Remember our report about Doug Reinhardt dating Miss USA Rima Fakih?

That was completely false. Yet not all that far off, really, in an odd way.

Doug, a.k.a. Paris Hilton's ex, a.k.a. Amanda Bynes' ex, a.k.a. Lauren Conrad's ex, a.k.a. that random former ballplayer guy from The Hills, is dating Miss World instead.

A former Miss World, anyway. Reinhardt has been spending "every night" for the past few weeks with Lane Lindell, a beauty queen who held the esteemed crown in '08.

She's getting a college education at the University of Georgia right now. Smart and pretty. Not bad for the latest notch on the bedpost of Doug Reinhardt ...

Will former Miss World Lane Lindell become Mrs. Doug Reinhardt?