Lindsay Lohan showed up nearly two hours late for her community service at the Los Angeles County morgue on Thursday and was turned away, coroner's officials said. They said she arrived at 8:40 a.m., when she was supposed to arrive at the mandatory 7 a.m. start time or would be considered a no-show.
On Wednesday, Lohan was handcuffed and briefly jailed after a judge found that she had violated her probation. Lohan's attorney, Shawn Holley, told the judge the actress would start Thursday to perform 16 hours of community service at the county morgue each week until a hearing next month to decide whether she should be sent back to jail.
L.A. County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said Lohan deliberately "blew off" the 360 hours of community service that she had been ordered to complete at the downtown Women's Center, missing nine appointments and putting in just 21 hours. The judge said Lohan eventually told a probation officer that the work at the women's shelter was "not fulfilling."
"Is that what a sentence is about?" Saunter asked. "It's to fulfill the defendant?" The judge then answered her own question: "No."
Bon Jovi opens gourmet charity restaurantIn three decades as one of the world's biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world's best restaurants. Yet there's no place he'd rather have dinner than the Soul Kitchen, a "pay-what-you-can" restaurant he and his wife, Dorothea, established in a former auto body shop in Red Bank, N.J. The restaurant provides gourmet meals to the hungry while enabling them to volunteer on community projects in return without the stigma of visiting a soup kitchen. Paying customers are encouraged to leave whatever they want in the envelopes on each table, where the menus never list a price. The restaurant is the latest undertaking by the New Jersey rocker's Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which has built 260 homes for low-income residents in recent years. "This is not a soup kitchen. ... This is not burgers and fries," Bon Jovi said. "If you come in and say, 'I'm hungry,' we'll feed you. But we're going to need you to do something. It's very important to what we're trying to achieve."
IN TREATMENT: "E! News" co-host Giuliana Rancic, 37, says she caught her breast cancer in the early stages. The cancer was discovered during a mammogram while she was undergoing a third round of in-vitro fertilization. She underwent a double lumpectomy on Tuesday, to be followed by radiation therapy. She is married to Bill Rancic, winner of the first season of "The Apprentice," who says his wife plans to go back to work next week. Giuliana says she still wants to get pregnant because "this baby will have saved my life."
