Sally Hawkins will always be Sue from the TV adaptation of Sarah Water’s Fingersmith. Well she will be to me anyway, sorry Sue, Sally, I mean Sally.

We all have our ‘roots’ when our sexuality became obvious. There was that moment in Flashdance. Jennifer Beals, on a chair, water cascading down her young body. What a feeling indeed.

This AorA is all about Glee. We love it, you love it and what’s not to love? It’s guaranteed to put a big, stupid grin on your face. However, here is our conundrum; with so much goodness, who do we ask you to vote for? Why choose just one when we can plumb for a double order of yummy?

Born Dana Elaine Owens, Queen Latifah is a woman of many talents. As a rapper, actress and singer she has won many an award including a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Grammy, not to mention her Oscar and Emmy nominations.

You know you’ve enjoyed a good year if Susan Sarandon is in there, she’s never been bad in anything, from romcom to drama, the woman can do anything. Recently she’s been busy dragging bad writing up into come classy roles. She’s at that stage in her life where Hollywood has no idea what to do with her.

Anne Hathaway is one of those movie stars who seem as normal as is possible when you’re a movie star. She comes across as down-to-earth, good craic and lacking in diva overtones. If this is the product of PR, I don’t really care to be honest; she’s a cutie.

It must be pretty sweet for Mariska these days; finally she’s known for her work and not her mother. Jayne Mansfield, right, was a sex-bomb actress in the 1950′s and 1960′s. She was only 34 when she died in a car crash in 1967, with her three kids in the back seat. Mariska was just three so probably has no memory of the woman who would over-shadow her early acting career.

Lucille Frances Ryan was born back in 1968 in Auckland, New Zealand, the fifth of seven children. With five brothers, she was always going to be a bot of a tom-boy and Lucy was always up to her neck in it with them; riding horses, climbing trees and enjoying the Kiwi outdoors.

Rachel Maddow may not think she’ll ever be an anchor-babe, but from the reaction to her since she appeared on US television in 2008, it seems she’s just the eye (and brain) candy we’ve all be waiting for. A Stanford and Oxford educated former Rhodes Scholar, Rachel spent her early years as an activist for [...]

The AfterEllen one is flattering. I think those girls take more of a 3-D picture before they decide they like somebody.

Now that The X Factor is almost at its conclusion, it’s time to take a look at one of the judges, none other than Cheryl Cole. She’s a lot more than a wag you know. Cheryl has more than held her own on The X Factor, even going toe to toe with the ever-vocal Simon Cowell and held her own. Her exploits have lead the media to christian her “the nation’s new sweetheart”

krisI never thought I’d be doing an AorA about someone whose nickname is K-Stew, but she’s difficult not to notice. Twilight has pushed a rather embarrassed Kristen into the limelight. As a California girl, you’d think she’s love it, but this is a shy, serious young woman who doesn’t want to be famous, she wants to be a good actor. Weird these days eh?

It’s amazing how we all still know who she is, I mean, even I was a kid when she hit to peak of her fame. Top page 3 girl for the Sun newspapers turned pop star turned reality TV regular.

Anyone who, like me, has an heroic big sister who would readily go into battle to for you, can completely understand why everyone loves Jane Lynch. She is, like that big sis, smart, scathingly sarcastic, sassy as all hell and, underneath, soft as a kitten.

There are very few female movie stars who are known by their first names; Meryl, Angelina, Jodie, Julia and Charlize are just a few. All but one of these ladies are also considered box-office gold, guaranteed bums-on-seats no matter what the film. Charlize is on her way though and she’s doing it the hard way – in spite of, not because of, her looks.

Is there a god(dess) of lesbians? Some say there is. Proof? Pink (and Ellen). Ok so she’s not a lesbian, but Pink is exactly what young women need to see; a woman who is not ashamed of her sexuality and not shy to admire the beauty of either gender.

Emily Blunt is not perfect. Oh she has perfectly pout, peckable lips, a body to die for and eyes you could lose yourself in, but ladies she dated the one and thank god the only Michael Buble. Now, I’m not saying the crooner is as boring as an auditor’s Christmas Party, but he ain’t winning any personality prizes.