Brooke Shields Guesting on ABC Sitcom EW.com

Actress Brooke Shields, who starred in NBC's "Lipstick Jungle" last season, will appear on ABC's new sitcom "The Middle" in early 2010, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Instead of a glamourous movie mogul, this time out Shields is playing Patricia Heaton's arch-enemy on the street, a single mother of four rowdy boys.

-- Allison J. Waldman