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Jenna-Louise Coleman — Cute Companion
DOB: April 27, 1986
Place of birth: Blackpool, England
Occupation: Actress
Jenna-Louise Coleman facts
- Set to play The Timelord’s new companion in Doctor Who, debuting in this year’s Christmas special.
- Currently best-known for being the village vicar’s bisexual niece Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale.
- Nominated for Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards and National Television Awards in 2007.
- Made her Hollywood debut in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones.
3 photos of Jenna-Louise Coleman
Why we love Jenna-Louise Coleman
Jenna-Louise started out at the Edinburgh Fringe, so clearly is a proper, like, actress and that. She was set to go to drama school before Emmerdale snapped her up – making her one of the only reasons to watch the yokel-based soap for four years.
It seems being a telly sex-pot, having on-screen affairs with a father and daughter combo, and then taking down a bad cop The Wire-style (brrrap brrrap), has left potential suitors bricking it about trying to pull her. “I used to get chatted up more before I was in the show [Emmerdale],” she says, “now I think guys are too shy.”
Jenna-Louise is certainly not shy when it comes to partying. “I’ll go out and have a wild big night out,” she says. We’re off down Nando’s and then to The Crown for some cheap Sam Smith’s pints later Jenna-Louise. If you fancy that you’re more than welcome to join us.
So if your nieces and nephews make you watch Doctor Who in 2013, you won’t have to spend the entire time surfing Twitter on your phone. We’ll even tolerate the oversized stick puppet that is Matt Smith if he’s propped up next to Jenna-Louise.
Florrie — Drum Machine
DOB: December 28, 1988
Place of birth: Bristol, England
Occupation: Drummer, Guitarist, Singer, DJ
Florrie facts
- Florrie is a singer, drummer and DJ. And she looks good in dungarees too, which is an achievement
- She’s released most of her music online for free, as it gave fans a “chance to discover her” instead of being told about her through a major record label
- She’s appeared in an advert for Nina Ricci perfume in which she sings a (pretty solid) cover of Blondie’s Sunday Girl, and you can listen to it here
Why we love Florrie
Florrie is a statisical rarity – a gorgeous woman who’s also really good on the drums. We’re impressed on both counts.
Florrie, rapidly becoming an electro-pop icon thanks to her chilled out music and kinda old-fashioned, kinda new-fangled sound, took up drumming at the age of six while on holiday in Greece. Despite playing various gigs in her home town of Bristol, she never really made an impact until she moved to London and took up with Xenomania.
What’s Xenomania? Well, firstly, it’s a mental condition where you’re overly-enthusiastic about strange and foreign things. But in Florrie’s case, it was a songwriting house (they’re responsible for all but the first Girls Aloud albums, and they’ve worked with The Sugababes, The Pet Shop Boys, Texas, you name it) and she rose to relative fame in their in-house band as a drummer.
It’s easy to accuse Florrie of success just because she’s beautiful – and she is – but you’d be dead wrong there. Even though she’s still finding her musical feet, she’s turned out some quality work and she’s only going to get better from here on in.
She’s released two albums – Introduction and Experiments – so far, and she’s working on a third; and she doesn’t just play the drums on them, either, as she’s hired a boy to do that for her. Instead, she’s singing and remixing, and sounding pretty good doing both.
If you want to give her a listen, she’s made a whole bunch of her music available for free – that’s entirely free, like, zero pounds – at her website, and you could do worse than popping over there and having a quick look around.
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Alex Breckenridge — Cartooney cutie
DOB: May 15, 1982
Place of birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Occupation: Voice actor, Actress
Alex Breckenridge facts
- When Alex isn’t acting, she works as a photographer.
- She’s previously popped up in Dawson’s Creek, Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Her uncle is actor Michael Weatherly, best known for his role on Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigate Service.
- Her collection of tattoos, including the fairy on her leg, gets covered in latex paint for almost all her acting roles.
11 photos of Alex Breckenridge
Why we love Alex Breckenridge
Voice actors aren’t usually known for their dazzling looks. Despite their huge popularity and salaries, we can smugly assure you that: most are destined to only ever be famous orally. Fated, if you will, to be fêted non-facially. Just google the cast of The Simpsons: the hugely talented Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Krusty) would be first to be wrongly lynched in any neighbourhood paedophile hunt, and Nancy ‘Bart’ Cartwright has more than a little of the ‘shaved Ewok’ about her.
