December calls for our 25-day countdown to Christmas!  So, as others count down the days til Christmas by eating pieces of chocolate or ripping off paper rings from the traditional Christmas chain, we here at HOLLYWIRE are counting down the days with Hollywood’s 25 most delicious pieces of eye candy (both male & female!).

#1 IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! These two stars had a year just as HOT as they are!

Taylor Lautner

Taylor Swift

#2

Shemar Moore

Natalie Portman

#3

Pierce Bronson

Megan Fox

#4

Ashton Kutcher

Demi Moore

#5

Tom Brady

Kim Kardashian

#6

Hugh Jackman

Jennifer Lopez

#7

Colin Farrell

Kate Beckinsale

#8

Robert Pattinson

Beyonce

#9

Johnny Depp

Jessica Alba

#10 We are down to the final 10, let the hotness begin!

Ryan Reynolds

Miley Cyrus

#11  Here are some sexy athletes to brighten up your holiday season.  What athlete other than David Beckham looks so hot in undie ads?  None that I know of!  David Beckham def takes the cake–yum!

David Beckham

Serena Williams

#12 These are two people I’d really love to see more of, because I just can’t seem to get enough!  If you look on his IMDB, he’s got a lot in post production, so maybe I’ll get my Christmas wish fulfilled & see more of his beautifulness in 2010!

Chris Pine

I’m so intrigued by former Sexy Spice.  I really wish she’d come out with a sequel to her reality show,  Victoria Beckham: Coming to America… I wanted to see what it was like for her, her hubby David, & their cute little boys once they were all in the U.S. together.

Victoria Beckham

#13  I’ve given you a lot of hottie-potottie actors & actresses, so here’s a couple musicians to provide us with some delicous eye candy this season.  Usher’s gotta have some of the best lookin abs in the industry…that’s way more than a 6-pack!

Usher

Lady GaGa may pull off a lot of crazy looks, but I just can’t get over her body.  She must really work hard to look this good!

Lady GaGa

#14  The next two hotties come from the UK.  There’s no way could we leave action man, Jason Statham, off our Christmas Hot List!  He’s always sizzlin’ hot!

Jason Statham

Singer Cheryl Cole, who was voted UK’s “Ultimate Fantasy Body,” is a combination of both beauty and talent.

Cherly Cole

#15 Some of the hottest men in Hollywood are action heroes and there’s few better than Vin Diesel.  Just look at his muscles!

Vin Diesel

As for the leading ladies of Hollywood, Emma Watson has really grown up since the first Harry Potter and with age comes beauty.

Emma Watson

#16 As Christmas gets closer, the stars get hotter and these are two of my personal favorites.  I’ve loved Ben Affleck since Good Will Hunting and Halle Berry, well… She looks good no matter what she does.

Ben Affleck

Halle Berry

#17 These up and coming stars are not as known as the rest, but man are they SEXY!  Alex Pettyfer been modeling for years, but came out on the big screen in Tormented eariler this year.

Alex Pettyfer

In Austrailia, Abbie Cornish, is already a well known award winning actress; maybe she’ll become the next Nicole Kidman in the U.S.

Abbie Cornish

#18 — For all you teens and tweens out there, here are two of Disney’s hottest stars.  Lucas Till and Demi Lovato are not only talented stars, they are also two of the sexiest teens Disney has to offer.

Lucas Till

Demi Lovato

#19 –Definitely one of Hollywood’s hottest and most powerful couples, Jesse James and Sandra Bullock are hot enough to fulfill most people’s fantasies.  Talk about a power couple!

Jesse James

Sandra Bullock

#20–These two Hollywood Hotties prove that when it comes to sex appeal, sometimes age doesn’t matter.

George Clooney

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#21–Ok all you Twihards this one’s for you!

Chaske Spencer

Kristen Stewart

#22–Straight out of Bollywood are two of India’s hottest actors/actresses. Shahid got his start working in music videos is now one of India’s leading men and won the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award.

Shahid Kapoor

Shilpa Shetty has appeared in 40 films and is also a model.

Shilpa Shetty

#23–Thought I’d throw some reality TV stars in the mix and who’s hotter than Brody Jenner and Lauren Conrad?

Brody Jenner

Lauren Conrad

#24–Giving a little shout out to the troops this holiday season.  What man in uniform doesn’t look sexy?

Matt Damon

And, you gotta a give a girl some credit for her hard work and determination.  Britney showed off a slimer more fit body throughout her Circus tour.

Britney Spears

#25–I know, Brad usually ranks in the top 10, but lately his fashion hasn’t been the greatest, and to tell you the truth, I can’t stand his goatee.  However, he is still Brad Pitt and the name alone is sexy enough to get him on the list.

Brad Pitt

Kate is usually more cute than sexy, but her role in Nine shows us a whole different side of her. Kate can be sexy and seductive, or innocent and cute, either way she’s just plain HOT!

