It will be followed by a public celebration at Pere Marquette Park at 11 a.m. where Culver’s will be hosting a free public frozen custard social. There, Winkler and the other guests are scheduled to make an appearance with some later–to–be–announced autograph opportunities. The day–long celebration will conclude when Henry and his cast colleagues are honored at a pre–game ceremony at Miller Park prior to the Brewers–Astros game. The cast will throw out the first ball and Anson Williams, who portrayed “Potsie” on the show will sing the National Anthem. A commemorative bronze the Fonz baseball card will be given to every fan that attends the game. (Source: OnMilwaukee.com)

I love that the city of Milwaukee has bronzed The Fonz. I think its awesome! Its just too bad that little Ritchie Cunningham can't make it. I guess he's got some other career now. Something about making movies and winning Oscars? He'll still be filming the Angels and Demons, the prequel to The Da Vinci Code. I hope he lets Tom Hanks get a hair cut in this one.

Well, that's about all I've got for you today. Its political season here in Napa, which means there's lots of activity happening here at the station. It never rains but it pours I guess.

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TV might not suck next year pt. 3

All right campers, the final of the five major networks (though I still don't think The CW should count, but whatever) has announced their fall (and spring for that matter) schedule. Fox feels pretty confident about what they've got, and I would too if I had American Idol dominating the ratings at the moment (the ratings might be lower this year, but they're still kicking everyone else's butt, so who can complain?). So before I get into too much more editorializing, here's what you can look forward too next fall on the channel that brings you Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and 24 (oh the irony!).

Fall 2008

Sunday: The OT (football postgame show), The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad

Monday: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison Break

Tuesday: House, Fringe

Wednesday: Bones, 'Til Death, Do Not Disturb

Thursday: The Moment of Truth, Kitchen Nightmares

Friday: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Don't Forget the Lyrics

Saturday: Cops, America's Most Wanted

Spring 2009

Sunday: Various reruns, The Simpsons, King of the Hill/Sit Down, Shut Up, Family Guy, American Dad/The Cleveland Show

Monday: Dollhouse, 24

Tuesday: American Idol, Fringe

Wednesday: Bones, American Idol (30 minutes), TBA comedy

Thursday: Hell's Kitchen, Secret Millionaire

Friday: Bones, 'Til Death, Do Not Disturb

Saturday: Cops, America's Most Wanted

(source E Online)

Its all pretty much along the lines of where Fox has been heading the past few years and will probably continue to head until American Idol finally shrieks its last note. There are a few things that I'm excited about. For one, I super glad they didn't mess with the whole Sunday night animation block except to add the Family Guy spin off The Cleaveland Show and Shut Up/Sit Down which is another animated show about high schoolers from the people who created Arrested Development (R.I.P. Bluth family, you are missed). So the one major night that I actually watch anything on Fox is still intact and possibly even better. The other show that I'm very excited about is Dollhouse, which is from Joss Whedon (who created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and a bunch of other awesome shows) and stars Eliza Dushku. The premise that I've read sounds totally down my ally and I loved Buffy, so I may have to check this one out. Though it will all depend on how much TV I can convince my husband to watch. He's very discerning when it comes to television. You can read more about the old and new shows here as well as the ones who didn't make it (I guess lightning didn't strike three times for Kelsey Grammer).


So that's it! All five networks have announced their fall schedules, for better or worse. While there's still plenty of time for these schedules to change, I'm sure that they will more or less stay the same. Now I can go back to obsessing about why the hell Britney Spears and Mel Gibson are going on vacation together and trying to stay cool in this wretched heat. I'm going to see Iron Man tonight just so I don't have to hang out in my stifling house. That and I wanted to see the movie anyway. I'm not sure if I'll have time to blog tomorrow, though I'll do my best. Friday's are always a bit crazy here in radio land.
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TV might not suck next year pt. 2

All right then, before i get to the latest from the network upfronts going on this week in New York, the really big news just hit the internet a little while ago. It seems that the "rumored" Brangelina twins have been confirmed. Check it:

Jack Black let the news slip while doing a joint-interview with Jolie in Cannes to promote their movie, Kung Fu Panda. "You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these," he said during the chat with Today show's Natalie Morales. Asked by Morales if she is indeed having twins, Jolie replied, "Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already. Well, Jack's just confirmed it actually." Pressed about the gender of the babies, Jolie said, "We would like to keep that private." (source PEOPLE Online)

Even though this has been the worst kept secret since Brangelina first hooked up, its nice to have confirmation. Now all the speculation will be about the sex of the babies and whether she took fertility drugs to conceive. Isn't the media grand?

