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If there’s one thing Levi Johnston could take back, it would be his public apology to Sarah Palin.
Johnston sat down with “The Early Show” correspondent Betty Ngueyn and told her, “I don’t really regret anything. But the only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is to put out that apology ’cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I’ve never lied about anything. So that’s probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with.”

The father of Palin’s grandson also recently filed a letter of intent to run for mayor of Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska (where she also served as Mayor), and when asked if he’d make a better mayor, he said, “Let’s hope so. I can’t guarantee or promise you anything but I’m gonna try… that’s the goal.”

The exclusive interview will be broadcast Friday morning on CBS.

Jessica Simpson recently told Lucky magazine that she was on a curve kick. “We all obsess over looking like the perfect Barbie type, and that’s not always what’s beautiful,” the pop star said. “It’s about making peace with yourself.”

In an effort to practice what she preaches, the pop star is making sure more curves are coming to New York Fashion Week.

Simpson announced that she’ll be using “real women” to model her new clothing line.

“Jessica Simpson plans to unveil her latest collection for the media at New York Fashion Week in September, but there’s a twist,” a friend of the budding fashion mogul reportedly told Life & Style Magazine. “Instead of using super-skinny models to showcase her designs, Jessica has decided to send her best friends — real women in real sizes — down the aisle.”

Surprisingly, it was Simpson’s lack of curves that caused a stir earlier this month following the Lucky spread and interview. There were accusations that the photos of Simpson inside of the issue had been altered to play down her figure.

Simpson appeared to be aware of the practice even before the spread, telling the Huffington Post last winter, “I don’t look like the girl on the cover of the magazine. I do not look like my covers. My covers! They airbrush me.”

Two of Michael Jackson’s kids have taken a big step — leaving homeschool for one of the most exclusive private schools in the country. The Star News has learned 13-year-old Prince and 12-year-old Paris started at The Buckley School in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday.

Family sources tell The Star News… Prince wanted to go to Buckley to have “a social experience.” Initially, Paris was reluctant but changed her mind in a big way.

As for 8-year-old Blanket — he’s still going to be homeschooled. Katherine Jackson feels he’s too young to venture out.

Among the alums — Matthew Perry, Alyssa Milano, Nicole Richie, Nicollette Sheridan and Laura Dern.

By the way, some other grads even went on to do sex tapes and became famous — Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

Back on the outs yet again with the Palin clan, Levi Johnston – would-be Hollywood star and new candidate for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska – says Bristol Palin is just as hungry for the limelight as he is.

“I don’t think I’m any more obsessed with making a career out of this than she is,” the recent Playgirl model said in an interview that ran Friday on CBS’s Early Show. “Obviously she’s doing Dancing with the Stars. I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with any of it. I’m just taking it as it comes.

And as for that apology to almost-mother-in-law Sarah Palin? “That was something I did to make my fiancée happy,” he said.

Now Johnston, 20, is eyeing Sarah Palin’s former office as mayor of the town where he became father of Sarah Palin’s grandson Tripp. After an ugly split in which Johnston publicly badmouthed the former vice presidential candidate as a money-hungry diva, Johnston briefly reunited with Sarah Palin’s daughter. Bristol, 19 – only to end up calling off the engagement a second time, with Bristol saying Johnston was more interested in becoming a celebrity than in being a husband and dad.

Fears Sounding Like a Liar

“I don’t really regret anything,” he told CBS. “But the only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is to put out that apology, ’cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I’ve never lied about anything. So that’s probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with.”

Despite the fact he’s never graduated from high school and is taping a reality show that he is trying to pitch, Johnston insists he’d be a better mayor than Sarah Palin.

“I don’t think being mayor is about qualifications. I think it’s about people liking you and believing in you,” he said.

But he noted: “If we do win, I’m going to have to give up Hollywood for three years.”

Nancy Dolman, the wife of Father of the Bride star Martin Short, has died, a representative of the actor-comedian’s said Monday. Dolman, a former actress, was 58.

“Sadly, we can confirm that Martin Short’s wife did pass away,” said Camille Kuznetz, adding no further details about time, location or cause, CNN reports. “We do not have any other comment to make.”

Saturday morning, Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to an emergency call for medical help at the couple’s Pacific Palisades home, though no one was transported from the residence, said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey.he couple, married 30 years, had three children: Katherine, 26; Oliver, 24; and Henry, 21.

Dolman and Short, now 60, met during the 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell, in which she was Gilda Radner’s understudy. In 1981, Dolman appeared in a recurring role on the primetime TV series Soap, though she retired in 1985 to raise her family.

In 1984, Short, then about to debut on Saturday Night Live, told PEOPLE about his early family life, in which his oldest brother was killed in an auto accident when Martin was 12, and both his mother, a violinist, and his father, a steel executive, died before he was 21.

“It sounds like a tragic family, but it really isn’t,” he said. “My mother had cancer, and she had been ill and then in remission since I was 13. She was a remarkable person; both my parents were. So I never looked at it as if it was a tragedy – that I didn’t have them my whole life. You learn some sense of priorities. Our whole family took the attitude that if you have wonderful moments, don’t second-guess them, just enjoy them.”

PGA pro Erica Blasberg’s death was a ruled a suicide by suffocation, and police arrested the doctor who called 911 for allegedly removing pills and a note from the scene.

