Lisa Rinna’s Playboy cover is here!

The former “Melrose Place” star, who has talked about her pictorial for weeks, vamps it up in the men’s mag’s May 2009 issue in a skimpy leotard, suit jacket, lacy peek-a-boo bra (natch) and fishnets.

Rinna recently told Us Weekly that Playboy photographer Deborah Anderson forced her to stop working out before her photo shoot.

“She knows that I’m a workout fiend and she said, ‘Lisa, I don’t want you to work out, and I don’t want you to starve yourself before the shoot, because I know you will,” Rinna said.

And the actress is happy with the final result. “I looked great! I’m really pleased with how my body looked,” she said.
But this isn’t the 45-year-old’s first time as a Playboy Bunny.

Rinna posed in a sweater - and nothing else for the magazine in 1998 while she was pregnant with her daughter Delilah Belle.

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Lindsay Lohan is drowning her sorrows over her breakup with Samantha Ronson in a sea of men — and some friends are terrified she’ll go down the road Britney Spears traveled two years ago. Except that, unlike Spears, Lohan doesn’t have a stable family member to lean on.

The faux lesbian has been “a complete and utter wreck” since Ronson broke it off with her two weeks ago, and has been spending time with “a different man every night,” said one concerned friend. Some of the guys include “90210″ star Kellan Lutz — who “has been out of town this week, but they are in constant contact,” the friend said — as well as British paparazzo Chris Jepson.

On April 15, Lohan and Jepson were inseparable at a Hollywood Hills house party. According to a spy, they even went into a bathroom together and didn’t come out for quite some time.

Friends fear that Lohan is in a “meltdown” situation and has no career to fall back on.

Lohan, who can’t get an acting gig because of her antics and the high cost of insuring her, is said to be interested in joining the burlesque “Peepshow” at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The show stars former Spice Girl Melanie Brown (Mel B/Scary Spice) as mistress of ceremonies Peep Diva, while Kelly Monaco is Bo Peep, the Diva’s timid protégé. Lohan joined the duo backstage after catching the show Saturday night and approached the director about a part, which would require her to appear topless.

Meanwhile, since the Ronson split, the former starlet has not only gone back to men — she’s also gone back to partying all night, every night. Last week, she hit six clubs in one evening. Lohan doesn’t have a rep and her former publicist didn’t return calls.

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Tongues were wagging over Vanessa Minnillo’s recent display of affection with a guy who was not longtime beau Nick Lachey. The celebutrash was spotted at the SLS hotel in LA, “hanging out in a private cabana all night” with “90210″ actor Matt Lanter. Our spy said, “Vanessa definitely wasn’t with Nick. She sat on Matt’s lap and really close to him for two hours at the party. He looks like a younger version of Nick.” A rep for Minnillo said her client knows her “Disaster Movie” co-star because “they made a film together.”

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It’s war between director Ron Howard and the Catholic League over alleged anti-Catholic smears in Howard’s new flick, “Angels & Demons.” League president William Donohue slammed a trailer for the Tom Hanks movie, which blames the Vatican for a brutal massacre centuries ago to silence a group of intellectuals called the Illuminati — an event he calls a big lie. Howard struck back in the Huffington Post, calling Donohue’s charges “mean-spirited,” insisting the film is fiction and Catholics will enjoy it as “an exciting mystery.” Yesterday, Donohue retorted, “Howard must be delusional if he thinks Vatican officials are going to like his propaganda — they denied him the right to film on their grounds. Moreover, we know from a Canadian priest who hung out with [his] crew last summer in Rome . . . just how much they hate Catholicism. It’s time to stop the lies and come clean.” Howard’s rep had no further response.

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Mariah Carey (above) is the “least green” celebrity, according to a new Earth Day poll, for flying her personal trainer in from St. Barts. “People saw that as an extravagance rather than a necessity and the consequences for the planet probably don’t justify it,” said Jonathon Morgan, editor-in-chief of GreenDaily.com. John Travolta, a licensed pilot, flew into second place because of his fleet of private jets. The greenest celebs were Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Bono, Ed Begley Jr., Brad Pitt and Prince Charles.

