Host Timberlake leads the slimefest at kid's awards show

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Slime is fine: Justin Timberlake takes his gunging in good humour

Other winners announced during the show, which included a 23-story bungee jump into a giant vat of green slime, included comic actor Adam Sandler as favourite male movie star, child-star Dakota Fanning as favourite female movie star and Ben Stiller as winner of the night's top honour, the Wannabe Award, for the celebrity kids most want to be like.

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Winners: Ben Stiller (left), Dakota Fanning and Adam Sandler all collected prizes

"I can't believe this, oh my goodness," said Fanning, 13, who giggled her way through her acceptance speech.

"I want to thank all of you out there, and at home, who voted for me.

"I consider all of you my friends!"

In a speech mocking awards speeches, Sandler put on his "Happy Gilmore" voice as he thanked the inventor of the potato chip bag and the pillow, and everyone in the audience "for not making fun of me for talking like this every speech I do."

Timberlake, this year's host, delivered on a pre-show promise to make this Kids Choice Awards the slimiest ever.

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The show's hallmark is the drenching of a celebrity in green slime, but this year hundreds of celebrities and audience members got the treatment.

The show began with Timberlake descending from the ceiling on a large orange Nickelodeon blimp, and breaking into a Broadway show tune in which he taunted the audience, saying he was too famous to be slimed.

"You'll never get a drop of slime on old J.T.," he sang.

By the end of the song, of course, he had been drenched in the green goo. So had actors Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

Timberlake, the only person to win the show's celebrity burp-off twice, defended his title this year against all 12,000 people in the audience at Pauley Pavilion, who burped simultaneously in a mass burp that sounded like it was augmented by special-effects. He was roundly defeated.

The show closed with Vince Vaughn and Timberlake being soaked in slime again.

When the audience roared its approval, they pulled out fire hoses and sprayed hundreds of people in the audience that included such celebrities as Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifah and numerous others.

The award presentations have always been an afterthought on the light-hearted show, which also included musical performances by Gwen Stefani and Maroon 5.

Other award winners were Black Eyed Peas for favorite musical group, American Idol for favorite TV show and Drake Bell for favorite TV actor. Bell also won that award last year.

Kids vote online to select the winners in each category.

Approximately 25 million votes were cast last year, Nickelodeon said.