1. Newlywed-turned-bachelor Nick Lachey, for bouncing back from his recent split with Jessica Simpson with a new sitcom. The former 98 Degrees singer is in negotiations to play a baseball star trying to cope with a new marriage in a new WB comedy.
2. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines beauty Kristanna Loken, for bragging about out-muscling Hollywood tough girl Michelle Rodriguez. Loken tells FHM magazine she could easily defeat Rodriguez in a brawl. “I love Michelle, but she’s little,” Loken brags. “She is quick but I’m bigger. I’d be pretty confident that it wouldn’t last long.” The two co-star in the upcoming thriller Bloodrayne.
3. Pop superstar Madonna, for matching Elvis Presley‘s record of 36 Top 10 hits on the American Billboard charts, as her newest dance single, “Hung Up” zings to the top. The 47-year-old singer has appeared in the Billboard Hot 100 every year since first hitting the charts with “Holiday” in 1983.
4. Airstream trailers, for seeing sales surge 40 per cent after Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie lived in one in season two of The Simple Life.
5. Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose multi award-winning musical The Phantom of the Opera will become the longest-running musical in Broadway’s history in January. The spectacle will pass Lloyd Webber’s Cats, which currently holds the record of 7,485 performances.
6. Rapper 50 Cent, for picking up eight nominations for the upcoming Billboard Music Awards.The “In Da Club” hitmaker will compete for Artist, Rap Artist and Album of the Year prizes, among other honors, at the ceremony, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, for passing the $200 million at the North American box office in just 10 days. The film made $54.9 million in its second weekend on release.
8. Stars George Clooney, Tyra Banks, Wilmer Valderrama and Mischa Barton, for autographing special pairs of Chip and Pepper jeans to raise money for the American Red Cross. Valderrama wrote, “What are you looking at…wait, I can’t blame you” on the back pocket of his jeans.
9. Actor Michael Douglas, for planning to lobby the U.S. government for tighter gun control, because he’s still haunted by rocker John Lennon’s1980 shooting death outside his New York City apartment building. “I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me,” Douglas said.
10. Tom Petty, 50 Cent, Stevie Nicks, The Eagles, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, for laughing all the way to the bank. Multimillionaire David H. Brooks paid a reported $10 million to hire the artists to perform at his daughter Elizabeth’s Bat Mitzvah at New York City’s Rainbow Room. Brooks, however, has denied the reported cost of the event and told the New York Daily News the dollar figures have been “vastly exaggerated.”
