Oct. 10, 2007

Looks like Lindsay Lohan was focused on more than just her sobriety during her two-month stint at the resortlike Cirque Lodge in Utah. In Touch reports the double-DUI-busted starlet, 21, is currently dating snowboarder Riley Giles, 25, whom she met during her arduous and nicotine-filled climb up the 12 steps.

(And really, does anything scream "true love forever" quite like a rehab romance, the most stable and dysfunction-free of all romances?)

"Yes, I am seeing someone," Lindsay reveals in one of the two "exclusive" interviews she granted upon her release into the wild last Friday (the other sit-down was with OK!). "His name is Riley. I am really happy and taking it day by day."

While she wouldn't go into particulars about her new beau (he's reportedly from California and, judging by paparazzi pics, has an unfortunate penchant for novelty T-shirts and backward caps), she did pose hand-in-hand with him in the mag.

Lindsay Lohan reunites with her dad while in rehab in Utah on Sept. 9. (X17Online.com)

Lohan has also introduced Giles to her dad, Michael, whom she recently reconnected with after three-and-a-half years of estrangement.

Her jailbird pop apparently returned the favor by flying his new girlfriend out to Utah to meet his famous offspring (squickiness alert: The galpal is a Lindsay doppelganger, right down to her flat-ironed, long, blond tresses).

"She and Lindsay bonded immediately," Daddy Lohan tells the New York Daily News. "They just clicked, and now are best friends."

The media-indiscreet Michael adds that he's so excited to have his daughter back in his life that he presented her with a three-band diamond ring as a symbol of "her rehab and their reconciliation."

Lindsay, meanwhile, is doing her best to put to rest rumors of another rehab romance, this one with little-known musician Tony Allen, whose wife has hinted she played a part in their recent marital implosion.

"Rumors are rumors. I don't really have anything to say about that," she grumps to In Touch. "Tony and I were just friends and if anyone has anything negative to say, I would just like to ask, 'Why?' We were just friends and that was it."

For now, Lohan continues to make the low-key scene in Utah, where she and Giles were snapped heading to dinner Tuesday night in Salt Lake City.

The day before, E! Online spied her dropping about $900 at a Park City boutique. Among her purchases: boots, a puffy coat and lip-plumping gloss.

But it appears LiLo may have learned more than just how to avoid temptation during her time in treatment.

Store staffers tell E! that she fretted over the possibility of her credit card getting rejected because she's now on a "daily budget."

That's quite a change for the formerly spendthrift actress, whose couture cravings and seven-figure bill at Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont hotel are the stuff of legend.

"I want to act like a woman rather than a teenager," she declares to In Touch. "I am doing the best I can ... karma's a big deal."

This kinder, thriftier philosophy might explain her sudden interest in those less fortunate (and no, we don't mean Britney).

Linds says she's hoping to make a PR-boosting humanitarian trip to Africa this December: "I'm working with the American Red Cross, but it is not finalized yet."

Next: J.Lo Craving Pickles, Doritos and a Baby Girl?