New Year's roundup: Starlets with fuzzy friends

We at The Juice* would be remiss if we didn't tell you how Tampa's own starlet Brittany Snow spent New Year's Eve. She was in Orlando, schmoozing it up with anthropomorphic rodent Mickey Mouse:

But she was hardly the only celebrity to spend New Year's Eve in the clutches of a fuzzy plush mascot. Here are Paris and Nicky Hilton getting some love from some sort of bearded mountain ape during "The Bongo Virus," an online New Year's Eve party in Sydney, Australia:

And here is a shot of star Michigan State running back Javon Ringer professing his undying love for musclebound gladiators during Thursday's Capital One Bowl in Orlando. (Ringer is a senior, so it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to lose himself one final time in Sparty's perfectly chisled upper torso.)

Here are Aussie popsters the Veronicas at MTV's New Year's Eve ceremony in Times Square. We're cheating a bit here, since (as far as we can tell) neither Lisa, left, or Jess Origliasso is technically a plush mascot. But they are both wearing butterfly wings, which, according to the rigorous standards of gossip bloggery to which we hold ourselves, is good enough to merit inclusion here.

   

And finally, because, screw it, there's no one else in the office today, here are some New Year's Eve pictures of Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and the Kardashian Klan. First person to correctly guess what the hell's going on with Miley's hair is off to a running start for The Juice*'s Person of the Year 2009. (We assume it's some sort of fake beard.)

Katy Perry at the Gridlock New Year's Eve Party in Los Angeles:

Miley Cyrus on MTV's New Year's Eve Special:

Lady Gaga at the New Year's Eve Ball 2009 in New York City:

Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian at the Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz Ring in the New Year with PUREfection party in Las Vegas:

   

(PHOTOS: Brittany Snow, Javon Ringer, Katy Perry, Kardashians, AP; Hiltons, Veronicas, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Getty Images.)