Speaking of the media, lets get back to some TV news. Two networks have revealed their new fall lineups in the 24 hours since I last posted, so its time to get back to business. The CW was the third network (after NBC and ABC) to show off their new schedule, which is really exciting if you either are a 16 year old girl or have the mentality of a 16 year old girl. Here's the scoop:

The CW unveiled a new fall schedule focuses almost exclusively on wooing women no older than 34. As previously announced, the male-oriented WWE Smackdown goes. The male-fronted Smallville and Supernatural stay, presumably getting by on their good looks. Also coming back: Watercooler shows Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model; barely rated shows Everybody Hates Chris and The Game; and the once-endangered One Tree Hill. The Reaper won a reprieve, and a sophomore season, as a midseason replacement. Aliens in America wasn't so lucky; the comedy didn't win anything but a cancellation. The 90210 spin off will be paired on Tuesdays with the CW's other new scripted show, Surviving the Filthy Rich, about a young woman who trades in a career in journalism to become a tutor to a pair of rich girls. Stylista, the third new show, from Tyra Banks and the creators of, yes, Project Runway, is set at Runway judge Nina Garcia's former magazine, Elle, and features 11 Lauren Conrad-types competing for a job at the publication. The fall schedule is the CW's third. The network has yet to put together a season as "big" as either of its ancestors, the WB and UPN. After scrapping Saturdays, the CW plans to downscale even further, turning Sundays over to an independent studio that'll produce four as-yet unspecified series for the night. (source E Online)

Well, I wasn't terribly interested in The CW's new schedule to begin with (I still haven't forgiven them for canceling Veronica Mars last season, just as I was starting to get into it) other than to make sure The Reaper got renewed. Since it has I'm not going to boycott the network (you know, because my one household of two people could totally take the network down if I did) though I am a little pissy about pushing the show off to mid-season. But I'll live. There's so much buzz around the 90210 spin off that I may tune in to see its premiere, but I'm not really in to the whole overly dramatic manipulations that the first one made so famous so I kind of think the new one will really appeal to me. But you never know, I may end up eating my words on that one. For all the scoop on the casting, including which alums have already signed on for the new season, click here. And here. And here. Oh wait, here too. I told you this thing was buzzy!

CBS also announced their new fall lineup, though they waited until this morning to unveil it. Its pretty typical for CBS, check it out:

Moonlight was one of a handful of series that didn't make the cut today as CBS unveiled its new fall schedule. Others: James Woods' Shark and controversy's Kid Nation. CBS bubble shows whose bubbles did not burst, as they were invited back included: The New Adventures of Old Christine, How I Met Your Mother and The Unit. The script-loving network will introduce five new scripted shows, more than any network so far. The new CBS shows are: Worst Week, a Meet the Parents-aspiring sitcom; Project Gary, a divorced dad comedy starring Jay Mohr; The Mentalist, a procedural crime show starring Simon Baker; Eleventh Hour, with Rufus Sewell as a "brilliant" scientist that the brilliant government waits to the last minute to call; and The Ex List, an hourlong dramedy about a thirtysomething woman who, acting under the influence of a psychic, hunts down her ex-boyfriends to find her future husband. Some returning CBS series will return to new digs: The Unit travels from Tuesdays to Sundays; Without a Trace shifts from Thursdays to Tuesdays; Christine trades Mondays for Wednesdays; and Rules of Engagement moves from Mondays to the bench, where it'll remain until it's called up as a midseason replacement. In addition to Rules, Harper's Island, a new murder mystery drama, was slated for a midseason-ish launch. (source E Online)

Again, I don't really watch much on CBS (seriously, I stay mainly in the NBC and ABC range), but I have been watching How I Met Your Mother on DVD (Netflix rules!) and I really do enjoy it. Maybe I'll be caught up with the show by the time it premieres next fall and I'll actually watch it live instead of two years after each episode is on. I can dream right? Anyway, it sounds like CBS has a pretty strong schedule ahead of it for next fall, and I'm glad that they are actually adding more scripted comedy, Lets hope the other networks take note and maybe make an effort to produce original content instead of all of the reality dreck that they've been forcing on us since the writer's strike (although, if the actors go on strike this summer like they're threatening to do, we're all screwed!).

