Paris Hilton has rehired publicist she blamed for her 45-day jail sentenceLOS ANGELES (AP) — The many moods of Paris Hilton shifted again when the jail-bound socialite rehired the publicist she blamed for her 45-day sentence.Elliot Mintz confirmed to The Associated Press that he is again representing the 26-year-old socialite, who was ordered to report to county jail by June 5 for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

Mintz, 62, wouldn’t elaborate on why he reunited with Hilton. The publicist, whose clients have included John Lennon and Bob Dylan, issued a statement Sunday night that he and Hilton had parted ways over an apparent “misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation.”

In a court appearance Friday, Hilton told the judge Mintz informed her it was all right to drive on a suspended license for work obligations. Mintz also testified Hilton believed she was allowed to drive. The judge called Mintz’s testimony worthless.

Hilton — star of reality TV show “The Simple Life” on the E! network — has parlayed her party lifestyle into worldwide fame.

She has called the sentence unfair, and her fans have posted a petition on the Internet urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her.

“I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted and I don’t deserve this,” Hilton told photographers assembled outside her home Saturday.

The petition, which had more than 900 signatures by Tuesday morning, urges the California actor-turned-governor to pardon Hilton because she provides “beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.”

“If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well, and we hope and expect the governor will understand and grant this unusual but important request in good faith to Ms. Paris Whitney Hilton,” the petition says.Kim Fields — Tootie on ‘The Facts of Life’ gives birth to a sonLOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Fields, who played Tootie Ramsey on The Facts of Life, has given birth to a son.Sebastian Alexander Morgan, who will be called Sam, was born Friday at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The baby weighed six pounds, four ounces, said the actress’ publicist, Linda J. Stewart, in a statement.

He is the first child for Fields, 37, and her fiance, Christopher Morgan, 30, a Broadway actor. Morgan was in the delivery room when the baby was born.

The couple decided to have a child last summer, Fields said in a statement. “We were on the subway one day and Chris said, ‘I’m ready to start our family’,” she said. “It was beautiful and I started to weep.”

The Facts of Life ran from 1979 to 1988.

Fields has an upcoming book titled, When Bad Women Happen to Good Men: A Collection of Short Stories.George Michael pleads guilty to driving while on drugsLONDON (AP) — George Michael pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while unfit through drugs.The 43-year-old singer said in Brent Magistrates’ Court that he was guilty due to “tiredness and prescribed drugs”.

A charge of being in charge of a vehicle while unfit through drugs was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service. Sentencing was deferred until May 30, pending more blood tests.

Michael, whose real name is George Panayiotou, was arrested in the early hours of October 2 after police responded to complaints that a car was blocking an intersection in North London. Police said he was found slumped over the wheel of the car.

“I am perfectly aware that I did something very wrong and got into my car when I was unfit to drive,” Michael told the court. “I was not in my normal physical state and I’m perfectly prepared to accept the correct punishment for that and I would have accepted it a long time ago.”

“It was fairly predictable considering how much work I had done that week,” he said.

Michael said he was unaware at the time that he could accept a punishment without admitting guilt and dispose of the matter without going to court.Usher denies rift with is ex-manager motherNEW YORK (AP) — Usher’s mother has been his manager since he was a teen, but now the superstar says he wants her to be just “mom.”The Grammy winner confirmed Monday that Jonnetta Patton is no longer in charge of his career, but denied the break was due to any rift.

“She and I are on great terms and support each other in our life’s endeavours. We are both very happy but are now working in different areas of the business,” he said in a statement to The Associated Press. “This is great for me because it means I now get to have my mother strictly as my mother with no added pressure.”

Usher said he believed that by ending his professional relationship with his mother, it would bring them closer.

“At this time in my life, I am simply more interested in building the strength of my family. And in order to do that, I feel it’s best to separate my business life from my personal life,” he said.

This is the second major change this year for Usher, 28. In March, he announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend, stylist Tameka Foster.

Rumours have swirled that Foster would replace Patton as Usher’s manager, but the singer said: “She has no aspirations of becoming my manager or any other artist’s manager.”

Usher is slated to release the follow-up to 2004’s “Confessions,” which sold 9 million copies in the United States, later this year.LA judge suspends David Hasselhoff’s child visitationLOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge suspended David Hasselhoff’s visitation rights with his two teenage daughters after last week’s surfacing of a videotape showing the recovering alcoholic apparently intoxicated in his Las Vegas home.“This videotape changes the landscape, it just does,” Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas said.

The judge set a May 21 hearing to determine if the tape is authentic and who was responsible for its release.

His visitation order will remain in effect until then. Hasselhoff, 54, did not attend the hearing, but his former wife Pamela Bach was there.

Portions of the video were aired last week on syndicated entertainment shows. The video shows Hasselhoff, wearing only blue jeans, lying on a floor and clumsily eating a hamburger while one of his daughters videotapes him and reproves him about his drinking.

Hasselhoff said in a statement last week that he’s a recovering alcoholic and the tape was made to show him what he can be like under the influence of alcohol. “I have learned from it and I am back on my game,” he said then.

A message left Monday for Hasselhoff’s attorney, Melvin Goldsman, was not immediately returned.

Attorney Debra Opri, who represents Bach, said her client was upset about the release of the tape and stunned by her former husband’s behaviour in front of their daughter.

“She’s devastated the videotape was put out in the press,” Opri said. “When a mother hears this from her daughter, what does she think? `I haven’t protected my daughters.”’

The syndicated entertainment shows said the tape was made about three months ago by Hasselhoff’s 16-year-old daughter, Taylor-Ann, in his home in Las Vegas, where the former Baywatch star had been appearing in a stage version of The Producers.