I'm a little bummed that Isaiah W. didn't get the celebrity train-wreck award, but it was a tough race. But I'm shocked that the Fug girls didn't win for best celebrity obsessed Web site. They are on my favorites bar, for sure!! The cattiness, the gossip, and the clothes -- what's not to love??

And I'm "choking back some McVomit" about the fact that Angelina Jolie is the most admired celeb. She's like a crazy cat lady, but with kids, as a friend likes to note. And a home-wrecker, too. Gag.

Puh-leeze! Angelina is the most admirable celebrity out there! Not only does she adopt kids and give them a better life, but she also does what she can to help other countries and use her celebrity to bring coverage to important causes. There is no other celebrity that does as much as she does to help others! Sure, she has made some mistakes (who hasn't)...but she has come a long way from her crazy ways of the past. Now, she deserves the most admired celebrity more than anyone else!

Puh-leeze! Angelina is the most admirable celebrity out there! Not only does she adopt kids and give them a better life, but she also does what she can to help other countries and use her celebrity to bring coverage to important causes. There is no other celebrity that does as much as she does to help others! Sure, she has made some mistakes (who hasn't)...but she has come a long way from her crazy ways of the past. Now, she deserves the most admired celebrity more than anyone else!

I am amazed that Britney only got 59% of the votes. Is this down from last year? Because she has stepped up her trainwreck quota this year. Heck, I don't think she can top herself next year nor can some upstart out do her.

"Heck, I don't think [Britney] can top herself next year nor can some upstart out do her."

For her own sake, I hope she doesn't. But some very cynical part of me thinks she'll find a way.

Are the percents on Most Admired right? They seem to add up to 42...did that mean 42% of overall voters? If that's the case, I wonder why no one chose to vote for that one! Is it because you had to email it in?

Also, thanks for helping out us flash-challenged at work!

Now, she deserves the most admired celebrity more than anyone else!

Eh, Oprah's been helping people since Angie was kissing her brother OR wearing Billy Bob's blood around her neck. Being helpful is probably a phase she's going through.

ugh. angelina?!?! she can't do something good for society without photographers ensuring she gets publicity for her deeds. hardly an admirable quality.

ugh. angelina?!?! she can't do something good for society without photographers ensuring she gets publicity for her deeds. hardly an admirable quality.

Where else can you read celebrity divorce decrees, pre-nup agreements, arrest warrants, but TMZ? Who has best collection of celebrity mug shots than TMZ (Nick Nolte and James Brown are classics). Although I don't live in LA, I know where Hyde, Parc, The Ivy, Teddy's, IL Sole, Les Deux and of course, Mr. Chow are located because the TMZ cameras are right there.

Angelina Jolie, as Athens reader said, is clearly a child hoarder, like some people are with pets, newspaper, shiny objects. I'm all for adoption and drawing attention to children all over the world who need parents, but the pace has "crazy baby hoarder" written all over it.

Yay for Angelina! I certainly voted for her.

I kinda wish I had the chance to re-vote for Biggest Train Wreck. I voted when the Lizzie nominations were first announce, but Isaiah Washington came on really strong at the end, and I think if I'd waited he might've gotten my vote over Brit.

Really? Angelina is most admired? Hold on, one sec I seem to be feeling a little queasy... Ok, I'm back from my VOMIT FEST.

I feel I need to point out that Angelina is SUPPOSED to do good deeds in front of a camera. Her purpose as a good-will ambassador is to raise public awareness and the UN picked her specifically because people already like to see pictures of her.

I hate Angelina Jolie - she's such an attention-seeking cow! How dare she exploit her celebrity by adopting all these orphanage kids? She's like those Catholics who have six kids because God doesn't like birth control, or those stupid philanthropists who vomit money to charitable causes like it's nothing. It's not like other women in their thirties decide that they're ready to be moms, and then go about becoming moms - no other woman would dream of doing that. She's so weird.

While I'm not the biggest Angelie Jolie advocate out there, can we please stop it with the "home-wrecker" stuff? None of us know her, Brad or Jen personally and we have no idea how that whole scenario actually went down.

I think the Most Admired should be redone!48% OTHER is a high number of votes! You should redo the TOP 5 and see who wins then. There are to many celebs out there to choose from that do wonderful charity work!

I mean Paul Newman and Oprah run circles around AJ but I never thought of them or else I would have voted for one of them instead of my most favorate Audrey Hepburn who was a wonderful humanitarian.

