Another Celebrity Checks Into Rehab

This time it is Desperate Housewives hunk, Jesse Metcalfe.

Metcalfe checked himself in to an undisclosed rehab center for alcohol abuse this week. Jesse decided to enter treatment Monday, one day before Page Six broke the story of his weekend-long binge at the Mondrian hotel in L.A.

Sources reported that he appeared as though he hadn't slept in days and was acting "very angry" and "out of control."

Metcalfe's rep has released the following statement:

"On Monday, March 19, Jesse Metcalfe entered a rehab facility to deal with alcohol issues. He realized he had a problem and was anxious to deal with it immediately. The actor, best known as the hunky gardener on the ABC show 'Desperate Housewives' and the star of the film 'John Tucker Must Die,' hopes that the media will allow him the privacy to deal properly with his treatment."

You don't stay awake days with alcohol. C'mon. They always say 'alcohol', but we know they really mean blow.

Source: PageSix

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Vivica A. Fox Arrested for DUI

Vivica A. Fox is the latest celebrity to be arrested for DUI.

It happened last night on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley at 10:57 p.m. Fox passed a police officer while going 80 mph.

The officers administered a field sobriety test, which Fox was unable to perform. She was then placed under arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Fox was taken to Van Nuys jail where she submitted to two breathalyzer tests.

CHP spokesman Leland Tang said, "It was definitely over the .08 legal limit." Fox was cited and released on her own recognizance and ordered to appear in court.

Source: TMZ

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Hollywood..High

Experts Say the Death of Anna Nicole Smith Was a Wake-Up Call for Some, but Not Everyone Is Listening

By LAURA COVERSON


In Hollywood these days, driving in the wrong direction on a freeway, being caught "under the influence," or shaving your head in public and then racing off to rehab are just as likely to get you on the cover of a magazine as a big opening at the box office.

The list of headline-grabbing celebrities is long: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Whitney Houston, Robert Downey Jr., Nicole Richie, Kate Moss and Marc Jacobs are among the stars who've gone public with their drug and alcohol problems and who are trying to walk the road to recovery.

Addiction specialist Drew Pinsky says the death of Anna Nicole Smith, an alleged drug abuser, was a wake-up call in Hollywood.

"She dies and then all of a sudden everybody goes into treatment. And that is typically what happens with addicts," says Pinsky, who runs the department of chemical dependency services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, Calif.

"When someone really has a consequence, they recognize themselves in that and try to get help," Pinsky said.

Drug abuse and the creative arts are longtime co-stars of the celebrity high-wire act. In the 1940s, leading man and tough guy Robert Mitchum did jail time for marijuana possession.

In the 1950s, Billie Holiday and Charlie "Birdman" Parker made all that jazz with heroin flowing through their veins. In the 1960s, box office giant Gary Grant extolled the virtues of LSD as therapy and Marilyn Monroe overdosed on prescription drugs.

The toll was high in the 1990s. Rock star Kurt Cobain shot himself after leaving a treatment center in Los Angeles. Funnyman Chris Farley and actor River Phoenix overdosed on cocaine and morphine.

Not Everyone in Hollywood Has Heard the Call.

Despite the spate of recent high-profile celebrity meltdowns, some wonder whether a cavalier attitude toward substance abuse remains pervasive in Hollywood. After being arrested for an alleged DUI in the fall, Paris Hilton didn't seem to see what all the fuss was about.

"It was nothing," she reportedly told "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest. "I was just really hungry, and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger."

Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Justin Timberlake are quoted in the latest issue of Us Weekly magazine as openly having admitted to abusing drugs in the past.

Do stars believe they are above conventional norms or the law? "I treat lots of celebrities," Pinsky said. "Their stories are always replete with trauma and drugs and narcissism. People with these issues are drawn to becoming celebrities."

And Pinsky says celebrities have to deal with much more fallout if they stumble. "It is not that the celebrity status develops these phenomenons, it's that there's not so many boundaries or so many consequences that the rest of us would come up against," Pinsky said.

But there are consequences. While audiences seldom shun a star at the box office because of "bad behavior" in their real lives, studios are nowhere near as tolerant.

"It becomes prohibitively expensive to insure a movie production that has a drug user in the cast," said Tatiana Siegel, who covers the film industry for The Hollywood Reporter.

Last year, Lohan was blasted by Morgan Creek, the film company backing "Georgia Rule," in which she starred. The ingenue's tardiness and no-shows prompted CEO James G. Robinson to write a letter that found its way to the Internet.

"We are all well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your 'exhaustion.' We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior," wrote Robinson.

He threatened to hold her "personably accountable" for actions the Morgan Creek chief said had "resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages."

"Lindsay Lohan has not signed on to any studio films in a while," Siegel said, "and I don't think that is a coincidence."

