Mario Lopez is hosting the 2009 Miss America pageant finals tonight at 8 pm on TLC. Las Vegas has already been celebrating the festivities all week with preliminary contests. The reigning Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund, will also be there to present the new Miss America her crown.

Update: Click to Find Out Who Won Miss America 2009

Who are the contestants vying for the prize? Here are their pictures and a brief bio.

Miss Alabama
Amanda Tapley
Birmingham, Alabama
Age: 20
Her career ambition: To pursue a career as a Pediatric Oncologist

Miss Alaska
Stephany Jeffers
Anchorage, Alaska
Age: 23
Her career ambition: To become a botanical researcher

Miss Arizona
Erin Brittany Nurss
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Age: 23
Her talent: Lyrical Dance

Miss Arkansas
Ashlen Batson
Newark, Arkansas
Age: 21
Her career ambition: To become a Speech Pathologist

Miss California
Jackie Geist
Vacaville, California
Age: 22
Her career ambition: Personal Finance Planner

Miss Colorado
Jamie Dukehart-Conti
Arvada, Colorado
Age: 23
Her talent: Jazz Dance

For the rest of the contenders check after the jump…

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Tonight on TLC you can watch ‘Countdown To The Crown‘ for the last night of the show.  Tomorrow night Miss America will be crowned.  America is taking part in the voting process this year and has gotten to judge the contestants from impressions to their bikinis. TONIGHT, after the Countdown show is over, YOU get to pick 4 contestants that you think should make the top 15.  You can do this by text messaging or voting on the TLC website.  Make your opinion count!  Watch it and vote.

TLC is doing a great job covering the pageantry this year and I am glad they got the ‘job’.

This year the show will take place at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and Mario Lopez will be the host.  Mr Dimples himself will get to flirt the night away with America’s most beautiful ladies.

Make sure to watch it all go down as the winner is crowned tomorrow night on TLC at 8pm.

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New Year’s Eve is a huge night for celebrity parties!  Where will your favorite celeb be ringing in the new year?  We found a list of some of the hottest celebrity-hosted parties coast to coast.  Check it out!

Misses December Playboy Playmates Jennifer & Natalie Campbell will light up the night at Prive in Miami Beach, FL.

Travis Barker and DJ AM appear - for the first time since their plane crash in September - at The Lot in West Hollywood.

Sean “Diddy” Combs hosts The Art of Celebration at LIV @ The Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, FL.  It’s mostly sold out, but if you’ve got $5,000 you can buy a Premium Dance Floor Table for 8.

AnnaLynne McCord hosts New Year’s Eve 2009 at B.E.D. in Miami, FL.

Mario Lopez hosts the evening at Marquee in New York City - “The Hottest Club in the Known Universe.”  The afterparty here starts at 2:00 am, so you know this is going to be bangin’.

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson provide a twofer, hosting and spinning at Mansion in Miami Beach, FL.

Denise Richards will show you how complicated it is at Prive Las Vegas.  DMC from Run DMC spins for the night!

Molly Sims hosts the less expensive party at the Fontainebleau - this one’s at Blade.

Playmate Brande Roderick hosts ACE Entertainment’s NYE bash at West Restaurant and Lounge in West Hollywood.

Can you keep up with the Kardashians?  Kim, Kourtney and Khloe toast the New Year at The Luxor’s LAX in Las Vegas.

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Because “pop” groups are sooooo popular right now, MTV is trying to find the best undiscovered talent in that genre with it’s new reality talent series.

From the Jonas Brothers to the Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane, pop groups hold a special place in America’s heart providing a soundtrack to our lives. Now MTV sets out to find the next pop sensation to join these music superstars and Mario Lopez (host of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew”) is taking the hosting reins for the new live music competition series “MTV’s Top Pop Group” premiering Thursday, September 11 at 10:00 PM ET/PT. Joining Mario in the studio will be backstage correspondent Marianela Pereyra. Celebrity judges and mentors for “MTV’s Top Pop Group” to be announced at a later date.

For a sneak peek at the nine talented groups from across the U.S., MTV will offer “MTV’s Top Pop Group: The Casting Special” on Thursday, August 28 at 9pm ET/PT before they head to Hollywood to compete. The one-hour special features host Mario Lopez as he introduces each of the groups providing viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at their audition and their personal lives.

I guess there just weren’t enough talent competitions out there, right?

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Last night was the last episode of America’s Best Dance Crew as the remaining two crews went head to head to battle it out for top honors. This is Season 2 of the hit MTV show hosted by Mario Lopez with judges Shane Sparks, Lil Mama and JC Chasez. SoReal Cru battled Super Cr3w and they were both slammin’ in their own right. SoReal did a hard-hitting dance number while Super Cr3w was more street, break-dance, trick style.

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A winner will be crowned on tonight’s episode of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV. Will it be Houston’s SoReal Cru or Vegas’ Super Cr3w who takes it home?

Super Cr3w is a conglomerate of b-boys from three West Coast dance crews — Full Force, Battle Monkeys and Knucklehead Zoo — who battled each other eight years ago and have been friends ever since. Heading into America’s Best Dance Crew 2, members Ronnie Rey, Do-Knock, Abenamar Honrubia, Rockadile, Alex Murda and Vex are ready to do battle and obliterate the competition.

