Celebrities Who Deserve Gold Medals
If Hollywood had an Olympics, these stars would be winners.
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Celebrities Who Deserve Gold Medals - Olympic gold isn't just for athletes like Gabrielle Douglas. While the world's best swimmers, gymnasts and track stars collect medals overseas, we're handing them out to our favorite stars for incredible feats of celebrity. Now, on with the games! (Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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Cleanest Celebrity Divorce Gold Medal: Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee Simmons - While most celebrity divorces come furnished with scandalous headlines and "leaked" personal information, Russell and Kimora managed to quietly slip away from each other and into new relationships without so much as a missed photo op. The original royal couple of hip hop have managed to make breaking up look easy to do. For that, they get the gold. (Photo: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images)
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Best Celebrity Apology Gold Medal: Tiger Woods - It was a worldwide scandal that deserved one heck of an explanation. After Tiger Woods was outed for his, ahem, numerous infidelities, the world was watching to see how he would say, "I'm sorry." After he tearfully pleaded, "I ask you to find room in your heart to one day believe in me again," his fans melted, even if his wife didn't. (Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper /Landov)
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Best Comeback Gold Medal: Jennifer Lopez - Hollywood is not kind to 40-something women. Especially if they aren't Meryl Streep. So how did Lopez manage to achieve the best era of her career — including hit records, a multimillion dollar American Idol deal, and a body twenty-somethings would kill for — after crossing the age when most female stars drop off the map? It's clear that booty has staying power. (Photo: Mickshaw/PictureGroup)
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Biggest Twitter Meltdown Gold Medal: Paris Jackson - Putting instant access to millions of fans in the palm of an emotional 14-year-old's hands is a recipe for disaster. In Paris Jackson's case, it may have started World War III in her famous family. Paris' Twitter outrage over her missing grandmother made her uncle's stealth operation to overturn Michael Jackson's will headline news. (Photo: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
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Fastest Post-Baby Snap Back Gold Medal: Beyoncé - When Beyoncé resurfaced weeks after giving birth with her bangin' body intact, she didn't do much to squash those fake pregnancy rumors. While Blue Ivy has clearly added immense joy to Bey's life, she hasn't added an inch on her waist. And it's not just her body that snapped back: her comeback shows in Atlantic City proved that Sasha Fierce has made her return as well. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)
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Bravest Coming Out Story Gold Medal: Frank Ocean - He penned the open letter that could even get the drive-thru guy at Chick-Fil-A to shed a tear. Frank Ocean's candid and moving story about his first love — who happened to be a man — makes us wonder why all of our on-the-verge stars (and they know who they are) won't take the leap. The fact that it was great for his album sales is just icing on the cake. (Photo: Darla Khazei, PacificCoastNews.com)
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Most Effective Use of Instagram Gold Medal: Rihanna - How do you prove to the world that you're totally over your ex? Flood the Internet with self portraits so hot, they could make him say "Karre-who?" Rihanna has documented virtually every night of partying, every day of suntanning and every inch of her body with her iPhone, making her the worldwide champ of not-so-subliminal messages. (Photo: Instagram)
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Best Champagne Bottle Toss Gold Medal: Drake and Chris Brown - These two hip hop chart-toppers showed some real team effort — and dedication to their sport! — when they started practicing their shotput with champagne bottles at a New York City club last month. Unfortunately, their enthusiasm caused the club its liquor license and opened the door to multiple lawsuits. But we reward the champs with a gold medal for their after-hours practice session. (Photos from left: Hall/Pena, PacificCoastNews.com, PacificCoastNews.com)
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Best Impersonation of an Actual Athlete Gold Medal: Common - This rap-tor clearly worked hard perfecting his crossover to play a pro-baller in Just Wright, but we doubt he needed any practice to perfect his skills of seduction. Queen Latifah is one lucky chick, we would have loved to play one-on-one with her co-star! (Photo: David Lee/ Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Biggest Leap from D-List to A-List Gold Medal: Kim Kardashian - Remember when Kim Kardashian was just that hot girl who was always photographed around Paris Hilton? Well, America's reality sweetheart has been training hard, and over the past year has sprinted to the A-list. Now that she's rolling with the likes of 'Ye, Jay and Bey, Paris Hilton is probably ready to pull a Tonya Harding on her. (Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage)
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Marathon Career Gold Medal: Morgan Freeman - Besides neon and spandex, how many things can you say are as cool now as they were in the '80s? Morgan Freeman may have even more cultural cache today than he did as a younger man, no easy feat for a guy who, let's face it, never exactly had Denzel's movie star looks. But talent and an eye for the right roles are all Freeman needed to break away from the pack and become one of the most respected actors of our generation. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Fastest Relationship Rebound Gold Medal: Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper - After ending her relationship with fiance Keith Britton, who she had been with for, oh, 11 years, freshly-minted A-lister Saldana didn't even let her bed get cold before inviting Bradley Cooper into it. She went from almost-married lady to spring-flinger faster than Jackie Joyner-Kersee ran the 100-meter dash. (Photos from left: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images,Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Fiercest Paparazzi Beatdown Gold Medal: Halle Berry - Halle Berry must have eaten her Wheaties on the day a gaggle of paparazzi dared get too close to her daughter Nahla. The Oscar-winning actress went positively postal on the unsuspecting pap, who probably learned his lesson to stay away from the cub when momma bear is nearby. (Photo: Bruja/Juan Sharma, PacificCoastNews.com)
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Most Resilient Relationship Gold Medal: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith - This Hollywood power couple knows that when it comes to marriage, endurance is the name of the game. So they smartly decided to skip the 100-meter dash of passion for the marathon of true, lasting love. Sure, there have been times where we thought they wouldn't make it, but our money is on these two crossing the finish line. (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)
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