10) War Machine Goes Porn Machine: True, War Machine was only a celebrity to those who are really into MMA—but he still was enough of a star for his crossover into porn to be a significant news story.

9) Anne Heche in "Spread: Who doesn't want to see Anne Heche topless and getting groped? Obviously, all of you did.

8) Ashley Greene: Naked on the Internet?: Annoying as it may be, we do have to thank the "Twilight" franchise for making us aware of Ashley Greene...and Ashley Greene for (allegedly) making these nude photos available to the public.

7) Scenes from the Leighton Meester Sex Tape: And speaking of naked teen idols: "Gossip Girl" Leighton Meester's sex tape may not have looked all that interesting...but hey, Leighton Meester was enough to carry it to popularity.

6) New Nudes of Vanessa Hudgens: And because naked teen idols come in threes: Vanessa Hudgens also had nude pictures surface (again)...but since she's got good lawyers, the pix disappeared from the internet about as quickly as they appeared.

5) Alans Morissette (Sorta) Goes Topless on "Weeds": Alanis's topless scene was one of the most hyped bits of TV nudity this year...and, sadly, one of the most disappointing.

4) Rihanna's (Alleged) Naked Pix: We may never know if these are really, truly Rihanna...though if she keeps taking her clothes off for album covers, we might be able to get pretty close to confirming. UPDATE: Turns out Rihanna did confirm. Our suggestion that she keep taking her clothes off still stands.

3) (Fake) Katy Perry Nude: While Rihanna's alleged nudes could still be her, this picture of "Katy Perry" unfortunately wasn't.

2) The Miss Universe Sex Tape: Most celebrity sex tapes are boring and badly shot. Anya Ayoung-Chee, however, really knows how to shine in front of the camera. Can someone tell us why Vivid never offered her a million dollar contract?

1) Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, and Kari Ann Peniche Make The World's Most Boring Sex Tape: And it wouldn't be a celebrity scandal list without a mention of the Eric Dane/Rebecca Gayheart/Kari Ann Peniche tape. True, it was boring...but at least we all got to see McSteamy's wang.

EDIT: Given that Vanessa's people have been bombarding the internet with DMCA take down notices, yes, the photos are real.

EDIT (8/13/09): Due to legal issues, we have had to remove the images.

Vanessa's reportedly stripping off for a role in Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." Lest you think this is just another cheap, tawdry film eager to get young starlets out of their clothes at the first chance, we'd like you to know that the film is set in a brothel. So, you know, any nudity is obviously completely and totally relevant to the plot, and in no way just a cheap attempt to show us all the "High School Musical" starlet's goodies. Really.

· Vanessa Hudgens is stripping off her clothes to play a hooker in upcoming movie, 'Sucker Punch' (nydailynews.com)

· Vanessa Hudgens Ass Crack (taxidrivermovie.com)

Frankly, we're thrilled to know that the young teens have a healthy enough attitude about sexuality that they're a) willing to step into a sex toy shop and b) willing to let a fan take photographs with them in said scandalous location. But, uh, maybe next time they'll go somewhere classy like Babeland, and not whatever cheap place this is?

· Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens in 'Sex Shop Musical' (defamer.com)

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· The Britney Spears Sex Tape

We all wanted that one to be true, but sadly, that was just the beginning of the end for America's fairy tale couple.

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· The Alyson Hannigan Sex Tape

To this day, you can still find paysites that are trying to pass this off an authentic exclusive, even though no one really believed it in the first place.

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· The Adriana Lima Sex Tape



We would have totally bought that a Victoria's Secret supermodel would fuck on tape, except that virgins don't generally fuck on tape. Or Victoria's Secret supermodels for that matter.

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· American Idol contestant Antonella Barba's blowjob

We were never 100% sure if these were definitively proven to be her or not, but that's beautiful thing about interent scandals: It's not a lie if you believe it!

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· Vanessa Hudgens Nude Cell Phone Pics

The craziest thing about these pictures wasn't that they involved the star of a Disney show, but that they were actually her! (She also may have taken them for a boy who isn't really into girls, but that's another story).

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· Kristin Davis' Old Nudie Pics

Some people are apparently still on the fence about this one, but unless someone has a really detailed picture of Kristin Davis' elbows we're not buying it.

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

Still, we thought it was worth posting about regardless since (1) if there are actual naked photos of Vanessa floating around online, we'd love to see them (for reportage purposes, of course), and (2) we couldn't resist quoting what the folks at IDon'tLikeYouInThatWay have to say about why the whole naked picture rumour is floating around in the first place: "I'm just mostly trying to figure out if this isn't some big conspiracy to hide the fact that Zac Efron is gay. He looks like he'd rather have a tea party or design a Build-A-Bear with Vanessa Hudgens than see her naked." Let's get to work, kids!

· "Vanessa Hudgens Is Naked" (idontlikeyouinthatway.com)

*Update TMZ, whose crack reporting skills have never given us reason to doubt, is now saying that the photo is definitely the real deal. We still don't know what the deal is with that stump though. (tmz.com)