Despite the fact that he had heart surgery when he was 4 years old, Ronnie Rey came in first at Red Bull BC One World Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. Do-Knock appeared on Star Search — and won! — while Abenamar Honrubia won Battle of the Year in 2005 and 2006. But their individual accomplishments don’t stop there. Rockadile has won a whopping 35 competitions, including Underdog 3, What Lies Beneath, Who Runs the Deuce and Break It Down. Alex Murda was the IBE (Holland) one-on-one champion and the City Vs. City (Chicago) one-on-one champion. Meanwhile, racking up kudos of his own, Vex has no trouble keeping up with his counterparts and expressing himself onstage.

The members of Houston’s SoReal — Monkiee Boi, Eye Candy, Pat Lam, Brianbuyoiyoi, Jackstar, Burna and Good Foot — were all friends before they formed this close-knit dance crew. And the group continues to grow as they meet more and more friends that fit right in.

Off the dance floor, Brianbuyoiyoi likes to write “cheesy” poems. For Jackstar, backstage freestyling is a must before a big show to help her get the “shakies” out. When it comes to Burna, he spends his free time working out, allowing him to eat an entire box of cereal every morning. And as for Good Foot, who grew up wanting to be a modern-day Michael Jackson, he can “slide, glide” and move his feet “like crazy.”

We will report the winner tomorrow!!!

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Mario Lopez and his big weinermobile made an appearance at Oscar Meyer’s 125th anniversary celebration in Times Square on Tuesday.    The event was also a fundraiser for nationwide food bank network America’s Second Harvest, which received a $100,000 donation from the company.

As you can tell by the apron, Mario’s job was to be a good little soldier at the grill and serve ‘em up hot at this sausage fest.   I’m sure that he had the right tool for the job, though.  I wonder if the menu was strictly Oscar Meyer, or whether it included any Johnsonville products?

(So much for promising myself that I wouldn’t go all Austin Powers on this post…..)

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Mario Lopez recently shared who his first kiss was with, Fergie!

“We were 10. She was adorable. I knew her as Stacy… She’s still the same sweet, down-to-earth girl that I knew over 25 years ago.”

That is so cute…

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Now, you can’t say you didn’t see this coming! After I saw this, I knew it would be only a matter of time.

Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff, from Dancing With The Stars, break up…big surprise.

A source tells PEOPLE Smirnoff is moving out of Lopez’s digs.

Lopez’s personal rep, Lisa Perkins, says, “It’s my policy to not comment on my client’s personal life.”

That is so vague! But I’m sure we can put two and two together!

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Dancing with the Stars has kind of become, where has-beens and wannabes go to get laid.  It’s a dating show!  You have Julianne Hough rumored to be taking all of her partners away from their wives and fiances, Cheryl having an affair with Drew Lachey, and Karina Smirnoff hooking up with Mario Lopez!

But now, Page Six is reporting that Karina might be ditching Mario Lopez for…Mario!

A source said, “They were making out by the valet with their hands all over each other, and he was whispering in her ear. It was around midnight, so there weren’t many people around.” Karina is Mario’s partner on the current season. Her rep said the story isn’t true and they have a professional relationship.

Professional relationship?  That’s what they all say!  So, which Mario would YOU rather hook up with if you were Karina?  I have a Mario for you, Karina! Check him out after the jump!

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Don’t blame Britney’s recent paunch on the Cheetos, sources say.

Allegedly, ex-friends of the most talked-about pop star in the world have gone public with the story that Ms. Spears was expecting her third child in January and tried to convince K-Fed that the child was his.

A source tells The National Enquirer, “Kevin knew Britney was with other men and at the same time having sex with him to try to win him back. He told Britney that he couldn’t forgive her.”

After she learned a reconciliation was not going to happen with Federline, a shocked Britney went home to Louisiana. While there, the Enquirer claims that she lost her child and experienced erratic behavior. It was then Spears reluctantly checked into the Promises Rehab Facility in Malibu, California.

Now, things are starting to look like an episode of The Maury Povich Show. In a question of who was this baby’s father, Saved By The Bell’s Mario Lopez, who was linked romantically to Spears, has ruled himself out. This leaves dancer Blake McGrath, model Isaac Cohen, producer J.R Rotem, and the rest of the male species as possible contenders.

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According to People magazine Mario Lopez and girlfriend Karina Smirnoff, his partner on last season’s Dancing with the Stars, recently took their relationship to the next level: They’re cohabiting.

“They recently moved in together,” a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. “It was a big step to take, especially for Mario, but they both think this could be it. Things are going really well right and they’re loving being together all the time.”

The 33-year-old Lopez and the Ukrainian-born Smirnoff have always been coy about their romance since coming in second on the ABC reality hit in November, but were spotted vacationing together in Mexico later that month.

Lopez, who will co-host the Miss Universe 2007 pageant on NBC live from Mexico City on May 28, told PEOPLE at the time that he and Smirnoff had “a very special relationship” and said: “We’re great friends and very supportive of each other.”

Reps for both had no comment.

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