With her jet-black hair, thick red lips, sexy attitude and uncensored mouth its hard not to think of Megan Fox as the emerging Angelina Jolie, but the 23-year-old “Transformers” starlet has had enough with constantly being compared to the actress/activist.

“I think its cause she has tattoos really, I think a lack of creativity on the media’s part,” Fox said. “I am a brunette with tattoos, I curse and I have made mention of sex before. I joked about it which people find outrageous so they want to constantly compare that to her. You know Shia is the new Tom Hanks, Rhianna is the new Beyonce. Everybody is the new somebody although none of us are any of those people so you just walk around with it you live with it.”

However Fox isn’t the only one quick to diss the comparison, Jolie’s own father Jon Voight agrees that the two really aren’t alike.

“Megan is herself and Angelina is herself. No one is comparable; everyone in the world is unique,” Voight told Tarts at the recent “Transformers” premiere in Los Angeles. “That’s the great thing about it, but of course they’re two very beautiful women.”

But it turns out that “Jennifer’s Body” writer Diablo Cody may have played a prominent role in contributing to Fox’s self-proclaimed filthy mouth.

“She (Cody) has told me some of the dirtiest jokes I’ve ever heard in my entire life,” Fox told Tarts over the weekend at the Comic Con Festival in San Diego.

But how did the world’s hottest woman feel about being mutated into a zombie for the role?

“Going through hours of zombie makeup wasn’t necessarily hard it was just so bizarre because I’m so used to being glamorized on a Michael Bay set to the point where you don’t feel beautiful anymore because you’re like a mannequin,” she added. “So being made into a zombie was really bizarre and some of the prosthetics were very laborious but it was so interesting.”

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Mischa Barton’s co-workers are glad to have her back on the job.

“She looks great!” Ben Hollingsworth, Barton’s “Beautiful Life” co-star, told us Wednesday at The Gates. As we reported Thursday, Barton’s close pals think the actress — isn’t ready to return to work after recent involuntary psychiatric care. But Hollingsworth disagrees.

“She’s ready to work, and seems healthy and ready to go,” he said after the cast assembled Wednesday for table reads. “She’s her own person and can make her own choices.”

Added castmate Nico Tortorella at the BlackBerry Smartphone launch: “I’m really happy that she’s doing well. I’m not worried about her.”

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VH1 just found out how high “The Price of Beauty” can be. Jessica Simpson is scheduled to start shooting the new show next week and travel to seven countries examining exotic beauty regimens. But VH1 isn’t happy with her budget. “To get her camera-ready each episode will cost $25,000,” said our source. “She insists on using her own hair, makeup and fashion stylists, who are more expensive than J.Lo’s.” A VH1 rep said, “We never comment on what we spend or don’t spend.” Simpson’s rep, Cindi Berger, said, “A budget was approved when the deal was made. All parties were satisfied.”

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“Jon & Kate Plus 8″ womanizer Jon Gosselin is shopping a new show based on being a single dad, sources said. The Gosselins have earned as much as $75,000 per episode with “Jon & Kate,” but insiders said most of the money goes toward the kids, and that Jon is hard up for cash. “He’s looking for endorsement deals to get that extra money,” one source said. Hollywood broker Mike Heller is trying to help Gosselin. Fame-mad Michael Lohan introduced Heller to Gosselin (Heller used to broker deals for Lindsay Lohan), and told us he helped brainstorm a new show, “Divorced Dads Club.” But our insider insists, “Michael will not be involved,” adding, “Jon has been approached to do various reality shows, but due to his contract with TLC, he can’t begin to think about doing anything right now.” Reps for both TLC and Gosselin declined to comment.

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The two, who became friends after vacationing together in Barbados following Rihanna’s dust-up with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, hung out together all night at Griffin in the Meatpacking District posing for pictures and drinking at the party after Perry’s concert. Also there were Mickey Rourke, Lil’ Kim and Melania Trump, who ditched The Donald after the concert to party on.

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Two Ohio police chiefs suspected of snooping for tabloid fodder at the home of a surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are to be arraigned on undisclosed charges.

A special prosecutor has been looking into whether the eastern Ohio chiefs illegally entered the woman’s home in May, when she wasn’t there. It was unclear if their arrests relate to that investigation.

The prosecutor could not be reached for comment. His office said information would be released Friday. Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack are to be arraigned Friday in Belmont County.

County jail personnel confirmed that they were booked Wednesday night and released.

There were no residential telephone numbers listed for the two men.

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On the day Michael Jackson died, his personal chef says her first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn’t come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning.

Kai Chase, a professionally trained chef hired by Jackson to maintain a healthy food regimen, recalled the singer’s final days in an interview with The Associated Press. She also spoke about the role of his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who is now the focus of a manslaughter investigation.

Chase said Tuesday that she had gotten used to seeing Murray coming and going from the mansion. The doctor usually arrived about 9 or 9:30 p.m. and would go upstairs to Jackson’s room, and she said she would not see him again before she left – sometimes late in the evening – but understood he was staying the night.

