60. Nicole Scherzinger - Pussy Galore

"If I really get into acting, I'm not going be that girl in the bathing suit who steals the guy. That's not me. I'd rather play the nerdy girl. I'm the biggest nerd I know."
 

Not the kind of music you might expect from a girl who grew up in Kentucky – where are the banjos? – but this exotic beauty might surprise us yet having tried everything from rock to pop to, most successfully, pulsating r 'n' b. A former winner of the US version of Popstars, Nicole has long seemed destined for the big time, but it was as the leading light in "burlesque" American troupe the Pussycat Dolls that she really made it, thanks in no small part to four minutes of musical sex called Don't Cha. Her signature move is the booty shake, which may just have something to do with her mum, who was once a pro hula dancer.

61. Alexa Chung - Cheeky monkey

"I was Holly Valance’s lesbian pal in the video for Down Boy; I was 18, in hot pants, having to kiss Holly Valance…"
 

A rare thing – a girl who as smart as your clever mate who went to Oxford, but funny, warm and as untwattish as anyone you’ve ever met. Alexa Chung could well be our perfect woman.
Easily the best thing about Channel 4’s much-missed Popworld, Alexa was the cheeky chick who could get Paul McCartney to sing a song about shoes… and get away with asking Gwen Stefani if her new scent ponged of bacon.

Sexy Alexa’s weird sense of humour extends to how she deals with the paparazzi, too: sometimes she baffles them by stopping dead still and just standing there for a few minutes. Funnier still, the former fashion model once revealed that she was mounted by a miniature Shetland pony while bending over at a friend’s stables…

62. Alesha Dixon - Strictly gorgeous

"I like a man who can dance, but it’s not a deal-breaker. If he can’t dance, we’ll just have to work on other areas…"
 

We like Alesha Dixon, we really do, and because we suspect she could make a phone call and have us killed were we to say anything disparaging here, we’re going to focus on the positives (big hits with Mis-Teeq, good at dancing) and not the negatives (uninspiring solo career, has presented The National Lottery).

Smouldering, big-eyed and just downright sexy, Alesha was always our favourite in Mis-Teeq, the dangerously hot all-girl troupe who scored it big with Scandalous, but no one was more surprised than us when she rocked up on Strictly Come Dancing. And then proceeded to own it. Respect, girl, respect.

63. Jessica Simpson - Southern charm

"had doors slammed in my face as a 14-year-old because my boobs were too big"
 

Thanks to her excellent utilisation of tiny hotpants in The Dukes of Hazard and a refusal to make a music video that isn’t outrageously sexy, Jessica Simpson is by far the hottest girl to ever think Buffalo wings were made from Buffalo.

From a young age, her curvaceous frame ensured she was too steamy for the Texan Christian pop scene she was destined to become a part of, and despite a ropey cover of Robbie Williams’ Angels, has become a fantastic reason to have a guilty interest in pop music.

She may not be welcome at the home of the Dallas Cowboys (her relationship with the star quarterback Tony Romo has lead to her being labeled ‘Yoko Romo’), yet her naive girly charm and unspeakable good looks have made her a worldwide sensation.

64. Madeline Zima - Not Scully

"Once you're naked it doesn't feel that uncomfortable, it's just taking the clothes off that's embarrassing."
 

When a 16-year-old girl knows she’s attractive, she can use that power to devastating effect. Which is exactly what Madeline Zima’s character, Mia, does in Californication. Mia uses her feminine wiles to bed David Duchovny, who doesn’t realise she’s 16. “I knew a lot of girls like her when I was 16,” she recalls, “and I was wilder than I am now by a long shot. So if I can’t relate my own experiences to her, I use people that I knew at that time who were that wild.”

Luckily, Zima is actually 23 – a long time since her first gig in a nappy advert in 1987. Yes, in the same year that Lethal Weapon came out, she was two years old. “That was also the first time I ever did nudity on TV!” laughs Zima. “It was the baby’s bare ass running into the towel – and once upon a time, that was my young ass.”

65. Christina Aguilera - Milk ’n’ honey

"I’m experimental by nature. I’m always exploring my creativity."
 

