To better prepare for those rather intimate scenes with her Lipstick Jungle hottie house-husband Paul Blackthorne, actress Brooke Shields has been applying shoot-stopping doses of sunshine-in-a-bottle, according to Lipstick guest star and current NYC party-hopper Leven Rambin.

"Brooke was self-tanning every day to get ready for some sex scenes," the alabaster All My Children regular told reporters Thursday night at the Do Something Annual Gala in midtown Manhattan. "They kept delaying the scenes because she was so orange!" added Rambin, who recently portrayed a drunk, jailed starlet on LJ, a sort of Lindsay/Britney/Paris/Nicole hybrid. She closed the subject with some advice: "This is why I don't use self-tanner! You get past the point where it's hard to take it back." Are you catching all this, Brooke?

When asked if she had anything in common with her character on the show, given the amount of tabloid coverage she's been receiving of late, Levin shrugged off the likeness. Of her rumored relationship with budding music Svengali Mark Ronson, she started by saying that the two are only "good friends. He just won three Grammys, so I'm very proud of him." She then added that she and Mark are "working together, hopefully in the future, on an album. I'm working with a lot of artists on Mark's label. We're writing songs together, very hip hop and Fergie and Gwen Stefani."

As for Shields, the orange hues were yet another job for Chuck Hezekiah, the Maybelline Volume XL Seduction Lip Plumper-wielding makeup artist! Brooke apparently underwent some heavy makeup camo, as the beach-bunny-gone-toxic look simply could not be sloughed off.