Mary-Kate Olsen might be an Emmy contender

In a turn of events that belongs under the definition of "didn't see that coming," Mary-Kate Olsen's name is being tossed around as Emmy fodder for her extended stay on the Showtime comedy Weeds.

The L.A. Times says the network will be putting up hundreds of dollars to enter her in a multi-round nominating process, which involves a popular vote by academy members to winnow the field to 10 finalists, then submitting a sample episode for consideration.

Olsen starred in 10 of this season's 15 episodes as druggie member of the god squad who has the hots for Hunter Parrish's character Silas. That stunt-casting sure goes a long way, doesn't it?

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Amy Winehouse arrested; husband flirts on

Remember Amy Winehouse's fab night out, during which she was doing drugs and headbutting people? It earned her a ticket to Bobbyville on Friday, as the 24-year-old was arrested at a London police station on suspicion of assault.

The Daily Mail says Wino was due to be questioned about allegedly headbutting a 38-year-old man who approached ehr as she was trying to get in a taxi early last Wednesday. Folks in her camp say she was felt he was trying to molest her, because she oozes all sorts of class. She faces up to six months in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Speaking of jail, her no-good hubby Blake Fielder-Civil appeared in court on charges of assault and "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice" to pub landlord James King. Something tells us Blake knows all about perversion, but he denied both allegation.

And since Amy wasn't at the hearing, he was free to flirt with Sophie Schandorff, a blonde sitting in the gallery who described herself as a close friend. How close? He mouthed "You all right, babe?" and "I love you" to the 21-year-old, who mouthed "I love you" back.

Maybe that's why Wino was caught doing drugs in a restaurant bathroom the night before. Seriously, her addictions are bad enough, but when a guy like Blake thinks you're not worth the trouble, that's a reason to be depressed.

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Padma Lakshmi has something for everyone

Many members of The Juice* collective are fans of Padma Lakshmi, but for many different reasons. In a recent interview with Time Out New York, the 37-year-old model/actress/cookbook author tells us why:

"I can always tell what people’s interests are and what weird eccentricities they have based on what they know me from. If they’re sci-fi buffs, they know me as Princess Kaitaama from Star Trek. If they’re foodies, they know me from Top Chef. If they’re anorexic, they know me from my modeling career. And if they’re just fond of bad movies, they know me from Glitter."

She even mentions she eats whole cans of Pringles in one sitting -- truly, she's a woman of many talents.

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Tyra Banks is getting sick of 'Next Top Model'

We've had a spate of Tyra Banks news on The Juice* lately, and that's because we revel in having the TV-watching predilections of teen-aged girls by counting America's Next Top Model as one of our faves.

But all is not well on Banksian shores: Ok! says Tyra is so sick and tired of the grind (the show's on its 10th season) that she's looking for a way out. Not only that, but she and shoot director Jay Manuel (that'd be MISTER Jay to you) are on the outs.

“It’s gotten so bad that Tyra and Jay aren’t speaking,” a source told the magazine. “Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day.”

So it seems Ty-Ty is more focused on her inane talk show, and is looking for another model to replace her. Could that be why Paulina Porizkova is on this season? Eh, we doubt it.

“She’s putting lots of pressure on her staff to keep her show on the map," the source claims." She had Barack Obama on, she had Hillary Clinton on — she got a taste of playing with the big boys and now Top Model seems to detract from her big plans.”

You mean her big plans of super-sizing at McDonald's and getting her weave redone? That's right, we went there.

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Jennifer Lopez thinks breast feeding is no good

From The Juice* collective’s resident mommy member:

The mommy bloggers are tsk-tsking over People magazine’s slobbering piece with pictures of the palace that is the nursery for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s twins.

It’s not the Dolce and Gabbana fur wraps that have them throwing down their sippy cups of chardonnay, it’s her shrug over the whole idea of breastfeeding: “My mom didn’t breast-feed, and I think that was the thing for me. You read and figure out what’s the best thing for them.”

Um, what exactly has she been reading? Because even the side of a bottle of formula bottle reads “Breast is best,” because breastfed infants have lower rates of hospital admissions, ear infections, diarrhea, rashes, allergies and other medical problems.