Remember when the ‘Christina vs. Britney’ debate all kicked off? It was a case of two cookie-cutter virgins, both turned ‘naughty’, and us blokes just stuck in the middle, gleefully lapping up their raunchy bids for our attention. It was immense.

But who would have thought that Aguilera would emerge as the definitive winner? A stack of Grammy Awards, products and endorsement packages to make Premier League footballer weep and dealing with becoming a mother without getting arrested for being mental (like Britney) all speak volumes for the hip-slinging latina.

And what’s more, she’s now considered a philanthropist. Which has absolutely nothing to do with what happened to her breasts while she was pregnant. Or the fact that she walks around nude at home on Sundays. Yep, Christina definitely wins.

66. Jennifer Garner - Yummy mummy

"When I first moved to New York I lived for nine months on some woman's kitchen floor. She had this mushroom that she kept alive in these juices that was right next to my futon, and once a week she'd drink it. I fled in the dead of night."
 

Part action girl part rather good actress, Jennifer Garner is a Golden Globe-winning beauty who earned an army of fans as the sexy-but-serious Sydney Bristow in long-running US spy drama Alias.

She met her Matt Damon-obsessed hubby while on the set of Pearl Harbour, loving blossoming as the disaster – both artistically and commercially – was going on all around them. Often described as "wholesome" and "un-Hollywood" in the press, the alluring brunette first started out on a chemistry degree before switching to a drama course.

TV work then came quickly if infrequently, but today she's said to be one of the best-paid actresses in America. And thanks to that fool of a hubby, she's also now hooked on the Boston Red Sox.

67. Vanessa Hudgens - High school sweetheart

"It was really tough when those photographs came out because I'm a private person and for that to happen is so mean and it sucked."
 

The exotic looks come from her distant, Native American roots and a mom who is an exotic blend of Filipino, Spanish and Chinese, and in no small part explain the appeal of an American singing sensation who wowed the world in Disney's daft High School Musical trilogy. Concurrent with this a solo singing career has spawned a string of hit pop albums and plenty of dough to sink into her love of extreme sports.

And while she doesn't say much in interviews – probably because she's terrified they're about to ask her about some nude photos which surfaced a few years back – she did once tell chinny chubster Jay Leno that her parents washed her mouth out with soap when she was four. She also revealed that she once auditioned for the role of the sexy Esmeralda in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame... only to land the role of Quasimodo.

68. Odette Yustman - California dreamgirl

"A great smile, that’s what attracts me. Confidence not cockiness. He’s got to be a gentleman."
 

With her dark hair and olive skin, Los Angeles-born Odette has something of the Megan Fox about her. In fact they have actually appeared on screen together in Transformers. Sadly, Odette was cast as Socialite 3 and got a mere four seconds of air time. No Oscar there then.

Instead, we’ll just have to make do with a petrified Beth McIntyre in the horror Cloverfield or YouTube footage of her US TV appearances in South Beach and October Road. Like all gems she takes lot of finding, but the result is worth it.

69. Malin Akerman - Nudity Advocate

"I don’t really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I’d rather not, but it’s not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it’s natural over there."
 

Like every single attractive woman in Sweden, Malin Akerman does not have a problem with nudity. The model and singer and actress proved as much in her breakthrough role in The Heartbreak Kid, where she treated Ben Stiller to some of the most frenetic sex scenes ever committed to film. “They were definitely some crazy positions that I’ve never tried myself and I don’t think I would,” the supple actress later admitted.

In 2009, Malin has shown her continued dedication to being ridiculously sexy in front of the camera by playing a crime-fighting vigilante in epic comic book adaptation Watchmen. A crime-fighting vigilante who takes care of business in an eye-popping skin-tight cat suit, that is.

70. Heidi Klum - Über alles

"I first met Seal in a hotel lobby in and he had just been to the gym. He was in bicycle shorts and I pretty much saw everything. The whole package. I was like, 'Wow'!"
 

The second best-paid model in the world with annual takings of around $14m, this leggy blonde was making serious money in her teens when she won a national model search contest and bagged a $300,000 modelling deal.

