Tara Reid's Endless New Year's Eve Countdown

A couple of weeks ago, we unfairly criticized Tara Reid's involvement as host of a Chicago New Year's Eve party, suggesting that the gig somehow seemed beneath a celebrated performer whose name was once synonymous with "getting paid to get drunk in exotic locales." As you can see in the above video, the event was clearly well-attended and prestigious enough (note the presence of Efren "Vote Pedro" Ramirez, whom a reader informs is sharing the clip with his MySpace friends) to merit the onetime actress's attendance. Moreover, whatever appearance fee the organizers paid to secure her services (read: open bar tab [well drinks only], one-way ticket on Southwest) was money well spent, as a presumably inebriated Reid remembered many of the numbers between 60 and 1 during her playfully prolonged countdown to 2007.

• Previously: Tara Reid's New Year's Drinkin' Eve [Defamer]