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."

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.

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.

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:

Juggling quite the hectic schedule, Lady GaGa was spotted sneaking in a pint at a London pub on Sunday evening (December 6).

The “Poker Face” singer was decked out in an all-white ensemble, flashing her derriere as she stumbled into an awaiting car.

Taking their turn on the New York City set, Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick were hard at work shooting scenes for “Gossip Girl” on Tuesday afternoon (December 1).

With the Blair Waldorf babe and her Chuck Bass co-star stud both decked out in their typical fancy attire, the pair happened to be getting chased by fake paparazzi as the cameras rolled.

Bill Clinton is a man that once thought Monica Lewinsky was hot enough to stick a cigar up her vagina.

So his taste may be questionable.

But daughter Chelsea should still be comforted by the fact that her father is a big fan of his future son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky.

"He is great. He is a great human being," the former president said today as he left a panel discussion at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Joanna Krupa has a message for animals killers across the world:

Stop killing animals... or I'll keep taking my clothes off!

The model and former Dancing with the Stars contestant might wanna rethink her strategy. After all, we're not about to go stomp on any puppies - but Krupa's multiple, naked PETA campaigns aren't exactly turning us off to the idea, either.