Ringing In The New Year With Celeb Predictions For 2009 by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith on Creators.com

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Ringing In The New Year With Celeb Predictions For 2009

With this monumental and nerve-racking year nearly complete, it's time to start looking forward instead of behind us. There's a reason they make windshields bigger than rear-view mirrors, you know. Thus, it's time to make our fearless predictions about Hollywood and its stars in 2009:

Britney Spears will reclaim her title of pop queen and actually follow through on her latest tour. She might even decide not to lip synch!

The new judge on "American Idol," Kara DioGuardi, will be helping give Paula the boot. Here's to being coherent!

The now camera-shy Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson will join the hundreds of other celebrity sellouts who've pimped out their babies to mags. Baby walks, money talks!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will do something really exotic for a celebrity couple and adopt a poor child from America.

Heath Ledger will win a posthumous Oscar for "The Dark Knight."

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag will renew their marital vows on a special edition of "The Hills: Live After Show" onstage at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas with Tom Cruise as best man (if the ratings on the show stay high enough and he's looking to publicize something) and Michael Bolton singing — and with Cheez Whiz hors d'oeuvres for everybody.

Jennifer Aniston will be kicking herself for letting a certain songbird back into her life.

NBC will reach the tipping point — wherein there are more talk 'n' variety shows for stars to promote their NBC series on than there are NBC series to promote.

After many reported fights with girlfriend Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan will hang up the rainbow flag once and for all.

After months of divorce rumors for Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, they'll call it quits. They never seem to be in each other's company anyway.

After a disastrous opening from the five reality hosts at this year's Emmys, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host! We can only hope!

Rap's royal couple, Jay-Z and Beyonce, will be trading in the Bentley for a baby carriage. Come on! You'll make pretty babies.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon will add their little shot to the baby boom as well.

In a revolutionary move, NBC will launch "The Apprentice: Fix the Ratings Edition," in which brainy, brash 'n' beautiful competitors will vie to come up with the most ingenious ideas to lure viewers back to the network.

This will lead to the government asking for "The Apprentice: Fix the Economy Edition."

Anne Hathaway will finally find a good fella and not the kind from the Martin Scorsese movie.

J Lo will be saying J No to Marc Anthony after he's been partying solo more and more as of late.

Miley Cyrus will throw out her dirty, old underwear ... model.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel will finally get engaged, thus shattering the hearts of every girl in America.

Justin's former real-life leading lady, Cameron Diaz, will officially go off the market when she and her model boyfriend, Paul Sculfor, decide to tie the knot.

Julianne Hough, who has said she won't be returning to "Dancing With the Stars," will realize country music will only take her so far and return to the show in the fall.

Madonna's thing with Yankee slugger A-Rod will not go into extra innings. Heck, it might not even make it past midnight.

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke, who earned the best box office opening for a female director ever — only to be given the heave-ho, replaced by Chris Weitz for the "Twilight" sequel — will helm an even bigger blockbuster.

Camilla Belle, who is purportedly in the much-to-be-envied position of dating both pop music Joe Jonas and "Twilight" It Boy Robert Pattinson, will pop up with a big role in a big budget movie.

Meryl Streep will make it 15 Academy Award nominations with her "Doubt" performance — no doubt. She already has the record for actress Oscar noms with 14.

Kanye West's meltdowns when he loses at awards shows have caught the attention of so many viewers, NBC will offer him his own show. Instead of "The Biggest Loser," it will be called "The Worst Loser."

And, that's it for 2008. Wishing you all a divine '09.

With reports by Emily Feimster.

To find out more about Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith and read their past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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