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“That guy scares me,” Iron Mike said at the premiere of James Toback’s docu mentary, “Tyson,” at Loews near Union Square. “I wouldn’t want to be in a room with that guy.” Instead, Tyson’s more of a family man these days. Asked by an audience member if he’d let his kids see the movie, which contains some disturbing scenes, he said, “Of course I would. They’re here right now. I love them.” Also there were Christopher Walken, Nas, Ice-T and RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose younger sister, Monica, was Tyson’s second wife. The Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil reports that when Tyson was 18, he met Jack Nicholson through photographer Brian Hamill, who said Tyson was destined to be a world champ. Nicholson disagreed: “He’s a little short for that, don’t you think?” Good thing Jack still has his ears.

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It’s a clothes call for Lauren Conrad!

One month after the 23-year-old designer announced that she was taking a hiatus from her upscale clothing line, the Hills star reveals that she is launching a brand-new apparel line for Kohl’s department stores.

“It is a California chic line,” she tells Usmagazine.com of the new brand, called LC Lauren Conrad. “It is a little more casual. They are basically trying to take that California style and make it accessible everywhere.”

The line — which will consist of only apparel at first but may expand to include shoes, jewelry, handbags, intimates and sleepwear — will be available in October exclusively at Kohl’s stores and on the store’s website. The prices will range from $20 to $60.

“We are very excited to announce our partnership with Lauren Conrad, a pop culture icon whose style resonates with our contemporary customer,” Don Brennan, the senior vice president of Kohl’s, told Us in a statement Monday.

He added: “We are confident the LC Lauren Conrad collection brings customers both the contemporary style and the world-class brands they want at a price that delivers incredible value.”

So why did she decide to take time off from the Lauren Conrad Collection — which is more expensive and only available in select boutiques — to create the national Kohl’s line?

“It was just kind of a battle I had because I wanted to do a higher-end line — I wanted to do a contemporary line — but I was also very aware that the reason I was able to do it at such a young age was because of fans that have supported the show and have supported me,” Conrad tells Us. “So this was my way of being able to still do what I love and work with a great company and also make it accessible to the fans that made it possible in the first place.”

Plus, the star admits that she has shopped at the store.

“My family has always shopped at Kohl’s, so I’ve always known about them and I think that they do a really great job,” Conrad says of the franchise, which has also partnered with designer Vera Wang.

Conrad’s personal collection will be back next spring, and she tells us that fans could pair styles from both of her lines.

“I like having more of an eclectic style where you mix high ends and more affordable pieces,” she says. “It’s great to be able to go to a store like Kohl’s and get really good classic pieces and mix them into your wardrobe.”

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Step aside, aloof vampires with all your undead issues. The wolf pack is ready to howl.

Unlike cold-blooded neck biters, these poster guys for animal magnetism are hot. So hot that their temperature runs a steady 108 degrees, as anyone who has read Stephenie Meyer’s series of gothic romances knows.

That gives them a great excuse to doff their shirts on-screen and expose the physiques they’ve been pumping up for playing werewolves in The Twilight Saga:New Moon, the sequel to last year’s supernatural sensation, due Nov. 20.

Four actors — Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier, all with Native American heritage — join Taylor Lautner, 17, who returns as a hairier, scarier Jacob Black. The plotline finds Jacob growing closer to a distraught Bella (Kristen Stewart) after her vampire beau, Edward, runs off.

Among wolf pack job requirements: the ability to work half-naked no matter what the weather in the Vancouver, B.C., area, where the film has been shooting for several weeks.

“It’s not pleasant for the actors,” says director Chris Weitz. “But they have all been good-natured. They show up on location in drenching, cold rain, and I say, ‘OK, off with the robes.’ ”

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