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Jamie Lynn Spear’s Nickelodeon series, “Zoey 101,” will return to the air Friday night. /NYP 69

Lindsay Lohan was caught making out with three different guys during her 24-hour visit to Capri for a film festival. First she was spotted snuggling with waiter Allesandro di Nunzio, Britain’s Sun reports. A few hours later she was canoodling with actor Eduardo Costa, and after that she was seen smooching with Dario Faiella, who’s the son of Italian music legend Peppino DiCapri. /NYP 14

DJ AM details his battle with drugs in Glamour magazine and reveals that he hit rock bottom at the age of 24 after years of freebasing cocaine. One day he put a loaded .22 in his mouth and cocked it, but, “the gun didn’t go off.” Now 34, he says it’s been “9 ½ years since I’ve had a drink or taken drugs.” /NYP 13

Reuters and the Daily News picked up People’s report that Eddie Murphy married fiancée Tracey Edmonds yesterday. /DN 10

“Without a Trace” star Roselyn Sanchez and “Days of Our Lives” actor Eric Winter, who have been couple for the past two years, got engaged over the holidays on the island of Vieques, just east of mainland Puerto Rico, according to a statement Tuesday from Sanchez’s publicist in Puerto Rico. /AP

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom got engaged to actress Jennifer Siebel while they vacationed over the weekend in Hawaii, a friend confirms. It would be the first marriage for Siebel, 33, and the second for Newsom, 40, whose four-year marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle ended in divorce in March 2006. /AP

Carla Bruni’s mother has told Italy’s La Stampa magazine that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed to the model/singer. Also fueling engagement speculation, Bruni has been spotted wearing a ring on her ring finger. /NYP 17

Mischa Barton’s ex, Cisco Adler, told pals that Barton looked “so hot in her mug shot” Friday night at the opening of club Home in St. Louis. /NYP 14

Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford appear on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands today in New York and Los Angeles. /AP

Simon Hammerstein, owner of nightclub The Box, is reportedly happy with the employee who recently spilled drinks on Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Hammerstein wrote in an email that he wants the employee reprimanded for the incident, but personally could care less because “they are so up their own arses” and “spend nothing.” /NYP 13

Dave Chappelle and wife Elaine got into a huge fight in front of their sons at Coffee Shop in Union Square the other day. Witnesses say Elaine was in tears after the duo battled because she saw Dave flirting with a model. /NYP 12

Stanley Burrell, aka MC Hammer, will produce DanceJam.com, a Web site he hopes will compete with YouTube and become the Internet’s hub for sharing and watching dance videos. The site is scheduled to debut in mid-January. /AP

The Post reports that an online petition to stop Comedy Central from “forcing” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on air without their writers is picking up steam. Both are returning to the air with new shows next Monday. According to the petition, neither comedian wants to go back without their writers but are being forced to by the network. /NYP 68

U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced from eight years to four, but he’ll still be on the sidelines for the Beijing Olympics in August. Gatlin’s ban is now set to expire May 24, 2010, a few months before he’d have to attend the Olympics. /AP

Law Student Kumari Fulbright, an Arizona beauty queen who was crowned Miss Pima County 2008 and is Miss May 2008 for subguns.com, has been indicted for allegedly kidnapping and torturing her former boyfriend, the Arizona Star reported yesterday. /NYP 10

Leona Helmsley’s dog Trouble, who inherited $12 million when Helmsley died last year, has had her dining options downgraded from crab cakes to Alpo. The dog previously had all of her meals prepared by a personal chef but appears to be just as happy eating dog food straight from the can, her handler, John Codey, told CBS’s “Early Show.” Codey also said Trouble’s annual expenses total $300,000, including $210,000 a year for round-the-clock protection. Trouble still lives in Florida, where she fled after receiving death threats in New York, but is expected to travel to the city later this month for a press conference on Helmsley’s charitable trust. /DN 4

Martin Tankleff, who was released from prison last week after an appeals court overturned his conviction for the 1988 murders of his parents, visited his mother and father’s graves yesterday and vowed to find the person who killed them. He also went skiing for the first time in 20 years. /DN 12, NYP 22

At least 275 people have died in Kenya since an election four days ago sparked violence throughout the country, including 50 women and children killed yesterday when a mob set fire to a church. /AP

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