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.