Downey's battles with drugs and the legal system for two decades dimmed a brilliant career hinted at by stellar performances in "Less Than Zero" and "Chaplin," for which he received an Oscar nomination.

"For years he was not making any studio movies. He was making independents," Siegel said. "He has just started to land high-profile roles."

Downey has received critical acclaim for his role in the recently released "Zodiac," and he will star as a superhero in the big budget action drama "Iron Man," scheduled to begin filming this month.

Young people take their cues from popular culture and from celebrities.
Marketers rely on that dynamic. So it is troubling for some to note that the headlines made by entertainers in the throws of addiction have an eerie echo in a startling new report about college kids.

Almost half of all full-time college students (4.8 million) binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs, according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

The comprehensive study also found that more than one-third of the students did not seek help because they feared the social stigma attached to substance abuse.

With more and more celebrities turning to treatment and admitting they have a problem, perhaps there is a message really worth marketing to young people.

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Sienna Miller Gets Wasted After Being Snubbed at 'Factory Girl' Premiere in London

Sienna Miller washed her sorrows down wtih Dom the night of the London premiere of 'Factory Girl'.

Sienna wore a vintage cream and black Balenciaga mini dress, and arrived fashionably late to the premiere.

As rumor has it, her man of the week, Jamie Burke, failed to show up even though he is also in London at the time. This left Sienna to field questions about his whereabouts. When asked where he was she replied, "I'm not telling you."

She also had caught wind of Jude Law and Lindsay Lohan earlier that night. Law & Lohan were quite comfortable together in NYC. Lindsay always vowed she would get a piece of him and it looks like she finally sunk her meathooks into him.

So after all that drama Sienna decided to skip out on Factory Girl's after party and went clubbing instead. There she drank Dom Perignon until after 5AM with her sister and had to be helped out of the club. Source

Lindsay Lohan Back to Old Habits

According to an insider on the set of 'I Know Who Killed Me', Lindsay has been up to her old habits.

On February 21st Lindsay showed up hours late to work which left crew members waiting. “When she finally arrived, she said that she needed to take a nap,” the source told In Touch Weekly.

Then Lohan proceeded to sleep for about five entire hours before reemerging from her trailer. But that's not all, once she got up and around she prayed to the porcelain god then b-lined her tail home. So much for rehab saving her life.

I feel bad for the woman who loses her job today because she was late again due to running her children to school and daycare, or the father who loses his job because of cutbacks. Hell, I even feel bad for the fatass who overslept and was let go today.

Way to go Lohan, you have a long road ahead of you. One of these days the real world is going to stick it's foot straight up your ass and you'll be begging for the C-List roles.

Former Lauguna Beach Star Arrested

Former 'Laguna Beach' star Jason Wahler was arrested and booked this weekend after resisting a public officer during a raid on underage drinkers in North Carolina.

From TMZ.com:

According to police, the 20 year-old lied about his age when asked by members of the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division inside 'Rumors' nightclub. Wahler claimed he wasn't carrying any I.D. that night, but insisted that police could "check TMZ.com" to verify his identity.

Wahler was taken to Pitt County Jail early Saturday morning, where sources claim he was anything but cooperative, shouting multiple obscenities throughout the booking process. After spending just a few hours behind bars, Wahler was released on $1000 bail.

Wahler is due to back in court in April.

The 20-year-old has a history of run-ins with the law. Wahler was arrested for misdemeanor battery after an altercation with a tow truck driver in September. Three weeks earlier, Wahler was ordered to complete five days of community service after he was arrested in New York for disorderly conduct.

Jason needs to remember to drink in California, especially Hollywood. They don't enforce the drinking age for young celebrities there.

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Someone Calls Lindsay Out on Her Drinking

It took a New Yorker to do it.

Taken from postchronicle

Lindsay Lohan's publicist has fired back at the mother of a young fan after the 40-something New Yorker alleged the Mean Girls star was driving drunk after a Hollywood party.

Ellen Morrissey has gone public with her nightmare Lohan encounter, claiming Lindsay reeked of alcohol and as she sped away she nearly hit the mother and her daughter Erin, 13.

Morrissey told the National Enquirer that she recalls spotting Lohan outside celebrity hang-out the Hotel Roosevelt at 2.30am on February 18th, when the actress was on a break from rehab.

She ran up to Lohan and begged her to pose for a picture with her daughter, a huge fan.

Morrissey says, "Lindsay was holding a glass of clear liquid with a wedge of lemon in it, and she seemed to slur when she spoke. She also appeared to stagger to her car."

After initially agreeing to pose for the snapshot, Lohan then sped off in her Mercedes, prompting the Morrisseys to jump out of the way.

