Former teen idol Leif Garrett was found in possession of heroin earlier this week. That’s generally not a positive thing from a legal or health standpoint.

Leif was popped Monday morning in Los Angeles for possession of a controlled substance. Police caught him at the Metrolink station in downtown L.A.

Garrett was taken into custody and placed behind bars.

Leif Garrett wasn’t released until this morning.

According to reports, the 49-year-old was carrying black tar heroin in his shoe when he was arrested. Cops saw him shaking and sweating profusely at the time.

They asked if they could perform a search of his person. At first, Garrett said he didn’t have anything on him, but then later admitted he had heroin in his shoe.

Cops seized the drugs and arrested Garrett on the spot, before transporting him to a nearby jail where he stayed behind bars until just a couple of hours ago.

Garrett was released on $10,000 bail and is due back in court February 24.

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Stroke? What stroke?

Deadliest Catch Captain Phil Harris woke up from a medically induced coma yesterday, according to reports, and even did so with typically salty flair.

Sons Jake and Josh Harris, who are also featured on the Discovery Channel series with their dad, said he “showed some good signs of improvement.”

Jake and Josh say he was “squeezing our hands and even summoning his trademark captain’s bluntness by telling doctors and nurses, ‘Don’t f–k up.’”

Somehow not surprising!

Here’s wishing Phil Harris (middle) a speedy, salty recovery.

The elder Harris, a Deadliest Catch fixture since the show’s launch, was found unconscious during an offload of crab (it’s in season) late last week.

He was airlifted to Anchorage, Alaska, where endured 12 hours of surgery and the Cornelia Marie skipper was placed in a medically induced coma.

Harris had been placed in a coma to reduce brain swelling.

The stroke he suffered occurred near St. Paul Island, Alaska. The Emmy-winning Deadliest Catch takes place there and on the high seas, of course.

Get well soon, Phil!

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Last night, American Idol viewers met a pair of rumored semifinalists: Casey James and Haeley Vaughn.

But while we’re excited to hear more from them and other singers, the focus of the show will likely return to the judging table next week. That’s because Ellen DeGeneres debuts as a panelist on Tuesday night.

Asked about her co-star by Entertainment Tonight, Ellen recently said: “He’s actually meaner than I thought. It’s hard to listen to him tell people things and me not to go, ‘You poor thing!’”

Despite this critique, and despite rumors that she and Cowell are already fighting, an insider says everything is fine between the pair.

Yes, Simon appeared late at a taping last month, but apologized and DeGeneres “accepted it right away and was fine,” says the source.

So, can Ellen offer any spoilers about which contestants make it far in Hollywood? No, but she does tease: “We have a wide variety [of talent]… somebody for everybody, I hope.”

She’s already getting good at this marketing game. Are you excited for her to take part on the show?

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The Bachelor hopeful Vienna Girardi is portrayed as pure evil by the other aspiring Jake Pavelka trophy wives. We always felt this was a little bit unfair.

If the allegations made by the new issue of Us Weekly are true, however, that’s a different story. Maybe Ali Fedotowsky and Co. are onto something.

Vienna Girardi is a apparently an unemployed former Hooters waitress who withdrew the last $5,000 from her ex-husband Josh Riley’s bank account.

The reason? To pay for breast implants, obviously. Hey, when you’re a topless model for some random calendar, you do what you gotta do, right V?

Oh, and he was deployed in Iraq with the Marines at the time, during which he also says she cheated on him. Jake Pavelka, you’d better beware!

Vienna Girardi: Even worse than portrayed on The Bachelor!

“She took every bit of his money,” Vienna’s former mother-in-law Gale tells Us. “I know for a fact that the boob job was the first thing she had done.”

What’s more, when Josh Riley returned from his tour of duty (he was injured in Iraq during an explosion), Girardi had moved on … and not told him.

Vienna “locked his belongings in storage and would not tell us where they were,” Gale said, noting that they were married 10 months after eloping.

Poor guy also discovered that while he was in Iraq, “she slept with one of my buddies I was deployed with. I’m 99 percent sure she cheated on me.”

Adds Riley, “Marrying her was a mistake.” Sounds like it, man!

Any advice for Jake, who picks her on the season finale, according to Bachelor spoilers we’ve read? “I’d rather not comment,” Riley said. “I’d like to forget.”

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Original Beverly Hills 90210 star Ian Ziering is ready to tie the knot a second time. He’s engaged to his girlfriend of just four months, Erin Kristine Ludwig!

Steve Sanders slyly changed his Facebook status from “in a relationship” to “engaged” last week. Thought you could fly under the radar? Think again Ian!

Ziering followed up the low-key announcement by relaying some of the finer points of his courtship, identifying the lucky lady as Erin Kristine Ludwig.