Let's have the Most Admired again. Didn't add up. What gives?

Hey there, the remainder of the "Most Admired" were mainly a few votes for random folks here and there (ranging from Donald Duck to characters from "Sanford & Son."

Oh no, I totally missed the voting! Where were the nominations? Clearly I'm spending too much time on that other celebrity site. (Yes, the one that starts with "t" and ends with "z.")

Oprah opened a school for South African girls and Angelina gets it because she adopts a few kids? Oprah's school will help more kids than Angelina ever will and that help will stay in the country where it is most needed. By educating these girls it can only benefit South Africa as a whole. What benefits will Angelina's action cause? So she is bringing attention to the plight of some poorer countries. So is Bono and Oprah and Don Cheadle, etc etc. I disagree that she does more than any other celebrity, she just advertises it more than others.

now homewrecking is something to be admired

I think there should be a vote for Most Admired. I have little doubt the results will be different.

Whoa - I must've missed something. Liz, did you change the "Most Admired" award to "Greatest Humanitarian" or "Best Public Service"?

I was under the impression that "Most Admired" meant someone we, personally, admired. I voted for Angelina Jolie because she appears to do a fabulous job at being a mom, having a strong relationship with her partner, being great at her chosen career and doing what she can to make the world around her a better place. The combination of those things makes me admire her; I hope I can combine all four as well when I have kids.

Liz, you didn't list Bono's 6%.

I can't help but point out that Weirdo Jolie also sunk her talons into Billy Bob Thornton while he was engaged to Laura Dern. Now I think BBT is as gross as Jolie and they were a match made in blood-drinking heaven, but still ... there's a pattern here. Brad & Jen may have ended up splitting anyway, but Jolie 's still a homewrecker. You don't have to sleep with someone to be having an affair.

The voting on this year's Lizzies demonstrates that celebrities and the Celebritology voters are a match made in Lobotomy Heaven.

to put Craig Ferguson in any category with Paul Newman is a crime.

Well, in MY book, Aunt Esther is STILL Most Admired Celebrity, lmao.

Say what you will about Angelina Jolie, but that mug shot of Rip Torn is the funniest thing he's done since The Larry Sanders Show episode where he snapped "Shut the f*** up, Hank," at Jeffrey Tambor.

How could anyone vote for Aunt Esther? I hear she stole Woodrow from his first wife, drove him to drink, and then started adopting orphans, just like that phony do-gooder Jolie. She's also a Bible-thumpin' fish-eyed fool!

Grady and Rollo are more deserving of your vote. Hell, I'd even vote for Smitty and Hoppy before I'd vote for Esther.

I just do not get the hate-on-Jolie-fest. While she is certainly richer than the average bear, Jolie doesn't have near the money Oprah does. Opening a gi-normous campus for girls in South Africa may be a bit beyond Angelina's fiscal capabilities. She has, on the other hand, given millions to various missions and charities in several different countries in addition to performing humanitarian work with her hands, not just her check-book and her celebrity. And plenty of her "good deeds" were off camera, the big-time publicity has really just been since she became part of Brangelina. May be we should adjust the scale: what percentage of her total net wealth has Oprah given vs. Ms. Jolie? I'll admit the harem of children is a bit weird, and I wouldn't be surprised if she enters some new anti-social phase in a few years, but you can't tell me that her humanitarian work counts for zilch cuz she's a little unbalanced. Starving children probably aren't snobby about accepting food from drama queens: I'm guessing it tastes the same. And ditto on what Noelle said, we have no idea what happened in the Angelina-Brad-Jen triangle so just give it a rest with the "home-wrecker" crap.

Yeah, I thought admiration was an objective concept. Apparently, it is not. I'm all for robust discussion, but let's not attack the integrity of the Lizzies. No one here was disenfranchised. If you wrote in for Donald Duck and forgot about Oprah, well then who do you have to blame?!

Angelina Jolie gives 1/3 of her income to charity, and Oprah is reported to give 1/10 of hers.

Both of them do extraordinary things and deserve the praise they get.

err..subjective..

Really, the Jolie-hatin' is kind of ridiculous. I mean, what did she ever do to you? Did she shoot your father in a poker match? No? Then get over it already. The "home-wrecker" thing is particularly ridiculous. It takes two to play that game - how come nobody's all up in arms about Brad deciding he wanted to leave Jen for his hot co-star?

