Actors Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Allen Covert stopped by for lunch yesterday at Cheeseburger in Paradise Waikiki, delighting manager Janice Tavares and staff.

Sandler and James co-starred in "I Pronounce You Chuck & Larry," while Covert appeared with Sandler in the Island-filmed "50 First Dates."

Sandler is expected to appear at the Sony Open at the Waialae Country Club, starting Jan. 7.

Meanwhile, The Travel Channel's "No Reservations" host Anthony Bourdain continues his Island adventures, meeting Lloyd Kandell (aka Fluid Floyd of the Don Tiki band) at the Halekulani's House Without a Key for a mai tai and a Tropical Itch, then moving on to La Mariana Sailing Club (where he sampled a Scorpion and Zombie), where Tiki bandsmen Kit Ebersbach and Miles Jackson "happened" to be playing exotica music.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

LUNCH LADY LIED, HER BOSS SAYS

NEW YORK — A school lunch lady who gained fame as a contestant on CBS' reality show "Survivor: China" wasn't telling the truth when she claimed during Sunday's season finale that she'd been demoted to janitor, her boss says.

Denise Martin of Douglas, Mass., finished fourth in the competition, missing out on the $1 million grand prize.

"They didn't give me my job back," Martin, 40, said during the live broadcast.

Producer Mark Burnett surprised Martin with $50,000 to help get her life back.

On CBS' "The Early Show" yesterday, Douglas Schools superintendent Nancy Lane said Martin had been promoted to custodian in March, with more benefits and higher pay.

"We granted her a leave to go to participate in 'Survivor' and did everything possible to support her," Lane said. "And when she returned, she of course returned to the position that she left. Which is the custodial position."

Martin said she decided while she was taping "Survivor" that she wanted to go back to her lunch lady job. Lane said the job was no longer available, but Martin could apply when there is an opening.

"It was not my intention to be misleading," Martin said. "I'm sorry and I apologize to everybody."

JACKSON WILL PRODUCE 'HOBBIT'

After spending time and energy fighting each other in a lawsuit, Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema yesterday announced they have agreed to make two films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" as a prequel to the super-successful "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

But Jackson, who directed all three "LOTR" films, will be on board only as the executive producer.

Jackson sued New Line, claiming that the company shortchanged him for making the "LOTR" films, which had a collective box office take of $3 billion worldwide.

16-YEAR-OLD STAR IS PREGNANT

NEW YORK — Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star and sister of Britney, tells OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.

"It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," she says. "I was in complete and total shock and so was he."

Spears is 12 weeks along, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York today and the rest of the country by Friday.

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