Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

• While married to impossibly handsome actor Brad Pitt, she campaigned to keep fave TV show Eastenders on American screens.


• In Friends, her acquaintance/flatmate/lover Joey stars in Days of our Lives. Her dad starred in the soppy soap in real life.


• She is half Greek, but hates the cuisine, and also doesn’t like Chinese, Indian or spicy foods – if you ever cook for her, best make it fish fingers.

When she was part of one of most successful sitcoms of all time, women wanted to copy her haircut and men wanted to steal her away from the chap who was a little too fond of dinosaurs. Since the demise of Friends, Jennifer Aniston and her tightly-toned frame are still in huge demand – movie producers will shell out $8m or more if it means she is smiling on the poster of their latest dreary rom-com.

She has been out with the full spectrum of men (chiseled actor Brad Pitt, thoughtful songwriter John Mayer, odd–looking funnyman Vince Vaughn, and even an Essex brickie), meaning there is truly hope for all of us to spend some time with one of Hollywood’s hottest commodities.

Jennifer Aniston

Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere

• Made her first screen appearance at just 11 months. In a Playskool ad.


• Her surname means ‘baker’ in Italian.


• She’s a vegan. So no, she would not like to taste your sausage.

“In an age of conflict… in a world of uncertainty… a hero will arise.” TV trailers tell us this, but they didn’t say she’d be a button-cute New Yorker who’d debut in FHM’s very pages. Since her first men’s mag shoot, she’s split her time shooting a further two series of Heroes and campaigning with PETA to stop people beating up whales and dolphins. Yup – she’s the ethically-inclined nerd’s dream woman.

Hayden Panettiere

Gemma Arterton

Gemma Arterton

• She played MI6 agent Strawberry Fields in Bond film Quantum of Solace.


• In the remake of St Trinian's she appeared in school uniform as Head Girl Kelly.


• She started dating a Spanish stuntman while filming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

For once, an actress who wasn't put in front of the cameras by luvvie parents. The daughter of a welder (father) and a cleaner (mother), Arterton had a pretty normal life in Gravesend, Kent, though she did go to grammar school, so is still posh. After that she signed up for drama college and somebody realised she'd look good as a sixth former, so she made her big time debut as a head girl in St Trinian's, reportedly beating Sienna Miller to the part.

That lead to being Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace, which in turn lead to a role in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. She has the sexiest back in showbusiness and slept with Mackenzie Crook in poorly received British comedy Three and Out.

Gemma Arterton

Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto

This year's highest new entry, the Mumbai model made her film debut in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire last year and rocketed straight into number two on everyone's list of favourite Indians (Sachin Tendulkar remains strong in first position, but she nudged Gandhi down to third, who can only expect to drop further if he continues his stubborn refusal to contemporise his image like Madonna does). Now BAFTA-nominated, the 24-year-old had previously been presenting a television travel show and appearing in Skoda adverts.

Freida Pinto

Frankie Sandford

Frankie Sandford

• Beautiful, bequiffed Essex girl, one fifth of The Saturdays.


• Former member of the not-much lamented S Club Juniors.


• Once worked in a bar in an All Saints concession in House Of Fraser.

It’s OK, the police won’t stop you looking at Frankie, although her appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks did make you wonder if the Saturdays singer was ‘legal’ when she said, “I feel like I’m at school today, I’ve learned a lot of knowledge.” The singer swiftly scored a solo record deal after her kindergarten pop troupe imploded but the career went nowhere so she learned to play the guitar, took singing lessons, and signed up with The Saturdays. But with fame comes touring – something which may yet take its toll on that eye-popping figure: “We end up eating food from service stations en route to gigs,” she says. “I need to go to the gym.”

Frankie Sandford

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

• As seen in Training Day, Hitch and 2 Fast 2 Furious.


• Appeared topless for Italian Vogue magazine in May 2008.


• Once hired as the face of a sexy Calvin Klein underwear campaign.

As starts go, appearing in a video for long-haired American rock pensioners Aerosmith isn't a bad one, but it soon got even better for exotic Yank Miss Mendes when she landed a plum role as Denzel Washington's gal in ice-cool 2001 flick Training Day.

When she's not working, she's doing up her LA home, having become addicted over the years to interior design. Or she's out hiking in the Californian hills. Or she's in rehab – the actress recently spent some time in the exclusive Cirque Lodge in Utah for "personal issues", but emerged smiley, happy and ready for some "me time."

Eva Mendes

Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku

• Her nickname, given to her by Kevin Smith while filming Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is Duck Shoot.


• She once said "you have a better chance of seeing God than me naked" before appearing topless in the film The Alphabet Killer in 2008.


• Had she not got the role of Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she would have done an English degree at Suffolk University.

Before he became a politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger was an action hero, and one of his finer efforts was True Lies, which is where Dushku made her debut as his teenage daughter. After a short hiatus, she returned as a bad-ass rival slayer in Buffy. Then in 2009 Eliza co-produced Dollhouse, in which she played a sort of advanced sex doll. It can also fight or something; we’re not really sure, but she looks hot.

Eliza Dushku