The People profile also talks about how she’s now training for a triathlon, working out a couple hours a day. “I want my babies to be proud of me,” she stated.  Whaaa? How are babies going to be proud of you for getting your body back in record time? They are still trying to find their toes at the moment. Just admit you have tremendous pressure to look good in show biz and be done with it.

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen peddle 'Influence'

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are releasing a book, and it’s not a cookbook, obvs. The 21-year-olds are publishing a coffee table book called Influence, People reports. That would be, a book featuring people who have influenced the Olsen twins.

Like Twiggy and Calista Flockhart? No, only “the most interesting, challenging, creative people we know — the ones who helped pave the way for us and our generation,” they say, like shoe guru Christian Louboutin, actress Lauren Hutton, photographer Terry Richardson and writer Bob Colacello.

“Ashley and I interviewed the people who have inspired us, with the hope that they will inspire and teach others,” Mary-Kate said. Maybe the book, due in the fall, will inspire and teach others to forgo eating and get $40 million for looking like diseased wood nymphs.

[Photo: Ashley and Mary-Kate with Jimmy Buffett for some reason. Getty Images]

Max Azria is a giant, even among Joss Stone

Even at 5-foot-10, Joss Stone wasn't the only celeb looking down at fashion guru Max Azria on Sunday at the Herve Leger By Max Azria Fall 2008 fashion show. The diminutive designer's show in Manhattan's Bryant Park was attended by names like Emily Deschanel, Padma Lakshmi, Mandy Moore, Christina Milian and Rose McGowan, all of whom are taller than Azria. We'll send a special prize to the first Juice* reader who can find us his real height, which is apparently a closely guarded secret.

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Victoria Beckham gets naked for Marc Jacobs

Not to be outdone by her husband David’s racy underwear ad for Armani, Victoria Beckham has taken it all off for Marc Jacobs, London’s Daily Mail reports.

Posh has posed nude for a t-shirt campaign to raise awareness about skin cancer, with Vicki covering up her naughty bits (or “her modesty,” as the Brits say) with her hands with a slogan that reads “Protect the skin you’re in.”

Victoria says her attitude to skin care has changed since she moved to L.A., no doubt because she’s seen so many leathery Beverly Hills types.

“I have realized how important it is to practice safe sun for myself and to keep the skin of my three boys well-protected as well,” says the constantly fake-baked mascot.

The word about “safe sun” will support the Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group. And here we thought Becks wore long-sleeved jerseys because of his tattoos.

[Photo: Marc Jacobs]

Dita von Teese will design, model Wonderbras

Dita von Teese is well-known for strutting around in her underwear, and now you can wear her underwear, too (if that’s your thing). The Daily Mail reports the 35-year-old stripteaser is the new, uh, face of Wonderbra, with a photo shoot scheduled in Paris in a few weeks. And who better than the queen of burlesque to use 1940s lingerie as a source of inspiration?

“I really hope that with this new range, I can share my passion for sensual, wearable lingerie that will add a touch of glamour to people’s everyday lives,” von Teese said. As long as she stays away from the corsets — she’s know for famously cinching hers down to 16 1/2 inches — the women of the world should be safe.

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Amy Winehouse smokes crack, goes to rehab

In case you haven’t been keeping up with your train-wreck British soul singers lately, there’s a video out there on the Internet courtesy of the U.K.’s Sun showing Amy Winehouse last Friday allegedly smoking crack in her apartment (which you can see above).

Well, the Sun followed that up by reporting she finally said yes, yes, yes to rehab and left her home in a blacked-out Mercedes to go to the Edward House rehab facility. She was visited earlier Tuesday by her father Mitch, who was appropriately freaked out by the Sun’s video.

And yet, he made this fairly nonchalant comment to the tabloid when he was leaving to go to his daughter’s east London home: “She says she’s okay, so no problems. All that picture shows is what everybody knew anyway. Yes, I am worried about her, but this picture doesn’t show anything we didn’t already know before.” Well, nominate him for father of the year now, why don’t we?

Mitch probably wouldn’t want to hear it though, since he’s not to fond of gossip rags. “It just shows me the tabloids are resorting to underhand tactics to expose her and we already know what the problems are.”

