Is Lindsay Lohan the next Betty Ford?

THERE ARE SO MANY GAG celebrity news sites on the Internet, Tattle never knows when we might be pulling a "Fox & Friends" and sourcing a farcical site (haven't done that) or sourcing a real site which mistakenly sourced a farcical site (may have done that).

RadarOnline.com isn't a site you'd check out to learn more about the battle over the debt ceiling, but for celebrity gossip it usually has credible non-news.

But this Radar story sounds as if it came from the Onion.

Lindsay Lohan is considering opening her own rehab center.

For other people.

Yes, Lindsay is reportedly thinking of working with possible investors and lending her name to a new facility.

Gosh, we hope it has a DJ.

"Lindsay really wants to help other people, and she's talked to some of her wealthy friends who are sober about the prospect of opening up a rehab center," an unnamed source told RadarOnline.com.

Is that person on drugs?

"She loves the idea and really believes that if her name is attached to it, it will help draw attention to sobriety."

Tattle is no Dr. Drew (just as Lindsay is no Betty Ford), but it would seem like putting your name on a rehab center would draw attention to drug and alcohol abuse, not sobriety.

The source added: "Lindsay is telling friends that she knows what works and doesn't work when it comes to treatment.

"She feels that she's in the right frame of mind now to give advice to other young people who have their own problems.

"It may never happen . . . but she is totally behind the idea and wants to give back after all that she has been through."

Tattle is fairly confident Lindsay will have her name on a Red Bull knockoff before it's on a rehab center, but if she wants to help people kick their bad habits, more power to her. There are free clinics throughout the country that would love to have her come in and help troubled teens.

* A Belarusian journalist who has criticized her country's authoritarian government has won a major freedom-of-speech prize.

Iryna Khalip, a correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, shares the 2013 PEN Pinter prize with British playwright Tom Stoppard.

Khalip was detained and beaten in December 2010 after demonstrating against President Alexander Lukashenko and alleged electoral fraud, and later convicted of disrupting public order.

The PEN Pinter prize was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter. It goes jointly to a British writer and a "writer of courage" who has faced persecution.

Stoppard, who scripted Oscar-winner "Shakespeare in Love," is the author of plays such as "Arcadia" and "The Real Thing."

He said yesterday, "I started off as a journalist, and I'm proud to share the prize with a brave reporter."

* Bryan Cranston is going from a fake meth lab to a fake White House.

The "Breaking Bad" star will make his Broadway debut in "All the Way," a new play written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan about a tumultuous year in the life of former President Lyndon Johnson.

* Seven years after being named Esquire magazine's sexiest woman alive, Scarlett Johansson has earned the title for a second time.

Scarlett is the first woman to get the honor - it is an honor, right? - twice.

Last year's winner was Mila Kunis, who's still sexy, but just not sexy enough. Perhaps Mila lost sexy points for her Ashton Kutcher connection. Scarlett recently became engaged to a French journalist, and there's nothing sexier than being with a journalist.

Esquire hits newsstands Oct. 15.

* Fresh from roaming the universe in "Doctor Who," Matt Smith is to play a style-obsessed killer roaming New York in the stage musical "American Psycho."

The musical is based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel about a homicidal yuppie obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products. It was later made into a movie starring Christian Bale.

Rupert Goold will direct the show, opening in London on Dec. 12.

It is written by Tony Award-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening") and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who worked on the TV series "Glee" and the Broadway production of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."

* Music producer Jermaine Dupri is joining Mariah Carey's management team.

A rep for Carey confirmed the news yesterday. The pair have collaborated on hits like "Always Be My Baby," "Don't Forget About Us" and "We Belong Together," which was named song of the decade and is one of the most popular songs of all time.

Carey said in a statement that she and Dupri "have a bond that surpasses music."

Hearing that, concerned husband Nick Cannon said to Mariah, "Always Be My Baby," "Don't Forget About Us" and "We Belong Together."

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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