10. Freida Pinto: 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. Now BAFTA-nominated, the 24-year-old had previously been presenting a television travel show and appearing in Skoda adverts.

FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2009

9. Anna Friel: The 32-year-old star of massive US series Pushing Daisies could never have expected how far she would go after finding fame while lezzing off in scally misery fest Brookside.

8. Kristin Kreuk: This year, another 26-year-old crashes into the Top Ten (last year’s shock entry was Elisha Cuthbert) – again, it seems, solely on the basis of TV nostalgia. It can’t be Kristin’s role in Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li.

7. Elisha Cuthbert: I’m a huge fan of video games and comic books. I’m not die-hard or anything, but I definitely appreciate the art in it, which is really cool.

6. Adriana Lima: A strict Catholic, she was believed to be the only 28-year-old virgin left on the planet until she married on Valentine’s Day this year.

5. Keeley Hazell: It’s a mystery of modern times that Keeley, despite consistently featuring in the 100 Sexiest’s Top Five, has never nabbed the top spot

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4. Britney Spears: Britney’s stormed back up the list and, after a rumoured £60,000 makeover.

3. Jessica Alba: I’ve said I won’t go naked in any of my movies, because I don’t want to. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to see other people strip off!

2. Megan Fox: I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy – my sex drive is so high.

1. Cheryl Cole: She’s been named Britain’s Best Dressed Woman by Tatler, won a Brit Award, graced the covers of FHM and Vogue, climbed Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief and claimed the title of Heat’s ‘most fanciable female’. And now, she accepts perhaps the ultimate accolade for womankind: the wide-eyed, reverential acclaim of FHM’s readership.

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