By Jen Heger

Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

Lindsay Lohan's camp is slamming Rosie O'Donnell for saying the Mean Girls star should NOT be playing the late screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in a new biopic for Lifetime Television, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

As we previously reported, during a new roundtable panel segment on Tuesday's Today show featuring O'Donnell, TV pundit Donny Deutsch and Star Jones, host Matt Lauer brought up the topic of Lohan playing the Oscar winning actress in the upcoming television movie Liz and [expletive], a movie based on Taylor's legendary romance with Richard Burton.

"I feel very sorry for her," said O'Donnell.  "I think she needs a lot of time away. ... She's had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including SNL. She was out and not in rehearsal. I think she's not in a place to work."

Lohan's rep Steve Honig tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively, "I think Rosie should focus on her own career and stop worrying about everyone else's. It's hard to take these comments seriously considering they are coming from someone who just had her own talk show cancelled, but I guess she has to find a way to stay in the news, even if it is at the expense of someone else."