Lindsay Lohan Scores 'Worst Actress' Nod

MONDAY JANUARY 21, 2008 08:15 AM EST

Lindsay Lohan landed her first nominations of the 2008 awards season Monday. But it's probably best to leave this one off the résumé.

The 21-year-old actress was recognized by the Razzies – the annual awards show recognizing the year's "worst" films and performances – for her part in the thriller I Know Who Killed Me. In fact, she earned two nominations for a single role.

The movie – in which Lohan plays two characters, a stripper and an abducted small-town girl – led the pack with a total of nine nominations, including one for worst picture of 2007.

"I Know Who Killed Me is the most fabulously brainless movie since Showgirls," Razzie founder John Wilson told the Associated Press. "By the end of it, you still don't know what happened. Are they twins or aren't they? Did she imagine it? Can I please have my hour and 50 minutes back?"

Eddie Murphy also received multiple nominations for his many roles in Norbit.

Razzie "winners" will be announced Feb. 23, the day before the Oscars.

Britney's Pap Pal Surprised by Restraining Order Rumor

SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2008 08:45 PM EST

Britney Spears's photographer boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, was surprised to learn of rumors that the pop star has requested a restraining order against him.

"All I can say is that I have not been in contact with Britney since early Friday morning," Ghalib says in a message posted on the Web site of his employer, FinalPixx. "The reason being, that I have has to attend a family funeral in Santa Barbara. My phone has been off during this time out of respect for my family. I am only now becoming aware of what is being said. I hope to be back home in Los Angeles soon and to be in contact with Miss Spears."

The news of a the supposed restraining order came from two paparazzi who were invited into Spears's home at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday, and spent several hours with the singer and her longtime friend Sam Lutfi.

According to one of the photographers, Lutfi said that they'd filed a request for a restraining order against Ghalib because they want him "out of Britney's life."

"Britney asked us to leave the cameras in the car, and
 she poured some champagne for us. She was very sweet," said one of the photographers. "Sam was telling us to not worry about Adnan because they have filed a restraining order against 
him."

The Los Angeles police department says they are "not aware" of any emergency protective orders issued against Ghalib. The L.A. Sheriff's department also says no order was issued

Sarah Jessica Parker Is 'Thrilled' for Chris Noth

MONDAY JANUARY 21, 2008 07:30 AM EST

From Mr. Big to Mr. Mom – Chris Noth has a lovely little distraction from the steadily building buzz surrounding the Sex and the City movie.

The actor's longtime girlfriend, Tara Wilson, gave birth to son Orion Christopher Noth on Jan. 18. And his on-screen flame, Sarah Jessica Parker, was quick to join in the chorus of well wishes.

"I'm thrilled for him because I think, first of all, he's going to make a wonderful, wonderful father," she told Entertainment Tonight.

The 42-year-old actress – who's at the Sundance Film Festival to promote her romantic comedy Smart People, costarring Dennis Quaid – added: "He found a lovely lady to have a child with. It's the perfect time for him and I think he's very ready."

Kiefer Sutherland Released From Jail

MONDAY JANUARY 21, 2008 03:20 AM EST

After 48 days behind bars, Kiefer Sutherland was released from incarceration Monday morning at a Glendale, Calif. jail.

The actor left at 12:05 a.m., according to jail spokesman John Balian.

"[Kiefer] looked like he was glad to be out," said Balian, who added that the actor was wearing a shirt and jeans when he left, and took home whatever personal belongings he originally brought with him.

Sutherland, 41, served his entire sentence for a second DUI conviction and for violating probation. He spent his birthday, Christmas and New Year's at the Los Angeles-area facility.

"Throughout his stay, he never griped, never complained," Balian previously said. "He never wanted preferential treatment from the get go, and we respect him for that."

Sutherland was housed alone in an 8 by 10 foot cell, but was not confined to it, having access to a larger day room with a TV.

The actor was only visited by his attorney. The 24 star did not include any family or friends on his visitor request list. (His doctor was the only other approved visitor).

Sutherland kept largely to himself, having scant contact with other inmates, Balian said.

The actor was also sentenced to five years probation, and must complete an 18-month alcohol education program and attend weekly therapy sessions for six months.

Bob Newhart Show Star Suzanne Pleshette Dies at 70

SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2008 11:15 AM EST

Suzanne Pleshette, best-known for her role as Bob Newhart’s wisecracking wife on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, died at her home in Los Angeles Saturday. She was 70.

The throaty-voiced actress, who also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and on Broadway in The Miracle Worker, passed away from respiratory failure, said her lawyer and family friend Robert Finkelstein, the Associated Press reports. She had been treated for lung cancer in 2006.

Born in 1937 in New York City, Pleshette began her acting career on the stage in the 1950s after attending New York's High School for the Performing Arts. She then moved into film and TV roles, often getting parts because of her husky voice. "When I was 4," she said in a 1994 interview, "I was answering the phone, and [the callers]] thought I was my father."

Most recently, Pleshette starred in TV movies such as 1990's Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean for which she received an Emmy nomination. She also appeared on the sitcoms Will & Grace and 8 Simple Rules.

Pleshette became a widow last year when her husband, comic actor Tom Poston, died after a brief illness. The pair married in 2001, more than 40 years after they had first met on Broadway in 1959.

Chris Noth & His Girlfriend Have a Boy

SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2008 11:30 AM EST

Chris Noth and long-time girlfriend Tara Wilson have welcomed a son, a rep for the actor confirms to PEOPLE.

"I am happy to confirm that Chris Noth and Tara Wilson are the proud parents of a happy and healthy baby boy," the rep said.

Orion Christopher Noth was born in Los Angeles on Friday, and weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz.

"Chris and Tara are thrilled and all are doing well," says the rep.

Wilson met the 53-year-old Sex and the City star while working at his New York bar, The Cutting Room. The couple will soon appear on the big screen together as well, in the indie drama Frame of Mind. Noth plays a journalist in the film and Wilson has a supporting role in the movie, which was filmed in Carlstadt, N.J., last year.

Giuliana Rancic Denies Pregnancy Rumors

SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2008 04:20 PM EST

E! Correspondent Giuliana Rancic is shooting down rumors that she and her husband, former Apprentice star Bill Rancic, are expecting a child.

"No, I’m not pregnant!" she laughed, just before going into a dinner celebrating Olympic Gold Medalist Picabo Street's 4th Annual Ski Challenge to benefit victims of child abuse.

Who does she blame the rumor on? "I bet Ryan Seacrest started the rumor,” she quipped at the benefit at Sundance.

Of her fellow E! host, she said, "Ryan has this thing with co-hosts where he busts their chops – like with Randy [Jackson] and Paula [Abdul] on American Idol – and I get it too. So he probably started telling people, 'Oh, so many people around the office are pregnant, so and so, and me! And now when I do get pregnant, no one will care."

The former Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic, who also hosts In The Loop with IVillage, got married last September.

A.J. McLean: I Believe in Britney Spears 110%

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 01:20 PM EST

Britney Spears is getting another offer of help – this time from Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean

"I believe in her 110 percent, but she needs to call [me]," the pop star, 30, told PEOPLE Thursday at the Hysteric Glamour VIP preview party. "If her publicist or somebody can get in touch with me, I just want to sit down with her and have it out."

Asked what he'd offer to Spears, McLean says, "First I would say, 'What the hell is wrong with you?' Second I would say, 'What is really wrong with you? What are you not saying to everybody else?' "

McLean, a recovering alcoholic who also happened to rise to fame around the same time as Spears, says he thinks he knows part of what the 26-year-old star is going through.

"She has given people hints of her troubles, but fear is a really big thing, and depression. ... I've been through it. I'm coming up on six years sober," he said at the party hosted by Tracey Ross at her Sunsent Plaza store in West Hollywood. "I just want to sit her down and pick her brain."

'Do You Want to Die?'

Ultimately, McLean says he believes the troubled singer wants to – and can – get her life back in order. " [I want to be] just someone who can tell her straight. I'll say, 'Hey, do you want to die? Is that what you want?' If that is what she really wanted, she would have done it already. I know that is not what she wants," he says.

McLean also said Spears's pregnant 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn has had a rough go but will be okay.

"You look at Jamie Lynn now and it is like, of course, she has no one to look up to," McLean says. "But I think she has a chance. Everyone has a chance to turn it around."

Ellen DeGeneres Gets Protective of Joe Jonas

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 11:45 AM EST

Ellen DeGeneres wants to make sure pop star Joe Jonas – who took a spill onstage last year – is safe.

On her show, which airs Monday, the talk show host presents the singer with a helmet to wear onstage.

"I hate to cover up that hair," says DeGeneres, "because it¹s good hair, but it's more important that you stay safe."

Accepting the gift, Jonas quipped: "I can pick up some cute chicks."

On the show, DeGeneres plays footage of Jonas falling on broken glass at the American Music Awards last year. Jonas, 18, cut his hand when he tripped over an exploding-glass window prop at the start of the group's hit "SOS."

Earlier this month, Jonas also ended up in the emergency room due to a fall after a concert in Atlantic City.

In that accident he suffered a small cut when he tripped and hit his forehead on a grate while taping one of the group's popular YouTube videos, according to his Hollywood Records rep Lillian Matulic.

George Clooney Appointed U.N. Messenger of Peace

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 05:00 PM EST

George Clooney had gotten a lot of honors over career – from an Oscar to the title PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive – but now he is being honored for his humanitarian work.

The actor, who is also an advocate for refugees in Darfur, has been named a United Nations "messenger of peace," it was announced Friday.

The actor is being "recognized for focusing public attention on crucial international political and social issues," according to U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas.

Clooney, 46, joins Michael Douglas and musician Yo-Yo Ma as previous celebrity U.N. honorees. Clooney and friend Don Cheadle were given the Peace Summit Award by a group of Nobel Laureates Dec. 13 for their work for Darfur.

With Cheadle and Brad Pitt, Clooney has raised money for refugees through the "Not On Our Watch" charity and helped draw attention to the crisis in Darfur in western Sudan