For the record, those problems would be a 24-year-old singer complaining about partygoers at her house stealing her cat, telling a friend that she’s taken six Valium and then lighting up rocks in front of her wedding photo. Let’s see how long this stint at Edward House lasts.

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Katherine Heigl is all about Jennifer Love Hewitt

Before her Dec. 23 wedding to Josh Kelly, Katherine Heigl says she was so worried about Jennifer Love Hewitt’s fat-tastic fight with the media over her bikini photos that it pushed Heigl to do everything she could to fit in her wedding dress.

“Oh, my god, if they think she looks bad then I’m screwed,” Heigl told Ok! magazine.

But Hewitt’s defiance was a breath of flesh — uh, fresh — air. “I should really take a note from her and not care so much — she looks amazing,” Heigl said. “She has a phenomenal body!”

Now we need to wait and see if any photos pop up after Heigl’s honeymoon in Los Cabos, Mexico.

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UPDATE: Wino's dad hates on Doherty

If Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty ever accidentally hooked up, the British tabloids would probably close up shop and call it a day, figuring no story could ever top that. Sadly, it’ll never happen — not if Amy’s dad has anything to say about it. “He’s a scumbag,” Mitch Winehouse told Grazia magazine. “I flipped when I saw him sitting with Amy backstage at her Brixton gig. That night I went crazy. My wife thought I was going to have a heart attack. I was apoplectic.” Daddy Winehouse said he wasn’t a fan of Amy’s marriage to currently incarcerated Blake Fielder-Civil, but that he has supported it. “And he’s shown while he’s been in prison a level of maturity that he didn’t have before,” he said. Prison will do that. But the real question is, will Amy ever actually go to rehab? “Believe me, my first instinct is to get hold of her, pick her up and take her back to my house and lock her away,” Mitch said. “But I’ve spoken to the finest drug counselors in the world, and they’ve said that is exactly the wrong thing to do.”

***UPDATE!!!***

Amy was arrested Tuesday in connection with an investigation into “perverting the course of justice,” British authorities said. (We’ll pause a minute to let that one sink in.) You’ll recall that Fielder-Civil is currently being held on similar charges, such as “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.” No word on whether Amy’s arrest is related to Blake’s case, Reuters said.

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PETA, PETA, Olsen beaters

Proving that animal-rights defenders really do like critters more than people, PETA has called the emotionally fragile Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen the “Trollsen Twins” for wearing fur and including it in their fashion collections. “Thin-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are about to get some publicity that will have them running away faster than if they’d spotted a calorie,” the oh-so-sensitive group said of clinical anorexia sufferer M-K and her sister “Trashley.”

Say it with us: ZING!

By the way, the top photo is of Mary-Kate; the inset is of Ashley. Start debating which one looks more like an extremely thin deer caught in some extremely thin headlights ... NOW!

(Top photo: Getty Images. Inset: AP.)

Steven Tyler's gal pal throws down

And to think: It could have happened in Tampa! Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler’s girlfriend got into a catfight with a Native American woman at Pangaea, a trendy nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino down in Hollywood. The New York Post says Tyler’s g-f, Erin Brady, got mad when a Seminole woman tried to take a picture of Tyler. “Next thing everyone knows, the two girls are going at it,” a witness tells Page Six. “Scratching, hair-puling, hitting. It lasted about six seconds, then security broke it up. Steven got up to try to pull them apart, but it happened so fast, he really didn’t have time to do anything.” Said a club spokeswoman: “Nothing like a catfight and an aging rock legend to make an evening entertaining.” Indeed. Now how can we get Joe Perry to try something like this at Floyd’s?

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Wino's mom: Let us help you, dear

The latest proud graduate of the Lynne Spears-Dina Lohan School of Parenting, it seems, is Janis Winehouse. Reuters reports that Amy's mom penned a letter to a British tabloid over the weekend begging the famously drug- and booze-addled, Grammy-nominated songstress to return to this happy little place we call reality. (Because, you know, a tabloid is the best place for a mother-daughter connection.) "We want to help you, but we know that unless you want to be helped -- unless you come to us -- anything we tried would be in vain," Janis wrote in the News of the World. "I pile hope upon hope that your strong will can bend for just a moment to make that decision and come home to me." Janis referenced recent pictures of a distraught Wino wandering the streets of London in only a bra and jeans. "All I wanted to do was rush into those pictures and wrap you up in a big, warm blanket," she wrote. "Early fame has overwhelmed you, it's dizzied you and muddled your mind. For a moment, forget you're a superstar. You're also young and vulnerable, no stronger than any of the rest of us. You think you're strong enough to get through this on your own, darling, but you're not."