For a supermodel, she's surprisingly approachable, and once had a laugh on Letterman by yodelling for the crinkly chat show legend. Married to Seal since 2005, word is that she "put out" for the Killer singer on their first date.

Or, in her own words, "We can't tell you exactly what we did. It would be too naughty and it would just be 'bleep, bleep, bleep!', but it was a very good first date."

71. Hilary Duff - Multi-tasker

"My partner threw up on me. It was just after lunch."
 

Our December 2007 cover star isn’t content with the starring role on high school sit-com Lizzie McGuire, she’s also released five albums and just completed her 16th movie (the ’80s drama Safety Glass). Set and studio duties aside, she somehow finds time to manage a business empire, with her own lines of clothing, jewellery and furniture. Almost makes us feel bad for spending our early 20s eating Pringles and playing Halo.

72. Kristen Bell - Ethically erotic

"Dating makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness - okay, a little bit out of grossness - but mainly just nerves."
 

One of the few women in the universe to have worked with Russell Brand and not actually slept with him, after filming the sex scenes in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, she called him “kind, protective and sweet”. She obviously wasn't with him for long.

Kristen has been a vegetarian since she was 11 and describes herself as a serial monogamist. She has, however promised that on her wedding night she will wear the uniform from her old Catholic high school. The minx.

Kristen’s other superpower, of course is electrocuting people in Heroes. Her sexy static and blonde bombshell beauty makes more than our hair stand on end.

73. Emily Blunt - Foxy foodie

"I’m not a great screamer, I just do a lot of gasping and heavy breathing."
 

I’m not tabloid material,” believes the Devil Wears Prada star. “I don’t roll pantyless out of nightclubs .” Which is probably why you’ve taken so long to notice the English rose FHM first paused, rewound and replayed in booby lesbian romp My Summer of Love. But what does the Londoner do? Well, she works a lot and to relax she “eats like a trucker and slums in her sweats.” Something that, note to tabloids, we’d pay to see.

74. Holly Willoughby - Ice Maiden

"I love boys, I love talking to boys, I love flirting with boys."
 

Lingerie model to children’s entertainer to national sex icon isn’t your average career path (well, certainly not here), but Holly Willoughby has done just that.

The former kids TV presenter has the sort of body and flirty character that make her an instant hit with the male of the species. No wonder then, that Holly’s made it into our World’s Sexiest Women poll on three occasions.
As if that weren’t enough, her breasts have a happy habit of popping out at odd moments. Her adventurous chest even got her into trouble at ITV after complaints were made for them being “too much on show” during Dancing On Ice. Complaints? Was Graham Norton watching?

75. Kate Moss - Snap happy

"I’m not into tit jobs, but I don’t really like big tits anyway. I know only one girl who has good ones – most of them are so hard you can knock on them like a door."
 

The girl from Croydon done good. Invariably described as elfin-face and pixie-like, the party-hard Londoner is, however, no angel, and if you believe the red-tops, she’s as dangerous as a girl can get. Her big break came aged just 15 when she appeared on the cover of lapsed Brit style mag The Face, and before long she was the face of Calvin Klein, shacked up with Johnny Depp and just about the most famous British model ever. A decade later, little’s changed, and despite – or maybe because of – her fast-living lifestyle, we definitely still would.

76. Taylor Swift - Quick fix

"What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become."
 

Like root beer and corn dogs before her, Taylor Swift is a household name in the United States but is yet to make waves in the UK. Maybe, like root beer and corn dogs, she never will. We prefer crisps. And Frijj. Or maybe the 4 million records she’s sold across the pond are an indication that she’s pretty bloody good.

Then again, maybe none of this matters. After all, her country twangs may have gone largely unnoticed over here, but her clear-skinned and youthful appearance has turned many a head already. Maxim, CosmoGirl and Teen Vogue have all taken notice and whacked her on the cover, and we have no reason to think she won’t be on English teenagers’ walls, and in their filthy little minds some time soon.

77. Christina Hendricks - Mad woman

"I didn't pay for it to happen. I didn't get a boob job. It's who I am."
 

