Media Orchard wondered which celebrity publicists were doing the best job of getting their clients’ mugs in US Weekly. So — using data compiled by the U.N. Spacy blog as part of its weekly “US Weekly Photo Death Match” feature — we put together the following list, which ranks celebrities by the number of times their photo has appeared in the pages of US during the period from Aug. 1, 2005, to Jan. 2, 2006.

The Top 10 US Weekly celebs:

1. Jessica Simpson (209 photos)
2. Jennifer Aniston (183)
3. Angelina Jolie (98)
4. Paris Hilton (95)
5. Nicole Richie (90)
6. Lindsay Lohan (89)
7. Brad Pitt (87)
8. Britney Spears (69)
9. Nick Lachey (61)
10. Katie Holmes (51)

The winner (we guess) is uber-publicist Rob Shuter, even though he only started working for Jessica in November. Rob is in the news this week for admitting he planted a nasty little story on behalf of former client Paris, who is now being sued over it.

Caveat: U.N. Spacy explains its methodology here. It’s generally focused on which stars account for the most photos in a given week, rather than providing a comprehensive list of every single appearance. So we’re sure our numbers aren’t exactly right, but they’re probably pretty close. We’re a blog — not The New York Times.

Update: BrandToBeDetermined made a pie chart of our data.

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