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Mary-Kate Olsen ends up in the hospital

Mary-Kate Olsen’s track record of ill health continued Monday, as the 21-year-old actress was hospitalized in New York with a kidney infection, People reports.

“She’s resting comfortably and will be released in the next day or so,” rep Nicole Caruso said.

Of course the obvious gossip is that she relapsed into anorexia, causing multiple organ failure and pushing her to the brink of death. We prefer to think it has something to do with her new role on Showtime’s Weeds (which may or may not be set in Tampa next season, if Shane Botwin is to be believed in the season finale).

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Heidi Klum is a snowflake

Victoria's Secret trotted out the big guns (supermodel-wise) for its annual fashion show, which took place Thursday night in Hollywood. Heidi Klum took a break from doing nothing on Project Runway to squeeze into this sparkly little number, which looks quite comfortable. Am I right, ladies?

The show airs Dec. 4 on CBS. Here are some more pics, beginning with Heidi again.

Here's Adriana Lima.

Here are the Spice Girls, circa 2007.

And here's a close-up of Posh "Victoria Beckham" Spice. Oh, no, wait -- this is a wax animatronic figurine for Disney's new ride, "Country Beckhams Jamboree."

 

Here are James Van Der Beek and Hayden Panettiere at the after party. No idea why they're together.

And finally, since all you pervs are just trolly for panty shots anyway, here's one more image of Karolina Kurkova.

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Cate Blanchett selling expensive skin products

Cate Blanchett, who is used to people talking about her face, has just signed on to endorse Procter & Gamble’s line of SK-II skin care products in the U.S.

Blanchett, who has already shilled the brand in Australia, has used the brand for seven years to combat a career where she’s often covered in pancake makeup and crazy outfits (think Elizabeth). Part of her secret is weaing a white cotton, full-face moisturizing mask every day, the AP says.

“(My kids) see it and just roll their eyes,” she says. “They’ll wake up in the morning, and I’m making their sandwiches for school and I’ve got the mask on.” When your beauty care products cost anywhere from $60 and $300 and are available mostly in Asia, the children should really learn not to roll their eyes.

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Brittany Snow's dangerous diet

Disturbing news from MTVU.com, which is where budding starlet and Tampa native Brittany Snow (Hairspray) chose to reveal that she once had a full-on eating disorder. "I lived on pineapple," said the  21-year-old actress, who was only 12 at the time. She lost 10 pounds, received compliments on her looks, and then couldn’t stop. "It kind of progressed into this thing where I needed to always be dieting and losing weight and more weight," she said. At age 15, she was stepping on the scale 10 to 15 times a day, and her hair was falling out. "I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold — always to the point of uncontrollably shaking." At 85 pounds, she began cutting herself. At age 19, she went to rehab and got help for her depression. “But the eating stuff was still really hard to deal with," she said. "It’s still a struggle."

Demi Moore paid big money to look younger

Sure, Demi Moore is 44 years old, and sure, she’s a mother of three; but does that mean she shouldn’t be in any more movies? London’s Daily Mail reports she feels like that’s what’s keeping her out of theaters, even though she’s married to 29-year-old Ashton Kutcher and has paid almost $460,000 at the body shop.

“It’s been a challenging few years, being the age I am. Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don’t know what to do with me. I am not 20. Not 30,” she says. “There aren’t that many good roles for women over 40. A lot of them don’t have much substance, other than being someone’s mother or wife.”

But $460k? According to some quick exchange-rate calculations from the Daily Mail’s story, that means Demi has spent about $32,500 on liposuction; a little more than $22,000 on breast implants (and another $19k on a breast lift); $7,000 on a brow lift; $20,000 on a chemical facial peel; $400 each on goodness knows how many collagen injections; about $12,600 to have her teeth veneered and laser-whitened; another $10,000 to lift saggy skin around her knees; and (get this) an estimated $335,000 over the years on personal trainers and coaches.

