The bright, young and lovely Kate Hudson will not be held down. You won’t find her drowning her sorrows or cocooning with an industrial-size vat of ice cream and a Yoo-hoo chaser. Or even a Vicodin nightcap.

No! Beautiful Kate puts on a bikini, gets right back on the hot-famous-guy horse (or his-and-hers bikes) and tries, tries again.

And, good for her. Dax Shepard, her latest squeeze, is pretty hot. Maybe even hotter than Owen Wilson, though the Butterscotch Stallion has his own…er…unique charm.

She was recently seen frolicking with Shepard near her family’s vacation home and has apparently introduced him to the ’rents and to her daughter…we mean, son, Ryder. So, it could be an actual "relationship."

To think that for all those years while she was with the scraggly and rarely showered Chris Robinson, we really thought she liked her men on the homely side.

Way to surprise us, Kate!

Dax Shepard and Kate Hudson were spotted leaving Nobu in Malibu after a date. If Dax is going to get his 15 seconds in the spotlight, he gonna do it with his sexy on, but his brain off. The monkey in the video below is smarter than most pretty boys and girls in Hollywood, plus this monkey takes better care of his pets.

WTF!? That’s all we can about this photo. The only way anyone MIGHT know who Dax Shepard is is from the brilliant show that was Punk’d, so we can only think (and hope) that this photo of him with Kate Hudson (and the story behind it) are a sign that the show is coming out on DVD. I half-expected to see Ashton Kutcher’s goofy mug in the background.

C’mon Kate, say it ain’t so. Although I do give him four stars for those abs, which is, coincidentally, how many he gives himself based on his tattoo.