She's a star on the rise with Wayzata ties

Monday was Giselle Ugarte's first day as an intern on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."

When we last talked, she was waiting to hear what piece of the Golden Globes coverage she might get to touch.

Remember the name of this vivacious 2007 Breck grad, who's scheduled to finish USC in May. Looks to me like she is clawing her way up the entertainment reporting food chain, one unpaid internship after another.

"Clawing?" she said. "I guess you can say I've been doing my share of networking. I feel like I'm a nobody. I don't really feel like I've worked my way up yet," said Ugarte. But she's been busy in the field:

"I went from E! News Bureau to an online broadcaster called Palestra.net, which partners with Fox News and ESPN. So I was doing correspondent work with them. I was lucky enough to be the USC football correspondent, so I had a couple little spots on ESPNU; that was really fun," she said.

Over the summer "I didn't do any journalist work; I focused on making money because I'm going to have to be on my own. Now I'm getting back in the game interning at 'Entertainment Tonight' and 'The Insider' this semester."

She's going to enjoy "ET," because Ugarte aspires to jobs held by Nancy O'Dell while relishing Kelly Ripa's career trajectory. O'Dell, who I am guessing is overdue for a haircut makeover, is apparently replacing Mary Hart on "ET," to the shock of Lara Spencer.

Despite such intrigue, "I would love to go into entertainment reporting on television," she said. "I'd love to have something more interactive where I deal with everyday people. I am hoping by being in this city [Los Angeles] I will be able to meet different people who can help me along the way."

Maybe CBS2 anchor Paul Magers, who Ugarte reports "still looks the same age as when he left" Minneapolis, could help?

"I want to be well-rounded," she said. "I'm not knocking hard news off the list. I admire Lisa Ling, as well, who's always investigating."

Ugarte was in the metro a couple of weeks ago visiting her parents, Dr. Roland and Sammi Ugarte of Wayzata, who have informed their daughter that their financial support is coming to an end.

"Well, not completely," she said. "They are not going to just cut me off, throw me to the wolves. They have raised me to be independent. I'll always be Daddy's little princess."

Show some classChumps -- I mean, fans -- of Lauryn Hill are wondering how long Miss Hill will make them wait at First Avenue Tuesday night.

There's already grumbling that $55 is too much to pay to stand up while awaiting the presence of the often late, gifted artist whose seminal solo album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," could be followed up with a new work titled "The Mismannered Lauryn Hill."

When she was more than an hour late for an 11 p.m. show in Brooklyn, the New York Times reported that fans were holding up signs playing off lyrics to her songs that read: "You Just Lost One" and "This Is Insulting."

The delusional Miss Hill, as she pompously prefers to be addressed, reacted by telling those fans, "Don't do that," and pointing them in the direction of the exit, saying: "That's disrespectful. I spent my entire 20s sacrificing my life to give you love. So when I hear people complain, I don't know what to tell you. I personally know I'm worth the wait."

Making fans wait is disrespectful and often inexcusable. Her issues with tardiness may explain the leisurely way her show finally became sold out late last week.

A good bad boy?A Twin Cities source, whose name you see here often but not today, asked me to write something nice about Charlie Sheen on the grounds that he's a great guy, no matter what happened the last time he was in Vegas.

At least he was nice when this source's path crossed Sheen's somewhere other than Vegas, where he's hanging out a lot these days. The bad boy of this sitcom era has prompted CBS bosses more than once to issue statements that the network stands by Sheen, while expressing concern with Charlie's off-camera behavior.

Tragically, Sheen off-camera is an almost complete waste of air, time and space, though he is funny on "Two and a Half Men." That does not elevate him into great guy territory, I told my source, who put up a mild protest until asked:

Am I going to hear he's dating your daughter?

"Noooooooo. Absolutely not!"