But Lohan's representatives are playing the incident down, stating, "Ellen Morrissey should be more concerned about her daughter being up at 2.30am than about Lindsay."











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Brandon Davis Singlehandedly Ruins Paris Hilton's Birthday Party

Paris had another birthday party on Saturday at Prime Grill in Beverly Hills.

The place was decked out for the party princess and according to one source, "They must have spent $10,000 on the flowers alone."

Paris appeared to be very involved with Stavros Niarchos, and friends Nicole Richie and Joel Madden were at the party as well.

All seemed like the perfect little heiress party until Brandon Davis started acting like the jerkoff that he is.

According to a witness, "He was hurling flowers at Paula Abdul. Then he began bombing her with Styrofoam flower-holders. He was shouting, 'Lick my [BLEEP], Paula!' He started mocking her ancestry by speaking gibberish in an Arabic accent.



"Stavros and Paris tried to stop him. Paris said, 'Shut up, you're wasted!'" But it was too late. Abdul, who was going to sing "Happy Birthday," decided to leave early

So fat greasy Brandon had to find a new person to disgust and he chose Courtney Love.

"He lifted her up so that she was straddling his waist," says a witness. "Her Chanel dress was riding up. Brandon was saying 'I want to squirt on you.' He was humping Courtney in front of her daughter, Frances Bean. When he put her down, Courtney grabbed Frances and they marched out of the restaurant through the kitchen."

It didn't stop there. "He was knocking over glasses and candles on the table," says a source. "Paris was crying to her mother, 'This is not my fault!'

Davis was eventually asked to leave and the party continued late into the night at Paris' house.

Incredibly, Brandon showed up at Paris' place," says a source. "Security guided him downstairs. They were under orders to keep him away from Paris."

I bet the dumbass was out driving himself as well.

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Blender Names Rock & Roll's 'Worst Drivers'

This would be great reading material for Britney Spears right now. It's sort of like watching Jerry Springer to feel better about your life.

"Baby, you can drive my car," said the Beatles—wisely. With singer-actress Brandy facing a potential misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge for a crash on San Diego's 405 Freeway, it's time to revisit those prophetic lyrics, for whenever rock stars get behind a wheel, results can range from the insanely dangerous to the tragically terminal.

By Clark Collis, Mike Errico



Run for Your Lives! It's...
Billy Joel
Accident-prone Piano Man

License and Registration, Please: Joel's automobile-related problems began in June 2002, when he drove his 1999 Mercedes-Benz into a post. The ivory-tickling troubadour checked himself into rehab just one week later, but in January 2003, plowed a different Benz into a tree, prompting supermodel ex-wife Christie Brinkley to say she feared for the life of their daughter. Subsequently, Joel kept his mishaps off-road for a period, shattering his wrist falling down stairs in October 2003 and cutting his finger opening a can of beans in April 2004. But later that month things returned to being just the way they were when, going out for pizza, Joel lost control of his 1967 Citroen and crashed into the wall of a house in Bayville, N.Y., cracking its foundation. As one comedian subsequently pointed out, "In the last two years Billy Joel has pretty much hit everything except the charts."



Rolling Stoned
Keith Richards
Stones guitarist/junkie and, unsurprisingly, terrible motorist

License and Registration, Please: In the late '60s the walking—and, too often, driving—chemistry set purchased a 19-foot-long Mercedes that had once been a Nazi staff car. The fact that he immediately crashed it, had it rebuilt, and then crashed it once again was probably connected to his penchant for snorting heroin prior to turning on the ignition and then falling asleep while the car was in motion. In 1971, Richards again took another nap while driving and wrecked another car. He did so yet again in 1976. His wife no longer lets him get behind the wheel—a state of affairs that perplexed the Living Chord, who remarkably insisted, "I'm a great driver!"




Get Offa That Gas Pedal
James Brown
Godfather of Soul, interstate car chases

License and Registration, Please: James Brown liked to say he had a "doctorate in funk." He also has an advanced degree in "driving like a drug-addled nut job." This was proved on September 24, 1988, when the soul legend led Georgia police on a car chase that found him driving first into South Carolina and then into a ditch, after the tires were shot out on his pickup truck. In the course of the chase Brown tried to run over two North Augusta cops. Tests subsequently revealed PCP in the singer's bloodstream. Despite Brown's claim that things had been "blown out of proportion," he was handed a six-year custodial sentence, becoming, as Eddie Murphy put it, "Soul brother No. 1-5-5-4-1-3."



