Pet of the Year Pageant

The crew at The Howard Stern Show named Taylor Vixen their favorite weeks before she was crowned 2010 Pet of the Year.

When Howard Stern hosted the 2009 edition of the Penthouse Pet Beauty Pageant, three popular centerfolds—April 2009 Pet Veronica Ricci, September 2009 Pet Taylor Vixen, and October 2009 Pet Ryan Keely—were put through their paces, so to speak, in a stiff competition. For the talent segment, Taylor performed “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” in her favorite cowboy boots and little else, Veronica rocked out to “The Imperial March” from Star Wars in her own version of a Princess Leia bikini, and Ryan belted out Peggy Lee’s “Fever” nude. “I pretty much faced my worst fear,” Ryan says. “Singing naked in front of a roomful of strangers who were all judging me was pretty terrifying!”

Of course, there were also many embarrassing questions. Taylor says, “They had this question: Would you do blank to save a dying child, and it was, ‘Would you eat out your mother?’ I said absolutely not, no way. Howard said, ‘You would let that child die?’ and I said yes. I know it’s part of some crazy girl-girl fantasy, but that’s just sick!”

Veronica—who wowed the crowd from the start, with Howard declaring, “Holy shit. You are gorgeous!”—tells us, “They asked if I’d ever fuck a man for a million dollars. When I said it would depend on the man, they asked if I would care who it was as long as he had no STDs. Then they offered up Artie. I said, ‘I thought you said no STDs.’ But for a million, sure, I’d do Artie.”

For her part, Ryan—a former adult DVD reviewer and radio host who considers Howard a role model—upped the ante and made out with Veronica, proving the Pets are all about good-natured competition. “I had a lot of fun,” she says. “Veronica got a little friendly, and I can never say no to a redhead, so it was a great day.”