The annual year-end celebration will premiere on Sunday, December 3 at 8PM
This year’s categories/nominees include:
BIG ENTERTAINER
The celebrity that entertained us more than anyone else in the last 365 days
Johnny Depp
Steve Carell
Jessica Simpson
Dane Cook
YouTube
BIG TV STAR
The actor or personality that defined television in ’06
Kiefer Sutherland
Patrick Dempsey
Ellen DeGeneres
Jon Stewart
BIG MUSIC ARTIST
The musician that made the biggest noise in ’06
Shakira
Pussycat Dolls
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Justin Timberlake
BIG DOWNLOAD
The artist that had the most talked about download of the year
London Bridge (Fergie)
White & Nerdy (Weird Al Yankovic)
Here It Goes Again (OK Go)
What’s A Date (Lonely Girl Fifteen)
Jump In My Car (David Hasselhoff)
BIG MAMA
The celebrity mother whose maternal instincts rose above the rest
Brooke Shields
Katie Holmes
Britney Spears
Madonna
BIG BREAKTHROUGH
The entertainer that really made a name for themselves in ’06
Sascha Baron Cohen
Stephen Colbert
Jaime Pressley
The Cast of High School Musical
BIG COMEBACK
That person or group of people that roared back into the pop culture consciousness in ‘06
New Orleans Saints
Howie Mandel
David Hasselhoff
Al Gore
Rosie O’Donnell
BIG “IT” GIRL
That fresh young face that was simply unavoidable this year
Vanessa Mannillo
America Ferrara
Katherine McPhee
Katherine Heigl
BIG OUTLAW
Love ‘em or shun ‘em, the celebrity that was the biggest law breaker this year
Dick Cheney
Mel Gibson
Willie Nelson
Paris Hilton
BIG POWER COUPLE
The celebrity couple whose clout trumped all the rest in ‘06
Beyonce & Jay-Z
Britney Spears & Kevin Federline
Matthew McConaughey & Lance Armstrong
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
BIG SHOCKER
The moment or event that we didn’t see coming in the past twelve months
Bill Clinton loses his cool
John Mark Carr confesses
Mark Foley gets caught
North Korea tests a nuke