As 2009 draws to a close, The Hollywood Gossip staff is proud and excited to present 10 finalists for its prestigious, Third Annual Celebrity of the Year award.

These stars have given us their best, their worst, their naked photos (sometimes) and their hilarious, ridiculous scandals (often). It's time for THG to pay tribute to their greatness.

Earlier this week, we continued the '09 countdown with Molly Malaney and Melissa Rycroft in the #9 spot.

Today: Celebrity of the Year finalist #8 … Carrie Prejean!

The list of mistresses linked to Tiger Woods just expanded once again. Although do you even qualify as a mistress if you're getting paid for it like Loredana Jolie?

Regardless, Tiger's list of women continues to grow amid claims from a Hollywood madam that he shelled out thousands of dollars for threesomes with hookers.

One of his favorites was Loredana Jolie, according to her pimp, Michelle Braun, who says she set the world's #1 golfer up with the blond Playboy model from Sicily.

"She's a stunning girl," Braun said. "He went out with her 4-5 times. She took part in group sex. They met up in 2006 or 2007. I'd say he paid $15,000 for her."

In addition to Loredana Jolie, Woods "had a pretty big appetite for women" in general, Braun told the New York Daily News. "He was rarely with just one girl."

"He usually wanted more. He liked three-ways."

When it comes to posing with a crucifix over her vagina and breasts, Joanna Krupa says God is on her side.

We wonder how He feels about the model talking openly about sex with her fiance, Romain Zago.

In October, Krupa told E! News that practicing for Dancing with the Stars was taking up all her energy. She couldn't even give it to her man at night!

"I have no time for anything except rehearsals," she said. "When I get home from rehearsals, I don't want to be bothered. Cuddling is enough for me."

God really didn't make this body for cuddling, Joanna...

Talk about a fashion disaster.

Two thieves stole up to 75 dresses from Victoria Beckham's spring/summer 2010 collection.

In what is being described as a carefully-planned attack, Beckham's pieces were taken from a delivery van while en route to New York department store Neiman Marcus this past Thursday.

According to British reports, two thieves followed the van, which started its journey at the star's management office in West London and was headed to London's Heathrow Airport.

When the driver stopped to make another delivery, he returned to the vehicle to find the padlocks smashed. The two thieves then burst from the back of the van with two huge boxes of dresses in tow. Although the driver was left bruised and shaken, he was not seriously injured.

Hulk Hogan is tying the knot again.

The wrestler, 56, and his girlfriend of nearly two years, Jennifer McDaniel, are engaged, a source close to the couple confirms to Usmagazine.com.

New York's Daily News also reported that the two are getting married. "He is engaged and very happy," a source told the paper.


It is happy news for Hogan (nee Terry Bollea), who had been engaged in a bitter divorce battle with his ex-wife, Linda, for nearly two years. Linda, who wed Hulk in 1983, filed for divorce in November 2007.

A newspaper reporter was the first person to inform him about the split. "Holy smokes," he said upon hearing the news. "Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me."

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Julia Roberts has become Lancome's new "Pretty Woman," Access Hollywood can reveal.

The makeup line made the announcement on Friday.

"By her remarkable personality and career, Julia Roberts is an emblematic woman of her time. Her exceptional talent, her radiance and her strong commitments, perfectly echo Lancome's values," Lancome President Youcef Nabi said in a statement to Access. "We are convinced she will embody the brand in the most sublime way possible.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Taylor Lautner not only looks like a superhero, but now he'll be playing one too.

The 17-year-old heartthrob, who won fans over with as his portrayal of werewolf Jacob Black in "The Twilight Saga," just landed the lead as Paramount's next big action hero "Max Steel," according to Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily. The LA Times was the first to report the rumor Thursday evening.

Although Evan Rachel Wood has recently been linked to True Blood vampire Alexander Skarsgard, the 22 year-old actress has gotten back together with a real-life creature of the night: Marilyn Manson.

Marilyn Manson tells Metal Hammer magazine, "Me being at my best is what I need to be...I think that has really paid off because I'm back with Evan."

The musician, whose real name is Brian Warner, first got together with Wood in 2006 on the heels of his divorce from wife Dita von Teese. He and Wood parted ways in October 2008; they had a brief reunion in February 2009. Reports of a romance between Wood and Skarsgard -- her costar on True Blood -- surfaced in September.

After their October 2008 split, Wood told Us Weekly that she would "always love and respect" the musician.

Taylor Swift is a very busy woman.

She's winning Country Music Awards; getting nominated for multiple Grammys; cozying up to Taylor Lautner.

Still, the global superstar found time to pose for one of the fashion world's most respected publications this week, as she's featured in The New York Times Style Magazine. Check out her heavily made-up cover below:

It's no longer a matter of whether there is another Tiger Woods girlfriend lurking out there, but who - and how many women on the side he had.

The latest rumored Tiger fling? Cori Rist. The New York Daily News is linking Woods to the "delicious blond," who won't confirm or deny reports.

The story fits his M.O.: it's said that Woods met Rist, a New Yorker who is a regular at some of Manhattan's better clubs, at Butter last year.

"They went on to another party," says an insider. "One thing led to another and, pretty soon, Tiger was flying her to hook up with him on tour."

"Tiger would typically get a large suite at a hotel. Someone would book Cori an adjacent room, so she wouldn't be seen coming into his room."

Sources say Cori Rist found the intrigue fun.

"He would get the presidential suite," says the same source. "It was the ultimate in luxury. The trouble is, he never wanted to leave the room."