George Michael Doesn't Want His Freedom

Singer George Michael has been arrested in the past for having drugs in his car and for soliciting sex in a public bathroom, but he'd yet to be arrested for drugs in a public bathroom - until Friday. Michael, 45, was arrested in a public bathroom in Hampstead Heath, a popular London park area. It is thought that he was in possession of crack cocaine. He was let off with just a caution, or a warning, which seems to be typical of this type of minor drug case in England - if Pete Doherty's storied record is anything to go by.

Michael has been unable to drive since May, 2007, when his license was revoked for two years for an October, 2006 incident in which he was found passed out in his car with marijuana. He was also busted passed out in his parked car with drugs in February, 2006, and at that time it was also pot and poppers, or amyl nitrite. If he was found with crack on Friday it looks like he's got a more serious problem and has graduated to the hard stuff:

The singer George Michael has been cautioned after being arrested in a public toilet for possession of drugs, thought to include crack cocaine.

"A 45-year-old man was arrested on 19 September on suspicion of possession of drugs in the Hampstead Heath area," a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.

The singer was taken to a police station and given the caution for possessing class A and class C drugs.

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said drug laws needed to be "flexible".

Asked why Michael had been given a relatively mild punishment for the possession of class A drugs, Mr McNulty said he did not know the details of the case.

George Michael has been in trouble with police before

But he added that the law provides a wide range of punishments for possession of drugs, and "circumstances and context" had to be applied.

The BBC reminds us that Michael has been doing relatively well in the past year. He just finished his world tour in August, and has a multi-million dollar book deal with HarperCollins for his tell-all autobiography.

The guy has long had a penchant for public sex - he was busted by the News of The World in June, 2006 with a paunchy 58 year-old unemployed guy in a public park. Michael was first pushed out of the closet in 1998 after an infamous arrest for soliciting sex from an undercover cop in a Beverly Hills bathroom. There wasn't any mention of Michael attempting to score in this latest incident and it's possible he was only in the park to get drugs.

It seemed like Michael had his drug habit down to just smoking pot and getting wasted, but that he'd cleaned up after his arrests and comeback tour. Maybe he'll go to rehab now so he can achieve sobriety during his semi-retirement.

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Former Melrose Place May Be Charged With Manslaughter

The mug shot of "Melrose Place" star Amy Locane-Bovenizer has been released after police say she crashed into another car while driving drunk, killing the passenger and critically injuring the driver.

According to Acting Somerset County Prosecutor A. Peter DeMarco Jr., the fatal accident was not her first of the night.

Police say that Locane-Bovenizer was driving drunk Sunday night when she smashed her SUV into the passenger side of a sedan as it was turning into a driveway in Montgomery Township, N.J., about 10 miles north of Princeton. The driver, Fred Seeman, was hospitalized in critical condition; his wife Helene died at the scene.

DeMarco said responding officers detected the odor of alcohol on Locane-Bovenizer's breath and arrested her.

Locane-Bovenizer allegedly admitted to police later Sunday evening that she had downed several glasses of wine prior to driving, according to the paper.

Locane-Bovenizer is charged with vehicular homicide and assault by auto. She is being held at the Somerset County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail.

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Vince Neil Drunk

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has been arrested for drunk driving in Las Vegas.

Celebrity website TMZ. com said Neil's car was pulled over late Sunday after a woman told police Neil smashed her camera.

The arrest comes just a week after Neil released his latest album -- Tattoos and Tequila-- featuring cover versions of classic rock songs.

Neil, who split with Motley Crue in 1992 and rejoined in 1997, served jail time in 1986 for drunk driving after a car crash that left a drummer dead.

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David Hasselhoff Drunk Again, Again, Again

The cheeseburger Lothario who hasn't met a bottle of well liquor he didn't fall in love with is back in the hospital after he filled his veins with enough sweet nectar to keep a Lohan family reunion going for at least a couple of hours. And just like a million times before, The Hoff's tortured 17-year-old daughter Hayley is the one who had to drag his drunk ass to the hospital.

A source tells Radar that The Hoff was on a 3-day booze binge before Hayley threw him in her trunk, drove him to the hospital and put his ass on the curb. The source went on to say that The Hoff will continue to deny that he's got a thirst for booze in a bad way, "I'm sure he'll try to deny it this time, too. And that's sad, because it's his daughter who is suffering when she has to take care of him after a bender."

Hayley's mother Pamela is also a major wreck. Pamela is fresh out of jail after spending some time there for violating her DUI probation.

Maybe this is The Hoff and Pamela's way of scaring Hayley off the bottle for life? I don't know, but I do know that if I drank a shot for every time The Hoff was hospitalized with drunkitis, I'd be lying in a bed right next to him. This is not a good look. The Hoff is probably stumbling around the house with vomit chunks hanging onto his nostril hairs and a bottle of Beefeater filled with his own pee pee in his hand. It sounds like a good look on paper, but it isn't.

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