So true h3. So very true.

If it makes you feel better, h3, i don't admire Brad Pitt, either. :) At least I'm balanced on that one.

brad's a dog and a homewrecker too, I'd like to smack his smug face, losers who break up a marriage, cheat and then everyone falls to their feet because they're good looking. screw them both.

brad's a dog and a homewrecker too, I'd like to smack his smug face, losers who break up a marriage, cheat and then everyone falls to their feet because they're good looking. screw them both.

i want to go on record here to say that i voted for britney as trainwreck of the year, but i think isaiah washington might be even bigger because he actually had a good thing going. he was considered a very fine actor, top show, yadda yadda...and then the gay slurs hit the fan and his brain cells followed. he made a very decent showing at the end of the voting period and i hope he keeps talking so he can receive his just due in next year's lizzies.

h3, many of us think Brad is equally to blame in the whole affair/homewrecking thing, but Jolie gets more attention about it because (a) it's a pattern (see Billy Bob Thornton/Laura Dern breakup due to Jolie) and (b) she's in the news more than Brad. Plus, Brad, as far as we know, hasn't written anyone's name in blood across his back; worn anyone's blood; passionately kissed any of his siblings; become estranged from any family member because they very correctly pointed out he has mental issues and needs help; covered himself with tattoos; etc. etc. etc. etc. And he doesn't have veins popping out of his oddly bloodless skin or just look freakishly weird, as far as we can see.

In other words, as far as we know he isn't a total whacko. But who knows.

"I mean, what did [Angelina Jolie] ever do to you? Did she shoot your father in a poker match? No?"

True, H3, but I read somewhere that she once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, so I'm still gonna' have to keep on with the playa-hating.

This poll has been rigged by the Brangeloonies. Please do something about this, delete their compulsive, no life, over and over votes, and tell us who REALLY was the most admirable celeb

HTS, you had to vote by email. I know Liz is distracted what with Weingarten starting his chats back again (that, what, doubled her prod responsibilities?), but I think she would've noticed 100 emails from the same address.

I'm not a fan of Angelina Jolie but I'm not a enemy either. I voted for her after reading the Esquire magazine article and I realized that she is doing more than photoshoots. She has been putting her money where her mouth is for over 6 years.

Keep up the great work Ms Jolie and keep your head up.

Not all Catholics have six kids. What's with the religion bashing. The person making the comment should just stick to the facts. At least Angelina is taking pretty good care of her kids and not acting like Brittany Spears does with her kids. Brittany has no idea what it takes to be a parent. At least Angelina is doing a pretty good job and not hanging out at the bars, drinking etc.

Rip Torn is a fine actor but I agree his mug shot was awful. I hope he got the help he needed and will again grace our TV set with his excellent performances.

Heh - I think that person was being sarcastic. It's pretty over the top - particularly the part about how no other women in their 30s want to have kids - and the moniker is kinda blatant.

I don't know if he counts as a "celebrity," but Bill Gates has donated billions to virtually single-handedly cure the entire African continent of various types of pestilence, including river blindness (trypanosomyosis), malaria, tetanus, and other vaccinatable diseases. While I think Angelina Jolie is very admirable, Bill Gates is truly awe-inspiring.

I agree with LLL, Bill Gates is truly inspiring and admirable.

Back on the Brangelina thing, I think the votes were rigged too! I have nothing against Angie or Brad, nor am I a huge Aniston fan. In fact, I was a big Jolie fan until she started pretending she was all innocent b.s. In several interviews she states that she is disgusted by men who cheat because her father cheated on her mother, and she would never be the other woman. Filming the "The Good Sherperd", she said in an interview she almost vomitted at the idea of getting pregnant to keep a man. Many of the events took place...ie...she stole BillyBob from his wife and Brad from Aniston...then got herself knocked up promptly. Yes, none of us really know what happened. But that does not mean she can pretend to be innocent, just say "I don't care what anyone thinks, I fell in love with Brad" instead of pretending to be all innocent and noble. And if she was all innocent, the 50+page spread of Bragelina to "promote" Mr. & Mrs. Smith right after Pittt and ANiston broke up was uncalled for. And as many of you have brought up, Angie has a history of being a homewrecker...she has become the type of woman she despises. Who can be a fan of a hypocrite? At least she is donating her money to help the less fortunate to buy repentence for her own sins...good job Ang!

I agree with LLL, Bill Gates is truly inspiring and admirable.

