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UPDATE!
Who Is Celeb of the Year 2011? Vote in the Finals!
UPDATE: Results are in! See who our Celeb of the Year 2011 is.
Surprise!
After five weeks of voting, we've reached the finals of the $25,000 E! Celeb of the Year tournament. And it just doesn't get any more romantic than this, right?
Kristen Stewart traveled all this way—defeating Hollywood's most talented leading ladies and then battling past Kate Middleton—only to meet up with...Robert Pattinson. Awww!
So which half of this supercouple will walk away with our Celeb of the Year title, and have $25,000 donated to charity in their name?
You decide! Vote now, and then drop into the comments and let us know why you voted the way you did.
Who Is the Celeb of the Year? Vote in the Semifinals!
And then there were four!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the home stretch of the $25,000 E! Celeb of the Year tournament and the competition is scorching.
At this point it's superstar vs. superstar, so there aren't really any losers. Or are there? This round found Kristen Stewart handily dispatching Lady Gaga, Kate Middleton whipping Demi Lovato, Robert Pattinson trouncing Justin Bieber by a 3 to 1 margin and Britney Spears dumping Drake in similar fashion. Some serious beatdowns.
Our Leading Ladies, Newsmakers, Leading Men, Hitmakers and Wild Card winners have all boiled down to this: Only the four hottest celebs remain!
Get a look at the newest matchups and vote!
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Vote in the Quarterfinals!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the final stretch of the $25,000 E! Celeb of the Year tournament and the action is seriously heating up.
Not only do we have the winners of our four brackets, Leading Ladies, Newsmakers, Leading Men and Hitmakers, but the results of our Wild Card round are in and that means four additional celebs are getting a second chance at glory!
Get a look at the newest matchups and vote!
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Wild Card Results Are In!
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The results are in! Last week we asked you who you wanted back in our $25,000 E! Celeb of the Year tournament. Did you favorite get knocked out? Were they not even in the running to begin with?
The choice was yours and we opened up a Wild Card round where you could tweet your pick for who got brought back in (or introduced) to the tourney. The eight celebs above are still fighting it out in their brackets. So who are the four who were brought back in (or introduced) to the fold for a chance at the most prestigious title of the year?
Take a look...
Who Is Celeb of the Year: Vote for Hitmakers, Round 4!
The time has come. The time to decide which Hitmaker provided the ultimate soundtrack to 2011. Some of the biggest names in music were competing for the title of E! Celeb of the Year in our $25,000 tournament.
It's gonna come down to one serious sing-off between the final two players. So which of these ladies need to get their pipes ready to belt it out for one more round?
Check it out...
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Vote for Leading Men, Round 4
With awards season right around the corner, Hollywood's hottest leading men are gunning for big-time recognition, but one award is right in their grasp: the E! Celeb of the Year!
It's our high-stakes tournament where we award $25,000 to the charity of the winner's choice!
So which big-screen stars survived to make to the final two? Check it out...
EXCLUSIVE!
Charlie Sheen States His Case for Being E!'s Celeb of the Year: Is It a Winning Reason?
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If the contest were E!'s Rock Star From Mars of the Year, Charlie Sheen would win in a landslide.
But considering we bracketed 64 celebrities with the intent of naming one of them Celeb of the Year—and doling out $25,000 to the charity of his or her choice—Sheen had formidable competition in the headline department, let alone within his own 16-person Newsmakers bracket.
Sure enough, however, he kept winning, with our readers voting him past Christina Aguilera, Demi Lovato and, in round three, none other than our resident scene-stealer, Kim Kardashian.
And now Sheen, who's been tweeting links to our contest throughout (sorry you never got to go up against Ashton Kutcher, bro), is making his case for why he should be named No. 1 Newsmaker—and ultimately Celeb of the Year— instead of...
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Vote for Newsmakers, Round 4
He or she who has the headlines holds the pop-culture world in their hands. And in 2011, nobody grabbed more headlines than these Newsmakers. Now they're competing for the title of E! Celeb of the Year in our $25,000 tournament, and we're down to the final two!
So which two headline grabbers are heading are squaring off against each other? Check out the results...
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Vote for Leading Ladies, Round 4
And then there were two. We're down to the final matchup in our Leading Ladies and the title of E! Celeb of the Year is potentially right around the corner for one of these two stars.
It was a round of blowouts and razor-thin wins, so who managed to hold out for one more round?
Who Is Celeb of the Year? Tweet Your Faves Into the Wild Card Round!
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Take a look at these 16 faces. They're the remaining contestants in the $25,000 E! Celeb of the Year tournament—where the hottest names in Leading Ladies, Newsmakers, Leading Men and Hitmakers compete for the most prestigious title of the year.
But was your favorite star knocked out in an earlier round? Or (gasp!) not even in the original 64 picks?
This is your chance to change that:
