Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover was supposed to be unveiled during the star's visit to Ellen on December 15, but (Li)lo and behold, it's been leaked a week early!

Or at least a grainy cellphone pic of it has.

The cover was first posted by The Insider, and is actually pretty safe for work, featuring Lindsay Lohan nude and covered by a sizzling red Playboy logo.

Whether this premature leak will help boost or hurt sales of the much-touted issue, which features Lindsay channeling Marilyn Monroe, is another story.

Take a look at it after the jump ...

Lindsay Lohan is used to avoiding crude shanks in big house ... but can she handle being stabbed in the back in a different sense in the Big Brother house?

Reports have surfaced saying the one-time actress is in negotiations to come aboard the reality show in a bid to relaunch her career after years of legal woes.

It'd be a huge coup for the show, but is there any truth to said rumor?

"Lindsay is not doing Big Brother," her rep tells E! News, matter of factly.

It's unclear if Lindsay Lohan could have joined the show even if she wanted to, given her community service and psychotherapy requirements. If LiLo went into that house and survived all the way to the finale, it'd be like three months of isolation!

We'd miss her so much ... and yet not.

"We hope that the courts will make a special allowance in this case. There aren't any more controlled ­ environments than the Big Brother house," a hopeful source said.

That's true, no way could she do drugs or steal jewelry without cameras seeing it. A moot point in any case. Fortunately, Lindsay Lohan in Playboy is still a go, and soon!

With 2011 quickly drawing to a close, it is with great pride that THG unveils its 10 finalists for its prestigious, arbitrary, 5th Annual Celebrity of the Year award.

These celebrities gave us their best, their worst, their nude pics and sex tapes (sometimes) and their scandals (often). This month, THG honors that greatness.

We kick off the top 10 with a perennial train wreck ... Lindsay Lohan!

THG's take on what a Lindsay Lohan motivational poster would look like.

The past year was a wreckalicious one for Lindsay Lohan, who used to be an actress (we think), and who came in at #8 on last year's COTY list for the same reason.

Yes, for almost as long as we can remember, she's been best known for being a mess. But a prolific one. Nobody violates probation and racks up legal bills like LiLo!

Heck, if she weren't in court every freaking month and without gainful employment, we wouldn't be gearing up to see Lindsay Lohan nude in Playboy this month!

For that, men everywhere thank her. Now let's review the year in Lohan ...

Lindsay Lohan is getting some terrific mentoring these days.

In a textbook case of the blind leading the blind, Courtney Love tells Details she is personally taking over as her sobriety coach, "because nobody else will."

We can sorta see that, and it takes one to know one, right? That's what the 47-year-old Hole singer and widow of Kurt Cobain says makes her a great fit.

With her help, Court says, Lindsay will be at the morgue, but only for community service!

Love says Lohan, 25, is "much further down the line than I was" in her issues, noting that she came of age before the intense scrutiny of celebrity gossip world.

She cites her own iconic husband's mishandling of fame as a reason for her downfall. "I was co-dependent, and decided to become a junkie with him,” she said.

Love, who says she’s been clean since 2005, also recalled an incident in which she tried to use her past behavior to show Lohan that drug use is life abuse.

"I went up to Lindsay's room and there was a show on called 101 Celebrity Oops and I am like every other one, you know - boobs out, legs everywhere, throwing $h!t at Madonna, you know, whatever," she recalled. "I'm like 'Lindsay, look! Drugs are bad!'"

Maybe this is going to work out great after all ...

Can crazy Lohan stay clean?

[Photos: WENN.com]

Lindsay Lohan is killing it at morgue duty. Seriously, inappropriate puns aside, the troubled star is slaying expectations and then some up in that piece.

Maybe structure's what she needs, as TMZ notes, because Lindsay's easily on pace to finish her court-ordered stints at the morgue on time for once.

Not only that, she's ahead of schedule - way ahead.

Lohan has already completed 10 of her 12 required morgue duty shifts, an impressive feat considering that she still has another three weeks to do so.

And this go-getter isn't about to stop there. Lindsay plans to finish the remaining two shifts ASAP to get a jump on her other community service too.

That way, at her December 14 status hearing, Linds will be able to say that not only is she abiding by the judge's ruling, but going above and beyond.

Also, Lindsay has built a nice reputation at the morgue, acting polite, working hard, never complaining and (after that first day) showing up on time.

She's got plenty of motivation to keep it up. LiLo got off easy with a mere four hours in jail this month, but if she messes up again, 270 days loom.

Happy Thanksgiving to all from The Hollywood Gossip!

What would this holiday be without family, food, football and reflection upon the things we appreciate most ... in the case of THG, that means some of the turkeys we have had the privilege, the honor and the burden of covering in the past year.

We are talking some fowl individuals here ... real bird brains.

Without further ado, THG's Top 10 Turkeys of 2011 ...

Who will win the 5th Annual Spencer Pratt Thanksgiving Turkey Award!?

