Los Angeles police have made an arrest in the break-ins at the homes of Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge, reports People. Nicholas Prugo, 18, was nabbed by the coppers Friday morning and charged with felony burglary; he's currently being held on $20,000 US bail.
``Yes, we have found (him), God is good,'' Dina Lohan told People.
(Of course, since this is Hollywood, it's only a matter of time before a hip high-school teacher takes Prugo under his wing and shows him the value of a life off the streets.)
LiLo's home on the Hollywood Hills was broken into last month by a man and a woman, with the culprits stealing bags, shoes, jewelry and ripping a safe out of the wall. The couple reportedly also broke into Patridge's Los Angeles house in February, taking several of her possessions.
LAPD officers have yet to find the woman associated with the crimes, though they did confirm Prugo's arrest.
``As of now, we just have this one person in custody, and the investigation is ongoing,'' said LAPD spokeswoman Karen Rayner.
Although Prugo was only arrested in connection to those two burglaries, he's suspected of being one of the most prolific celebrity burglars in recent history. In addition to Lohan and Patridge, other celebs who have been targeted this year include Paris Hilton, Hayden Panettiere and Rachel Bilson.
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With advance ticket sales for New Moon already reporting sellouts, it looks as though you might stand a better chance of getting Robert Pattinson to "bite" you than scoring tickets to a midnight screening.
The anticipated Twilight sequel isn't due in theatres until Nov. 20, but, according to Reuters, advanced ticket sales being held through online ticket vendors Fandango and MovieTickets are already experiencing sellouts at several locations. MovieTickets tells Reuters that more than a dozen New Moon premiere screenings are completely sold out. As for Fandango, it tells the outlet that New Moon tickets are currently accounting for 57 per cent of its sales.
It's still nine weeks until the movie's premiere, so expect some very girly tent cities to begin springing up around North American cineplexes.
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Since Sunday night's MTV VMAs, Kanye West has apologized (at least) four times, had his comments turned into an ever-entertaining Internet meme (again) and made people who should know better watch the Jay Leno Show.
Presumably, five days should be enough time for this pop-cultural blip to pass. But Google Trends - and will.i.am - would suggest otherwise.
The Black Eyed Pea has posted his own take on West's VMA stage-crashing: a mashup of West's Heartless, President Obama's now-infamous off-the-cuff remarks calling West a "jackass," a whole lot of will.i.am's "heal the world" commentary about how this whole sitch is lame because it's distracting the world from "real" problems (but apparently not enough for him to not write a song about it). And oh yeah, a snippet of the Peas' current mega-hit, I Gotta Feeling (in case you forgot it dominated the Billboard chart for 12 straight weeks).
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E! Online reports that a paltry 1.5 million U.S. viewers tuned in to The Beautiful Life on Wednesday, making Melrose Place's mediocre premiere ratings of 2.6 million viewers look positively huge. Granted, the America's Got Talent finale siphoned off a lot of viewers from other shows, but The Beautiful Life didn't even score well among its target demo. According to the Nielsen ratings, young women didn't tune in, opting to watch Glee on Fox instead.
On the surface, The Beautiful Life seems like the perfect CW show: an angsty drama about young, beautiful models running rampant in the streets of New York City. But as the ratings for Wednesday night's premiere suggest, maybe viewers just weren't that interested in watching a show in which Mischa Barton sulks because she had a baby and her modelling career went to hell.
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