2009 Celebritology Honors: A Little Help?

"The Shatner Ego Award"

But, alas, it cannot be given to him repeatedly.

-Strangest celebrity family

-Most unflattering celebrity fashion trend

and from yesterday's chat, I really liked "Best Reality Show Meltdown."

The str8t celeb with the gayest subtext.

Best celeb-inspired addition to the lexicon. ("Hiking the Appalachian trail," "bubbies," etc.)

"celebrity most likely to shamelessly self-promote" award (Heincer comes immediately to mind, so maybe we should just name this award after them?)

"been around the block one too many times" award (nominees to include Kate Hudson, John Mayer, etc.)

"most overexposed" (Gosselins, Octomon, etc.)

How about celebrity we are most proud of? Something a little more uplifting in the face of all the (wonderful!) snark

Most/Least Surprising Celebrity Death

Celebrity couple we know won't last.

This is ripped right off several Celebritology posts this year:

Worst Celebrity Product

This year's nominees:
Lindsay Lohan's Sevin-Nyne self-tanner

Paris Hilton's doggie wardrobe

Piers Morgan's new Burger King inspired cologne, "Flame"

Trump Vodka

Probably too easy, but "Biggest Woody of the Year" This year noms are (at least) Morgan Freeman, Ryan O'Neal, and Billy Ray Cyrus.

Best (Worst? Strangest?) Non-celeb Celeb. Someone who crossed over into being a celebrity, but is not an actor, singer, etc. Examples include Octomom, Joe the Plumber, maybe certain reality stars.

How about a sort of Lifetime (or Annual) Achievement Award for contributing so much personal celebritology fodder? I think maybe Liz would have to choose the honoree, or maybe she provides us with choices, and follows up with a spotlight blog post on the winner. Lindsay Lohan, Heidi & Spencer, Amy Winehouse -- all contenders.

I like yumdonuts idea.

....mmmm.... donuts... Is it lunchtime yet?

I agree with yumdonuts, we need some sort of Lifetime Achievement award.

No one can win the award twice, unless they come up with some world class Britney-esque kind of meltdown or something equivalent.

As for celebs kids tell-all I'd read...Brangelina's kids should have some great stories.

Scariest celeb body part? All of Amy Winehouse tied with Courtney Love.

I like the celeb kid tell-all question.

Also, maybe best celeb Twitter feed?

The same names keep coming to mind for so many categories.

* Least self-aware celeb: Heincer
* Dippiest celeb couple: Heincer
* Best fake romance: Heincer
* Celebrity we'd most like to see go away and never come back: Heincer (although admittedly they come second to Octomom/CCV and Brangelina for me)
* Celebrity most likely to shamelessly self-promote: Heincer
* Celebrity couple we know won't last: Heincer

Best Closeted Gay Celeb and their Beard (i.e. Dean Sheremet and Leann Rimes, Gayle and Oprah.......)

yeah - mdreader's needs to be in there...

but i think we need one in honor of the WaPo, 'celebrity most likely to drink mad b&#ch beer'

I like yumdonuts idea too...could include Levi Johnston in that group..

Because celebrities love to throw their 'clout' behind candidates:

"Celebrity whose endorsement ruined a campaign"

or, conversely (and less snarky)

"Celebrity whose endorsement helped a campaign"

misc1997, I'd propose Chuck Norris for both categories, in that he certainly gave Mike Huckabee a higher profile than he might've had otherwise, yet Huckabee still didn't nab the nomination.

Because celebrities love to throw their 'clout' behind candidates:

"Celebrity whose endorsement ruined a campaign"

or, conversely (and less snarky)

"Celebrity whose endorsement helped a campaign"

Posted by: misc1997 | August 14, 2009 2:42 PM |

misc1997, I'd propose Chuck Norris for both categories, in that he certainly gave Mike Huckabee a higher profile than he might've had otherwise, yet Huckabee still didn't nab the nomination.

Posted by: Nosy_Parker | August 14, 2009 3:06 PM

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Then, there's always the "Colbert Bump", but I would suggest that would be more worthy of a discussion post and not an actual catagory, per se.

Tiny Fey probably didn't help Sarah Palin.

I vote for celebrity most likely to have a secret hygiene problem. So it couldn't be, for example, the "Twilight" guy with his widely reported b.o., but could be Lady GaGa (something's just not right there).

Best/Worst celebrity endorsement (not a product, just an endorsement.)

Suggestion: I never THOUGHT about Dior until I saw Charlize Theron storming through a house, ripping off all of her clothes. I also never thought about the weight loss supplement EP-2 until K-Fed was mentioned as a potential endorser. Now, if I'm ever in the market for sketchy diet pills, I will steer far away from EP-2.

"Best former child star"

Joseph Gordon Levitt
Drew Berrymore
Etc.

"Former Child star you wish would go away"

innumerable

Best former child star

Joseph Gordon Levitt

Worst Former child star
innumerable