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Oklahoma's Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert top list of 'Most Desirable Celebrity Neighbors'

By RITA SHERROW World Scene Writer on Jan 2, 2013, at 9:47 AM  Updated on 1/02 at 9:47 AM



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Miranda Lambert, left, and Blake Shelton accept song of the year award for "Over You" at the 46th Annual Country Music Awards on Nov. 1, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. WAYDE PAYNE/Invision/AP


A lot of people want to be treated like celebrities but would they want to live next door to one?

Most say no to living next door to any celebrity. But 10 percent say yes if it could be Oklahoma country music stars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. Even more said no if it was reality star Honey Boo Boo and her family.

In its sixth annual Zillow Celebrity neighbor Survey, 10 percent of Americans said they would most like to be neighbors with Shelton, who is also a musician coach on "The Voice" and his lovely but not expecting recording artist wife Lambert. Of course that would mean moving to Oklahoma since the uber-talented couple lives on ranch near Tishomingo. The couple was named "The Most Desirable Neighbor for 2013," according to Zillow, with their popularity ranking higher (13 percent) among females compared to 7 percent for males.

Second choice of those surveyed would be either Reese Witherspoon or Taylor Swift. Both garnered 9 percent of the vote. Those voters ages 18-34 preferred Swift (12 percent) over Witherspoon (7 percent). Married voters responding to the survey preferred actress Witherspoon (10 percent) over pop music star Swift (8 percent).

Voted third-most most desirable neighbor was Comedy Central's Jon Stewart with 8 percent of the vote. He was the choice of more male voters (10 percent) than female voters (6 percent).

Cable reality show star Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson and her family were voted the least desirable neighbors.
At least 21 percent of voters surveyed said no to living next door to the Georgia child beauty pageant contestant and her family.

The second most undesirable celebrity couple to share a fence line with, according to voters, was the newly-pregnant Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West with 18 percent of the vote.

Next on the not-celebrity-neighbor material list was Donald Trump with 12 percent. Both "Kimye" and Trump ranked higher on the worst celebrity neighbor list compared to Lance Armstrong (2 percent) and Clint Eastwood (2 percent).

"This year we noticed a trend on the worst-neighbor side; for three years in a row now, the casts of reality television shows have dominated the top of our worst celebrity neighbor list.

"Not surprisingly, celebrities with full-time camera crews, in addition to paparazzi, aren't America's top choices to live next door," said Amy Bohutinsky, chief marketing officer for the real estate information marketplace, in a press release.

"But it isn't just reality television stars that are getting the neighbor boot. Most people don't want to live next to any celebrity, regardless of why they are famous. In fact, more people voiced their desire not to have a celebrity neighbor in 2013 than in any of the past years we've run this poll."

Also on the list of "Most Desirable" neighbors was: Beyonce and Jay-Z (4 percent) Jessica Biel and new hubby Justin Timberlake (4 percent), Kristen Stewart (and possibly Robert Pattison) (4 percent), Justin Bieber (2 percent) and other (8 percent). Forty-five percent said no to any celebrity included on the survey's list.

The "Most Undesirable Celebrity" neighbors included: Taylor Swift (1 percent), Kristen Stewart (and maybe Robert Pattison) (1 percent) and other (2 percent). None of the above got 20 percent of the vote.

Here, Shelton and Lambert accept the Country Music Association Award for "Song of the Year."


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