With everything that's happened in recent days, our urge has never been stronger to sit Lindsay Lohan down with some hot cocoa and have a long talk about the dangers of the Hollywood lifestyle (along with a shorter chat about the twin perils of self-tanner and peroxide).

The id-propelled, guidance-needing starlet, who just a month ago enjoyed the attentions of a trio of Italian suitors, made the scene Friday night at a pair of New York hot spots with easy-on-the-eyes reality show Z-lister Brody Jenner.

Lindsay at The Box on Jan. 25

According to People, Lindsay, 21, and Brody, 24, were "all over each other" at Beatrice Inn, where they cozied up for about a half-hour before moving on to the unfortunately named club The Box.

There, the fame-mismatched duo purportedly hung out until the wee small hours, calling it a night around 3:30 a.m. and hopping into the same chauffeur-driven SUV.

"She likes him. It's early, but they are more than friends," a snitch tells the mag, apparently in a note surreptitiously passed along during study hall. "He seems to like her back. They're actually sweet together. It would be nice if she kept him around."

You'll recall that this time last year, when LiLo was making her first of three stabs at rehab, she was reportedly sending Jenner flirtatious text messages, including one that said all she was craving was "McDonald's and sex."

"I'm a sexual person -- everyone is, I think," she told the May issue of Allure of the rumored missive. "And once a month I'm a McDonald's person. Everything in moderation."

Brody Jenner at The Box on Jan. 25

Funnily enough, one day before Brody was purportedly going lip-to-lip with Lohan, who stepped out solo Saturday night save for her ubiquitous leggings and prominently displayed pack of Ariva nicotine lozenges, he was unplugging his yapper about his budding romance with a model named Cora Skinner.

He told People he planned to keep the Playboy lingerie catalog-posing mannequin out of his limited screen time on "The Hills."

"She's met the parents. She's part of the family. But no, she's not on the show," explained Jenner, whose would-be fame peaked in 2006 thanks to a two-month dalliance with Nicole Richie. "I'm choosing to keep her away from being on 'The Hills' because that would bring a lot of conflict [and] drama to the relationship concerning me and Lauren [Conrad]."

(That's assuming, of course, that Brody has any sort of clout regarding the plotline of the show, and that his "relationship" with onetime squeeze Conrad isn't complicated by her seemingly rekindled romance with former "Laguna Beach" beau Stephen Colletti, although she insists they're just friends.)

Anyhoo, Jenner also fessed up to getting a funny feeling inside because Skinner knows how to handle herself on their skeet shooting excursions.

"I don't know what it is. But a girl that can hold a shotgun well ... that turns me on," he said, before upping the ick factor by revealing what she likes about him.

Offered the classy and modest Brody, "My bedroom style."

Which is something he insists Lindsay knows nothing about.

"We were hanging out as friends and nothing happened," Jenner downplays to E! News. "We weren't 'all over' each other, and we definitely weren't making out. I am dating and really happy with Cora."

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