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        Want to Spend Christmas with Ellen?
    
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          Dec 24, 2009
          
        
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Ellen DeGeneres is the celebrity with whom people most want to spend the Christmas  holidays, according to a recent poll at PopEater.com. The talk-show host scored 36% of  64,000 votes, beating second-place vote-getter Jennifer Aniston. DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, also topped another poll on the site as favorite celebrity couple, defeating runners-up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as well as Beyonce and Jay-Z.

        
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