All Shot Up
Elvis Presley
Trigger-happy King of Rock & Roll

License and Registration, Please: Elvis loved cars so much he once bought 32 Cadillacs in a single day. But sometimes he hated them, too. One car that felt the ire of the former truck driver was a 1971 Ford Pantera he purchased for wife Priscilla. After an argument with Mrs. Presley, the singer got into the car intending to drive away. Unfortunately — at least for the Pantera — he couldn't get the car to start and, enraged, started blasting away at the vehicle with his .22-caliber revolver. According to Dick Messer, director of L.A.'s Petersen Automotive Museum, which now owns the Pantera, "He was pretty short-fused. If things didn't go right, he'd just pull out his gun."



Fake Tha Police
DMX
Feeb-impersonating hip-hop legend

License and Registration, Please: On June 24, 2004, the rapper told a parking attendant at JFK Airport to let him leave the lot without paying a $9 ticket because he was an FBI agent. When the attendant refused, he crashed his Ford Expedition through the gates. In another incident at the airport the same day, DMX ordered a driver to get out of his car after, the rapper claimed, he had cut him off. The driver declined to do so, even though the hip-hopper again identified himself as a federal agent. DMX then allegedly tried to drag the driver from his vehicle. He was arrested by police, who found cocaine in the "zoned out" rapper's ride. In December, DMX pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of drugs. He was fined $1,000 and directed to forfeit the Expedition. Commented prosecutor Gerald Brave: "It's the most expensive $9 parking ticket he ever avoided."



Cut Off at the Knee
Kuhjo
Vehicularly maimed Goodie Mob rapper

License and Registration, Please: "Somewhere along 75 South the devil sang me a lullaby," Kuhjo would later recall, of the events of June 25, 2002, when, early in the morning, he fell asleep driving from a recording studio to his home in Stockbridge, Atlanta. The rapper, born Willie Knighton, was woken by the impact of a freeway rail slicing thought his cherry-red Cadillac. After Kuhjo was rescued from his car, doctors amputated the 30-year-old's right leg from the shin down. "My thoughts on how this thing is going to turn out are all good," he claimed a couple of months later. Indeed, after being fitted with a prosthetic limb, he would appear on OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album.



Non-Designated Driver
Keith Moon
Chauffeur-crushing Who skinsman

License and Registration, Please: In January 1970, Moon and wife Kim got into their S1 Bentley, only to be surrounded by a crowd of English skinheads. Moon's chauffeur, Neil Boland, got out of the car to try to clear a path but was attacked. Panicking, Moon clambered into the driver's seat and drove the car for 100 yards before stopping. A bystander pointed out there was someone trapped under the vehicle's chassis. Kim Moon later recalled, "Keith went underneath. He put his head down and pulled out brains." The gray matter belonged to Boland, who was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Moon pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. He never served a day behind bars.



Unarmed and Dangerous
Rick Allen
Limb-challenged Def Leppard drummer

License and Registration, Please: On New Year's Eve 1984, the then-still-fully-limbed Allen was driving his Corvette Stingray along Britain's A57 Highway when he was overtaken by an Alfa Romeo. "Then I saw the driver up ahead, slowing down," the metal skinsman later recalled. "I tried to pass him, but he speeded up. We played this stupid game for four miles. Finally I lost my temper and put my foot down." Allen took a corner too fast, rolled his car and was thrown through the sunroof—sans left arm. According to Allen, "All I remember was standing in a field saying, 'I'm a drummer, and I've lost my arm.'"



Hair-Metal Mayhem
Vince Neil
Mötley Crüe manslaughterer

License and Registration, Please: In December 1984, during a several-days-long party to celebrate the start of "work" on Mötley Crüe's third album, Neil convinced Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley to accompany him on a beer run. On the return journey, Neil, who was driving almost 40 miles over the 25 mph speed limit, lost control of his '72 Ford Pantera and collided with a Volkswagen. Razzle was killed and both occupants of the other vehicle were injured. Neil pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment. Said Neil: "Now people hated me even more than before."

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The Latest Celebrity DUI

Police arrested Ray Liotta for driving under the influence after he crashed his vehicle into several parked cars in Los Angeles.





















Police said that during the weekend Liotta hit two parked cars, one so forcibly that it jumped the curb, TMZ.com said. No one was injured.

Liotta was released just after midnight Sunday on $15,000 bail. A hearing is scheduled for March 19.

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Brintey Bounces In and Then Out of Rehab

Rumors have been swirling all day about Britney supposedly entering a rehabilitation center.

EXTRA reported that Britney flew from New York to Miami to enter a treatment center, but now gossip site, TMZ is reporting that the center was actually located outside of the country and that Britney decided to leave the very next day.

Jeeze Britney, get it together will you?

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Pamela Anderson Attends Kelly Slater's Birthday Bash

Looks like Momma has been indulging in some party favors..


This woman's life expectancy can't be much more than 50. I wonder when Pam will slow down and focus on her health?



















































Nasty tongue alert!

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