Christina Hendricks is the sexiest woman on TV. If you haven’t seen her on TV, it’s because you don’t watch Mad Men. And if you don’t watch Mad Men, it’s because you’re mental. Not as mental as you might think Christina is, when we tell you she’s been deliberately dying her hair since the age of 10. But wait! She looks amazing! For which we salute her.

78. Elisabetta Canalis - Sardinian sexpot

"I wish I could run a riding school or a place in which I can host horses and take care of them."
 

Elisabetta Canalis is from Sardinia, is known by Italians as ‘Eli’ or ‘La Canalis’, used to date Christian Vieri, has two tattoos on each arm and likes to kickbox. You might have seen her micro roles in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Virgin Territory. She became a big formaggi in her homeland on news comedy show Striscia La Notizia as something called the ‘Veline’ – the kind of genius gratuitous dolly bird that only Italians can turn into an art form. Basically, a scantily clad Veline hands news stories to the presenters and does a little dance. (Note to BBC: A possible reinvention for Christine Bleakley on The One Show?)


Want to see more? Try her movies La Fidanzanta Di Papa and La Seconda Volta Non Si Scorda Mai. What are they about? No idea, we’ll tell you when Lovefilm delivers.

79. Katherine Jenkins - Singing beauty

"I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people."
 

After graduating with honours from the Royal Academy of Music, Katherine did many things to earn a crust, from part-time modelling (“I hated all the waiting around all day”) to being a tour guide on the London Eye.
Whilst working as a singing teacher at a school in Hertfordshire, she was invited to showcase her talents for Universal Records. They snapped her up in 2003 on a long-term six-album contract.

Later that year, her first album Premiere was released and we’ve been lusting after her ever since. She’s got a set of lungs on her that we’re certain means she can hold her breath under the duvet for hours at a time.

80. Emily Scott - Australian hot

"Sex can last 30 seconds, just make it good…"
 

When sizing up potential girlfriends, comparative checklists are the de rigeur method of elimination. Which is how we know that Emily Scott would wipe the floor with, perhaps, every single other woman on the entire planet. Why? Because she looks as classy as any other lady in a ball gown, but also likes poker, beer and rampant displays of affection. “The most important things when it comes to sex are being firm and being vocal.” Oh, and she’s also a trained lifeguard: handy.

81. Gemma Atkinson - Great up front

"All people ask about is boobs. It’s like the whole nation is obsessed with my boobs."
 

Even the most verbose Gemma Atkinson fanboy will have trouble spelling out what makes this Bury lass such a big deal.

Why? Because when presented with the body of a really hot gladiator (she’s a committed gym bunny and takes kickboxing classes), the natural male reflex is to gag, splutter and mumble something that would get you arrested in a less liberal time and place. But safe from such inconveniences, we’ll state here that FHM loves Atkinson because of her husky voice, patent talent for a good cuppa and the fact that she’s clearly built for speed.

And for not moving in with / getting engaged to / ever actually being photographed tongue-ing Cristiano Ronaldo.

82. Katherine Heigl - Knock out

"When we were doing Under Siege 2 Steven Seagal was auditioning women for the part of the girl who lies on the beach, topless. There was a line of women around his trailer who would just go in and show him their tits."
 

We're not sure about the morals of the men who first cast a 16-year-old Heigl as the jailbait young daughter in My Father The Hero or Under Siege 2, but there was no mistaking even back then that the wide-eyed blonde was a looker. To be fair, she'd known this since she was nine, ever since some auntie of hers sent some snaps to a bunch of model agencies.

A part-time queen of chick flicks (27 Dresses, Knocked Up), it's a bit of a surprise that she's been described as having a strong feminist streak. Whatever (love), she's certainly been taken more seriously after landing the role of sexy Izzie Stevens in TV medical drama Gray's Anatomy, a part which landed her an Emmy.

83. Michelle Ryan - Bionic beauty

"She’s a normal girl with everyday concerns, like what’s the state of her love life. What’s even cooler is, she can leap from building to building if she needs to."
 

We’ve never been able to resist a green-eyed girl. Especially one with bionic superpowers whose stunning beauty makes the likes of Liv Tyler and Katie Holmes look like plain Janes.

