Lost actress Michelle Rodriguez pleaded guilty to DUI charges in Hawaii Tuesday.
The judge at Kaneohe District Court in Oahu offered Rodriguez, 27, a choice between 240 hours of community service or five days in jail. Rodriguez chose the jail time. She will also pay a $500 fine.
Her sentence – minus one day for the night she spent in jail following her Dec. 1 arrest – began Tuesday, although Rodriguez was first allowed to go home to gather some necessities.
Jennifer Lopez is being sued by a TV writer who claims she and UPN lifted his idea for a series based on his move from Brooklyn to Miami and set against the world of modeling and nightclubs.
Jack Bunick’s lawsuit, filed April 11 in Manhattan, also names CBS TV, Viacom Networks Inc. and Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions company, reports the Associated Press. The suit claims that the series South Beach, executive-produced by Lopez, copies a script he wrote in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called South Beach Miami.
Although American Idol host Ryan Seacrest often trades barbs with judge Simon Cowell, now the tension between him and another judge, Paula Abdul, has reached a boiling point.
“It’s awkward. I don’t know what the deal is. It’s very awkward,” Seacrest, 31, told us on Friday, referring to his relationship with Abdul.
Asked if he was speaking to Abdul, Seacrest answered: “No.”