All that just to end up with a role in 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle? We’d demand a refund.

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Britney's tan as convincing as case for WMDs

How much more can we blab about Britney Spears’ career-killing zombie march from Sunday? At least one more time. Us Weekly is saying that the lip-synching and hair extensions she was wearing weren’t the only things that were obviously fake.

“She had an ab-defining spray tan preshow to create the illusion of more tone,” a source says. But with the swaybacked muffin-topping going on during that performance, it’s obviously no amount of shading was going to help. Gee, maybe she should have gone with that corseted number MTV had picked out for her.

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Britney Spears is a fat pig (so says the pig)

“She was also able to see video of herself throughout the auditorium. She flipped out. She came running off the stage, yelling ‘Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!’ She was inconsolable.”

— An unnamed source telling Us Weekly the latest reason why Britney Spears fell fat ... um, flat ... on her face during Sunday’s VMA performance. Hey, she looked skinny to us, just not skinny enough.

Oh, and we're not printing the lyrics to her new round of songs, like so many other sites are. Why? Because we're officially sick of her, that's why.

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'People' names best- and worst-dressed

People’s annual list of best- and worst-dressed of the year is slated to hit the newsstand Friday, and surprising no one are the selections of people like Beyonce Knowles (right), Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani.

They lead a field of women that includes Katie Holmes, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Biel (left), Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon and Ali Larter.

On the Y-chromosome side, David Beckham, Terrence Howard (right), Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and George Clooney top the list.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie are a dapper couple, as are Stefani and her husband, Gavin Rossdale; Halle Berry and boyfriend Gabriel Aubry; and newlyweds Tony Parker and Eva Longoria (left).

And don’t forget the Brits: Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss, Lily Allen, Emma Watson and Kate Middleton headline a “British Accent” section.

But the best is always the worst, as Sienna Miller gets frowns for wearing hot pants and tights and Avril Lavigne’s dress and combat boots (right) earn boos. The worst on the red carpet? Janet Jackson and Kirsten Dunst, who probably lost even more points for being photographed showing off a massive rash on her feet. Nasty!

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Ralph Lauren celebrates 40 years of fashion

New York's Fashion Week marked more than dropping hemlines and spring fashion.

Designer Ralph Lauren celebrated his 40th anniversary collection Saturday night outside the Conservatory Gardens in Central Park, the AP says. 

Sarah Jessica Parker, Martha Stewart, Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters were part of a crowd that gave Lauren a standing ovation.

Fellow top-tier designers Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Diane von Furstenberg and Vera Wang, who once worked for Lauren, also were at the black-tie event.

And while Ralph is a fave Juice* designer, we're not too sure about the "day at the races"-themed event, which featured ascots, spats and jodhpurs. Shudder.

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'Cheese' isn't in Mary-Kate's vocabulary

Why does Mary-Kate Olsen usually look so dour in photographs?

“I don’t want my picture taken,” the 21-year-old actress tells Entertainment Weekly magazine. “The only time I think it’s OK is at a red-carpet event or a photo shoot. So every time I see paparazzi, I cover my face so they don’t get a picture, and I’m just `the mean person who doesn’t smile.’ ”

We didn’t think that; we just figured the muscles in your face were too weak to move anything, since they’re starved for nutrients.

[Photo: That's Mary-Kate not smiling on the right. Getty Images]

Valentino calls it quits, stylish shoppers mourn

Italian uber-designer Valentino Garavani, who had dressed everyone from Julia Roberts to Nancy Reagan, announced his retirement from the fashion world on Tuesday, only weeks after his 45th anniversary in the industry.

"It’s the perfect moment to say adieu to the world of fashion,” Valentino said in a statement to every press outlet imaginable, referring to the afterglow of the July celebration. He will present a reay-to-wear collection in Paris in October and debut his final haute couture line in January.

The 75-year-old phenom started his career with a scholarship to the Chambre Syndicale school in Paris at 17 and worked for Jean Desses and Guy Laroche before opening his own atelier in Rome in 1959.

