Lohan leaves rehab

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has checked out of a rehab clinic in Utah where she went in August following charges of drunken driving and cocaine possession, People magazine reported yesterday. The magazine cited several unnamed sources for its story, posted on People.com. It gave no further details, and Lohan's spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment. The 21-year-old actress was arrested in May after she wrecked her car in Beverly Hills and again in July following a car chase in Santa Monica. In both cases, she possessed cocaine and in the Santa Monica car chase, she faced charges of driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit of .08 percent. In August, Lohan pleaded guilty to the charges of being under the influence of cocaine and no contest to the charges of drunken driving. (REUTERS)

The head of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s main television channel resigned yesterday over the editing of footage that was seen to wrongly imply that Queen Elizabeth II walked out abruptly from a portrait sitting with photographer Annie Leibovitz. BBC1 controller Peter Fincham resigned after an independent inquiry released yesterday criticized "misjudgments, poor practice, and ineffective systems" at the BBC. Stephen Lambert, head of RDF Media Group, which made the program, also resigned yesterday. The BBC apologized to the queen in July after it aired for journalists a trailer for the forthcoming documentary. The queen, in fact, was entering the room, not leaving it. But in the editing of the footage, it appeared she walked out suddenly after Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown for a photo. (AP)

Ginuwine (inset) says he was duped into signing a contract with a record company that doesn't exist. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, the R&B singer says he was persuaded to sign May 8 with King Music Group Inc., a company that a personal acquaintance, Michael Bourne of Memphis, said he owned. Terms of the contract gave Ginuwine, whose real name is Elgin Baylor Lumpkin, $1.75 million to record his first album with King, according to court papers. In nearly five months, the singer hasn't made any records and hasn't been paid a cent, the lawsuit said. (AP)

Isaac Hanson, frontman of pop group Hanson, left the hospital yesterday after doctors in Dallas removed a blood clot that caused his right arm to painfully swell during a concert this week. Hanson, 26, was diagnosed with venous thoracic outlet syndrome, spokesman Ken Phillips said. The potentially fatal ailment occurs when a blood clot forms in a deep arm or shoulder vein. Dr. Bradley Grimsley, who performed the surgery, said he expected Hanson to make a full and swift recovery. He will need to have a rib removed in the next few months to help open his vein and prevent another clot, Grimsley said. (AP)

Owen Wilson has returned to the public eye, making an appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of his new film, "The Darjeeling Limited." Wilson was joined by cast mates Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman, and filmmaker Wes Anderson. It was among Wilson's first public appearances since an apparent suicide attempt in late August. (AP)

"Now I realize who we're talking about here. I didn't recognize the nonprofessional name, so to speak." Superior Court Judge Helen I. Bendix, on a case in her court brought by Snoop Dogg under his real name, Calvin Broadus.