Lohan completes jail sentence in 84 minutes

Los Angeles – Lindsay Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes Thursday, becoming the latest celebrity to serve less than a day for a drunken driving offense.

Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Los Angeles County women’s detention center in Lynwood at 10:30 a.m. She was searched, fingerprinted and placed in a holding cell in the inmate reception area but got to keep her street clothes, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

“She was cooperative,” he said.

Lohan was released at 11:54 a.m. Her original daylong sentence was reduced because she met criteria that took into account overcrowding at the lockup and the fact that her crime was nonviolent, Whitmore said.

Did the celebrity receive special treatment?

“Absolutely not. This is what we do for most everybody in this position,” Whitmore said. In fact, 30 to 50 women are granted early releases from the facility every day, he added.

An e-mailed message seeking comment from Lohan’s publicist was not immediately returned.

Will.i.am to fill in for grieving Kanye West

New York – Kanye West has pulled out of a performance at the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show following the death of his mother last weekend.

Gabe Tesoriero, publicist for the 29-year-old rapper, declined further comment.

The show, set to air Dec. 4 on CBS, was taping at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday. Will.i.am was filling in for West, said Hillary Siskind, publicist for the Black Eyed Peas frontman.

The Spice Girls were scheduled to make their debut reunion performance on the show.

West’s mother, Donda West, 58, died Saturday night at Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Marina del Rey after she stopped breathing. She had undergone cosmetic surgery Friday in Los Angeles and had gone home.

An autopsy was conducted, but an official cause of death won’t be made for more than a month, pending further tests, the coroner’s office has said.

Paige Davis returning to TLC’s ‘Trading Spaces’

New York – Paige Davis is moving back to TLC’s “Trading Spaces.”

The Broadway actress and TV host will return to the once-popular home makeover series beginning in January, the network said in a statement Thursday.

In 2005, TLC announced Davis would no longer host “Trading Spaces” and transitioned the series to a hostless format.

Davis had perkily hosted the show, which features neighbors swapping homes and redecorating a room, since 2001. Besides “Trading Spaces,” she’s also appeared on Broadway in the musicals “Beauty and the Beast” and “Chicago.”

“Trading Spaces” will now be produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions, the TV production company responsible for Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.”

The series was formerly produced by Philadelphia-based Banyan Productions.

Man hangs on to statue for 6 days to get tickets

Tampa, Fla. – Some people will do anything to make a kid happy.

Jody Powell, 35, hung on to a 12-foot statue of “Hannah Montana” for the better part of six days to win tickets to a sold-out concert by Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel TV show. The concert will be held next week in Tampa.

“I’m ecstatic. It’s like a dream come true,” said Powell, holding four tickets to the show and a photo of his fiancee with her 7-year-old daughter, also named Hannah.

Twenty contestants started Nov. 8, placing a hand on the 400-pound statue in the parking lot of radio station WFLZ-FM, the contest’s sponsor. They were allowed 12-minute breaks every three hours and got catered meals, but weren’t allowed books, cell phones or iPods.

Powell was declared the winner Wednesday afternoon when the other remaining contestant, Lara Padgett, became distracted and let go.

“That sun really got to me today,” said Padgett, who later was checked out at a hospital because she wasn’t feeling well. “I took my hand off the fur-lined boot.”

But the two had already made a deal. Powell gets the tickets, and Padgett will use the two backstage passes that are part of the prize package. They’ll split a $5,000 cash prize.

Hefner donates $2M to USC’s film school

Los Angeles – Hugh Hefner has donated $2 million to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

The money will fund a central exhibition space in the new headquarters of the school and an archival repository for student films and historic documents, the university said.

The existing repository, which bears Hefner’s name, holds more than eight decades of student films, including some by George Lucas.

“I’ve always believed that following one’s dreams is very important,” Hefner said in a statement from USC.

The 81-year-old Playboy founder has contributed millions of dollars to preserve films and fund cinema schools over the years. Hefner gave $100,000 to USC in 1992 to create a course, Censorship in Cinema, and in 1995 he donated $1.5 million to endow the Hugh M. Hefner Chair for the Study of American Film.