Has she given in to our rampant pleas for nudity? No...but with photos like these, we're not sure we care.

(Okay, we still care, and we would love to see Hayden au natural, but this cleavage is still pretty tasty. As is that, uh, simulated masturbation shot? Elle is way racier than we ever knew!)

· Hayden Panettiere Is Spread In Elle (hollywoodtuna.com)

Unfortunately, Hulu's being a big jerkface and not letting us actually embed the darn thing, so you'll have to surf your way to their site to see the kiss in question. Though it doesn't hold a candle to "Dark Rising", it is still Hayden Panettiere touching lips, for a reasonable amount of time, with another girl—and for a show that's on network TV (on NBC, no less), that's pretty darn good.

· Claire's Kiss: Extended Version (hulu.com)

We'd start praying for the possibility of nipple...but Hayden's already admitted she was wearing pasties. (Foiled again!)

· Hayden Panettiere Toples Sideboob (egotastic.com)

And hey: maybe next year, full frontal? (Maybe? If we're lucky?)

· Hayden Panettiere's Locker Room Nude Scene in "I Love You Beth Cooper" (youtube.com, via egotastic.com)

According to E Online!, the upcoming "I Love You, Beth Cooper" features Hayden's first ever nude scene. Unfortunately, all we get to see is her back. But still: it's only a matter of time until full rearal progresses into sideboob, then topless, then—at last—the coveted full frontal. At least, that's how we see it—Hayden, you on board with this?

· Hayden on Movie Nudity: "You Never Know" (eonline.com)

· Hayden Panettiere Bikini Pictures Go Ass Up (egotastic.com)

And though it's probably for the best that she not wind up with her crotch splashed across the tabloids, well, is it too much to ask for one boob shot? Some tasteful topless photos?

No?

Well, we suppose these cleavage shots will have to suffice, then.

· Hayden Panettiere (flabber.nl)

Check out some of the moments that kept our jobs interesting this year after the jump.

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10

Not Meg White
Sometimes the best sex scandals are the ones that aren't true. Did White Stripes rhythm section Meg White really bang some college student in his dorm and let him film it? Does it even matter?

9

Britney's Downward Spiral, Stage 3
So ... um ... yeah ... that happened. Moving on ...

8

Hayden's Barely Legal Year
Another hot young babe had her "it's no longer creepy" party, to be followed next year by her "whatever happened to?" fiesta (i.e., her 19th birthday).

7

Everybody's Preggers!
Salma. Christina. Halle. Jessica. J-Love. Jaime-Lynn? (No comment on that one.) Everyone seems to have forgone the sexy on-camera Hollywood screwing for the private, baby-making kind. On the plus side, bigger boobs are always nice.

6

Anything Sienna Miller Does. Ever.
Seriously, we're not sure if this gal even owns a shirt, much less knows how to wear one, but we're just glad that her dedication to the cause of the celebrity nudity is so strong and vital.

5

Amy Fisher Understands A Good Press Event
Step aside, all you amateur scandalebrities: let a real tabloid veteran show you how it's done!

4

Natalie Portman's Ass
Better in theory than in iPod-quality practice, but any chance to see Ms. Portman sans culottes is a chance we're never going to pass up.

3

Kim Kardashian: Superstar?
The Paris Hilton "famous for being famous while having sex" phenomenon comes full circle, as her former sidekick parlays her fame by association into a TV show, a Playboy shoot and the worst Vivid video of all time. But at least she's not shy.

2

Vanessa Hudgens' Graduation Gift
Even gay men agree: don't send your high school musical boyfriend full-frontal nudie pics unless you're absolutely sure he can be trusted to not share them with all his friends Planet Earth. (P.S. You can't.)

1

Vanessa and Nick's Excellent Adventure
While they are not the biggest names on this list, the Mexican hot tub dance between pseudo-celebrities Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo was quite possibly our biggest story of the year. We hope that had more to do with the revelation of Vanessa's generous bush than Nick's pained o-face, but the moral, as always, is that watching famous people do dirty things is a terrific way to pass the time.

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Honorable Mention: Sharon Stone's Outrageous Cameltoe, Marisa Tomei Wakes The Dead, and Mr. Skin's Top 20 Nude Scenes Of 2007

Now, we hope she's merely joking about planning to be one of the "boring girls," because sexy young women are what keep us going each day, but we'd like to see Hayden avoid the burnout, trainwreck syndrome that seems to afflict our young starlets these days. We want fun, not drunkenly insane. Our advice: keep wearing bikinis to the beach and accept any movie role that involves wearing lots of spandex, but stay away from greasy rich boys and snotty heiresses, so that we can all enjoy many years of your fresh faced, good girl antics. Then when you're 28, you can pose for Playboy the way a former child actress is supposed to!

· OBSESSION OF THE YEAR (style.com)
· Japanese arrest warrant issued for 'Heroes' star Panettiere (nzhearld.co.nz)