10. President Obama and GOP presidential candidates (tie). On a day when we share the blessings this nation has provided us, we'll also share the blame for a polarized electorate and a federal government destined for perennial gridlock.

9. Taylor Armstrong. Refining shamelessness, one episode at a time.

8. Gloria Allred. Loudmouth lawyer for accusers in seemingly every random celebrity scandal always wants to talk turkey ... and gobble up publicity.

This Thanksgiving, Lindsay Lohan is taking the time out to recognize the family, friends, and fans that love her, and the opportunities she still has in life.

It's not quite New Year's, but she's already resolved to spend the holidays basking in the support of those close to her and leave her legal woes in the past.

"Lindsay is being thankful for her family, her fans and for the great year that lies ahead," Lohan's rep, Steve Honig, said today, regarding Linds' plans.

One thing she has to look forward to right away? After Thanksgiving, Lilo will promote her nude Playboy spread, in which she will channel Marilyn Monroe.

Her cut from that naked venture? Nearly a million dollars.

“Lindsay completed a successful photo shoot for Playboy and will be on the cover of the January / February issue, which hits newsstands in late December.”

“The pictorial is absolutely fantastic and very tasteful, and will be accompanied by an interview that will let readers see another side of Lindsay,” Honig said.

As opposed to her back side, and her front side, etc., etc.

As for Thanksgiving, she'll be spending it with her mom, Dina, sister Ali and two brothers, but, for obvious reasons, not her derelict of society dad Michael.

He'll be cooling his ass in rehab for the time being. Probably a good thing, since every time he drinks, it seems Kate Major calls 911 (she's in rehab now too).

Lindsay Lohan in Playboy sounds ...

Kendra Wilkinson has thought a lot about it, but at the end of the day, supports Lindsay Lohan's desire to pose nude in Playboy. After all, how can she judge?

“She always came off like a girl that would do Playboy so I am not really surprised,” the 26-year-old K-Dubs said of Lindsay's decision to go full frontal.

“She is almost like a hippie type of girl.”

That's one way of putting it ...

"I am so back and forth about it,” the Kendra star said of Lindsay in Playboy, where she'll be channeling Marilyn Monroe. “The one thing that I can say is that in this day and age, if you have a way to make that kind of money, then go ahead.”

Mixed, but generally positive feelings from Kendra then.

She does make a valid point. A million dollars for four days of work? That looks pretty good on any balance sheet, even if it means showing the vadge of courage.

Besides, Lindsay Lohan's got a lot of bills these days.

“If that’s what’s going to bail her ass out of jail, I mean, go for it. You never know. She could need the money to bail herself out,” Kendra hilariously added.

Pitbull has come out barking in his legal dispute with Lindsay Lohan, responding to the lawsuit she recently filed against him by calling LiLo a liar and a criminal.

Lohan claims the hip hop star owes her money for disparaging and using her name in the song "Give Me Everything," in which he name-checks the train wreck.

Hilariously, the track includes the memorable lyric, "I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan." More hilariously, Lohan says a PITBULL SONG damages her reputation.

Pitbull says that's ridiculous, but Lohan refused to back down ... so his lawyers are taking it to her, asking that, first of all, the suit be moved out of N.Y. State.

Pitbull - Give Me Everything ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer

Lindsay claims in court documents that she's a resident of Nassau County, however, Pit claims she's been living California since 2004 ... and he can prove it.

"Given her frequent legal troubles, Ms. Lohan possesses irrevocable ties to California that are likely to keep her there for the foreseeable future," he states.

Then, Pit rattles off every single one of her legal problems in California - many jail stints, house arrest, community service, you name it - to make his point.

Thus, in light of Ms. Lohan's continuing obligations to the State of California, as well as the foregoing facts, Ms. Lohan is not a citizen New York," he adds.

The rapper wants the case moved to federal court, where he thinks he'll have a better shot of taking Lohan down. Your move, Marilyn Monroe wannabe.

Lindsay Lohan will soon be seen totally nude in Playboy.

But she'll bare more than her vadge in the men's mag.

Reps for Lohan and for Playboy confirmed Monday that the 25-year-old starlet will be featured in both pictures and words in the upcoming January/February issue.

"The pictorial is absolutely fantastic and very tasteful," her rep says, "and will be accompanied by an interview that will let readers see another side of Lindsay."

The so-called "tasteful" Playboy pics will be "very classy," the magazine's founder Hugh Hefner tells The Insider, with the final product becoming "a classic tribute inspired by original Tom Kelly nude pictorials of Marilyn Monroe."

She's pretty much already done that, but what can you do.

In 2008, New York Magazine did a Lindsay Lohan nude / Marilyn Monroe themed spread, with LiLo saying she was "comfortable" being photographed in the buff.

You can see the new naked pics of Lindsay - who spent a whopping four hours in jail this week - in late December. We know your calendar is already marked.

Check out some of her past similar "work" below: