Blog Posts by Erin Carlson

Joe Scarnici/WireImageLindsay Lohan is channeling Marilyn Monroe -- again -- for a high-profile magazine shoot. This time, it's Playboy.

Lohan's publicist, Steve Honig, confirmed reports she's posing in the nude, telling The Famous in a statement: "Lindsay has completed a successful photo shoot for Playboy magazine and will be on the cover of the January/February issue, which hits newsstands in late December. The pictorial is absolutely fantastic and very tasteful, and will be accompanied by an interview that will let readers see another side of Lindsay."

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesJustin Theroux who? While introducing BFF Chelsea Handler at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards in New York, Jennifer Aniston confessed her feelings for the smack-talking, vodka-swilling comedian.

"I rarely comment on my personal life but I am here to tell you that I'm madly in love. And I'm madly in love with the one and only Chelsea Handler," Aniston told the crowd at the Carnegie Hall, flaunting cleavage and leg in a black va-va-voom Versace dress.

Amanda Edwards/Getty ImagesFile under "D" for "disturbing, depressing": the LAPD has issued a search warrant for a 14-year-old girl who's threatened the life of Justin Bieber's ex-girlfriend,  Caitlin Beadles.

According to TMZ, an anonymous blogger on Tumblr, the social-media site, wrote about planning to "murder" Beadles and warning that the 17-year-old aspiring actress wouldn't know what hit her until she "wakes up on the other side of her bed with a knife." Police identified the perpetrator as a 14-year-old girl from Kentucky who's developmentally disabled; her mother is apparently "closely monitoring her internet activities."

AP PhotoMichelle and Jim Bob Duggar are expecting baby No. 20 this spring, People.com reports. The god-fearing, child-rearing stars of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" attract circus-like fascination with their oversized brood: the oldest, Joshua, is 23 and has two children; the youngest, Josie, was born in December 2009 and had complications at birth.

Matriarch Michelle, who's 45, is about three-and-a-half months pregnant. "I feel good. I am past the sickness stage now," quoth she.

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Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesConrad Murray has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.

Murray, who did not react as the verdict was announced, had administered a nightly dosage of propofol -- a powerful anesthetic -- to Jackson while the pop superstar was preparing for his "This Is It" tour.

John Shearer/WireImageIt's hard to believe there was ever a time when Katie Holmes was NOT the doting wife of Tom Cruise and mother of his impeccably chic 5-year-old daughter, Suri.

Before her over-the-top fairytale romance with the loopy, larger-than-life movie star/madman, Holmes lived a relatively normal existence as a TV actress with a promising career in movies. After "Dawson's Creek" ended in 2003, she relocated from North Carolina (where the show was produced) to New York (where she rode the subway as if she were a struggling actor en route to an audition.) Holmes balanced her good-girl "Creek" role as Joey Potter with darker big-screen parts in "Pieces of April," "Go" and "Wonder Boys." Then came a slew of mainstream roles in "First Daughter," "Batman Begins" and "Thank You For Smoking."

Then she met Tom Cruise.

Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImageAfter some vagueness over the status of his long-term relationship with Miss Piggy, Kermit The Frog tells GQ magazine they remain crazy about each other:

I've known Piggy for a number of years -- a number of decades, really, though she might not appreciate that candor. But yes, there is a spark for certain, and it is still sparking. Passion, I would say. It's passion to either extreme.

Kermit and Piggy: role models for everlasting love not staged on reality television.

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Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImageYikes. Avril Lavigne says she got jumped while partying at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel this weekend with boyfriend Brody Jenner.

"I don't fight," the "Complicated" singer tweeted. "I don't believe in it. To clear things up I got attacked by 5 people last night out of nowhere. Not cool. My face is f-----." Elaborating, Lavigne continued: "As in black eye, bloody nose, hair ripped out, scratches, bruises and cuts. So not ok to be abusive to others. Violence is NEVER the answer."