So that's that. We're still waiting to hear from Fox and some of the other smaller cable networks want to put their two cents in too. TNT is actually talking some pretty big game in New York today. Here's what they've got:

Cable's TNT announced plans to challenge the broadcast networks with three nights of original programming by 2010, and touted several proposed new series, including an Elvis impersonator-detective show from George Clooney, and a new action-crime drama from the cocreator of 24. (source E Online)

If they can make it work, they may end up being a major contender. But I really hope they don't take away the hours of reruns they show everyday. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't zone out to endless reruns of Charmed and Law and Order after work.

Well, until tomorrow people. This redhead has to get back to doing the job that actually pays her.

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TV might not suck next fall!

So we're about two days in to the network upfront week in New York, which is where the top five networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and the CW)reveal their fall schedules to the major advertisers. Usually this is the time when we find out which new shows are actually going to be on next season and which old shows aren't. NBC went first, but since they revealed their new schedule over a month ago(as I previously blogged about)there really weren't any surprises there. The only interesting thing they did was to confirm what everyone already knew, that Jimmy Fallon will be taking over for Conan O'Brien next year when Conan takes over for Jay Leno. Here's the scoop on that one:

Jimmy Fallon will be the new Conan O'Brien, who will be the new Jay Leno.
As for the old Jay Leno? That's for another press conference.
Today it was NBC announcing what had been long suspected, and outright leaked: that Fallon will assume O'Brien's Late Night hosting chair once O'Brien assumes Leno's Tonight Show hosting next year. "It's a comedian's dream to get this job, to work with writers and try to be funny every night," Fallon said from NBC's fabled "30 Rock" headquarters, where he used to star on Saturday Night Live, and where he'll star on Late Night.
Late Night executive producer Lorne Michaels said the Fallon era "probably" will begin in the first six months of 2009. (source E Online)

Congrats to Jimmy for the plush new job. This move has been speculated about for a while now, but at least its confirmed now. I'm not really in to traditional late night shows (I'm more of a Daily Show kind of girl myself) but I've always enjoyed the stuff that Conan has come up with. Here's hoping Jimmy has what it takes to fill those rather large shoes. (Seriously, Conan's like 7 feet tall, isn't Jimmy kind of short?) So that's what's up with NBC, lets move on.

ABC has also announced their fall line, which is basically the same line up they announced last year with one or two additions. This is what its looking like over at the alphabet network for fall:

Sunday: America's Funniest Home Videos, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters

Monday: Dancing With the Stars, Samantha Who?, Boston Legal

Tuesday: Opportunity Knocks, Dancing With the Stars, Eli Stone

Wednesday: Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money

Thursday: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Life on Mars

Friday: Wife Swap, Supernanny, 20/20

Saturday: Saturday Night College Football (source E Online)

In news that made me a little giddy with relief, ABC also announced that it would be picking up Scrubs from NBC to start mid-season, along with shows like Lost and According To Jim. I have no issues with this particular line up, I mainly watch NBC anyway, so I was mainly concerned with Scrubs and Pushing Daisies (which I was just starting to get into when the writer's strike went and messed with everything!). But I know a lot of big Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty and Lost fans out there who will be pretty estatic about their shows basically remaining in the same time and place. Not that any of those shows were in danger of being canceled, but you never know how the networks will mess with their schedules. It always takes a few weeks in the fall to get used to my favorite shows in new time slots and days.

The rest of the networks will be announcing their lineups throughout the rest of the week, with the CW making their announcements tonight. There's lots of rumors going around about what they've got in store for tonight, but the rumors I am most interested in are the ones surrounding The Reaper and the new 90210 spin off. I never watched 90210 when it was actually on the air, but I know so many people who were totally obsessed with it that I have managed to catch a rerun or two here and there (the show is on 20 times a day it seems like). My sister and mother were way in to the original, so I'm curious to see how the spin off does.

I'm trying something a little different for this week's posts. Instead of just posting on Tuesday and Friday, I'll be doing short posts all week as the networks announce their schedules. If anything non-TV related comes up that I feel needs to be talked about, I'll throw that in too. Fun times right? That's all this redhead has to say about that. At least for now.

