Why does everybody love Maria Menounos?

Maria Menounos is clearly the current 'it' girl of broadcast journalism, but some people are scratching their heads wondering why.

Menounos turned heads this weekend for being 'hot' at the 2008 MLB All-Star Week Celebrity Softball Game over the weekend in New York. Maria lit up Gotham city despite the fact that she was booed for wearing a Boston Red Sox uniform.

You I don't give a shit about sports, so I don't really care how she played.

Maria has basically become the female Anderson Cooper lately while her critics don't seem to understand why. Menounos landed an interview with the Obama family that Barack Obama later said he regretted, because it showed him family too candidly.

Since she's a sub-par reporter, is Maria Menounos famous simply because she's hot? I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that.