HOT CELEBRITIES: Lindsay Lohan gets a glowing review from judge for good behaviour

 17th January 2012
Lindsay Lohan is on target to complete her supervised court probation in just over 10 weeks, a judge said yesterday.
Praising the troubled star for adhering to her strict community service and therapy schedule, Judge Stephanie Sautner said she was heading for a completion date of March 29th.
'Keep doing what you're doing. You appear to be doing it well,' Judge Sautner told the actress during a five-minute hearing in Los Angeles, California.

Turning over a new leaf: Lindsay Lohan arriving at court in LA today

'The probation officer has written a favourable report, as has the volunteer centre.'
'You are on schedule for the completion date of March 29th, the judge added.
Lohan, 25, arrived 15 minutes early for her probation progress report hearing at the Los Angeles Airport Courthouse.
Looking demure in black trousers, an eggshell top, a long cream coat and dark sunglasses, the blonde actress hurried inside the building through a gauntlet of photographers and news crews.
Sitting next to her lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, Lohan smiled throughout the hearing and appeared pleased with her progress.

Conservative: The star opted for a covered-up look

Judge Sautner told the court the 'Mean Girls' star had successfully completed her latest string of 12 community service days and four therapy sessions.
'I'm pleased to say she's done it all on schedule,' the judge said.
Lohan had been due to reappear at court for a further hearing on February 15th, but Judge Sautner explained the court was not sitting that day.
'The court will be dark on February 15th. We will meet on February 22nd,' she said.
'By February 22nd you are to do 15 days of community service and five therapy sessions.'

'Keep doing what you're doing': The judge was impressed with the star, seen here inside court with her lawyer Shawn Chapman-Holley

The actress whispered 'thank you' as Judge Sautner told her to keep up her good work.
In November last year, Lohan admitted violating her probation in a DUI case and a theft case by failing to show up for community service appointments and therapy sessions.
She was ordered to serve 30 days in jail, but only spent around five hours at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, largely due to jail overcrowding.
Judge Sautner technically sentenced Lohan to 300 days behind bars, but said 270 of those would be stayed as long as she adhered to a strict community service and therapy schedule.

Short and sweet: Lindsay left court with a smile after the very brief hearing

At a hearing last month, the judge praised Lohan for meeting her initial requirements - performing 12 days of community service at the LA County morgue and attending four psychotherapy sessions.
The actress now has until February 22nd to complete another 15 days at the morgue and five more therapy sessions.
After that, she has until March 29 to perform 14 more days of community service at the morgue and attend another five therapy sessions.
If Lohan adheres to the schedule, her probation in the 2007 DUI case will terminate at the end of March. Her probation in the theft case will be downgraded to summary, non-supervised probation.
It was on May 11 last year that Lohan pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor grand theft charge involving a $2,500 gold necklace that was pilfered from a boutique in Venice, California.
She was placed on three years' probation, ordered to spend 120 days in jail and told to complete the 480 hours of community service she had previously been sentenced to for violating her probation in the 2007 DUI case.
She was ordered to have her 480 hours of community service completed by April 2012, doing 360 hours at the women's centre in downtown LA and another 120 hours at the county morgue.
Meanwhile, Lohan may have a rival for the coveted role of Elizabeth Taylor in a Hollywood biopic about the late screen legend.
Megan Fox is now in the running to play the actress in the TV movie about her life and marriages to Richard Burton.
Fox, 25, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Taylor, is understood to have already met with the producers of the film.
'I've been talking to Lindsay Lohan directly, and with her reps, and have been in conversations with other actresses, including Megan Fox,' Larry Thompson, the executive producer of the film.
'It's a very serious selection,;' Thompson adds. "It's like casting for Hollywood royalty.
Lohan is said to be pinning her hopes on landing the role to spark her comeback after years of drink and drug abuse that wrecked her career.