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Jacko beats Cheney and Paris in 'Most Foolish' poll
Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was yesterday crowned as America's most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out Paris Hilton and trigger-happy US Vice President Dick Cheney for the title.
The 47-year-old "King of Pop," who is living in exile in Bahrain following his acquittal last June on child sex charges, snatched the dishonour for the fourth year running, according to a survey by a US public relations consultant. "Michael Jackson seems to have a lock on the number one spot for the foreseeable future," said the poll's organiser Jeff Barge. "If Mr Cheney's actions weren't enough to oust him, it's hard to imagine what could."
US movie star Tom Cruise snatched fourth place in the survey, entering its ranks for the first time after leaping on television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey's sofa while expressing his love for his fiancee, Katie Holmes.
Fifth place was also a tie between embattled Republican politician Tom DeLay and troubled rock singer Courtney Love, with 41 percent of those polled voting for each of them.
Other fools of 2006 include actor Robert Blake, acquitted of murdering his wife, pop superstar Madonna, who fell off a horse, winning her 32 percent of the vote and British supermodel Kate Moss, who was caught on video snorting cocaine, the survey said.
In addition to naming the year's celebrity fools, 50 percent of those polled in the survey admitted that they themselves had done something foolish, down from a high of 64 percent in last years survey.
"As a nation, America is obviously being much more careful," noted Barge. "When travelling abroad, for example, many of us now wear waple leafs on our backpacks. Things have cooled down dramatically from the wildly reckless year of 2005."