Alex Breckenridge, thank goodness, is not one of these people. Making much of the preceding paragraph irrelevant and pointlessly bitchy. And you hold the proof of her sun-kissed visual qualities in your hands right now. But it’s her voice you’ll know best – from her numerous roles in world-dominating ‘smartoon’ Family Guy, playing everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker to a, er, rape victim. But we’ll soon be seeing more of her in film roles and, thankfully, within the world of FHM…
Recently, Alex Breckenridge has been getting her face out in criminally underrated series, American Horror Story as ‘Young Moira’ a red headed maid who also happens to be a ghost. Thankfully, the makers saw the value in putting Alex Breckenridge in a maids outfit, and there isn’t a white sheet in sight.
- External Links:
- Fan Site
Rita Ora — Hot Right Now
DOB: November 26, 1990
Place of birth: Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation: Musician
Rita Ora facts
- Rita Ora is a singer, most famous for Hot Right Now, her collaboration with DJ Fresh. She’s signed up to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label.
- She’s also been in Spivs, one of your common-or-garden loveable London gangster comedy films.
- She advertised CK perfume in 2009, and danced around in her pants for the associated video.
- She entered the 2009 contest to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest – she qualified, but withdrew from the contest as she didn’t feel she was ready to take part.
Why we love Rita Ora
Rita Ora is from Kosovo. Of course, when she was born there in 1990 it was all called Yugoslavia, and before that it was basically Serbia as far as we can tell, but that’s all pretty inconsequential because she and her folks moved to England in the year that she was born. Anyway, interesting, no?
Rita Ora is a singer, and you’ll probably have heard Hot Right Now, her December 2011 collaboration with DJ Fresh. With a bouncy dubstep beat, engaging vocals from Rita Ora and a video featuring a dance-off between (it seems) members of The Third Street Saints, we reckon it could have been one of those songs that defines a summer, like Groovejet (If this ain’t love) was back in 2000. Shame she released it in the middle of winter then, really, but hey ho.
That’s the closest that Rita Ora’s got to solo work, but she’s worked with other artists in the past – most notably Craig David in 2008 as part of Awkward and the headache-inducing cacophony that was Where’s Your Love with Tinchy Strider. She was quite good in it, though.
In 2009, she was quietly signed up by luminary rap artist and world’s first Beyonce impregnator Jay-Z to his label Roc Nation, and she appeared in an ad flogging headphones with appropriate branding all over them. Throughout late 2011, she released several viral videos showing her at work on her new album, which earned her a sizeable online following and a cracking response to the eventual release of her single.
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Irina Shayk — Well Illustrated
DOB: January 6, 1986
Place of birth: Yemanzhelinsk, Russia
Occupation: Model
Her History in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women
2011 #10
Irina Shayk facts
- Irina has been an ever-present in the illustrious Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition since 2007.
- She’s also modelled for Beach Bunny, Guess and Armani Exchange.
- She appeared in the video to Kanye West’s single ‘Power’.
- She’s dating an obscure Portuguese footballer by the name of Cristiano Ronaldo.
58 photos of Irina Shayk
Why we love Irina Shayk
It always seems strange to think of how some of these supermodels started out; for Irina Shayk it was a beauty pageant in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Modelling wasn’t some kind of first love for Irina though – she wanted to be a teacher of literature as a child because she liked making up stories and reading. What a waste of talent it would have been if she only ever stood up in front of a class of schoolkids.
Pushed on by her mum’s influence she went to a music school for seven years, and then started studying marketing at college but found it really boring so enrolled in a beauty school with her sister. In a twist of fate, next door to the school was a local modelling agency (convenient), and a scout noticed Irina, telling her to enter Miss Chelyabinsk 2004. She won, drew the attention of more scouts and within a year was modelling in Paris.
She started learning English and then started taking the modelling world by storm. In 2007 she became the face of Intimissimi lingerie, and also found herself appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition; a tradition she has continued for every year since, eventually winding up on the cover of the 2011 issue. Seeing as this section is called “Why we love Irina Shayk” we can categorically state that it’s because of her immense hotness and has got absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she’s going out with Cristiano Ronaldo. Nobody’s perfect.