Back on the Brangelina thing, I think the votes were rigged too! I have nothing against Angie or Brad, nor am I a huge Aniston fan. In fact, I was a big Jolie fan until she started pretending she was all innocent b.s. In several interviews she states that she is disgusted by men who cheat because her father cheated on her mother, and she would never be the other woman. Filming the "The Good Sherperd", she said in an interview she almost vomitted at the idea of getting pregnant to keep a man. Many of the events took place...ie...she stole BillyBob from his wife and Brad from Aniston...then got herself knocked up promptly. Yes, none of us really know what happened. But that does not mean she can pretend to be innocent, just say "I don't care what anyone thinks, I fell in love with Brad" instead of pretending to be all innocent and noble. And if she was all innocent, the 50+page spread of Bragelina to "promote" Mr. & Mrs. Smith right after Pittt and ANiston broke up was uncalled for. And as many of you have brought up, Angie has a history of being a homewrecker...she has become the type of woman she despises. Who can be a fan of a hypocrite? At least she is donating her money to help the less fortunate to buy repentence for her own sins...good job Ang!

Never heard of proxy email accounts UM? You must be new to Brangeloonies if you don't think they are obsessed enough to do that, they skew every poll either Pittstain or his skank show up in.

Something about both sides of this Brangelina thing gives me the skeevy-skeeves.

You said, Liz, "Hey there, the remainder of the "Most Admired" were mainly a few votes for random folks here and there (ranging from Donald Duck to characters from "Sanford & Son."
Posted by: Liz | July 9, 2007 11:43 AM "

If a few votes here and there added up to 47% of the votes, how few votes did you have in total? That would be an interesting number. Dare you to print that one.

I am surprised that Angelina Jolie wasn't voted train wreck. But I suppose the fans did a bit of 'dynamic' voting. The internet polls are a total waste of effort.
Just saying.

To Jolie fan

You are very wrong, your heroine does NOT give a third of her income to charity. It's just one of the things she said to make herself look good then forgot about and contradicted, two minutes later.

For the record, she donated a third of her paycheck from ONE movie, ONCE. She never did it again. Go to Radar Magazine's site and see how the money they promised to various charities failed to materialise. After being called out about it over and over, they set up the Jolie-Pitt foundation which means they get to use the money on themselves - fuel their jet, buy Pittstain the helicopter he has his eye on, buy their 97 pieces of luggage, pay for their stays in lavish hotels - as long as they also include a photo op with refugees or wag their finger at the rest of us about how little WE do, at a press conference. This is nothing less than defrauding charities. Your heroes are people low enough to steal money from the desparate refugees and orphans they pretend to care about. But hey, Jolie needs more heroin.

To Jolie fan

You are very wrong, your heroine does NOT give a third of her income to charity. It's just one of the things she said to make herself look good then forgot about and contradicted, two minutes later.

For the record, she donated a third of her paycheck from ONE movie, ONCE. She never did it again. Go to Radar Magazine's site and see how the money they promised to various charities failed to materialise. After being called out about it over and over, they set up the Jolie-Pitt foundation which means they get to use the money on themselves - fuel their jet, buy Pittstain the helicopter he has his eye on, buy their 97 pieces of luggage, pay for their stays in lavish hotels - as long as they also include a photo op with refugees or wag their finger at the rest of us about how little WE do, at a press conference. This is nothing less than defrauding charities. Your heroes are people low enough to steal money from the desparate refugees and orphans they pretend to care about. But hey, Jolie needs more heroin.

TO Lisa

You said you voted for her after hearing about what she had done in Cambodia. This is the link to the work he said she was doing in Cambodia.
http://www.cambodianvision.com/projects.html#project2

This project has had that message(Because of lack of funds, the future of this project is uncertain) on it for years. How is that possible when it supposedly received the 4 million they got for selling Shiloh's picture? The man running this charity is now suing her for not making good on promises of funds. She has in turn accused him of stealing money. This man who was doing this work long before Miss star-on-an-ego-trip came along and wanted to join in. Her accusation came AFTER he started his case to sue. So who should we believe - a dedicated man who has been a full time charity worker for years or someone who lies like other people breathe?

The work they described in Esquire was probably done years ago, and probably not funded by Jolie other than a token amount here and there. She hasn't been linked to this project in years and when did she make enough money (before Pitt)that she could afford to do the kind of work they describe in Esquire?