Maura rescues her career

Maura Tierney is making a return to TV after dropping out of a series last summer as she battled breast cancer.

Tierney, best known for her longtime role on the NBC drama “ER,” will resume her guest spot as the love interest of Denis Leary’s firefighter character on the FX action drama “Rescue Me,” the cable network said.

The 45-year-old actress is filming four episodes scheduled to air in 2011, the series’ seventh and final season.

Tierney “has finished treatment and is doing very well and is happy to move forward with the next phase of her life,” her spokeswoman said.

She left the cast of NBC’s “Parenthood” in August after filming the pilot episode.

Lauren Graham (“Gilmore Girls”) then joined the series in her place.

Wild on … motherhood?

Brooke Burke is exposing herself – on the printed page.

The former “Wild On” host and current “Dancing With the Stars” co-host is working on “The Naked Mom” for New American Library.

Burke will tell how she balances a career and raising four children in the book, which comes out in April 2011.

The 38-year-old says she is excited to share her take on motherhood – “uncensored, revealing, vulnerable and sexy.”

The birthday bunch

Actor Lyle Waggoner (“The Carol Burnett Show”) is 75. Actor Paul Sorvino is 71. Musician Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) is 66. Actor Tony Dow (“Leave it to Beaver”) is 65. Musician Al Green is 64. Actor Ron Perlman is 60. Singer Peabo Bryson is 59. Drummer Max Weinberg (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 59. Actress Saundra Santiago (“Miami Vice”) is 53. Actress Page Hannah (“Fame”) is 46. Actress-comedian Caroline Rhea is 46. Actor Rick Schroder is 40. Singer Aaron Lewis (Staind) is 38. Singer Lou Bega is 35. Singer Nellie McKay is 28.