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Helen Skelton — Fit Adventurer
DOB: July 19, 1983
Place of birth: Kirby Thore, Cumbria, England
Occupation: Adventurer, World Record breaker, TV presenter, WAG
Helen Skelton facts
- Put a bit of blue back into Blue Peter since debuted in the show in 2008.
- Kayaked the entire 2,010-mile length of the River Amazon in 2010 to raise money for Sport Relief – in the process breaking Guinness World Records for longest solo kayak trip and longest 24-hour kayak distance by a woman.
- Broke another Guinness World Record in 2012 during a race to the South Pole by ski, kite and bike, becoming the fastest ever person to go 100km by kite ski.
- Become only the second-ever woman to complete the 78-mile Namibian Ultra Marathon in 2009, which she finished in under 24 hours.
- Walked a tightrope for 150 metres suspended between two chimneys at Battersea Power Station in 2011, raising money for Comic Relief.
7 photos of Helen Skelton
Why we love Helen Skelton
Helen Skelton has done things we can only dream of. No, not presenting Newsround, but taking on more hardcore geographical challenges than Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Tintin put together. The beautiful blonde has taken on Antarctica, the Amazon and the Namibian desert and won – with World Records to show for it. We’re pretty much in awe, if we’re honest.
We’re inspired to get fit by Helen’s love of sporty men. She recently got engaged to Super League rugby star Richie Myler of the Warrington Wolves, having once dated footballer David Graham, currently at Dunfermline. If FHM got a six-pack one day, maybe we’d have a chance. Just maybe.
We’ll be forever grateful for the positioning of the Kayak-Cam on her little river vessel. Thank you BBC, it was worth paying the license fee for that alone.
Helen Skelton is not afraid of revealing the fact that she has boobs. Despite being a presenter on kids’ shows, when there’s an opportunity to unleash her superb cleavage upon the world – at red carpet events and the like – she has not shirked. Good on you, Helen.
- External Links:
- Helen Skelton pictures at Photobucket |
- Helen Skelton pictures at Zimbio
Kate Garraway — Breakfast Beauty
DOB: 4 May 1967
Place of birth: Abingdon, Berkshire, England
Occupation: Journalist, TV presenter
Kate Garraway facts
- Kate is currently filling the sexy presenting boots of Christine Bleakley by co-presenting ITV’s news fluff-fest Daybreak.
- She’s got a BA in English and History from Bath Spa University.
- Her broadcasting career began on radio, but, well, LOOK AT HER BEAUTIFUL FACE.
Why we love Kate Garraway
We don’t tend to watch a lot of ITV’s ‘Blue Peter for adults’ morning drivel extravaganza Daybreak, but, if we did, it’d be to start the day with the lovely Kate Garraway.
They take real news – like political uprisings and riots and economic depression-type news – and turn it into something that’s far more palatable when you’re slurping down your Cocoa Pops. “Ooh, X terrible thing happened; let’s see what family pets in Colchester think about this…” It’s like Blue Peter for adults, if by ‘adults’ you mean ‘unemployed people’.
Kate’s fully capable of handling proper news, though, and was one of the team of presenters chosen to launch BBC’s 24-hour rolling news channel – the imaginatively-titled ‘BBC News 24’. She anchored big stories including the Good Friday Agreement, which was something to do with the early consumption of Easter Eggs, we think.
Kate presented the third series of the The Biggest Loser, a UK spinoff of the American flab-fighting show of the same name, before being replaced by television omnipresent Davina McCall for the fourth series.
Kate proved that she was popular but woeful at dancing when she appeared on the fifth series of glitzy toe-crushing monstrosity Strictly Come Dancing. She received the lowest score from the judges in every week but one, but was repeatedly saved by the public vote, until her elimination in week seven. Just goes to show: it’s nice to be good at dancing, but it’s more important to be nice.
When she’s not on telly, Kate likes to relax by scuba diving (too drowny), bodyboarding (too wet), playing the clarinet (too difficult and spitty) and going to the cinema (fine). She’s also a fan of Gillingham F.C.
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Jessica Brown Findlay — Downton Dancer
DOB: 14 September 1989
Place of birth: Cookham, Berkshire, England
Occupation: Actress
Jessica Brown Findlay facts
- Jessica Brown-Findlay is an actress most famous for her role in ITV’s old-timey drama Downton Abbey.
- She’s also appeared in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror and, interestingly, as Girl in Bed in a short film called Man on a Motorcycle.
