Britney forgets brain, underwear

In 2006, celebrities went wild and wilder. It can only get zanier in 2007

What will they do next? Or should I say what will they think of next?

The they I'm talking about is the 2006 trashionistas - Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan - who've been trolling Hollywood's streets and snootiest nightclubs without undergarments.

Honestly, can their behaviour get any worse? Have they fallen so far and gotten so comfortable in the gutter that they'll never even try to ever regain their dignity? Or is simply that they're they allergic to cotton? Or are they exceptionally proud of their toolkits?

I thought I wouldn't revisit this issue but as 2007 approaches I've been noodling the Top Celebrity Stories of 2006. And the infamous no-knickers caper is pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, TomKat was a big deal but more for the circus-freak aspect than anything genuinely interesting about their relationship.

Brangelina and the birth of the promised one, Shiloh, is pretty obvious, captivating and newsworthy as is George Clooney's commitment to limencello, Danny DeVito, and Darfur.

There's Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant on the PCH; Nicole Richie's shocking weight loss and driving the wrong way in the fast lane; Nicole Kidman's marriage to whazzisface; Chris Rock's divorce; Jon Stewart's decent-enough tour of duty as Oscar host; Tom Hanks' wretched hairstyle in The DaVince Code; Colin Farrel's sex tape; Kate Moss' drug problem; Tyra Banks' emergence as a pretty decent TV host; the kid from Toronto who was named lead singer of Rockstar: Supernova....

In my next blog I'm going to make my (completely ridiculous) predictions for 2007. What will be the new erogenous zone? What articles of clothing will celebs ditch next? Who will win the Best Actor Oscar? And more.