ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT ANNOUNCES THE “ET HOT LIST” FOR 2009
(Los Angeles, California – December 21, 2009) – ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, the #1 entertainment newsmagazine in the world, has named the top 20 celebrities of 2009 in its eighth annual “ET Hot List,” which was announced today by Linda Bell Blue, executive producer of ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. The “ET Hot List” is comprised of those celebrities and public figures who received the most mentions on the show over the course of the past year.
“It has been an incredibly eventful and groundbreaking year in celebrity news,” said Bell Blue. “From Michael Jackson’s unexpected death to coverage of the President and First Lady, ‘Entertainment Tonight’ has been at the forefront of every news story to document it all.”
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’S HOT LIST OF THE TOP CELEBRITIES OF 2009
1 - Michael Jackson
2 - Oprah Winfrey
3 - Brad Pitt
4 - President Barack Obama
5 - First Lady Michelle Obama
6 - Jon Gosselin
7 - Angelina Jolie
8 - Jennifer Aniston
9 - (Tied) Marie Osmond & Kate Gosselin
10 - (Tied) Tom Hanks & Donny Osmond
11 - John Travolta
12- Cheryl Burke
13 - Nadya Suleman
14 - Farrah Fawcett
15 - Megan Fox
16 - Julianne Hough
17 - Gilles Marini
18 - Rihanna
19 - (Tied) George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Miley Cyrus, Paula Abdul, Rob Howard, and John Cusack
20 - (Tied) Beyonce Knowles, Robert Downey, Jr., and Denzel Washington
Currently in its 29th season, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is produced and distributed by CBS Television Distribution and is taped in Studio City, Calif. Linda Bell Blue is executive producer. Mary Hart is host; Mark Steines is co-host. Kevin Frazier is weekend anchor and correspondent. Leonard Maltin is film historian/correspondent. CBS Television Distribution is a unit of CBS Corp.