With her role in Bionic Woman, Michelle Ryan has finally shaken off the ghost of Zoe Slater, a part she played in Eastenders from the age of 15. Despite leaving Albert Square on an open-to-return plot-line that sees Zoe alive and well, living in Ibiza, Michelle has never looked back.

In 2007 she teamed up with Carmen Electra to make a porno in the comedy I Want Candy. And prior to Bionic Woman, she starred alongside James Nesbitt in the BBC’s Jekyll. For a while we were scared we were going to lose Michelle to America. But her wicked ways in the Beeb’s Merlin has kept us firmly under her spell. She really is magic.

84. Victoria Pendleton - Pedal-oh!

"I'm proud of my thighs. They're the tools of my trade"
 

As a British sportsperson, cyclist Pendleton has stood out in recent years by not being utterly shit. Having won gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Olympics, she was awarded an MBE. She cheerfully admits to using incontinence pads to dress her own wounds when thrown off the bike (“they’re great for mopping up the gunk”) and berates big-faced contrarian Jeremy Clarkson for encouraging dangerous driving. “But I’m still a girl and love putting a frock on and feeling feminine,” she says. “I worry sometimes with all of the training I do that I won’t look feminine. So it’s nice sometimes to make the effort and ‘feel like a lady.’” Oh yes it is.

85. Carmen Electra - Hello buoys

"I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it. I think the dirtier it is, the better it is in the bedroom."
 

A woman who can make a luminous orange one-piece ludicrously attractive is a woman worth knowing. Carmen Electra is one of these women. After slowly juddering into most men's sub-conscious during the nineties, Electra has made a sterling effort to please mankind with an effective combination of boobs, bum and a big smile. Grateful and aroused, mankind responded by letting her run riot in almost every half-decent movie to grace your local Esso's bargain bin: Epic Movie, Starsky and Hutch, Disaster Movie, and many, many others.

When she's not baring her all-too eye-catching cleavage on the big screen, she occasionally graces FHM's hallowed pages – and when she's not doing that, she likes to work out and have "dirty sex". Though not necessarily at the same time.

86. Elizabeth Banks - Soaring interest rates

"We do young people a disservice by not being open about sex."
 

With The 40-Year-Old Virgin; W; Zack And Miri Make A Porno and Role Models on her CV, we knew we’d like this American actress. And given her vital statistics (and passion for plunging necklines) we knew we’d fancy her. But only after discovering her frankness did we actually fall in love. “We do young people a disservice by not being open about sex,” smiles the fast-rising actress. “After all, it’s a natural, physical thing.”

87. Sarah Harding - Good time girl

"What's sexy about being straight up and down and skinny? The female body should be an hourglass figure."
 

Constantly at pains to distance herself from her wild-child, party-girl image, Girls Aloud's man-eating blonde does herself no favours when she tells us things like she used to flash her boobs on the local rollercoaster when she was 14.

Calmer now than she once was, the blue-eyed southern born, northern bred beauty has long been an FHM favourite since appearing nude in a car for a series of photos she sent in to our first ever High Street Honeys competition.

We think she's got a soft spot for us, too: she once looked into our eye and told us that that if there was a Girl Aloud who'd sign up for a new TV show called I'm Famous, I'm Horny And I Need A Good Shag, it would be her…

88. Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Yippee-kai-yey!

"I'm the youngest of five so I watched all sorts of things as a kid that I really shouldn't have, stuff like The Shining and Aliens. I don't think I saw Die Hard, but I caught up."
 

Your dad got into a tizz about an 80s actress called Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, but she's about 50 now and at least 100 times less sexy than this smouldering brunette from the edge of America's deep south.
A distant cousin of once hot, now dead US silver screen icon Ava Gardner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been acting since her childhood, having first showed off her thespy charms to a big audience in Joseph on Broadway.
She later starred in kid flick Sky High but you're more likely to have seen her in The Ring 2, Final Destination 3 or as Brucie's kid in the latest Die Hard flick. Is it just us, or does she look a bit like a really sexy Kate Nash?

89. Lily Allen - Chav Chanteuse

"Cheryl [Cole], if you're reading this, I may not be as pretty as you but at least I write my own songs."
 

