Letterman hater going to jail

Robert Joel Halderman, the 48 Hours Mystery producer accused of trying to shake down David Letterman over the late night host's affairs with his staff, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, earning himself a trip to jail. There just might be some top ten lists about this one. Halderman entered his guilty plea to attempted grand larceny Tuesday in a Manhattan court, the AP reports. He was charged last fall with demanding $2 million to keep quiet about Letterman's love life, but insisted in the fall he was only trying to sell Letterman a screenplay based on the events. Letterman said forget all that, coming clean on the air in an illustrious example of how to defuse a scandal. "I feel great remorse for what I've done," Halderman said in court, according to the Los Angeles Times. Halderman was the live-in boyfriend of Letterman's assistant, with whom Dave had some very intense conference calls. Halderman's guilty plea earns him a six-month jail term and 41/2 years of probation. See how fast this goes away when you come clean?

Seacrest stalker pleads out

The stalker who harassed Ryan Seacrest has pleaded no contest to a felony charge, TMZ reports. Chidi Uzomah Jr. entered the plea Tuesday and was sent to prison for a 90-day psych evaluation, the L.A. Times adds. The 25-year-old is due back for sentencing on June 14. He had been arrested on Oct. 30 outside E!'s headquarters; he was carrying a pocketknife. Uzomah had previously been convicted of assaulting a security guard who was working for Seacrest. Although two misdemeanor counts of disobeying a court order were dropped, he faces up to two years in prison.