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Some people just can't keep their hands to themselves

Its going to be a short post today. This Friday has turned out to be a bit busier than this redhead was prepared for. Well, its been quite a week in the world of entertainment I must say. While most of the news has been rather common place, there have been a few gems that have popped up here and there. And this Lindsay Lohan thing it totally getting out of control. In my previous post, I blogged about the story in the New York Post in which a Columbia student claimed that LiLo owes her over $10,000 for "borrowing " her fur coat. Today comes another story accusing out little Lindsay of having even stickier fingers. Check it out:

The same week a Columbia University student insisted Lohan swiped her $11,000 blond mink coat in New York City earlier this year, model Lauren Hastings says on the buzznet.com Web site
Citing five witnesses, Hastings alleges, "They all said they saw Lindsay Lohan basically in my closet, handing a bag of clothes to her bodyguard."
In an email to PEOPLE, Lohan's rep responds: "This is all not true. It's not what it seems."
Police reportedly searched for the missing items, but they were not recovered. According to documents that Inside Edition obtained from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, Hastings did report the theft of clothing, but the DA's office pressed no charges against Lohan, due to insufficient evidence.
Said Hastings: "I contacted Lindsay and said, 'Look, I know you stole my clothes.' She then said I was completely delusional, I was pathetic." (source People Online)

I don't know if this story is true or if this "model" just wants to get her name in the papers, but if it is true, then Lindsay's going to need to do some damage control stat! At least there isn't photographic proof that she took the clothes like there was last time. I wonder what her rep meant by "It's not what it seems"? There may be more to this mystery than meets the eye.

Moving on, Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) has had a pretty bad year, which seems to happen to people who put their personal lives on TV for all of the world to see. First his kid gets into a pretty bad accident, then his wife leaves him, then his daughter gets his reality show, now his son is going to jail for the accident that left his friend in critical condition.

Nick Bollea was sentenced to eight months in a Florida county jail on Friday after pleading no contest to charges of felony reckless driving, stemming from the Aug. 6, 2007, car crash that left his best friend, John Graziano, in critical condition.
In addition to the jail time, which begins immediately, Bollea, 17, was sentenced to five years probation, during which he will serve 500 hours of community service, not be allowed to drink any alcohol and have his driver's license revoked for three years. Dressed in a gray suit and light blue shirt and tie, Bollea looked somber as he was taken to meet the court officers. His father, Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea), stood and watched as uniformed authorities removed his son from the courtroom. Nick did not have a chance to say goodbye to his family before he was taken into custody.
In delivering his sentence, the judge specifically asked that Bollea use his community service to do something positive "that reflects what John did in his service to our country as a Marine." (source People Online)

While I have no doubt that Nick deserves the sentence he received, I still feel bad for his parents and the people who are going to have to drive him around for the next three years after he gets out of prison. Poor Hulk, at least he still has his daughter's best friend, I mean new girlfriend to keep him cheered up.

Well that's about all this redhead has time for. I promise to do better next week, but now I'm off to get my hairs did. It takes some effort to look like this ;)
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Sticky Fingers, Pregnant Ratings and Farwells.

Its Tuesday, so its time for some gossip! Its also post- Cinco de Mayo, so there was some partying being done by this radio redhead over the weekend. Which means I'm a little sleepy and I'm hoping this post even remotely makes sense. Here it goes.

I'm starting it all off with a Lindsay Lohan story, because just last week I was complaining about the lack of scandal going on in the world of entertainment. Leave it to LiLo to spice things up again. Granted, this story actually took place a few months ago, its just making its way to the press now. Apparently, Lindsay's got some sticky fingers when she goes partying. According to a New York Post report, LiLo was partying at a night club in New York back in January, and accidentally-on-purpose took some other chick's mink coat as she left. Here's the deets:

Masha Markova, 22, believed she had forever lost the prized jacket - a gift from her grandmother - while attending a private birthday party at 1Oak in the Meatpacking District in the early-morning hours of Jan. 26. She recalled putting the mink in a common bin with other jackets. It was gone when she prepared to leave 1Oak after an hour, Markova said.Two weeks later, Markova flipped through the Feb. 11 edition of OK! Magazine and couldn't believe her eyes - Lohan was photographed the night of Jan. 26 wearing the very same fur coat. The pretty co-ed said that in the ensuing days, she surfed the Internet and found several paparazzi photos of Lohan wearing the distinctive blond coat hours after the birthday party they had both attended. Also, celebrity blogs posted pictures of the actress party-hopping that night - wearing a black coat before she arrived at 1Oak, Markova said. Club owners vowed to get to the bottom of it, but several days passed with no call back, Markova said. That's when her immigration lawyer, Merrill Cohen, called Lohan's high-powered Hollywood attorney, Blair Berk, threatening litigation. Hours later, Markova said she heard from 1Oak. "They were very discreet, never mentioned a name or even the word 'coat,' " Markova said. "They just said, 'We're going to bring you something.' " The coat arrived at Markova's Morningside Heights apartment two days later. Reeking of cigarettes and booze with a slight tear in the lining, the fur coat was no worse for wear after a dry cleaning and quick patch-up. Still, she wants answers - and Lohan to own up to swiping her coat. "I don't see how it could have been an accident," Markova said. Markova and her lawyer stopped short of accusing Lohan of wrongdoing. But they still want her to pay at least $10,000 for the unauthorized, three-week rental. Lohan's spokeswoman did not return calls. (source The New York Post)

