...to ask you, who do you think is beautiful?! (no, Sam Brick - you are not so don't even try to say you are!)

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...following on from the delusions of Sam Brick who, is not, in my - or many people's eyes - a 'beauty', then who is?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course, but some people are just so universally damn gorgeous!

I think...

Women
Monica Belluci
Nicole Sherzinger
Christina Hendricks
Brighter Bardot (in her heyday)
Gina Lollabrigida (in her heyday)
Racquet Welsh
Halle Berry
Beatrice Dalle
Sherilyn Fenn

To name a few!

Men

Brad Pitt
Eddie Cahill (CSi NY programme)
Antonio Banderas

There are others who will come to mind eventually!

What about you?!

Audrey Hepburn without doubt.
And she was beautiful from the inside too, her work as a UN ambassador before it became the fashionable thing to do, her love of children and her eyes.
Beautiful men, Usain Bolt.

Women
Keeley Hawes
Rachel Weisz
Christina Hendricks.
Men
John Simm
Phil Glenister
Samuel West.
Most of the so called good looking American actors leave me cold and do absolutely nothing for me.

Sophia Loren
Elizabeth taylor
Marilyn Monroe
Sandy Shaw
Helen Mirren
Charlize Theron

The most beautiful man has to be Jim Morrison in his hayday..
Oh and Johnny Depp

Modern day

Rachel Weisz
Cate Blanchett
Liv Tyler

Michael Fassbender

And Josh Hartnett

Rachel Weisz
Catherine Zeta Jones
Minnie Driver - unconventional I know, but I think she is stunning
Beyonce

Denzel Washington
Daniel Craig

I regularly see one of the A listers mentioned here a couple of times and she is indeed very beautiful but also surprisingly normal.

I have a right boner for Bruce Parry

Angelina Jolie and Bruce Parry can both give me a good seeing to at the same time..slurp.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Haven't a clue who half the people listed thus far are!

After my DS2:

Johnny Depp

The guy that plays Damon in Vampire Diaries

Mario Balotti - wonder if he's as naughty in the bedroom!

Orlando Bloom

David Tenant has something about him when he's not talking in his Scottish accent.

Christina Aguilera

Gwen Stefani

Never understood the fascination over Angelina Jolie I really don't think she is all that attractive.

Megan Fox is ok

Thats all I can think of at the mo.

whoever the guy is in the ad for the new lucozade drink

Moi. Christina Aguillera told me. [bugrin]

Men

Tyson Beckford
Oliver Reed in his heyday
Paul Newman in his heyday

Women
Christy Turlington
Naomi Campbell
Beyonce
Ava Gardener
Elizabeth Taylor
Adele
Genevieve Nnangi(sp?) a Nigerian actress

Yes I agree with whoever said Gabrielle from this year's Apprentice. She's very beautiful in an understated way.
Gwen Stefani.
Elizabeth Hurley.
Helena Cristiensen.

Julia Roberts
Faye Dunaway

I like the girls who aren't 'obvious':

Alexa Chung
Zooey Deschanel
Emma Willis

And my latest fave - Rachel Khoo

And for the boys:

Edward Norton
John Cusack
Daniel Craig
Simon Baker (the Mentalist - yum)
Fernando Torres

Can't believe no one has mentioned Tom Hardy yet, he is stunning. Also Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston (sp?), Idris Elba and Eric from true blood. Beautiful women would be Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly,Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman and Angelina (although I agree she was better with a bit more meat on her, back in the Lara croft days)

Helena christensen
Kate Moss
Christy turlington
RnB mumsnetter from brighton is truly beautiful

Forgot to mention Helen Mirren, she is amazing!

Coté de Pablo
Grace Kelly
Ava Gardner
Robert Redford
Paul Newman
Michael Weatherly
Mark Harmon (beautiful smile- his whole face lights up)
Sinatra in his heyday
Richard Gere

Ingrid Bergman - she was absolutely stunning
Kate Winslet when she first hit the screen -too bland now.
Jennifer Aniston

Tom Selleck
Brad Pitt
Jim Morrison (drool)

Olivia Wilde
Gemma Arterton
Helena Bonham Carter

Al Pacino
Robert de Niro
Gerard Pique

Are these all beautiful people though or just people we find attractive? People we find attractive is a subjective thing therefore not an accurate measure of true beauty.

I'm sure looking at it from a scientific angle it is to do with facial symmetry (and probably youth). Out of the women mentioned I bet Miranda Kerr has good symmetry and Kate Moss (in her heyday). I don't believe Sam Brick possesses good symmetry but I can see that like the rest of us she would be attractive to some people.

I do not have good facial symmetry and have never been chased down the street by admirers

Probably stating the obvious here but a lot of the Hollywood actresses benefit from just having good make-up, a good stylist and favourable camera angles. Kate Beckinsale went to Hollywood looking like an ordinary pretty girl; after a year she was stunning. Catherine Zeta Jones went the same way. Even if you look at pictures of Angelina Jolie when she was young, she was very pretty but not the great beauty she became.

Anyway, just saying.