‘Newsmakers Of The Year’ Teen Choice Award Scrapped

For those wondering why Larry Birkhead or Sanjaya Malakar were on hand for the Teen Choice Awards, apparently both were nominated for a ‘Newsmakers of the Year’ award – along with Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton – but the idea was nixed. “Paris was nominated for her 23-day stint in jail, Lindsay for her latest DUI bust and Britney for the infamous head-shaving incident,” a source revealed. “But none of them would dare to show up… all the publicists [for the trio] went crazy on Fox, and they just scrapped the category.” But Fox did allow Birkhead and Malakar to attend anyways. Read more.