“The fashion world is something I don’t think anyone’s ever examined in a really realistic way, and I thought this show would be a good fit for me because I get to play a real character, and a lot of people associate me with fashion like I’m a fashion icon already.”

Mischa Barton to LA Times, talking about her role on the new CW series The Beautiful Life (which happens to be on tonight.  I hope you’ll all be watching).  I’ve also included a gallery that exhibits just a mere fraction of Mischa’s iconic fashion history.

Did you guys watch the House season premiere on Monday night? I know I did, and it looks like about 16.5 million other people did the same. Hugh Laurie (sans the rest of his crew) ruled the first night back for the networks, drowning Heroes and Dancing with the Stars in lower-than-expected numbers. The competition also seemed to impact Jay Leno’s show, which brought in roughly one-third of its week-earlier premiere-night numbers, and posting its lowest ratings so far.

Soooo, what did you guys think of the House premiere? I liked it, I guess, but I wasn’t as excited about it AFTER I watched it as I was before. I felt a lot of the psych-ward situations and dialogue were implausible, and I felt it dragged a bit. Plus, House just isn’t as fun without his team around him. It made me realize how much of an ensemble drama the show really is. It just didn’t work right without the rest of the cast. Luckily, they’ll all be back next week, and I’ll definitely be tuning in again. We’ll see if the rest of the country does the same.

We don’t hear a lot about Sarah McLachlin around here, because she’s usually off creating beautiful music and raising her family and not getting DUIs. Good for her. So it’s super special to get this set of photos of Sarah with her two adorable daughters, India Ann Sushil Sood and Taja Summer Sood. (Their father is Sarah’s drummer, Ashwin Sood, whom she married in 1997 and separated from a year ago).

Both are totally gorgeous little girls, but the younger one seems to do better with the photogs than her sister.

These pics were taken today as they landed at Vancover’s airport.

Congrats to Sarah and her hubby Freddie Prinze, Jr., who welcomed a baby girl on Saturday. The little one’s name is Charlotte Grace (awwww, totally great baby name!), and mother and child are doing well. “The family is over the moon,” says their rep.

The gallery below has a ton of pics of Sarah wearing super-cute maternity clothes at various stages of her pregnancy.

Rumors about a Jaclyn Smith suicide attempt and/or a Jaclyn Smith shooting have been hurling around the Internet today, spurred on by a certain blogger who shall not be named, but who has a track record of errantly confirming people as dead or seriously injured. Way to break stories, buddy. I’d break a lot of awesome stories, too, if I just made them up. Crazy, irresponsible shit like: “BREAKING! MACKENZIE PHILLIPS WAS RAPED BY HER FATHER!” Oh, wait.

Jaclyn was rumored to have attempted suicide with a gun in Barbados this weekend. Jaclyn was not anywhere near Barbados this weekend — she is safely at home with her family in Los Angeles. But all is not entirely well — her Charlie’s Angels stunt double, Sandra Franklin, was seriously injured in Barbados, but details are unknown.

We’re sending much love and prayers out to Sandra Franklin and her family, and we’re putting these Jaclyn Smith rumors to rest.

One Day at a Time‘s MacKenzie Phillips has struggled with addiction issues for decades.  After hearing just a snippet of what Phillips shared in her recent Oprah interview (airs tomorrow!), I think it’s clear where her problems stem from.

She told Oprah that her father, Mamas and Papas frontman John Phillips was the first person who ever shot her up with heroin.  According to Gossipcop.com, she also had sex with her father.  I don’t know if she was an adult when this occurred or if he molested her as a child, but does it even matter?

She also told O about having sex with Mick Jagger, in which he said, “I’ve been waiting for this since you were ten.”

I can’t wait to see this whole interview tomorrow.  Mackenzie is plugging her new book, “High on Arrival”.

If this wasn’t all screwed up enough, Phillips’ half-brother Tamerlane gave a quote to Page Six in response to his sister’s allegations:

“My family is and always will be a decrepit bowl of dog urine compared to Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. That is how great Nityananda is.” The Indian yogi died in 1961. “Worship Nityananda, not the Phillips family. Nityananda can protect you,” said Tamerlane.

Um, huh?