For the first time in bowling history, the industry has opened up the Hall of Fame celebrity induction process to the fans - and the votes are pouring in.
Since the fan polls opened on July 12, more than 1.2 million votes have been cast at www.gobowling.com in a roller-coaster competition that has seen the front-runner position shift from early vote leader Jeff Bridges (aka "The Dude" from the Big Lebowski) to a neck-in-neck competition between pop culture sensations Justin Bieber (600,738 votes) and Taylor Swift (599,459 votes).
National Bowling Week (July 31 to August 7) marks the final week of the online vote with the inductee to be announced exclusively in the August 23 issue of OK! Magazine.
As released by the Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA), below are the official vote tallies among the nine Celebrity Hall of Fame nominees (as of 11pm ET on Sunday, August first):
Since the fan polls opened on July 12, more than 1.2 million votes have been cast at www.gobowling.com in a roller-coaster competition that has seen the front-runner position shift from early vote leader Jeff Bridges (aka "The Dude" from the Big Lebowski) to a neck-in-neck competition between pop culture sensations Justin Bieber (600,738 votes) and Taylor Swift (599,459 votes).
National Bowling Week (July 31 to August 7) marks the final week of the online vote with the inductee to be announced exclusively in the August 23 issue of OK! Magazine.
As released by the Bowling Proprietors Association of America (BPAA), below are the official vote tallies among the nine Celebrity Hall of Fame nominees (as of 11pm ET on Sunday, August first):
- Justin Bieber - 600,738 votes
- Taylor Swift - 599,459 votes
- Jeff Bridges - 14,464 votes
- Pauley Perrette - 9,366 votes
- Kim Kardashian - 3,596 votes
- Bill Murray - 823 votes
- Dwight Howard - 745 votes
- Jimmy Fallon - 588 votes
- Chris Paul - 577 votes
