What a year it has been for Miley Cyrus - she has barely been out of the headlines, and now she is back in them, coming top of the list of favourite new Christmas cracker jokes.

The 21-year-old singer and her well-publicised 'twerking' were the butt of amateur comedy writer Richard Woolford's festive joke, after comedy channel Gold challenged comedians to come up with their own seasonal gag.

Click on the gallery above to view the top 10 jokes from the competition

Christmas cracker
Christmas cracker

A panel of Gold judges, led by comedy expert Bruce Dessau, shortlisted the best jokes which were then voted on by 2000 people.

Mr Woolford's winning jokes was:

What does Miley Cyrus have at Christmas? Twerky.

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