Sabrina Bryan won't be feeding the tabloids like such young Hollywood contemporaries of hers as Lindsay Lohan. At least, not according to the 24-year-old Cheetah Girl and former "Dancing With the Stars" competitor.

For one thing, she notes, there's the fact she gets paid by the Disney Channel. "They have such high standards of how they are represented. They're really the only channel on TV that parents don't have to censor," Sabrina says.

"Also, part of it is me being myself. I've been fortunate enough to be raised by amazing parents who taught me to have high morals. I'm a young adult, so I love to go and have fun, but there are ways to do it," she adds. "Plus, I'm so busy I don't really have time to get in trouble. There are obviously times when we love to go out, but usually we're so busy that the last thing we want to do is get into the L.A. scene after work."

Yes, Bryan is a busy young woman having also just released a book she co-wrote called "Princess of Gossip" — not to mention working on a solo album.

As far as keeping up with once-hot flame Mark Ballas, she admits they haven't had much contact of late, noting that the "DWTS" pro has also "been really busy with his record contract with Hollywood Records. I've been completely thrown into this tour so we really haven't had a chance to keep in touch very well," adds Bryan, referring to the Cheetah Girls' "One World" concert tour. However, she tells us she'll always be grateful to "DWTS" for expanding her fan base — so she's trying to keep up with the current season as much as possible.

"I don't get to catch all of the episodes, but I watch it when I can. I was really sad to hear about Misty May not being able to dance anymore. Being such a great athlete, I knew she was going to push herself as hard as she could."

THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: Is Jason Ritter becoming the latest cast addition to "Brothers & Sisters"? Reports have it that he's likely to join the ABC drama as Ryan Walker, secret love child of the late Walker family patriarch, William Walker (Tom Skerritt). "What's true is that I went in and auditioned for it," Jason tells us. "There are four or five of us guys up for the part who could get it — or not. Sometimes you go through the whole casting process, and then at the end they say, 'Thank you, now we're going to start all over.'"

But the former "Joan of Arcadia" and "The Class" actor makes it clear he'd love to join the show. "It would be fantastic. It's an incredible character, definitely such a good character you could develop him. One of the things about TV is, if you have to stay with a character for a long time, it can either be a terrible trap or one of the most satisfying things for an actor, to explore and discover new things every week. I'd be honored to do it. The show is one of the best out there as far as storytelling, acting and directing."

Right now, Ritter's busy going city to city to help launch "Good Dick," the independent feature in which he stars with his girlfriend Marianne Palka, who also wrote and directed. The strange story of a troubled, porno-renting young woman and the video store clerk who goes to extremes to win her over widens its release today (10/17), including New York City.

NOT HOLDING BACK: Maureen McCormick has had fans agape this week with release of her book, "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice" — which leaves zero doubt about how different she has always been from her original perfect TV persona. While she's certainly accepted being compared to Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, McCormick says she felt it was time to share the truth.

"I've been through so much, and I really feel like I have a lot of insight into a lot of different areas in life that could be problems for other people. I've come through them, and I've survived so I have something to share. There's a need to share it," says McCormick, who goes as far as discussing cocaine binges and parties at the Playboy Mansion, an unwanted pregnancy and trading sex for drugs. "It's very scary feeling being so naked, but on the other hand it's very freeing. It's always freeing to tell it like it is."

FREE-FLYING: "Nick News" lady Linda Ellerbee will be giving young viewers a look at dealing with physical disabilities in her next special, "The View From My Chair." She tells us it will focus on "four kids from different parts of the country who live in wheelchairs. Each of them lets us into their lives and their worlds." Ellerbee notes that her colleague, multi-Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry, "has been in a chair for many years, and when I told him about this show, he said, 'You know, the chair is not the problem. Gravity is.' So for the finish of the show, the four kids and I are going on a little adventure — up in a zero-G flight."

With reports by Emily Feimster.

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