This story makes me remember why I love celebutards like Lindsay. They honestly think its okay to take someone else's mink coat from a night club! Who does that? Lindsay Lohan I guess. This story is right up there with her excuse after being found with cocaine in her pocket during her second DUI. She tried to pretend she was wearing someone else's pants and didn't know there was coke in the pocket. If you've seen the pictures, you would see that her pants are so tight there's no way she couldn't know there was something in the pocket, she would have felt a penny in her pocket let alone a bag of cocaine.

Let's move on, shall we?

Just because Jamie Lynne Spears has followed her roots of white trash and gotten knocked up at age 16, doesn't mean she didn't, at one time, have talent. It seems that the series finale of her Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 (which I've never watched, nor do I care to) got the highest ratings its ever had. Check it out:

Jamie Lynn Spears got a hit Zoey 101. The hourlong season—and series—finale of the hit Nick tween comedy, billed as the Zoey 101 movie Chasing Zoey, was the most watched show in the 10,000-show cable universe, averaging 5.1 million viewers, per the latest Nielsen Media Research rankings. Another Zoey 101 airing after the finale placed second, with 5 million viewers. The shows aired Friday, the night before the pregnant Spears celebrated a baby shower in Louisiana with her family, elder sister Britney Spears included. As previously announced, Zoey's just-concluded fourth season was its last. (source E Online)

Well, at least something is going well for her. I can't imagine being banished back home to Louisiana awaiting the birth of her first child was exactly what she had in mind when she filmed this final episode, but at least it shows that her fans still love her. I still think she needs to learn the ins and outs of birth control and maybe not sell her life story to the tabloids every time something happens to her, but that's just my opinion. Way to go Jamie Lynne, now go practice your Lamaze!
Okay, I'll try to dial down my snarkiness for a moment (its just so hard!) and move on to other topics. The Police (the band not the officers) held a press conference today in New York to announce, among other things, the final concert of their reunion tour:

At a news conference Tuesday in Times Square, frontman Sting, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland also said they wanted to make a lasting contribution to New York, and announced they will donate $1 million to a city program that aims to plant 1 million trees by 2017.
"We have a long history here," Sting said. "We wanted to leave a gift with our last performance that would keep on giving year after year, decade after decade — the gift of trees does do that."
The Police split up in 1984 but reunited for an anniversary tour last year. They said details about the date, venue and tickets for the final show will be released soon. Proceeds will benefit public television.
The group said in a statement: "We kicked off our very first American tour at CBGB's in 1978, and this summer, 30 years later, our journey will come full circle as we play our final show here in New York City." (CBGB closed in October 2006 after 33 years in downtown New York.) (source AP)

So far I haven't heard whether this concert will be their last one ever as a band or if they're just taking a breather from touring and each other so they don't implode like they did last time. Way to go Police for helping the environment and making sure your final show is sold out. No one ever said Sting was stupid.

The final word today comes from the Olsen twins, who are looking more and more like aliens every year. Didn't they used to be adorable back in the Full House days? What happened? Anyway, the Hot 100 list from Maxim magazine hasn't been released yet, but rumors of who's on it and who isn't are swirling around like crazy. According to E Online, Ashley Olsen has made the list but Mary Kate? Not so much.

Apparently, when Maxim releases its upcoming Hot 100 List, Ashley Olsen will have made the cut, but not her twin. What's more, sources tell the New York Post that not only does Ashley (at No. 47) smoke out her other half, she manages to rank higher than Jessica Simpson (No. 53), who, in turn, gets beat out by her sibling, Ashlee (No. 18). (source E Online)

I always thought Mary Kate was the prettier one. Or was she the scarier one? Which one went to rehab and which one wore that horrible head band? Or was that the same one? All I know is that whoever is at the top of that list better not have a sister named Ashley or Ashlee because that person will no longer be at the top of the list. Who knew Ashley was the new pink?

Anyway, I think that's about it for me today. If you are so inclined, tune in tonight for the season finale of The Reaper on the CW, which has totally turned into an awesome show lately and is on the brink of being canceled. If you've never seen the show, now is the time to tune in. If you're a fan, check here to find out how to support it. That's it for this redhead.

I'm out!