She was born in Hammersmith, west London, to actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her younger brother, Alfie, is an actor, and her mum once dated Harry Enfield. It was through MySpace that she attracted her fans, releasing songs online, before her debut album, Alright, Still, was released in 2006. It included the number one single, Smile.
She's well known for getting drunk a lot and there's a picture knocking around of her topless, which might be when she was underage, so if you've looked at it, expect a knock on the door from the police. A lot of her songs have been produced by professional rich boy Mark Ronson, a man who has been lauded for wearing a skinny tie while turning the bass and treble up and down.

90. Lisa Snowdon - Clooney's ex

"Sex keeps me in shape. I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories."

She’ll always be known in America for being Clooney’s ex, but over here in Blighty, there are plenty of other reasons to remember Hertfordshire’s hottest supermodel. Leaving her illustrious fashion career to one side, she’s also been ‘that Special K girl’ you kept having dreams about, sambaed for a doddering geriatric on Strictly Come Dancing and even had time to grace the pages of FHM once in a while.

All this on top of waking up at stupid o’clock to host a radio show with Johnny Vaughan, presenting Britain’s Next Top Model, and generally being very fit, all of the time. Did we mention she’s also on Through The Keyhole now? Yes, it’s still going, and yes, she did take over Loyd Grossman’s role. No, she doesn’t do the voice, annoyingly.

91. Christine Bleakley - The One Show

"It's fine if people think I'm having an affair."
 

The Northern Irish lovely has go too the top, fast, getting her gig on The One Show after a stint on comparatively unknown programme Let Me Entertain You before that. Since then she’s wowed some judges and got limp shrugs from others on Strictly Come Dancing, and become the subject of an almost-fascinating ‘are they or aren’t they?’ saga with rotund West Bromwich Albion fan Adrian Chiles. We think that they are. And that they aren’t. Yeah, stick that in your gossip pipe and smoke it.

92. Billie Piper - Tardis totty

"Writing my book was really cathartic. It was a load of fun. I learned a lot about grammar and really basic things like spelling and how to construct sentences."
 

It wasn’t so long ago that Billie Piper was facing up to a future without the two most important men in her life - Doctor Who and Chris Evans. A bleak choice for any woman.

Now happily married to Laurence Fox, ex-husband Evans is the proud godfather of her first child and she’s swapped the Tardis for high-class hooker heels and a whip in The Secret Diary of a Call Girl. A role her killer body and saucy smile make her a natural for.

If that wasn’t enough, there’s no certainty that Rose Tyler is gone for good either. Billie made a welcome return in the Doctor Who series four final episodes and according to Piper, “It’s never really the end for the Doctor and Rose.” Let’s hope she feels the same way about Belle du Jour.

93. Ellen Page - Juno jailbait

"I don’t really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies."
 

Pregnancy became weirdly funny and attractive the moment Ellen agreed to the lead in Juno. But the BAFTA- nominated actress also has all-action ability in her locker, notably as Kitty Pryde in X Men: The Last Stand.

She was only 18 when she took on the X Men role. By the age of 21, she had become one of the youngest Oscar nominees ever, had her sexuality questioned by Hollywood’s lesbian brigade and bagged herself a guest appearance in em>The Simpsons, playing a teen pop singer named Alaska Nebraska who befriends Lisa.

Not bad for a tomboy who, as a kid, enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees. And not shaving her legs. Maybe.

94. Evangeline Lilly - Woman Friday

"In Europe, they really value a woman's body, and if that means there's a lump here and lump there, then great. In America, it's a different mentality."
 

Pint sized, powerful and unspeakably hot, Evangeline Lilly admits that the other girls auditioning for the part of Kate Austen in Lost probably wanted to kill her when they saw her CV. "They were thinking, 'I've done all this work and here you are at the audition with no experience," she says, still mystified as to how she managed to bypass the years of slog and land the TV gig of lifetime.

We think the knock-out smile and the smouldering sex appeal may have had something to so with it, but there's more to Evangeline Lilly than that: she's a bright, smart, free-spirited girl who has previously spent time working as a missionary and only got into modelling to help pay her university fees.

95. Rachel Riley - Vorderman 2.0

"There's only one cool maths job around and I was lucky enough to get it so I'm absolutely thrilled."
 

