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"America's Next Top Model" winner CariDee English led the New Year's Eve party at The Estate, hosting a lingerie fashion show after midnight. After the ball dropped, the single model was heard saying she hopes to find Mr. Right in '09.

Reality star Aubrey O'Day headlined the New Year's Eve festivities at Shrine at MGM Grand at Foxwoods. The former Danity Kane member brought along her teacup Maltese, Ginger, and told the crowd her new motto is "no time in '09." Pop star O'Neal McKnight emceed the bash. Fashionista Gretchen Monahan stopped by to hang with restaurateur Michael Schlow and some actors from "All My Children."

Medford native Maria Menounos loves her hometown, but she apparently preferred warmer climes for her New Year's festivities. The "Access Hollywood" reporter was spotted partying at the Shore Club's Skybar in Miami, along with Gerard Butler, Jared Leto, Kristin Cavallari, Robert Iler, and 90210 relic Ian Ziering. Ron Browz, Pras of the Fugees and Busta Rhymes provided the soundtrack.

Ahhh . . . there's nothing like a little humiliation to set the new year off right. New Year's Eve partiers at the Cask 'n Flagon got the unique opportunity to guess the weight of shirtless WBCN personality Adolfo Gonzalez Jr. The winner - Scott Solmonson of Melrose - guessed closest at 362 pounds and won tickets to the Sox, Celtics, and Bruins from host Rich Shertenlieb, of "The Toucher and Rich Show." You can thank us for keeping the pic to ourselves.

American Management Services founder George Cloutier and Tiffany Spadafora didn't let the Bernie Madoff scandal or sinking economy put a damper on their $2 million blowout New Year's Eve wedding. The Maine-born multimillionaire and his bride partied with 500 of their closest friends at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., including former news anchor Natalie Jacobson, Woburn Foreign Motors president George Albrecht, Nantucket developer Mark Goldweitz, PR king George Regan, lawyer Bob Crowe, philanthropist Howard Kessler, event planner Sally O'Connor, lawyer Danielle deBenedictis, and Cheers owner Tom Kershaw. There were monogrammed ice sculptures, juggling bartenders, French tulips, fireworks, a Brazilian dance troupe, and two wedding gowns. Sounds extravagant? Writer and guest Laurence Leamer elaborated on Cloutier's mindset on the Huffington Post website the next day. Leamer wrote: " 'If this is the Titanic,' Cloutier had told me in one of his more philosophical moments, 'Well, we're in the ballroom and we're going down dancing.' " . . . Speaking of weddings, we hear actor John O'Hurley of "Seinfeld" fame partied with his family at the Union Oyster House Thursday night. The 150-person bash was a rehearsal dinner for his niece, Sarah O'Hurley, who married Joey Van Saun yesterday.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, will take the stage Monday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre to introduce their favorite movie, "A Thousand Clowns." The 1965 flick features Jason Robards as a man who says and does whatever he wants, after leaving his job writing humorless jokes for a children's show. The "Car Talk" guys also promise to answer fan questions at the show, part of the theater's 75th anniversary celebration.

Comedian Joel McHale got a special backstage delivery before his New Year's Day show at the Wilbur Theatre. PR ladies Peggy Rose and Diane McNamara stopped by - with Rose's niece Kelly Rose Esposito and friend Caroline O'Loughlin in tow - to deliver a bottle of Rubicon 2002 wine from car czar Ernie Boch Jr. Turns out McHale and Boch are pals and wine aficionados. Rose reports "The Soup" host was just as nice and funny in person as he is on TV. "He really dished on Ryan Seacrest," she said. "He was hilarious."

Stork watch is on for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's number 2, but as of yesterday evening, no baby. The couple was spotted heading into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA on Wednesday, setting off speculation that they might ring in either the last or first celeb baby of the year. But by Wednesday afternoon, a still-pregnant Garner was spotted out and about, shopping with baby No. 1, 3-year-old Violet.

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