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Born into show business, Blake Lively preferred cheerleading over acting until she played Bridget in 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The offers poured in, including one for the high school comedy Accepted, for which Blake Lively eventually received a Hollywood Life Breakthrough Award.

It's been onwards and upwards ever since for Blake Lively. She's Serena on TV's Gossip Girl, for which she won a pair of 2008 Teen Choice Awards, and she played Bridget again in a Sisterhood sequel. She also hammed it up as a transsexual partyer alongside James Franco in a memorable skit on Saturday Night Live. Blake Lively is hitting her stride as an actress and a babe. Besides her movie and television pursuits, she appeared on the cover of various magazines, including NYLON, Cosmopolitan and Lucky. Her projects aren't the most male-accessible entertainment, but it was hard not to notice this blond beauty, especially in her pro-Obama pitch during election season.

In addition to her continued television work, 2009 will see Blake Lively in more guy-friendly projects like the short-film compilation New York, I Love You (featuring Kevin Bacon) and the Keanu Reeves-Robin Wright Penn drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. We can't wait.

Vanessa Hudgens starred in High School Musical 3 in 2008, and went on tour in support of her Identified album. In 2009, Hudgens will star in the comedy Bandslam, a movie about teenagers drawn together by their love of music.

She became the spokesperson for Neutrogena in ’08, and also presented at the MTV VMAs, which makes us think we’ll be seeing even more of this fresh-faced beauty throughout ’09.

Before rising to fame as Gabrielle Montez in the High School Musical series, Vanessa Hudgens made appearances in films like Thirteen and Thunderbirds, as well as on TV shows like The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. After becoming a star, she pursued a music career, and has released two albums -- V and Identified -- on Hollywood Records, though neither album sold particularly well. However, her undeniable cuteness and sweet demeanor continue to make her a hot commodity.

Olivia Munn is a model, actress and television personality, as well as one of the faces of American cable channel G4. She cohosts Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira, answering viewer questions about sex and dating. She has also worked as a model for Nike, Pepsi and Neutrogena. In 2007, she appeared in Playboy magazine in a non-nude pictorial spread, as well as in the Rob Schneider movie Big Stan.

Following her role in the 2008 flick Insanitarium, in which she played a nurse in an insane asylum, along with the comedy The Slammin' Salmon, Olivia Munn kept her name on the minds of men everywhere by appearing in an article for Men’s Health Living on creating the ultimate guy’s bedroom. It didn’t take long for Olivia Munn to gain legions of fans across the globe, and something tells us she’ll continue to be desired by many men well into 2009.

Dania Ramirez was born in the Dominican Republic, where she caught the acting bug at a young age. Working in a convenience store in New York City, at the age of 15, Dania Ramirez was discovered by a modeling agency, and was offered a part in a small local commercial. From there, she started to pursue acting more seriously, and headed to the West Coast. After relocating to Los Angeles, she earned minor roles in She Hate Me and X-Men: The Last Stand. She went on to land a part in the TV show Heroes.

Tall and voluptuous with girl-down-the-block beauty, Katharine McPhee can raise our blood pressure without uttering a single note. Yet when she does sing, she soars, leading us to wonder whether she has normal vocal chords like the rest of us or if she has a booming pipe organ inside.

Before the year was out, Katharine McPhee was signed to David Foster’s 143 Records label, meaning that her sophomore album may reach stores in the spring of 2009.Brown-eyed songbird and American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee began 2008 by parting ways with her label (RCA). She then married her (much older) boyfriend, Nick Cokas, in February '08, became a spokesperson for Neutrogena and costarred in The House Bunny with Anna Faris -- not a bad turnaround.

Not only did the impossibly beautiful Holly Weber once have physical imperfections (crooked teeth -- the horror!), but she was also in school to become a dentist. When her braces came off, the beauty lights came on and, more than 25 calendars and multiple magazines later, her viewing audience agrees that she's not too shabby.

Acting is Holly Weber's latest venture, and 2008 saw her guest star on three TV series, including Dirt and Criminal Minds (as the aptly-named Holly Hottie). She also had cameos in the Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan and the Oscar contender Frost/Nixon.

If you weren't already convinced by Holly Weber's two-time selection as FHM's Hometown Honey, let's just state the obvious: Holly Weber is hot. Her recent leap to acting in roles as models, playmates and girlfriends emphasizes how important her beauty is to her work. The camera loves her.

We'll be seeing a lot more of her in 2009, as she'll appear in a pair of high-flying action sequels -- Crank 2: High Voltage and Fast & Furious. She's also playing a sexy chef in the Katherine Heigl-Gerard Butler comedy The Ugly Truth. We can't wait to see what she'll cook up.

Camille Belle is one of Hollywood’s emerging starlets. Her credits date back through much of her life, and she has been rumored to be romantically attached to one of the Jonas brothers and Twilight star Robert Pattinson (though not at the same time).

Camilla Bella’s career highlights include The Quiet, the horror remake When A Stranger Calls, and starring as Daniel Day-Lewis’ daughter in The Ballad of Jack and Rose. The exotic looks of this half-Brazilian actress, who stands at 5’8”, understandably reminds us of the Brazilian model invasion that followed Gisele Bundchen’s successful storming of the fashion world. While Camilla Belle does do some modeling, the bilingual actress largely sticks to acting, like her 2008 stint in 10,000 BC.

With no fewer than four projects scheduled for 2009, get ready for Camilla Bella to explode. Among others, she’ll appear in the Heroes-like Push with Dakota Fanning, as well as Three Stories About Joan, Bruce Willis’ directorial debut.

Rumors swirled that 2008's season of The Hills would be its last, but producers decided to keep the show going for yet another season, which will begin airing this spring.

Audrina Patridge, in our estimation, is much hotter than Lauren. Yes, we said it. This new source of eye candy is getting tons of attention these days, and with a big-screen flick coming up in ’09 (Sorority Row) and at least one more in 2010 (Into the Blue 2), we’ll still have many more months of indulging in shots of AuLegend has it that Audrina Patridge was ”discovered” by producers of The Hills, plucked from the poolside of anonymity and thrust to fame and fortune -- a modern-day Lana Turner.

Fine, fine, we believe it, and we even believe that The Hills is real, that it isn’t fully orchestrated from start to finish. Where are these Audrina Patridge naked shots we keep hearing so much about?drina… in a bikini... by the pool… again.