After 26 years on Countdown, we’d completely exhausted any erotic potential that Carol Vorderman might have once had. So it was with a testicular sigh of relief that we saw Channel 4 trade Carol in for a much younger model – Rachel Riley. Essex-raised and Oxford-educated, the 23-year-old beat off 1,000 other applicants despite having no TV experience. If any FHM readers are a bit slow on the uptake, she’s the one on the show who isn’t Jeff Stelling.

96. Gemma Bissix - Soap strumpet

"Prancing around in your underwear for a whole day is a bit strange at first."
 

The once child actor originally walked onto our screens at the tender age of nine in Eastenders before taking a break from acting. During this time she ran a pub for two years, helped her dad with his hardware business and worked as a bra fitter at M&S. Seriously, she did.

After she returned to soapland to play Chester’s favourite megabitch, Clare Devine, she was fully hooked on acting again, joining the Eastender’s crew once more in 2008. When she’s not occasionally exposing her cleavage on national television, Gemma likes to listen to garage, hip-hop, and 90s group Sublime. And race Mini Coopers – we still can’t get over that.

97. Dannii Minogue - Aussie rules

"People think I’ve had a million surgical things done but I haven’t. As for Botox, for the job I do I need to express myself so I’m not having that any more."
 

Called “Disco” by her friends, “Dirty Dannii” by us and every expletive known to man by Sharon Osbourne, Kylie’s younger sister was an instant hit when she first appeared in The X Factor.

The Aussie pop-tart, who admits to having had a boob job, once appeared in Australian Playboy following the breakdown of her two-year marriage to Nip/Tuck actor Julian McMahon. The edition sold out in four days.

Since then, she’s taken F1 driver Jacques Villeneuve for a spin and hooked up for a short time with former Bros bassist Craig “Ken” Logan. These days, she focuses on her ambassadorial role for the Terrence Higgins Trust, maintaining her seat at Simon Cowell’s top table and breaking the ‘No Touching’ rules at London lap dance venues.

98. Fiona Bruce - Scottish newshound

"There will come a time when my face won't fit any more, for whatever reason. I would feel that way whatever work I was doing - I'm that kind of person. I never take anything for granted."
 

Britain’s fittest newsreader has been perving up Ten O’Clock news and Crimewatch for the last ten years. Dads nationwide completely lost it during 2007’s Children In Need when she dressed up as Velma Kelly from Chicago and sun All That Jazz. Organisers recorded a sudden spike in middle-aged men calling in and demanding that “the Scottish fitty get put back on – now!”. Surprisingly well preserved, for a lady in her mid-forties.

99. Lindsay Lohan - Wild thing

"I like Calum Best – he's me in male form. We're very similar; stubborn, rebellious, very smart, coy and a little bit narcissistic."
 

Being in front of the cameras in the Lohan family is obligatory: Lindsay and her three younger siblings were all child models, but it was gingery big sis who hit the big time when she started getting cast in print and TV ads, eventually landing more than 100 gigs.

Fast forward a decade and Lohan had earned her wild child tag thanks to endless partying with the likes of Paris Hilton, candid confessions that she was a drug addict and Paparazzi upskirt shots that heralded the start of a celebrity no-pants craze. On the downside, such recklessness has had her labelled "unemployable", which is patently not true as she can start here tomorrow…

100. Mischa Barton - Fallen angel

"I love Animal Planet and National Geographic and David Attenborough is my hero. I want to be reincarnated as him."
 

We already thought that bambi-loving nature girl Mischa Barton was perfect, but her arrest for drink-driving only added to her appeal. Here was a woman who was insanely sexy... who was suddenly as flawed as the rest of us. Mischa Barton was real.

It's been a rollercoaster ride for the head-turning brunette who was born in Hammersmith but moved to New York aged four with her parents. She sensibly left The OC as ratings started to freefall; now, bigger things beckon, although we've yet to see her properly set the silver screen alight.

That said, she did appear in movies by ancient directors Richard Attenborough and Dino De Laurentiis, and defended her decision to work with such dodderers by saying that old folk are "the best dinner dates you could ever have." Boo...