How will the Hollywood party circuit survive now that Linsday Lohan is to be ripped from the champagne-soaked scene for a full day?

The part-time actress, and full-time party animal is to spend a whole day, yes, that’s right – one entire day, behind bars after pleading no contest to drunk-driving and cocaine possession charges.

But if one day in the clink sounds ludicrous, the plea bargain deal she reached yesterday in Los Angeles didn’t let her off quite that easily. An hour-long hearing, before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr, saw Lohan placed on probation, instructed to complete a drug-treatment program, pay fines and attend a three-day county coroner program, in which she must visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers.

Pre-empting a Hilton-esque media storm over the one-day jail sentence, Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers insisted Lohan is "getting what everyone else would get."

The 21-year-old, who rose to fame as a child actress in the movie Parent Trap, was arrested in May after loosing control of a Mercedes convertible and colliding with a hedge on Sunset Boulevard.

After a spell in rehab, and having an alcohol monitoring bracelet attached to her ankle, she was arrested again in July when her former personal assistant’s mother called police to report an SUV was chasing her daughter. Police later identified Lohan as the SUV’s driver and found she had alcohol in her system and cocaine in her pocket.

Lohan, now at a rehabilitation centre in Utah, released a statement yesterday saying: “It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."

"I broke the law and today I took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges in my case."

While the tabloids have leapt on each law break and rehab stint, Lohan’s film career has dived. After successes with Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, her latest movie I Know Who Killed Me was widely panned.

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