Kate Hudson

Tiger Woods Didn’t Use a Condom With Mistresses [AnythingHollywood]

Are You Man Enough to Shave it Off? [AskMen]

Lindsay Lohan Muse Magazine PHOTOS [BittenandBound]

Billy Joel’s Daughter Attempts Suicide Over Ex [CelebrityMound]

Duke It Out: Celeb Obsessed? [CollegeCandy]

O’Day Makes Point at Johnson Party [DailyFiasco]

Babblicious Picture [GabbyBabble]

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Make a Late Night Getaway out of LAX [ICYDK]

Red Carpet at the Football Game [LaineyGossip]

Who Made Eva Longoria’s Leopard Print Boots that she Wore at LAX? [OutfitID]

Jake Gyllenhaal’s New (FAUX) Tattoo [PopBytes]

Eminem Slamming Gay Artists On “Elevator?’ [PopCrunch]

Rita Rocks a Baby Tonight [SeriouslyOMG]

Hit TV Series Entourage Could be Turned into Movie [SplashNews]

Lady Gaga Elle January 2010 [TheBosh]

Is Deb Going to Find out About Dexter? [TV.com]

Jennifer Garner had to earn her plug for her new movie The Invention of Lying on Jay Leno by naming the entire Red Sox baseball team lineup (her husband Ben Affleck is a die hard fan) while wearing a New York Yankee’s hat and holding a picture of Derek Jeter.

She actually named them all rather impressively and got to show a clip of her new movie as a reward.

Check it out below!

Extract, the latest creative effort from “Beavis & Butt-Head” and “King of the Hill” creator Mike Judge, is not only a cleverly written and entertaining comedy but also further proof of my theory that whenever you have any kind of problem or conflict in any movie, somewhere there is a woman behind it all. Judge has a tendency to fill his shows with characters of astonishing stupidity, along with one or two intelligent ones who are constantly exasperated by the idiocy around them, so it’s fitting that “Arrested Development” star Jason Bateman should be cast in the lead role of Joel, playing essentially the same character that he played on that show.

Add to that the fact that he has a loveless and sexless marriage to a wife who has such a finely tuned mental clock that at the very minute of 8pm she ties on a pair of dreaded sweatpants, leaving Joel denied of sex for yet another evening. You remember this scene from the previews. Joel rushing home against the clock, explaining that once his wife pulls that drawstring tight those pants are on for the night and he gets nothing. I imagine we’re supposed to sympathize with a man stuck in such a frigid and uncommunicative marriage that he can’t have a simple conversation with her about their sex life and their mutual needs. Personally I’m completely unable to sympathize with people who suffer terribly from small problems with simple solutions, but no matter.

But check out this plot, it’s classic. A gold-digging hottie named Cindy (Mila Kunis) sees an article in the newspaper about a guy named Step who loses a testicle in a factory accident with the potential for a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Mesmerized by phrases like “multi-million dollar lawsuit” and “no testicles,” she immediately sets herself to the task of seeking him out and re-directing those funds to herself.

Once attaining a temp job at the factory, she flirts with Joel in an attempt to get close enough to him to get her hands on the one-nut employee’s contact information, but also giving Joel the impression that she likes him. When he finds himself unable to generate the conscience vacuum necessary to cheat on his wife, his bartender buddy Dean (Ben Affleck) suggests he hire a gigolo to sleep with his wife and thereby remove his guilt about an affair of his own.

The gigolo situation works out well, although right about at the same time that Joel realizes that Cindy isn’t at all interested in him, but is instead dating the greasy Step, despite the fact that he’s half the man he used to be. Joel now has to stop his wife’s continuing affair, which he paid to start and which has now taken on a life of its own, while at the same time stop this lawsuit from destroying his business right before he has a chance to sell it and retire young.

The movie is basically the throwing together of a lot of kooky characters and watching them thrash about among each other, and it works because they’re all unique and interesting characters, if not always very believable. Jason Bateman has become very very good at playing successful but highly overwhelmed characters, and my second favorite is J.K. Simmons (the newspaper boss from the Spiderman movies) as Brian, Joel’s second in command. This guy is an amazing comic actor, I could watch him do anything, although that god-awful tv series “Oz” was definitely an endurance test. Mila Kunis, who is leaps and bounds more attractive than Meg, the character that she voices on “Family Guy“, plays the manipulative hottie with such skill that it’s almost hard to believe she has never employed such tactics in real life. Ben Affleck also takes a fun turn in the movie, playing a dirtbag bartender and clearly having a blast with the role, and when actors are having fun playing their characters, it’s generally pretty hard not to have fun along with them.