“Blasberg was found deceased in her Henderson home with a plastic bag secured over her head,” the Clark County, Nev., Coroner’s Office said Tuesday, adding that “toxic” levels of prescription medication were also found in her system.

Dr. Thomas Hess, 43, a family practitioner in Las Vegas, turned himself in to face misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges for allegedly removing items from Blasberg’s home before authorities arrived on May 9. Hess, who was released on bail, had placed the initial call to police after discovering Blasberg non-responsive.

“Hess admitted to removing a note indicating Ms. Blasberg had taken her own life,” the statement says. “He hid it in his vehicle along with prescription medications taken from her house.”

A police spokesman refused to elaborate on circumstances surrounding the death or Hess’s relationship to the 25-year-old golf pro from just outside of Las Vegas. In his 911 call to report she was dead, Hess said he knew Blasberg from “the golf club.”

“I called her yesterday. She was supposed to be leaving for a golf tournament but she didn’t,” he told the emergency operator. “She picked up the phone and she sounded intoxicated at that time.”

When the 911 operator asked Hess if he was sure that Blasberg was beyond help, he said, “I am. I’m a doctor.” He said he was at her house because “I just wanted to make sure she was doing okay.”

A golf standout while attending the University of Arizona, Blasberg struggled at the professional level. Friends said she had been working hard to get her game back on the winning track, but didn’t sense any sign of prescription dependency. Her luggage was packed and she was to play in a golf tournament in Alabama when she died.

Her divorce is final and she’s ready to talk. Elin Nordegren breaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine.

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children,” she says in the magazine’s latest issue, out just days after her split from Tiger Woods was made official.

The 30-year-old mother of two, who is studying towards a college degree in psychology, says that despite her husband’s betrayal, “I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.” In 19 hours over four visits to her Windermere, Fla., rental home, Nordegren shared never-before-seen personal photographs and opened up to PEOPLE about the emotional roller coaster she’s been on, her life as a mother to Sam, 3, and Charlie, 19 months, and her hopes for the future.

“My immediate plan is for the kids and me to continue to adjust to our new situation. I am going to keep taking classes, but my main focus is to try to give myself time to heal,” she says.

She tells the magazine this was her first – and last – interview, as she intends to remain a private person.

Can Lindsay Lohan stay on the straight and narrow?

She made it through 13 days in jail and 23 days at an inpatient rehab program, but friends of the actress worry that she’s in danger of sliding back into her old ways.

“Lindsay says she’s determined to stay sober and focus on work,” says a Lohan source. “ it’s too soon to tell what will happen. We’ve seen these moments of ‘purity’ before, but as soon as she gets a taste of the nightlife and the drama, she usually falls back into old habits fast.”

Lohan, 24, got a taste of nightlife, at least, in the wee hours of Thursday morning when she was spotted cruising around Los Angeles in a Maserati with friends in tow and an energy drink at her side.

Another source who knows Lohan says the actress “doesn’t like staying put and she doesn’t like being bored. She needs to be constantly stimulated; it’s not uncommon for her to be up texting from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. The people in her life are on a constant roller coaster.”

But Lohan’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, insists her client is ready to change her life. And for now, at least until a Nov. 1 hearing, Lohan must keep to a strict regimen of random drug testing, psychotherapy and addiction counseling.

“She is serious about her sobriety,” Holley told the judge in the case on Tuesday. “She looks forward to proving to the court … that she’s moving forward in a positive manner.” Holley later told reporters: “This is a new beginning for Lindsay Lohan.”

Friends, though, remain wary and are keeping an eye on the young star.

“Deep down, I think she knows she’s in crisis,” says the second source. “But she continues to make bad decisions. She still thinks she can get away with anything, get out of anything, make excuses.”

Spencer Pratt is shopping a sex tape of himself with soon-to-be-ex-wife Heidi Montag, TMZ reports.

Spencer reportedly contacted Vivid Entertainment, the porn giant that brought us the sex tapes of Kendra Wilkinson and Kim Kardashian, and will soon release Montana Fishburne’s XXX tape. “I just got off the phone with Spencer Pratt about a sex tape with Heidi Montag,” Vivid exec Steven Hirsch told TMZ. “We are in early negotiations to possibly come to terms for a deal.”

No word on whether the tape was shot before or after Heidi’s plastic surgery transformation, but they broke up soon after Heidi admitted the procedures made it painful to even hug anyone.

According to TMZ, Spencer told a friend that the tape “makes Kim Kardashian look like an amateur.”

Kim’s tape, released in 2007, features her and her ex, rapper Ray-J, having sex but focuses mainly on Kim’s face during the act. Kim sued Vivid for ownership of the tape and later settled for $5 million.

Kim Kardashian is feeling the single lady blues.

“I don’t like dating,” Kardashian, 29, who split with longtime NFL star beau Reggie Bush earlier this year, tells PEOPLE at the red carpet premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians season 5 in Los Angeles. “I hate it. I don’t like meeting new people.”

That hasn’t stopped the reality star from trying, though. Recently, she’s been linked with Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin, and spotted on the sidelines of his NFL training camp in Texas. Still, the new season of the E! show follows Kardashian as she goes on “five … maybe three” dates. The hardest part? “Trying to figure out if someone’s genuine,” she says, “if they want to be with you for you.”

But she has devised a litmus test to see if guys are just using her for her fame: “I always say, where do you want to go eat?” Kardashian says. “If they pick a super trendy restaurant, then that’s, like, the worst sign.”