*Lindsay Lohan checked out Friday from Cirque Lodge, the drug and alcohol treatment program in Utah that she entered in August, People.com reported. “I’m proud of her. She’s moving ahead with her life,” her mother, Dina, told People. “Things were getting out of control. She took action. She took responsibility. She really needed to heal.”
*Bruce Springsteen and his wife are being sued, accused of backing out of a contract to buy a horse worth $850,000 for their teenage daughter. Olympic equestrian Todd Minikus filed the breach of contract lawsuit Thursday in Florida’s Palm Beach County. It claims Springsteen and Patti Scialfa reneged on a deal to pay Minikus $650,000 for the horse, named Pavarotti, and give him their horse named Scarlett, worth $200,000.
*The world’s cutest mortician, “Six Feet Under’s” Freddy Rodriguez, becomes the latest honey in our heroine’s life on this week’s “Ugly Betty” (Thursday at 8 p.m., ABC). Rodriguez guests as Mode magazine’s new sandwich guy. Also on hand for the social event of the season, the Meades’ Black and White Ball: fashion icon Kenneth Cole.
*George Wendt, best-known to audiences as Norm Peterson in “Cheers,” will take over the role of Edna Turnblad in Broadway’s “Hairspray” on Oct. 23.
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Personals was compiled by Alan Leo from Tribune news services and staff reports.