He became friends with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, but he made his name by clothing high-profile ladies, including Audrey Hepburn, Spain’s Queen Sofia, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacqueline Kennedy (for whom he designed a wedding dress when she married Aristotle Onassis).

“Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that,” he said. Well, Mrs. Juice probably wouldn’t mind a couple of Valentino’s gowns ...

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Keira tells knickerless starlets where to go

So yesterday we laid into Keira Knightley for showing up in Venice looking like a common scarecrow, but she redeems herself by telling Empire that the culture of celebrity is way overblown, and stars should try being a little more discreet.

“With acting the mystique is what’s amazing. I love that it’s magic, that’s the whole point. The whole celebrity thing is not magic. They’re real people proving they’re s-----r than everybody else because they don’t even wear knickers,” she says. “I’m not going to get blind drunk and then stumble out and fall over and puke up in front of people. I’m not saying I don’t do that on my own in private, but I try not to.”

While The Juice* is conflicted, since stumbling and puking are our bread and butter, we’re hip to her jive.

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Where did Keira go?

Keira Knightley looks like she’s desperately in need of a sandwich at the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival in Italy, where she’s pimping Atonement. she’s looked pretty ripped in past pics, but now she looks like she’s taking a cue from the skeletal swashbucklers in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Apparently Jessica Alba has a sexy walk

For the ultimate in journalistic integrity, we look across the pond, where the Daily Telegraph reports on a team of Cambridge math geeks who say Jessica Alba has the sexiest walk in the history of the universe, or something.

The mathematicians say that the ratio between the hips and the waist put a sexy sashay in a woman’s stride, and the ideal ration is 0.7. That means a woman with a 25-inch waist and 36-inch hips can sway at just the right angle to butter a man’s bread.

And while Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie and even Marilyn Monroe (with a 0.69 ratio) can’t pull off the right combo, pouty actress Alba does. Glad to see such an esteemed institution devotes itself to worthwhile pursuits.

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More celebutantes behind bars

Luckily print is not yet dead, so if you picked up today's print version of tbt*, you know that Nicole Richie went to jail yesterday for driving under the influence of drugs, but spent all of 82 minutes of her four-day sentence in the lockup. As for this blog, what can we say? We go home at night, just like you do -- but we'll follow this story all afternoon if we have to!

Anyway, the AP reports Richie checked into a women's jail at 3:15 p.m. and was released at 4:37 p.m. "based on her sentence and federal guidelines," L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said. That means that under a federal court mandate to manage jail overcrowding, arrestees sentenced to 30 days or less for a nonviolent offense are usually released within 12 hours, according to the sheriff's department. Surely that makes you feel safer.

Under the guidelines, Richie was "treated in the same manner as other inmates with a similar sentence," a statement said. She was originally sentenced to 96 hours in jail, having that reduced to 90 hours because of time served when she was originally arrested on Dec. 11, 2006 after driving the wrong way on the freeway. She told cops she had smoked some nickel and had taken Vicodin before getting behind the wheel.

Richie arrived at jail with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley and her boyfriend, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden. Her time at the Century Regional Detention Facility was spent getting booked, including taking a mugshot and submitting her fingerprints, Holley said.

She didn't reach her jail cell.

"She was really treated like any other inmate," Holley said. "I think every inmate in her position, with that type of charge, would have been treated as she was."

Stay tuned for Friday reactions ...

5 P.M. UPDATE: The most we've gotten today is word from TMZ that Richie was "surprised" by the miniscule amount of time she had to spend at Lynwood. She also found the Sheriff's Dept. "extremely professional" and "cooperative." She also said she "appreciated their efficiency."

Eighty two minutes in the lockup ... when all the time you serve is getting the booking process completed, we can't help but think of the state's property tax structure, where basically all the government is doing is paying for the bureaucracy to collect the money.

Relax and have a good weekend, folks.

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Heidi Klum stretches out the denim

First Elizabeth Hurley, then Brittany Murphy. Now Jordache has launched its latest ad campaign, featuring model Heidi Klum in photos shot by filmmaker Brett Ratner in the penthouse of the Chateau Marmont hotel in L.A. Not bad for a 34-year-old mother of three.

