Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew will be back for a third season on VH1 with a new group including Heidi Fleiss, Tom Sizemore and Dennis Rodman.
The show will follow the celebs' 21-day intensive treatment over eight episodes airing in early 2010, according to Variety.
Joining Rodman — who was booted from Celebrity Apprentice in March — and the others for Season 3 is...
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Mr. Stewart, the doctor will see you now. Though unconfirmed by VH1, Page Six hears that Sean Stewart, son of singer Rod Stewart, will undergo Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.The second season of the series, in which Dr. Drew Pinsky helps celebs beat substance abuse and other issues, starts production this month.Young Stewart has had his share of run-ins with the dark side. Last year, for example, he was denied entrance to a trendy L.A. club, so he turned around and began hurling whatever he could find at a passing car, in turn injuring a passenger.Page Six says Pinsky will also help Heidi Fleiss beat her substance abuse problems, while former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been offered an opportunity to see the good doctor. — J.R. Whalen
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HBO will air documentaries on Monday nights throughout the summer starting in June. The series premieres June 9 with Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, about the statutory-rape charges against the Oscar-winning director.Other docus will center on the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery is about the area where U.S. soldiers from the current wars are buried, and Baghdad High tells the story of the Iraq War through the eyes of four Iraqi teens. On the lighter side, the competitive world of high-school debate teams will be studied, while another docu will chronicle Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss' unsuccessful efforts to open the first legal brothel for female clients in Nevada. — J.R. Whalen
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And now for today's classiest Soaps News item: Heidi Fleiss (aka the infamous "Hollywood Madam") has tapped a former soap actor to join the stable of studs at her new all-male brothel in Pahrump, Nev. Per GlitteratiGossip.com, the services of Les Brandt — who played bad boy Rafael Santiero on Another World from 1995 to '96 — are available to female clients for just $250 an hour. "I love to love women," the website quotes Brandt as saying. "I always have. I've loved women for free so far, so why not get paid to do something that I really enjoy and am good at?"
OK, maybe I'm demented, but I wonder if Les would be willing to make love to
Crystal Gayle's
AW theme song, upon soap fans' request. "When I'm with you, you take me
awaaay to
Another World...."
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