- At the age of 15, she trained with the Kirov Ballet at the National Opera House. We’re assured that’s a pretty big deal.
Why we love Jessica Brown Findlay
Downton Abbey is fast becoming a British National Treasure, like Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, scones and clotted cream, and post-Imperial self-entitlement – of course, we pretend not to watch it (and we’d never put it on if it was just us in the house) but if our a) girlfriend or b) mum has tuned in, it’s hard not to get drawn in by the highs and lows of mansion life. One of the reasons we’re so drawn in is the wonderful Jessica Brown-Findlay, who plays Lady Sibyl Branson.
Lady Sibyl is a revolutionary firecracker of a woman, far ahead of her time, who’s into all sort of cool things like votes for women, patching wounded soldiers together, getting off with socialist chauffeurs (and then marrying them despite the wishes of your family), and whacking great blue trousers. We like a woman in whacking great blue trousers. Dunno what that says about us.
Jessica Brown-Findlay is more than just her character, though, obviously. Her career started out in ballet, but thanks to botched ankle surgery, she was told she could never dance again – tremendously crushing, no doubt, for a young woman who’d just spent two years learning how to do exactly that. But ballet’s loss was our gain, and she kicked off a career in acting – after a couple of appearances on E4’s premier deliquent superhero drama Misfits and a film called Albatross (in which she was apparently excellent, even if the film itself didn’t do so well), she made it on to Downton Abbey and did pretty well for herself.
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Taylor Swift — Quick fit
DOB: December 13, 1989
Place of birth: Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
Her History in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women
2011 #61 | 2010 #60 | 2009 #76
Taylor Swift facts
- In January 2009 became the first country artist to top the 2 million mark in paid downloads. Not bad for a girl who grew up on a Christmas tree farm.
- Has been in one episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and a Jonas Brothers DVD. Also, dated Joe Jonas.
- She made her movie debut in Valentine’s Day.
- When Taylor gets bored she likes to conduct random baking experiments in her kitchen. Rock. And. Roll.
17 photos of Taylor Swift
Why we love Taylor Swift
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. But what’s more than likely is that she will make-it. Because 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 some-time soon.
Taylor Swift was in Valentine’s Day which was a kind of gross film, but pretty high profile, and she is just unbelievably famous. Everyone loves her – When Kanye got all up in her face during the VMA’s, everyone was all ‘Dude, stop being a dick. It’s Taylor, yeah? She’s good people.’ Taylor Swifts recipe of wholesomeness, hotness and ability to send a country ballad into the stratosphere is likely to keep her in expensive conditioner for some time, even if she doesn’t manage to turn Great Britain onto the charms of country music.
- External Links:
- Taylor Swift at Fame Steps |
- Taylor Swift at Famous Why |
- Taylor Swift tickets at Aloud.com
Franziska Klein — Internationally Cute
Occupation: Model
Franziska Klein facts
- Franziska’s favourite gym class is zumba and she did thirteen years of ballet.
Why we love Franziska Klein
Franziska Klein is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a German model, wrapped in another enigma and then a further mystery on top of that. Who is she? What makes her tick? What does she do?
Primarily, Franziska Klein is a model, which means she looks really good on camera for money. Sometimes she looks really good in order to sell a product, and sometimes she looks really good just for the hell of it. She’s multifaceted like that. For instance, in our February 2012 issue, she looked really good in some pictures we took of her on account of her being slim and healthy in our article ‘Fit Girls Getting Fitter’, which is nice.
Her interests include looking moodily off-camera, smiling into the camera, or assuming a variety of poses such as standing up facing the photographer, standing facing away from the photographer but looking coquettishly over her shoulder, laying down, or sitting in a chair. We assume she has other interests, just like a normal person – like playing the recorder, racing go-karts, rock climbing, stamp collecting, or interpretive artistic dance – but we don’t know. We just don’t know. As we said in that needlessly long opening paragraph, she’s a mystery. A sexy mystery, mind, like one where you might have to track down Carmen Sandiego or uncover a bikini smuggling ring.
If you’re keen to find out more about Franziska, you could follow her on Twitter, as it seems to be the least incomplete of all the incomplete sources of information on the internet about her, which are few and far between to begin with. Plus, she often posts pictures of herself and other beautiful model types just hanging out, or even baking apple pies. We’re okay with that.
Anyway, we know she’s gonna be huge. Watch out for her. You saw her here first.
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