In the morning, when she arrived for work, Chase said she would see the doctor coming down the steps carrying oxygen tanks. When Murray didn’t come downstairs the morning of June 25, “I thought maybe Mr. Jackson is sleeping late,” Chase said.

“I started preparing the lunch and then I looked at my cell phone and it was noon. About 12:05 or 12:10 Dr. Murray runs down the steps and screams, ‘Go get Prince!’ He’s screaming very loud. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Prince (Jackson’s oldest son) runs to meet Dr. Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change.

“I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs.”

At that point, Chase said, the small group that was gathered – the children, their nanny, a housekeeper and Chase – held hands and began to pray. As paramedics raced up to the room, Chase recalls, “We were all praying, ‘Help Mr. Jackson be O.K.’

“Then everyone was very quiet.”

At about 1:30 p.m. she said security guards told her and other staff to leave the property because “Mr. Jackson was being taken to the hospital.”

When she came outside, she said, ambulances were in the courtyard and a crowd had gathered.

Chase, 37, who has cooked for other celebrities and comes from a show-business family, was hired by Jackson in March, let go in May, then returned on June 2. She said the pop star’s focus was on fresh, healthy food for him and the children.

She said she prepared meals for the family and occasionally for Murray. She said Jackson was in training for his upcoming shows in London and told her: “You have to take care of me.”

On most days, she said, Murray would bring Jackson the special fruit juice drinks Chase prepared for him, followed by granola with almond milk. For lunch, Jackson would eat with the children from a menu that included such things as spinach salad and chicken.

Murray sometimes joined them for dinner, which might be a seared ahi tuna. She said the doctor conferred with her about the 50-year-old pop singer’s food and made sure that he ate.

The only oddity was the oxygen tanks. Chase said she never asked about the purpose of the oxygen and she saw no sign that Jackson was on drugs or was in failing health.

“Normally in the morning, he would bring oxygen tanks from upstairs downstairs, one in each hand,” she said.

Authorities searched Murray’s Las Vegas home and medical office Tuesday as part of an investigation that included raids last week of his clinic and storage in Houston.

With toxicology reports pending, investigators are working under the theory that the powerful anesthetic propofol caused Jackson’s heart to stop, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Murray told investigators he regularly administered the drug to help Jackson sleep, and had done so sometime in the early morning of June 25, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Propofol is supposed to be administered only in monitored medical settings by trained personnel; the official told AP that Murray left the bedroom and returned to find the star unresponsive. Police have said Murray is cooperating and have not labeled him a suspect, and his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, has said the doctor “didn’t prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson.”

Like Murray, Chase said she was hired to accompany Jackson to London for his comeback concerts and the request was personally made to her by his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael II.

“Prince said, ‘Daddy wants me to tell you he wants you to go to London with us,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘Tell your daddy that I’m pleased and honored.”

She said she had already filled out paperwork and submitted a copy of her passport to the Jackson staff and expected to leave for London on July 3.

On June 23, she said Jackson told her: “I’m packed and I’m ready to go.” Two days later, he was dead.

It was the end of her dream job and an idyllic time in Chase’s life, a time that had begun in March with a call from Jackson’s assistant, Michael Williams. She was told that “a client” wanted her services as personal chef but she was not told the client was Jackson until she was hired.

“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I asked him if I was on ‘Candid Camera.’ I said, ‘Am I being punked?’”

She said Jackson had seen her resume which included jobs cooking for Macy Gray and Jamie Foxx as well as catering a fund raiser for President Barack Obama. She said he also knew she was from a multiracial background and her godfather was Redd Foxx.

But before she started she had to pass muster with three other people: the Jackson children.

“I came to the house and the first people I met were the kids. They started interviewing me,” she said. “They told me: ‘We’re into healthy eating.’”

When they approved her, she went to work and “we developed a really great bond.”

Most days, she said, Jackson made a point of having both lunch and dinner with the children, Prince, 11-year-old Paris and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, and each meal was preceded by Paris saying grace. After weeks of healthy food, she said she wrote Jackson a note with a suggestion:

“I said, ‘What about doing comfort-food Saturdays? We could do barbecued chicken and corn on the cob, maybe Mexican food or soul food.’” She said he loved the idea, but as the concerts approached, healthy eating returned full time.

“He said, ‘I’m a dancer,’ and he wanted food that would not make him cramp up while he was dancing.”

She now treasures little notes she received from the children and from Jackson and a present he gave her.

“One day he handed me a little gift bag and said, ‘This is for you from me and the children.’ He had given me an iPod Touch because the children told him I still had a Walkman. It had the 25th anniversary ‘Thriller’ album loaded on it.”

She said she has visited with the children since Jackson’s death and they are doing well. “They have so many cousins to play with.”

As for Chase’s future, she said Jackson encouraged her to write a cookbook and she has written one tentatively titled, “Fit for a King.” It includes recipes she cooked for Jackson and the story of the time she worked for him.

“He was an inspiration to me,” she said.

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