Also joining them are a lot of actors that you will recognize by their voices, not necessarily including Gene Simmons who, you have to admit, is no fun at all to look at but has one of the funniest scenes in the whole movie. He’s also nice enough to keep his tongue in his mouth for the duration of the film, so that was nice of him. He fits his character well, too, but not quite as well as the hilarious David Koechner (The Goods), who fits entirely too comfortably into the role of the irritating neighbor that never goes away and simply can’t understand basic conversational clues that all mean “I have to go” or “please leave us alone.” The only real characterization problem in the movie is asking us to believe that Joel’s wife Suzie is really interested in this brain-dead gigolo. Kristen Wiig plays Suzie as far too beautiful and classy to be interested in Dustin Milligan’s Brad, who has roughly the IQ of a sun-dried tomato.

There is a scene in the middle of the movie where Joel accidentally gets really high, first on either Xanex or Ritalin or Special K, Dean can’t be quite sure which, and then on some pretty powerful weed, and it is as stupid and pointless and unamusing as it would be in any film, but the rest of the movie is a well-written sitcom pushed along by amusing performances and creative characters. It’s doesn’t have the same immediate relevance or ease of identity as Judge’s Office Space, his best film, but it’s the same style of average people suffering from average problems, if slightly exaggerated. Unfortunately though, I have a feeling that it’s not going to get the attention it deserves given that it’s competing at crowded cineplexes with heavyweights like G.I. Joe, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Final Destination 4, and the amazing new animated film 9, so I hope you’ll take my advice and go check it out!

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In a recent interview with Ben Affleck he admits that dating Jennifer Lopez was not the best thing for himself nor his career. He says some pretty mean things about his experience as Benifer.

Here is what he said:

“I was no longer in control of my life. I thought I wanted certain things, but I didn’t. I got lost. I felt suffocated, miserable and gross. I should never have gone down that route or got sucked in to all the publicity.

“I was typecast as myself. Too many people weren’t getting past what they read about me. That was damaging. I can tell from experience it’s bad for you, and bad for your career. So I took a break, went away for a while and let things calm down.”

He also admits that he is content with playing the father role.

“Work has taken a back seat. My job is not as important as it was. Saying that having a family changed my life is a cliche. But it’s true – it re-arranged my life and made me see clearly.”

I think I have to admit with Ben here. JLo turned him into a totally different person, putting him in a new, hotter spotlight. Benifer was intersting to us hince the reason they fell apart. It  just was not working. You could tell it wasn’t Ben’s thing to be that important or that famous. Jennifer Garner is way better suited for him.

Want to know how celebs celebrated the 4th, check out the photos below.

Heidi and Spencer went all out with their patriotic pride at the Palisades 10K charity run.

Diddy hosted his annual White Party with Ashton Kutcher in LA this year, to raise awareness for Malaria No More.

Kate Hudson kept up her streak of watching A-Rod play at Yankee Stadium.

The Obamas celebrated in our nation’s capital for their first Fourth of July in the White House.

Jon and Kate Gosselin reunited with all of their children to celebrate in PA.

K-Fed smiled with his sons after getting ice cream cones in Paris. Poor kids. What parent would take their children out of the country on the 4th of July? A stupid one.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon headed to Vegas to participate in the 3rd annual Ante Up for Africa celebrity poker tournament.

Jessica Alba, Cash Warren and their 1-year-old daughter, Honor, Honor were photographed spending a fun day at a Malibu the beach on the 4th.

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and Suri enjoy a hometown parade near actor’s home in Telluride, Colorado.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck welcomed another baby girl into their family.

The actress’ rep says: “Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck gave birth to a healthy baby girl.”

The baby was born Tuesday in Los Angeles. No other details of the birth have been given and a name has yet to be announced.

Garner and Affleck, both 36, are also parents to daughter Violet, 3.

Congrats to the couple!

The rumors are true!! Jennifer Garner is expecting, according to former “Alias” co-star Victor Garber, who broke the news to US Magazine’s website. She did a good job hiding it also as she is 5 months along. This is baby number two for Jennifer and Ben Affleck, making little 2-year old Violet a big sister.

 

Congrats to the happy couple!

As most kids in California are just beginning their summer, Violet Affleck attends her first day of school.

Proud parents, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted dropping their little bundle of joy off at the First Presbyterian Nursery School in Santa Monica, California on Monday June 16th.

The school doesn’t appear to be a fancy high priced private school like the ones we are used to seeing celebrity children attend. It is just an ordinary preschool. It is nice to see a celebrity child experiencing a little bit of normalcy. Although, I think that on a normal first day of school it is the child not the mother that gets upset. But if you look at the photos it is Jen not Violet that is brought to tears.

Here are some more photos of Violet’s first day of school.

Jimmy Kimmel has responded to his girlfriend’s, Sarah Silverman, “I’m f***ing Matt Damon,” video with a video of his own: “I’m f***ing Ben Affleck.”

His hilarious video includes a lot of Hollywood heavyweights, such as: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams…even McLovin makes an appearance! Also in the video: Rebecca Romijn, Christina Applegate, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Benji and Joel Madden, Huey Lewis, Meatloaf, Don Cheadle, Pete Wentz, Perry Farrell, Lance Bass, Josh Groban, & Dominic Monaghan…

This is one video you don’t want to miss!