Season Four Cast Includes Jeremy London, Rachel Uchitel, Janice Dickinson, Leif Garrett, Frankie Lons, Jason Wahler and Jason Davis

Los Angeles, CA – July 18, 2010 – VH1 has once again partnered with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a fourth season of the hit reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” The series, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to premiere late 2010.

Similar to the first three cycles, the fourth season of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” will follow the real-life experiences of celebrity patients undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. The show will include Jeremy London (“Party of Five,” “7th Heaven”), Rachel Uchitel (Infamous Party Planner), Janice Dickinson (“The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency”), Leif Garrett (Musician), Frankie Lons (Keyshia Cole’s Mother), Jason Wahler (“The Hills”) and Jason Davis (Socialite).

The series will chronicle the patients’ intensive 21-day program with both group and one-on-one therapy and non-traditional therapies like art and music. Returning to the show to help Dr. Drew are drug counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague who have each spent years on both sides of the rehab fence. Dr. Drew is also bringing in some additional prominent physicians to help him give the patients supplementary one-on-one care.

Dr. Drew is a highly respected practicing MD board certified in internal and addiction medicine who will once again give viewers an unflinching look at exactly how the rehab process works and what it feels like for participants. Dr. Drew hopes to use his celebrity patients to humanize the process and show viewers that treatment is a viable way to break the cycle of addiction.

While most people know Dr. Drew as the host of the syndicated radio show Loveline and the MTV show of the same name, Dr. Drew is a medical doctor on staff at Huntington Hospital and assistant clinical professor of KECK USC School of Medicine. His book, Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins) is all about what treating addicts is like from a caretaker’s perspective. Dr. Drew co-authored the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism. The study was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) in September 2006, and is the first systematic, empirical scholarly study of celebrity personality. Additionally, he is a New York Times best selling author with his work The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper-Collins). Dr. Drew can also be seen as host of VH1’s “Sober House” and “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” along with MTV’s “Sex…With Mom and Dad” and “16 & Pregnant, Life After Labor.”

In the coming months, visit VH1.com for more details about this show including sneak peek video clips.

“Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” is executive produced by John Irwin and Damian Sullivan for Irwin Entertainment. Dr. Drew Pinsky, Howard Lapides and Joel Rodgers are also executive producing. Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes, and Noah Pollack are executive producers for VH1.

VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 95 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, VH1Games and extensive broadband video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.

Beating addiction and substance abuse is a long, painful, and arduous journey.  Doing it off-camera is hard enough, but there are some still celebrities that choose to clean up their act unabashedly in front of medical experts, fellow addicts…and the camera.  Whether it’s to show the world that they, too, are vulnerable, or if they’re just starved for media attention and a second chance at fame is always up for debate.  Nonetheless, we the viewers will watch anyway.  Such is the case with the hit VH1 reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” now embarking on its fourth season.

It seems like The 4th season of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” has finally gotten started with film production after several delays due to lack of cast members solidifying a cast.  Rumored on the new season are reality TV star/bad boy/heartbreaker Jason Wahler from MTV’s “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills,” Myspace/reality TV bombshell phenom Tila Tequila from MTV’s “A Shot at Love” series’ (although there are also reports saying she’s not doing the show), and former supermodel and bad ass Janice Dickinson of Oxygen’s “Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,” actor Jeremy London from “Party of Five” and his wife Melissa London, oil heir “Gummi Bear” (Jason Davis) who Patti Stenger tried to make dateable on Bravo’s “Millionaire Matchmaker,” and Playboy playmate who also made headlines for sex tape with ex husband/actor Lorenzo Lamas- Shauna Sand.

(Update 7/19/2010) PopEater.com (via TMZ) is reporting that one of Tiger Woods’s most talked about mistresses Rachel Uchitel and 70s hearthrob/actor/singer Leif Garrett are also joining the cast.

(Update 7/19/2010) Peacefmonline.com (via Radaronline.com) is reporting that Julia Roberts’ older brother Eric Roberts has also been added to the cast.

VH1 has not officially released the cast names for this season, so this is all a buzz at the moment.  Celebrity Rehab 4 misses included DMX (sidenote: you MUST watch VH1′s “Behind The Music” featuring DMX, it’s super awesome!) who wanted to do the show but could not get his Arizona jail to release him for taping and Lindsay Lohan who would have certainly had producers and executives yelling “ca-ching!”  Other celebs that reportedly turned down the opportunity to get clean with Dr. Drew Pinsky and in front of millions of TV viewers were Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen, and the Duchess of York (Sara Ferguson).

Who would you like to see on Celebrity Rehab?

Related links right here on Ifelicious Thoughts:

• Sex Rehab’s Kari Ann Peniche “U and Me and Tiger Make Three” video
• Ifelicious TV: Red carpet interview with Celebrity Rehab’s Jeff Conaway
• Everybody has one of those days, today is mine

Other Related Links:

• NY Daily News- VH1′s ‘Celebrity Rehab’ postponed due to lack of stars despite hiring Tila Tequila and Jason Wahler
• LA Times- Who’s lining up for the next ‘Celebrity Rehab’? Tila Tequila is out; Jeremy London considers it
• Mash Celeb- Janice Dickinson Celebrity Rehab 4
• NY Daily News- Jennifer Capriati in talks with VH1 to appear on ‘Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew’

BONUS:  Ok, not everyone comes out of Celebrity Rehab and/or the follow up show Sober House and is able to stay clean.  Case and point below:

Does Wanda Sykes have a show?  Who’s been hiding that info from me?  I soooo need to get caught up on that! 

From YouTube…

Wanda’s version of what really happened… Catch The Wanda Sykes Show Saturdays, 11/10c, only on FOX!

Wanda, thanks for reading between the lines and tellin’ it like it is!

shit! i gotta get my story straight now... LOL

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