System preferences - desktop & screensaver - HELP

Whenever I go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screensavers It freezes up and a rainbow twirl comes up and it doesnt go away. I then have to force quit, switch my mac off and on but still it does the same thing. Please help!
I looked at the Console > system.log and here is what i got:
Aug 27 23:11:53 Madisons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[118] ([0x0-0x22022].com.apple.systempreferences[221]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Aug 27 23:19:37 Madisons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[118] ([0x0-0x25025].com.apple.systempreferences[246]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Aug 27 23:26:59 Madisons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x2b02b].com.apple.systempreferences[285]: System Preferences(285,0x7fff799d2960) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x4003487c0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
Aug 27 23:26:59 Madisons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x2b02b].com.apple.systempreferences[285]: System Preferences(285,0x7fff799d2960) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x4003e38c0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
Aug 27 23:27:11 Madisons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[118] ([0x0-0x2b02b].com.apple.systempreferences[285]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Aug 27 23:31:06 Madisons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x31031].com.apple.systempreferences[309]: System Preferences(309,0x7fff799d2960) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x40035fbe0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
Aug 27 23:31:06 Madisons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x31031].com.apple.systempreferences[309]: System Preferences(309,0x7fff799d2960) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x4003db520, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

Exact same issue here!
I think it has to do with some third party app. I've used Kuvvo to automatically get wallpapers from the net en change them.
After I decided to go back to my own wallpapers and removed the Kuvvo app, my wallpaper prefs is crashing.
I tried to reinstall Kuvvo with the hope of fixing broken links / references but to no avail!

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