“With her success as a supermodel, businesswoman and mother, Heidi embodies the sexy confidence that the Jordache brand is about,” Jordache president Liz Berlinger said. If it’s about hot moms poured into skinny jeans, mission accomplished.

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Amy ditches rehab, resumes self-destruction

We know we’re beating an almost-dead horse(-faced singer), but Britain’s Sun is saying Amy Winehouse has checked out of rehab after less than 48 hours, flying back to London for a brain scan and a night out with friends. Doctors ordered the scan after the 23-year-old had a seizure during her infamous overdose last week — you know, the one with coke, smack and horse tranquilizers.

As for checking out, parents Mitch and Janis aren’t happy. “Mitch is desperate for Amy to get some proper lengthy treatment but she’ll only do it with Blake (Fielder-Civil, her husband),” a source says. “Mitch even looked to see if he could get a restraining order against him but legally it’s impossible.” As impossible as ignoring this pending car crash while so little else is going on in Celebrityville.

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Quote of the day

“I’m Armenian; you should see all the women in my family. The women have bigger breasts and bigger butts. That’s how I was born. I can’t help it. I’m not gonna fight it. I definitely need to work out more and tone up, but I’m proud of my body.”

— Kim Kardashian, telling King that she hasn’t had any augmentation.

They tried to make her eat a sandwich, but she said no, no, no

Bony wailer Amy Winehouse has a reputation for canceling concerts at the last minute, and in the past she’s claimed it was because either her voice or the venue conditions weren’t up to her standards.

But now TMZ says every show on her current tour will be shunted because the bag of bones has been rushed to a London hospital. The singer’s rep tells the Web site that she is being treated for exhaustion the “came about quickly,” and is under doc’s orders to take it easy.

After seeing recent pictures of the skinny songstress, we can’t help but think it’s anything a large pizza wouldn’t fix.

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At least Star Jones didn't simply starve herself

Don’t believe Star Jones Reynolds when she says diet and exercise were the key to losing some 160 lbs. over the last three years. The Court TV host finally admits in the September issue of Glamour that she had gastric bypass surgery to drop the weight (explaining that “medical intervention” line she trotted out all the time).

Why the wait in telling the truth?  “First, I didn’t know if the surgery would work,” she writes. “I had spent my entire adult life telling everyone that I was fine with the way I looked. I never thought I’d have to explain it. But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me.”

Don’t worry, Star, we were annoyed with your shrillness even when you were large and in charge on The View.

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Another worthless Angelina rumor

  Those gossip glossies continue to stay in business. This week’s Angelina Jolie rumor, courtesy of NW, says the actress is so thin from an eating disorder she may not be able to physically carry a baby to term.

“Ange is panicking she can’t have any more biological kids because she’s too thin. She’s skinnier than she’s ever been in her entire life. But the more she worries and frets, the more weight she loses,” a source tells the mag. “She desperately wants more kids with Brad, but knows she’ll never have another kid if she doesn’t get a grip on her eating issues. So now she’s terrified they’ll never be able to add to the family and that will force her and Brad apart.”

Ridiculous; Angie has like 12 kids and makes a movie a week — you’d lose weight, too.

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Gisele makes waaaaaay more than you do

While the New York Post spouts about how supermodel Gisele Bundchen is unhappy with quarterbeau Tom Brady (something about how his ex girlfriend Bridget Moynahan is about to give birth to their love child on Friday, which is Gisele’s birthday), the 26-year-old can console herself with the fact that she tops the Forbes list of richest models in the world.

Bundchen makes $33-million per year, quite a bit more than No. 2 Kate Moss, who manages only $9-million annually. Rounding out the top five are Heidi Klum ($8M), Adriana Lima ($6M) and Alessandra Ambrosio ($6M). That buys an awful lot of push-up bras.

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Just because ...

A friend of The Juice* posted this pic on her MySpace page, and we thought it was worth a laugh. The crash helmet is what makes it comedy gold ... otherwise it's just another family Thanksgiving. We're glad to be back on the scene full-time!

Oh, like you haven't heard

While all the Juice*heads were tucked away safely in their little beds (or up watching DVR'd episodes of E! True Hollywood Story), poor little rich girl Paris Hilton made her break from the clink in L.A.

