From LC’s official website:

I have two very exciting things to tell you about today…

First off, I am so excited to reveal the cover of my new novel, The Fame Game!

Drumroll please … Voila!

What do you think?

If you’ve read my L.A. Candy series, then you know bad girl Madison Parker. In The Fame Game, Madison is ready to claim the spotlight at last. The only problem? Carmen, who has grown up in Hollywood, and might just be better at playing the game than Madison…. Get ready for some dishy, drama-filled fun.

The Fame Game comes out April 3, 2012 so stay tuned!

But, that’s not all… I said there would be a surprise, didn’t I?

Well ladies, in addition to The Fame Game series, I am also working on another book: Lauren Conrad BEAUTY! Like Lauren Conrad Style, my beauty book will be your ultimate guide for all things beauty. In it, I’ll provide my personal insights, instructions and tips to keep you looking glamorous 365 days a year. I’ll address everything from how your diet affects skincare and fun hairstyles for a night out to one simple thing you can do each day to freshen up your look.

I am currently working on Lauren Conrad Beauty and I want to make sure I address all of your questions, because this book is for you. Got questions about hair, makeup, skincare, manicures … or anything else beauty-related? Leave them in the comments below and I will check out all of your questions and work with my team to answer your beauty conundrums in the pages of my new book!

How’s that sound?

I’m curious – how many of you have read her previous books? Are they any good?

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I love Zooey Deschanel. I’m not a huge lover of her new show on Fox, but fans of the show say it is getting better.

Zooey, 31, took part in US Weekly’s “25 Things You Don’t Know About…” feature, and here you go, in her own words!

1. I accidentally entered a beauty pageant.
2. I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
3. I took three years off from acting and toured with my band, She & Him.
4. I used to dress up like a princess to do my homework.
5. I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
6. I drove my mom’s old Volvo until just a few years ago.
7. I had a party at the American Girl store — recently.
8. I love coffee. I mean, I really love coffee.
9. I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
10. I started a comedy website for females, with my friends Sophia and Molly, called HelloGiggles.
11. I know This is Spinal Tap by heart.
12. I am really competitive at board games.
13. I talk to my mom every day.
14. I love work more than vacations.
15. I love pictures of people’s dogs.
16. I am pretty crafty. I like to bake.
17. I hate papaya.
18. I use scrunchies. Don’t judge.
19. I love pajamas.
20. I am a true blue music nerd.
21. I love cereal.
22. Pastoralia by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
23. I have bows painted on my toenails.
24. I took six years of tap-dancing lessons.
25. My first acting job was as Little Red Riding Hood.

So maybe she is as cute and quirky as she comes off? I think I love her even more now!

Photos: Fame

It’s not that I think Katherine Heigl is a terrible dresser, (maybe I do) but I think she dresses waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too old for her age. She has plenty of time dress like she’s giving tours at the library. Right now she should be dressing like the thirtysomething girl she is!

Photos: Fame

This Hollywood couple’s first child, a daughter, just turned one in September – and they just announced they’re pregnant AGAIN!!

Guess who!

ANSWER!

Lindsay Lohan took this whole posing for Playboy thing very seriously! According to TMZ, the “actress” is baring all in her upcoming spread, and that includes full frontal nudity.

As we previously reported, Lindsay recently locked down a nearly-million-dollar deal with PB for a full pictorial — and yesterday, she finally wrapped her 4-day shoot.

Reports circulated Lindsay would pull one of those lame semi-nude fiascos — all sideboob, no fun — but sources close to Hef & co. tell us, that is NOT the case. Lindsay did insist the photos be “tastefully done,” but we’re told she’s still going the full monty.

It’s unclear when Lindsay will grace the cover — but it could be the life-giving jolt Playboy needs for a comeback.

I’m not surprised in any way… what else does Lindsay have left to do? Reality TV… that’s it. Once she sinks so low as to do reality TV, we know it’s over.

PIC (INF): Exlusive picture of Lindsay taking a break from her community service at LA County Morgue this morning.

