Stephanie Pratt got a DUI and at first she blamed it on anyone she could: the cops, her brother, MTV producers, but now she’s finally owning up to it and will do a stint in rehab to appease both the courts and the critics.

Pratt plead guilty today on the count of a misdemeanor DUI and will be spending 30 days in the ‘hab, according to her lawyer. While this may just seem like another step in the wrong direction for another Young Hollywood type, let’s give this girl some credit: Not only is she facing up to her actions (which she should have in the first place), but she’s publicly announcing her desire to seek treatment and make things right.

Steph’s battled with substance abuse in the past and even though she’s probably the most annoying thing that’s ever happened to my television, I think that for the past couple years she’s shown a lot of self-control when it comes to her vices. The fact that she’s willing to take care of the issue right away and seek treatment shows that maybe, just maybe, one of the Pratt clan is capable of showing some responsibility.

Chris Brown has a new single and video out and oddly enough, it’s about him wanting to make up with a girlfriend. I’m assuming that this is just a poorly selected theme and in no way a reference to Rihanna because well, he’d have to be fucking crazy to think that he could get away with that. The video itself is quite pretty. Los Angeles in the kind of winter that we never actually experience, but even the emo glasses can’t hide the fact that this is Chris Brown and we’re like… so over him in a such a major way.

All of America may still be angry with him for screwing over our little sweetheart at the VMAs, but at least Amber Rose still loves him! But I have a feeling all that bleach went to her head a long time ago.

Kanye and his girlfriend were spotted doing some SERIOUS shopping in Rome on Thursday. The photogs say they spent the whole day hitting up uber-expensive shops like Fendi and Missoni. It’s such a shame that money can’t buy class!

Rihanna was all smiles as she left her Paris hotel on Thursday evening. I have to say — this girl is ALWAYS strikingly gorgeous, and I’m loving the hair now, even if I was a little iffy on it at first.

Time magazine published a fantastic article today about the Twilight books and movies. I think the most interesting part is about how Stephenie Meyer wound up writing the books:

The story begins with a dream. It wasn’t the Great American Dream–Stephenie Meyer, then a 29-year-old Mormon housewife living in Arizona, wasn’t sitting at home trying to figure out how to be the next mega-best-selling author. It was a different kind of dream.

On the morning of June 2, 2003, Meyer woke up with the fading afterimage of a vision in her head, of a young woman and a vampire, talking, in a meadow. She didn’t want to forget it, so she wrote it down. Then she kept on writing. Sometimes you have the dream, and sometimes the dream has you.

And how the publisher ended up acquiring it:

The woman who would publish meyer, Megan Tingley, was handed the manuscript in November 2003, right before she got on a cross-country flight to California. She wasn’t expecting great things. She’d never heard of Meyer. Nobody had. She wasn’t a vampire fan either.

But she spent the entire flight riveted by that 600-page bundle of paper. “I kept thinking, Well, she can’t possibly sustain this,” Tingley remembers. “The whole book is going to fall apart. She’s a first-time writer. I was with a colleague, and he was trying to sleep, and I kept pulling him awake and reading passages to him.”

Even though it was an early draft–back then Bella and her undead boyfriend Edward actually got married at the end–by the time she got off the plane, Tingley was desperate to buy it. But it was a Friday, and everyone was gone for the day. “So I just left a bunch of insane messages back at Little, Brown and with the agent and said, ‘Call me Monday. We have to talk!’” she says. “I pre-empted it on Monday from a street in San Francisco on my cell phone.”

But most of America will be talking about this little gem, from the original Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke:

By all accounts, the chemistry between the two leads was intense, maybe too intense. “After I cast him, I told Rob, Don’t even think about having a romance with her,” Hardwicke says. “She’s under 18. You will be arrested.” It was the beginning of the real-life are-they-aren’t-they, did-they-didn’t-they speculation that is now an ongoing subplot of the Twilight story. “I didn’t have a camera in the hotel room. I cannot say,” Hardwicke says. “But in terms of what Kristen told me directly, it didn’t happen on the first movie. Nothing crossed the line while on the first film. I think it took a long time for Kristen to realize, O.K., I’ve got to give this a go and really try to be with this person.”

Soooo, is this a confirmation or what? I mean, I guess I don’t need Catherine Hardwicke to confirm anything for me, I’ll just go ahead and state the obvious: These two people have had sexual intercourse. Duh. But are they a couple currently? Who knows, but this will for sure get people talking … even if Kristen won’t. Anyway. The whole article is fascinating — a highly recommended read.

Here are pics of our darling little Twilight kids at a fan event in Madrid today.

This is a bizarre and unexpected story. Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber filed court documents saying that Edis Kayalar, a friend of their former nanny, was threatening to sell the photo of the couple’s freakishly adorable 7-year-old daughter, Kaia. The photo depicts her “bound to a chair and gagged” as part of the nanny’s “cops and robbers game.” She is wearing shorts and a T-shirt in the photo.

I read the entire legal filing (it’s on TMZ), and this is a really screwed up story. Basically, the nanny had showed this Kayalar person the photo she took, and I guess her plan was to stick it on Cindy and Rande’s door as some sort of retaliation for being fired. But she decided not to, and then Kayalar stole the photo and made a bunch of phone calls to Cindy and Rande, threatening to sell it to the tabloids. They immediately contacted the authorities, and at one point Rande even gave the guy $1000 for the photograph. But then he wound up getting deported to Germany, and started demanding a bunch more money. The FBI got involved, and eventually it wound up in court.

TMZ claims that someone tried to sell them the same photo six weeks ago, and they passed, so I wonder how many other news organizations passed on this photo. Tabloids will do some dirty things, but publishing upsetting pictures of an innocent 7-year-old girl seems to be beneath everybody. Good for them!

I guess what really scares me here is how hard it is even for really, really rich people to find a trustworthy nanny. I mean, what the hell kind of nanny plays a game in which she gags your little kid and takes photos? And then responds to being let go by showing the photos to creepy people? Sooo scary and messed up. You can’t trust nannies! That’s why I’m just going to send my kids to boarding school.