When little Chastity Bono wished television audiences a good night and God bless more than 30 years ago, who knew she'd look so dapper in a suit?

Now Chaz Bono, the daughter son of Cher and Sonny Bono, gives his first live interview since beginning the process of becoming a man eight months ago. Some of his thoughts were downright enlightening.

"To me, gender is between your ears, not between your legs," he tells Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America. "I've felt male as far back as I can remember. As a child, it was really clear. I felt like a boy."

He goes on to explain why being a lesbian is just the "simple answer" for him.

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Hey, if everyone's seen you naked anyway...

Prominent porn studio Vivid Entertainment has re-extended its $1 million offer to ex-Miss California USA Carrie Prejean to star in an adult film, hopeful that she'd be more receptive to the idea now that they know it's not a matter of her being too shy to strip for the camera.

And timing is everything.

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Maybe Michael Lohan should have been held more as a child. But whatever the reason behind his, um, unique brand of parenting, Daddy Dearest is at it again, releasing the latest selection from his greatest-hits collection of phone tapes—and it's a doozy.

Today's leaked recording (with his side of the conversation carefully edited out) features ex-wife Dina Lohan revealing that Lindsay Lohan was involved with Heath Ledger at the time of his drug-fueled death, and expressing concern their daughter might befall a similar fate.

"Right now by starting to drink vodka and s--t again, it's not the right direction," Dina says in the tapes obtained by Radar Online. "Because when she's drunk or takes an Adderall with it, she will do something like Heath Ledger did in a second without thinking.

"And she was dating Heath when he died. I don't know if you know that, but I know 'cause I would drop her off and they were friends. Very, very close, OK?"

Well, if anyone can speak on the validity of a secret relationship, it's a glorified taxi driver.

"So that f--ked her up. And right after that is when Samantha [Ronson] was around."

And make no mistake, Dina doesn't hold back on Lindsay's on-off paramour, either, saying the Ronson family "had some f--ked up s--t, too."

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What took so long?

After taking a shot at the Gosselins, the Law & Order brain trust has now set its sights on a certain late-night dog, plotting a ripped-from-the-headlines scenario based on David Letterman's personal life.

The casting call has just gone out for the episode, which per The Wrap will revolve around a "well-known celebrity talk-show host, married with children," who has engaged in "a series of short-lived affairs with some of the employees on the show and up until now has managed to keep them off the radar."

Until, that is, the host is approached by an email- and photo-equipped blackmailer who demands $3 million in hush money.

Sounds familiar enough. But it wouldn't be Law & Order without a twist, and this one's a doozy...

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UPDATE: Josh Duhamel's rep continues to adamantly deny claims of an affair, telling E! News, "These allegations are nonsense."

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Josh Duhamel seemingly put a stop to this, but it appears that Nicole Forrester is just getting started.

"We did hook up, we had lots of sex, and we had a really, really good time," the stripper and mother of two said in an exclusive interview with The Bert Show on Atlanta's Q100-FM.

"And then the next morning, when I left, you know, he kissed me on the cheek. Really sweet guy."

And a really married guy, too, of course.

Duhamel's rep has vehemently denied Forrester's story about having a one-night stand with the Transformers hottie. Mrs. Duhamel, aka Fergie, was with her hubby last night in Atlanta, where he's filming Life As We Know It.

But Forrester says she has saved text messages and "a lot of evidence" that she had a tryst with the actor.

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David Copperfield would rather make this vanish, but he'll take what he can get.

A federal judge in Seattle has granted a six-month delay in a civil suit filed by a former Miss Washington USA contestant, accusing the magician of raping her on his private island in the Bahamas.

Per the Seattle Times, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour stayed the case at the behest of Copperfield's attorneys so that investigators can first finish up a criminal probe into the woman's claim.

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David Letterman might have thought that taking a week off from Late Show duties would at least temporarily decrease the bad publicity. Clearly, he thought wrong.

This time around, he has former scorned employee Nell Scovell to thank for bringing the subject of his indiscretions back under the microscope.

Scovell, one of the few female writers ever to be hired at Letterman HQ (or, for that matter, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien HQ), is speaking writing out about her time working for the Top 10 boss via a short essay for Vanity Fair that paints her late '80s tenure on his NBC Late Night show as one marred by uncomfortable tension, hostile environments and sexual favoritism.

Scovell starts weaving her tale exactly where people want her to: in the gutter.

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Can you blame Samantha Geimer for wanting the whole Roman Polanski thing to just go away?

The 45-year-old wife and mom, who at 13 was sexually assaulted by the filmmaker, is again pleading with the California justice system to drop the 32-year-old case against Polanski—this time for the sake of her physical and mental health.

All the media attention, first when Polanski petitioned to have the case dropped last year and again since his arrest in Switzerland last month, "has caused her to have health-related issues," attorney Lawrence Silver stated in documents filed with the state's Second District Court of Appeal.

"The pursuit has caused her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job," Silver added.

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This just in from the home office:

Stephanie Birkitt, the woman at the center of David Letterman's sex scandal, is not barred from the The Late Show set as TMZ and other media outlets have been reporting.

"Stephanie is on a paid leave of absence. TMZ's reporting that she is banned from the building is incorrect," a rep for the host's Worldwide Pants production company tells E! News.

No word whether she's hiking the Appalachian Trail, but while she's MIA,  Letterman has escaped any kind of official reprimand. He remains on air, cracking jokes at his expense and raking in boffo ratings.

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Enough about the other woman—or women, as it turns out. David Letterman now needs to turn his attention to the woman.

The Late Show host, who launched a thousand editorials last week about sex in the workplace, comic timing and big, fat egos when he revealed that past indiscretions had come back to haunt him in the form of an extortion plot, has finally offered up a public apology to his partner of 23 years, wife Regina Lasko.

During tonight's taping, Letterman admits that she has been "horribly hurt" by his actions, and that he has his work cut out for for him to patch things up at home.

Of course, first he joked that he got into his car this morning and "the navigation lady wasn't speaking to me."

"There's a possibility that I'll be the first talk show host impeached," he continued. "It's fall here in New York City, and I spent the whole weekend raking my hate mail. It's cold, too—chilly outside, chilly inside my house."

Letterman then mock-started making cracks about Bill Clinton, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Eliot Spitzer (apparently they all have something in common), stopping himself every time.

"This is only phase one of the scandal," he reminded the audience. "Phase two, next week I go on Oprah and sob."

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