Where Are The ‘Tacky Guests’?

From a tipster:

I’ll tell ya, I’ve been thoroughly disappointed with this year’s list of celebs appearing at the WHCA dinner. I went last year, and we got to see the Olsen twins, Ben Affleck, Serena Williams, Drew Carey, Wayne Newton, Clay Aiken, and many others. This year, it’s news that ABC has Senators Susan Collins and Judd Gregg? Please. I’d rather stay home.

As much as we have to disagree that Judd “Hot Stud” Gregg is news, our tipster does have a fair point: Where ARE the big names this year?

Come on, ever since Michael Kelly, then a not-so-cub-but-still-young reporter with the Baltimore Sun, brought Fawn Hill to the White House Correspondents dinner in 1987, it’s been a race to the bottom for the biggest names of low culture and glitziest Hollywood faces. Or as White House Press Secretary Jody Powell used to call them: “tacky guests.”

So who is the tackiest guest of 2005?

Nominations? More guests lists floating out there? Let us know…

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