Here’s a photo of the soon-to-be-married pair:

“She’s a nurse, we’re planning a spring wedding and we’ve been together since Labor Day ’09,” he said, and while that’s a fast courtship, sometimes you just know.

Especially when you’re Ian Ziering. How many more shots do you have?

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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Embattled golf legend Tiger Woods invited all sorts of women to play around with his balls. Now you can play a round with balls featuring said women!

That joke duck-hooked out of bounds, but our point is this: Someone came out with a collection of 12 golf balls emblazoned with Tiger’s mistresses.

“Tail of the Tiger,” the enterprising website selling these hilarious items, notes says they are “designed to lift the spirits of golfers around the world.”

The only “lift” Woods got was … yeah, never mind.

Anyway, this is your chance to play Tiger and the tag the crap out of Rachel Uchitel, Jaimee Grubbs & Co. (just try to say out of the rough… or something).

Our only two problems with this amusing novelty:

1. The set costs a ridiculous $53.60.
2. There are only 11 named Tiger Woods mistresses, so they cheated and made a generic “cougar” (top right) to make it an even dozen …

Which Tiger Woods mistress is your favorite?

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Sometimes, reality fails to match the hype.

For many, this was the case with Apple’s latest innovation, the iPad.

Fortunately, it’s not remotely true for Kellan Lutz’s Calvin Klein campaign, the reports about which had readers anxiously counting down the days until they could see this actor in his underwear.

They now can – and the result is as steamy as one could imagine! Lutz stars in the company’s new X ad spot, which officially launches on March 1. Ogle the shirtless star below:

How did Lutz get in shape for this campaign?

“I swear, candy helps! Gummy bears!” he said last month. “It helps fight the hunger of higher calorie foods, but it is bad for the teeth.”

Bu it’s clearly good for the chest… and abs… and biceps… and deltoids…

Also appearing for Calvin Klein and seen below? Former True Blood star Mehcad Brooks; Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco. and Japanese athlete Hidetoshi Nakata.

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Ray J is famous for having slept with Kim Kardashian on tape.

Brandy is famous for having starred in a mediocre sitcom and accidentally killed someone with her car.

Together, along with their parents, these aspiring celebrities will appear on VH1′s next Apocalyptic reality show, Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business.

According to the network press release:

“Viewers will get a first hand glimpse into the lives of the Norwood family unit and their family business – Rn’B Productions.  Run by Sonja, Rn’B Productions features an impressive roster of musical artists including Brandy, Ray J and their father Willie, who also serves as the company’s vocal coach.

“But with Sonja ready to take a step down, Brandy and Ray J will have to fill her shoes quickly all the while taking the family business to the next level.”

It’s unclear if Mz. Berry, the winner of For the Love of Ray J 2, will be featured on the series. Our guess? No.

Our disappointment? Severe.

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In the wake of her recent plastic surgery binge, Heidi Montag says her mom looked at her like a circus freak. That’s really insulting … to actual circus freaks.

One can understand Darlene Egelhoff’s reaction upon seeing her daughter after she was transformed via 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, however.

An anxious Heidi headed to her hometown of Crested Butte, Colo., to face her mother with The Hills camera crew in tow, and was greeted in abject horror.

“I was nervous, but also excited … I never thought in my wildest dreams she was going to react the way she did,” the surgically un-enhanced one recalled.

“She was looking at me almost like a zoo animal. It wasn’t like I was her daughter anymore. She was looking at me like I was a circus freak,” says Heidi.

WOMAN OR CYBORG? Heidi is barely recognizable to her own mom.

So where does her turbulent relationship with mom stand now? Heidi Montag says that “I tried to leave it as best as I could, but my heart was breaking.”

Guess that Mother’s Day gift won’t be going over too well.

“I think she was most upset that Spencer was there for me and she wasn’t,” the disturbed 23-year-old continued. “[My mom] was saying how sad it is that my confidence is gone because of the music industry I’m trying to get into.”

Right. It’s the music industry’s fault. Hopefully her abysmal album sales will nudge Heidi in another career direction, although you can’t undo 10 surgeries.

Montag, who still struggles with daily pain but has no regrets, says, “I just wanted to be the most beautiful, inside and out. It’s part of being a pop star.”

Or a complete and utter narcissistic moron.

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Looks like there could be trouble in paradise for Gossip Girl co-stars Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick. “They are still together, but things have seemed very tense between them the past few weeks,” explains an insider, who says Jessica’s been unable to hide her emotions on set. And a crew member recently witnessed Jessica in tears returning to her dressing room. Making matters worse, Ed doesn’t seem concerned with his girlfriend’s feelings. On January 29, he and a friend were seen entertaining two ladies at the Melrose Bar & Grill in LA — and Jessica was nowhere in sight. “It looked like he was on a double date,” says an onlooker. According to an eyewitness, Ed and a friend took off with two girls after dinner in LA.

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