After three weeks of a $1,109.78-per-day stay, Hilton was released around 12:15 a.m. Left Coast time this morning, meaning The Juice* was moving on to our third round of REM sleep right about then.

A swarm of insane people crowded outside Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood to see if they couldn't take a pic of Paris (and sell it to X17, no doubt) as the cell-ebutante made her way to see mom Kathy, who apparently couldn't be troubled to even step out of her SUV to hug her jailbird daughter. They left together en route to the HIlton compund above Sunset Blvd.

"She fulfilled her debt. She was obviously in good spirits. She thanked people as she left," said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.

Well, she's technically still got some debt to fulfill, as Paris will be on probation until March 2009, during which time she has to keep her drivers license current and not break any more laws. That gives her plenty of time to develop a market scheme for the incarceration diet: Officials say the heirhead lost 10 pounds during her stay, according to TMZ.

Don't forget to TiVo her exclusive interview on Larry King Live on Wednesday (and then "forget" to watch it).

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Olsen twins turn 21 (not that you'll see it)

Want to see pictures of those ghouls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen turning 21? You’ll have to shell out the greenbacks. The New York Daily News says the pair celebrated in style in L.A. over the weekend (after really having their birthday last Wednesday), but charged photo agency JPI a cool $300,000 for the rights to the shindig. And since The Juice* can barely afford dirt sandwiches for lunch, we can’t show you any of those just yet.

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Jordan's still a piggie, judgmental woman says

Obesity expert MeMe Roth, of the National Action Against Obesity, tells The Scoop that she’s been getting “hate posts calling for my death” since she called American Idol winner Jordin Sparks overweight on Fox.

“When I look at Jordin I see diabetes, I see heart disease, I see high cholesterol,” Roth said. “That’s what’s so sad about this — she is not the vision of health — she is the vision of ‘unhealth.’ ”

And though Roth has never called Sparks “obese,” fans still had time to put down their Ben & Jerry’s to complain about the comments.

Roth said the 17-year-old singer is “quite contradictory. In her latest People magazine interview she’s both declaring to ‘love her body’ just as it is, while at the same time, in the sidebar, advising other ‘plus-size’ females on how to dress slim.”

Well yeah, because this is America: What we say and what we do never match up.

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David Hyde Pierce: I'm gay

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Yes, the gifted comedic actor, best known for playing Frasier's brother Niles, has come out. The news had been leaking out on a few obscure Web sites the past few days, but it popped up Friday on IMDb.com, sourcing a CNN interview.

And in other breaking news sure to shock and surprise: Lindsay Lohan's a mess, the war in Iraq is going poorly, and Anna Nicole is still dead. [Photo: Getty Images]

 

Japanese woman realizes the dream of someone else's lifetime

If you missed last night’s Miss Universe pageant, you no doubt will be happy to hear that 20-year-old Riyo Mori, a dancer from Japan, fulfilled a lifelong dream of winning the contest. Unfortunately, it wasn’t her dream.

Mori said her grandmother told her as a child that she wanted her to be Miss Japan before she turned 20, the AP reports.

“From the very beginning, I entered the competition with high hopes and an unswerving determination to make this dream a reality,” she said in a pre-competition interview.

So she made her grandmother’s dream come true by snatching up the $250,000 diamond-encrusted tiara, which almost fell off her dome when ’06 winner Zuleyka Rivera got all ham-fisted during the crowning ceremony. (So okay, Mori actually didn’t win before she was 20, but close enough.)

And what does Mori want to do with her newfound power?

“I learned how to always be happy, be patient and to be positive, and this is what I want to teach to the next generation,” she said, adding a heartfelt “tee-hee.”

Winning the whole enchilada was more impressive than Miss USA Rachel Smith’s fourth runner-up finish. Smith fell on her ass during the evening gown competition and was roundly jeered by the Mexican audience in a display of hateful, unsportsmanlike behavior not seen since Mexico’s goalkeeper tried to trip a U.S. player during a February soccer match.

But like all travelers abroad know, all you need to do is try to speak the language a little and things will go much more smoothly. Smith won cheers by saying “Buenas noches, Mexico. Muchas