Here's my list of Top 10 Celebrity Hot Chicks for February 2006.  This list is not a cumulative thing - after all, there wouldn't be much run for you the reader if Laetitia Casta, Madonna and Angelina Jolie were ranked number 1,2 and 3 every month for the next year.  So I've decided to add some variety to this list by having the simple rule that no single celebrity can appear on this list more than once every six months. Also, not only am I doing this list as a way to indulge myself, but also to turn you on to actresses, singers and other personalities you might not have heard of.  So... enjoy the list!

Julia Ormond is just friggin' beautiful, full stop, period dot. I love her voice - one half English, one half Blue Blood American, ala Katharine Hepburn - that every time I see her on TV or in a movie I hear her say "Liiiiiiinnnnuuuusss Larrabee" (from the remake she did of Sabrina with Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear). She's one of those women that, no matter how old I get, or how much I know about women, I'd just burst into a fit of nervous laughter and run away upon meeting. My poor little brain just can't process that much beauty at once.

Kristen Scott Thomas is also pretty, but in a much more reserved way. I mean, I don't think that KST would find farts funny at all, you know what I mean? But still, she's really pretty and has actually gotten prettier in the past couple of years. If ever an actress could have stood to gain a couple of pounds, it was KST. I just saw her on a UK magazine cover and the extra pounds have really taken the sharp edge of her looks... and made her boobies bigger. Part of that may be 'cos she recently had a child - that can make a woman "glow", right?

TWO women named Kristen on the same Top 10 List? NO WAY! Yes way! Let me be honest here - I never thought Kristen Davis was hot. I hated her character on Melrose Place almost as much as I hated Charlotte from Sex and the City. I know that she was only playing roles, but it's hard to like someone when two of her characters are so annoying, so there you go. But then I saw these high-res pics of her online and Kristen had wrinkles! And I thought that was awesome! Sure, Scarlett Johansson might have a tight little 21 year old body, but Kristen has wrinkles, and you have to earn those, girl. Man, that's hot!

Natasha Henstridge is weird. I mean, some times she looks stunning (for example, The Whole Nine Yards), then other times she looks as if she just rolled out of bed and went straight to the set. But still, she's blonde and like... 9 feet tall, so she could be my Amazonian captor any time. Well, not really. Lisa wouldn't go for that at all. But you know what I mean. Plus, the fact that Natasha grew up in a Canadian trailer park just intrigues me - how does a girl named "Natasha Henstridge" grow up in a trailer park?

You know those girls that seem to always be hiding the goods? Emily Deschanel is one of them. You can watch just about everything she's ever been in and you'd probably wonder to yourself "tell me again why she's on this list?" But then there's that episode of Bones where Emily is sleeping and wakes up because of some noises she hears coming from the living room (it's not a burglar, just her ex-husband getting some of his stuff). She comes running out of the bedroom in a tight tank top without a bra and it's like "Damn girl - where have you been hiding those things?" Classy, I know. But guys are like that.

I could stare at a picture of Kate Beckinsale for hours and not think she's pretty. Maybe it's her pinched little nose that I don't like. Maybe it's her "12 year-old boy" body. I don't know what I don't like about her, but she makes me so hot for some reason. Maybe it's the leather outfit from Underworld? I don't know, but for some reason this woman really puts the yowser in my trousers...

Melina Kanakaredes isn't hot... she's pretty. And although I've never watched any show with her in it, I've seen her in commercials and being interviewed and whatnot. I dunno - I just like her, OK?

OK, OK... This entry isn't so much for Mary Lynn Rajskub the person as it is about Chloe O'Brien, the character Mary Lynn plays on Fox's 24. Chloe gets no lovin' from her geek brothers and sisters, and that's a crying shame. C'mon people - Chloe is nothing more than a pissed-off female IT guy... so where's the love? You know you love it when she rolls her eyes and says something like "Duh, Edgar! Just transfer the VoIP traffic to the OC3 and move the VPN to the redundant T for now.... Idiot!" Besides, you also know that Chloe is freaky, right? She's the type of girl that quietly reads a book during lunchtime, yet has her own dungeon down in the basement at home.

Bonnie Bernstein makes the list just because she's an "NFL football babe". There's just something about a girl that knows way more about football than I do that turns me on. Imagine sitting with her on the sofa with a glass of wine, gently stroking her thigh then leaning in and whispering "Ooooohhhh, baby! Tell me more about Jerome Bettis and the Stack I Toss Right from the last minute of the 1997 Steelers\Patriots game". And oh yeah, it's Bonnie's new "four shades lighter" hair that does it for me.

One lazy Saturday, the missus and I were watching one of those "I Love Pointless Nostalgia" shows on VH1 when suddenly Erin Grey came on to the screen. And you know what? She's still pretty! This woman first grabbed my attention in the late 1970s with her tight jumpsuits on Buck Rodgers, but then kept it going in the early 1980s on Silver Spoons. She's this month's "vintage babe" and she's totally all that - even now!

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Natasha Henstridge was reared in a trailer park in Alberta, Canada; she became legally emancipated from her parents at age 14 so that she could move to Paris to be a model.

Emily Deschanel is from a family of actresses: her mother is actress Mary Jo Deschanel and her sister is actress Zooey Deschanel.

Kate Beckinsale won Britain's prestigious WH Smith's Young Writers' competition two years in a row: once for her short stories, once for poetry.

Melina Kanakaredes competed in synchronized swimming while at Ohio State.

Mary Lynn Rajskub is included in the "Thank Yous" in the liner notes of Fiona Apple's "When the Pawn..." CD. No, I don't know why Fiona thanked her.

At Super Bowl XXXVIII, Bonnie Bernstein became the first reporter in history to serve as both a network television and network radio correspondent, filing reports for CBS TV and Westwood One Radio.

Erin Grey is an instructor of Tai Chi and Qi Gong (Chi Kung) at UCLA.

United States: 60%
United Kingdom: 30%
Canada: 10%

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