Stars get the slime treatment

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Pitbull opened the show with a song with Christina Aguilera, although it was the bald singer who shone with the slime.

Patrick Harris was a little more comfortable with the sliming than co-host Sandra Bullock.

Kristen Stewart did all she could to dodge the slime, but Sandra Bullock had different ideas.

Dwight Howard of the LA Lakers gets slime dunked.

Johnny Depp shares a moment with fans at the Kids Choice awards.

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Johnny Depp and Kristen Stewart avoided slime - mostly - while picking up blimp-shaped trophies at the Kids Choice Awards.

The Dark Shadows star won as favourite movie actor at the 26th annual awards extravaganza, while the Twilight leading lady was selected as favourite movie actress and female butt-kicker.

Dude, I was too much of a coward to accept this, she said embracing the slime slathered on the podium at the University of Southern Californias Galen Center.

Pitbull and Christina Aguilera kicked off the silly show with their song Feel This Moment and were joined by young backup dancers resembling the smooth-headed rapper and blonde diva.

At the end of their performance, Aguilera smashed a button, covering Pitbull and the dancers in the shows signature green goo.

That was just the beginning of the celebrity sliming.

In one of his first acts as show host, Transformers star Josh Duhamel dumped the goop on Los Angeles Lakers player Dwight Howard.

I guess thats what we call a slime dunk! Duhamel said.

Sandra Bullock and Neil Patrick Harris caught a wave of the green stuff after a magic trick from the How I Met Your Mother co-star went awry.

Dwayne The Rock Johnson, who picked up the trophy for male butt-kicker, blasted a sumo-suited Nick Cannon and Duhamel with the goo. The first few rows of the audience were also doused.

Duhamel said a record-breaking 350 million votes had been cast for this years viewer-voted ceremony, which honours kids favourites in film, music, sports and TV.

Other winners included Victorious as favorite TV show, Katy Perry as favorite female singer, Adam Sandler as favourite voice from an animated movie for Ho! tel Trans! ylvania, race car driver Danica Patrick as favourite female athlete and The Hunger Games as favorite movie and book.

Always be nice to your parents, Sandler told the crowd of screaming kids while accepting his awards.

Always be nice to your teachers.

- AP

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