THE INSIDER is reporting that actor Ryan O’Neal pleaded guilty this morning to possession of a controlled substance.

The 67-year-old actor received deferred entry of judgment, which is an 18-month program. Ryan’s next court date takes place July 10th in Malibu.

His son Redmond’s case was continued to February 20th for arraignment and plea. The father and son were arrested on September 17, 2008 after drugs were allegedly found at the family’s Malibu home.

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Winners at Thursday’s 14th annual Critics’ Choice Awards:

• Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk”

• Actress: Tie: Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married,” and Meryl Streep, “Doubt”

• Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”

• Supporting actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader”

• Acting ensemble: “Milk”

• Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Writer: Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Animated feature: “WALL-E”

• Young actor/actress: Dev Patel, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Action movie: “The Dark Knight”

• Comedy movie: “Tropic Thunder”

• Picture made for television: “John Adams”

• Foreign language film: “Waltz With Bashir”

• Documentary feature: “Man On Wire”

• Song: “The Wrestler,” Bruce Springsteen, “The Wrestler”

• Composer: A.R. Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Joel Siegel award: Richard Gere

Pictured: Kate Beckinsale, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Banks, Penelope Cruz, Diane Lane & Josh Brolin, Anne Hathaway, Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor, Emile Hirsch, Amanda Bynes, Katy Perry, Evan Rachel Wood, Amy Adams, Dakota Fanning, Richard Gere, Eva Longoria, Marisa Tomei & Julia Ormond.

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A sobered up Jackie Hickey, who was ousted on Monday’s premiere episode of The Bachelor, has admitted the booze blew her chances of winning the heart of single dad Jason Mesnick.

“I probably would not have so much bubbly,” the 26-year-old Dallas, Texas, native told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday. “I mean, it’s pretty obvious that I had quite a few cocktails that evening, which isn’t like me. [It was] nervous excitement. [I was] a little scared and intimidated.”

Hickey, a wedding coordinator who was married previously for a year and a half, said she came on the show expecting to find her happy ending.

“I see a lot of grooms, especially with my job,” she said. “Jason looked like groom quality and it was what he was there for. He seemed appropriate.”

But even though Hickey didn’t receive a rose from Mesnick, she still wants to plan his wedding (Mesnick gets engaged on the ABC reality show this season).

“If I can’t be the one, if I can’t be No. 2, it is fun to plan,” she says. “That is what I do now. I am never the bride, just the planner.”

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Speak Up: Did you watch the Bachelor?  This show is one like Nip/Tuck…no matter how bad it gets, I’ll probably always watch it.  I don’t know why I feel the need to watch, when 99% of the relationships fail, but I do! Can you believe Deanna is returning? (SPOILER: Scroll over the blank to see the name)  I feel bad for Jason, because he seems like a good person, and I don’t want him to get hurt again!  Okay…mothering over, back to posting.

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Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman says she isn’t happy with her performance in the critical and commercial flop Australia.

“I can’t look at this movie and be proud of what I’ve done,” Kidman, 41, told Sydney radio station 2dayFM.

At the Sydney premiere of the Baz Luhrmann-directed epic, “I sat there, and I looked at Keith [Urban] and went, ‘Am I any good in this movie?’” she said.

“But I thought Brandon Walters and Hugh Jackman were wonderful,” Kidman continued. “It’s just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all.”

She went on to say that she only went to the film’s premiere to support her director. “I don’t usually see my films, but because of Baz I had to see it,” she said. “I saw Moulin Rouge. I’ve really only seen that and this in my whole career. It gets worse as I get older.”

After the film (which has earned a paltry $47 million in the U.S. since opening last November) was released, Kidman said she immediately fled her native country to avoid the critics.

“We ran because I didn’t want to read anything. I didn’t want to know,” she said. “I saw my sister and my family and we saw Keith’s family and then we were straight on a plane.”

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Read my review of Australia here.