US-born model Caprice Bourret has further blasted claims she was recently treated for drug addiction and depression in rehab, insisting she doesn’t even take painkillers.

Last week a British newspaper reported the blonde beauty had checked into London’s The Priory, when it emerged she was actually enjoying a skiing holiday with her boyfriend in South Africa.

The BBC’s popular sketch show Little Britain, starring comedian Matt Lucas, has become the subject of a fierce bidding war in Hollywood, with execs keen to snap up the big screen rights.

Last autumn, Lucas and his screen partner David Walliams spoke of their film plans, but since the success of fellow Jewish Brit Sacha Baron Cohen with Borat, producers are looking for the next big British smash. And they think Lucas and Walliams have it.

Lou Pearlman is being sued by a New York City dentist who claims the boy band impresario failed to repay him over $1 million.

Pearlman created such groups as the Backstreet Boys and ’N Sync and has been the subject of a series of recent lawsuits.

And now Manhattan dentist Steven Sarin claims Pearlman refused to return investments he made in his company, as well as money his brother and his parents invested in the business.