The once super-hot Richie Sambora checked in for detox, not rehab, which explains the very short stint at UCLA.

On Today this morning, Sambora told Matt Lauer that he checked himself in because he was drinking too much and that he’s still in therapy. Sambora said he’s doing well and getting "life back together."

Guess that’s how grown-ups handle the "partying too much" thang. Are you paying attention Britney and Lindsay?

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· "The street fighter in me wants to lash out. But the host in me said this is extraordinary television and don’t let it end. I knew this would be great TV. Cruise had no intention of listening to me…. I was watching this guy come into my living room and not keeping it a professional discussion. He was pointing at me."
– Matt Lauer on his memorable on-air disagreement with Tom Cruise over the tenets of Scientology

· "All the positive things that happen to her, it’s funny, they always feel like they’re happening to me also. We really support each other to an extent where it really feels like it’s happening to me."
– Peter Sarsgaard on being proud of his wife, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal

· "I just got through My Not Favorite Year. There have been a few, and 2006 is on my list. It was a not-favorite year."
РRen̩e Zellweger

· “I’m blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I’m sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I’m nice – and I like to eat.”
– Paris Hilton

· "I just don’t understand women who go out with younger men. Even women who date men only five years younger than them, I can’t relate to it. . . .I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old more.”
– Cate Blanchett

· "You’re all going to have to get used to my jelly!"
– Jennifer Hudson

· "I was a troubled kid. I felt like an outsider. I didn’t feel like I belonged, especially in the classroom."
– Hilary Swank

· "I think I suffer from mild depression. So to have millions of people go, ’I watched your movie and related’ was the ultimate affirmation that I’m not a freak."
– Zach Braff

· "You can get obsessed with it, you’re doing all these tricks on the pole and you want to practice them…Now I can climb a pole without using my feet."
– Kate Hudson on her hobby of pole dancing

· “About 10 years ago I said, ’Such a shame I never was a teacher.’”
– Oprah Winfrey on her decision to open a school in South Africa

· Because, I mean, I didn’t learn to swim. I grew up in Wyoming and all the water there is like freezing cold because it’s glacier runoff and I didn’t learn to swim until i was like 21. My wife Margherita actually taught me how to swim in the pool at Columbia University."
– Matthew Fox

· "I’m misrepresented as a scary person. I’m not. It’s all about my size and my eyebrows."
– Liev Schreiber

· “I always get shy and embarrassed when someone says that. I need to learn to take compliments I’ve been told.”
– Nicole Kidman after being told she looked beautiful.

· “I wouldn’t call myself a professional break dancer although I did own a nylon Puma suit.”
– Ben Affleck on his younger years of auditioning for roles and break-dancing

The Today show’s Matt Lauer and his wife, Annette, welcomed a baby boy Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.

The child was given the Dutch name of This (pronounced "tice"), in honor of Lauer’s wife, who is Dutch. Born in a New York City hospital at 9:37 a.m., This weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces. This is the couple’s third child. They have a son, Jack, 5, and 3-year-old daughter, Romy.

Lauer, 48, worked his regular shift on Monday, but Weekend Today’s Lester Holt filled in for him on the NBC morning show Tuesday.

"I was on the show for five years before I had children," Lauer, 48, told The New York Times magazine in August. "And back then the job took up a larger slice of the pie graph of my life than was healthy. When I had kids, that immediately changed. It flipped. I realized that the job didn’t have to consume your whole life."

Lauer met his wife in 1997 when she was a working model known professionally as Jade. They married a year later. The couple separated for several months in 2005, and on September 13, Annette filed a petition in Manhattan Supreme Court seeking a split from her husband. She later withdrew the petition and Lauer abandoned his $15,000-a-month Trump Tower bachelor pad and returned to the family’s home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

On April 11, 2006, Lauer signed a contract with NBC that will provide him with an annual salary of $13 million until 2011.

As they await their third child together, Matt Lauer and his wife Annette are trying to keep their marriage from dissolving completely.

On Sept. 13, Annette Roque filed a petition in Manhattan Supreme Court seeking a split from her husband, but, according to Rush & Molloy, the former model is withdrawing the petition, and a rep for the couple says today that they’re "not getting divorced." Last spring, the Lauers separated, then reconciled. It is unclear when the Lauers will welcome their impending arrival.

When food-porn temptress Nigella Lawson asks Matt Lauer if he’d like to "dribble [her] a little," it’s pretty clear that he’d enjoy nothing more. [Video via Gawker]