After years of near-silence, Eddie Murphy gives a rare extensive print interview in the new issue of Rolling Stone, and he opens up about the ups and downs of his long career, his possible return to stand-up, his Oscar hosting plans and much more. Murphy is baffled by his reputation as a near-recluse: “I leave my house all the time,” he says. “But I’m not at all the Hollywood parties. I’m grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I’m supposed to be home . . . If I were out in the clubs every night, they’d be saying, ‘That’s a shame, look at him, 50 years old, he’s still out at these clubs.’ Recluses are nasty, with long nails, don’t wash their ass. . . . I’m too vain to be a recluse. But homebody, absolutely. I’m 50 years old, beautiful house, I’m supposed to be home, chilling.”

Other highlights from the story:

Murphy says that his days of making family movies may be over.

“I don’t have any interest in that right now. There’s really no blueprint, but I’m trying to do some edgy stuff. And I only want to do what I really want to do, otherwise I’m content to sit here and play my guitar all day. I always tell people now that I’m a semiretired gentleman of leisure, and occasionally I’ll go do some work to break the boredom up.”

Murphy has decided not to make Beverly Hills Cop IV.

“They’re not doing it. What I’m trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley’s son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. I’d do the pilot, show up here and there. None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise. If you have to force something, you shouldn’t be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing. It was always wrong.”

Murphy hasn’t performed stand-up since the late 1980s, but recently, he’s given some thought to trying again.

“If I ever get back onstage, I’m going to have a really great show for you all. An hour and a half of stand-up and about 40 minutes of my shitty band . . . But I haven’t done it since I was 27, so why fuck with it? But that’s just weighing both sides. It comes up too much for me to not do it again. It’s like, when it hits me, I’ll do it, eventually.”

Murphy addresses reports that he stormed out of the Oscars after losing the best supporting actor award.

“What happened was after I lost, I’m just chilling, and I was sitting next to Beyoncé’s pops, and he leans over and grabs me and is like, [solemn voice] ‘There will be other times.’ And then you feel Spielberg on your shoulder going, ‘It’s all right, man.’ Then Clint Eastwood walks by: ‘Hey, guy . . . ’ So I was like, ‘It’s not going to be this night!’ [Mimes getting up] I didn’t have sour grapes at all. That’s another reason I wanted to host the show – to show them that I’m down with it.”

Full story & more pictures here!

Snooki must be selling copies, because the guidette just released her second book in less than a year. In January she released ‘A Shore Thing’, and this month she’s releasing her second book, ‘Confessions of a Guidette’.

I can’t imagine that she has enough in her to write one book – let alone two. What on earth is she talking about!? And better yet – who’s buying this crap?

She went on the Today Show yesterday and was interviewed by Matt Lauer. She talks about how it’s possible for her to be a role model. Please. For who!?

Nicole Polizzi wants to be taken seriously! The Jersey Shore star famously know as Snooki draws a line between her guidette alter ego and the person she actually is.

“I think you see more of the party side of me … on the show, but right now, you’re talking to Nicole,” the pint-sized reality star told Matt Lauer on the Today show. “It’s like the soft, calm, business-ready person.”

Nicole continued to explain that the tanning addict, club-going, makeout-loving queen that we see on the MTV hit show is not a role model.

“Snooki’s definitely not a role model. Snooki’s just there to have fun in life,” she shared. “Nicole, I would say, I can be a role model. I’m very strong, independent and I’m lovable, I guess,” she said.

Nicole is making her rounds promoting her new book Confessions of a Guidette, in bookstores now.

“A Guidette is a girl with with a strong personality,” she explained. “She doesn’t let anyone bring her down. She likes tanning. She’s very independent and she loves to be, like, flashy.”

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I can see that Snooki is a character she plays on MTV. Whenever she’s not filming ‘Jersey Shore’ she does tone down the whole guidette persona…. but not by much. She still looks Jerseyfied in these pictures from a book signing yesterday in NYC.

Photos: Fame