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When negotiating a pay out of £500,00 for total access to her ex husband, Prince Andrew, thankfully Sarah Ferguson kept some of her dignity by keeping her clothes on, but that’s not the tact that English ‘it girl and rumoured glamour model, Kelly Brook, has taken.
Since showing her 34D assets off to the world in several UK lad’s magazines, such as FHM, Nuts and Zoo, the 30 year old has attracted the attention of Playboy entrepreneur, Hugh Hefner, who is now rumoured to have signed Miss Brook for a Playboy shoot later this year.
Mr Hefner has placed a value of £500,00 on Kelly’s Mediteranean shoot which will take place later this month. It will now place the brunette, English TV celebrity, Brook up in the higher eshelons of iconic Playboy models such as Marilyn Monroe, Jordan (Katie Price), Ursula Andress and Bo Derek.
Who’d have thought?
Ask most men, and even women for that matter, who they would rate as Playboy’s number one model and the answer would probably be overwhelmingly Pamela Anderson. Although after that, the remaining top 9 in the Playboy top 10 model list is somewhat surprising. But when one considers that the iconic men’s magazine first launched in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, it has plenty of collectors whose memories stretch back 55 years to their own all time favourites, then the list becomes more believable.
At #10 there’s the woman who’s had more husbands than Hef has had Playmates, Elizabeth Taylor. The Hollywood actress and Academy Award winner appeared in a pictorial in Playboy January 1963, the year she appeared in the blockbuster, Cleopatra with her, then husband, Richard Burton.
Coming in at #9 is Catherine Deneuve, the beautiful French actress who made several Playboy appearances with her first being at just 20 years of age and including July 1969, December 1969 and December 1970.
The #8 position went to the trouble actress and model Anna Nicole Smith who became a firm favourite with Playboy enthusiast during the 1990’s when in 1992 se first appeared in the magazine using her birth name, Vickie Smith. Her success skyrocketed from there, and she was named the 1993 Playmate of the Year when she changed her name to Anna Nicole. The statuesque model also appeared in several special editions of Playboy magazine among which was an edition totally devoted to Anna Nicole.
The lucky #7 position is occupied by the eternally youthful Cindy Crawford who graced the cover of Playboy magazine in July1988 and again in May 1996 and October 1998. Cindy also appears on the cover of the special edition Supermodels 1995.
Appearing just outside the top 5 is Jenny McCarthy who took #6 in the ratings. Jenny has been featured in the magazine on several occasions, and her photos have also appeared in at least 15 Playboy special editions. Playboy was the making of Jenny who has since gone on to become a TV celebrity and an advocate in the research for a cure for autism.
As with several Playboy stars #5, Jane Mansfield, suffered an early demise when she was killed in a car accident in 1967. But her Playboy appearances have left an abiding memory of 1950’s glamour and how women appeared on the silver screen of the 1950’s.The young, innocent, braided beauty of Bo Derek placed her at #4 in the top 10 Playboy model list. Although better known for the number 10 after appearing in the movie of the same name, we’re sure Bo didn’t have any issues being placed in the top five.
Who could forget the original Bond girl who takes the #3 place, Ursula Andress? The beauty who rose from the waves in Dr No, as Honey Ryder, with her now iconic white bikini, her knife and shell in hand humming an alluring calypso. Revealing what only her leading men such as James Dean and Sean Connery, had been privy to, Ursula appeared in several issues of Playboy magazine including Playboy’s 50 Most Beautiful Women 1989 and The Girls of Playboy 1973.
Although she was the #1 lady to grace to cover of Playboy magazine in 1953, propelling Hugh Hefner to magazine mogul over the next 50 years, the #2 position is held by Marilyn Monroe. On her cover photo for Playboy’s first cover Marilyn wore a dress with a low, risqué neckline, taken at the 1952 Miss America parade. The nude photo inside the magazine was actually taken in 1949 at a calendar shoot. In September 1955, Miss Monroe also appeared on the magazine’s cover. With the blonde beauties iconic status being clear many years after her sudden death, Hugh Hefner made the decision to make a reprint of the original 1953 cover carrying Monroe’s picture.
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that the #1 position goes to former Baywatch beauty, Pamela Anderson. Having made more Playboy magazine appearances, 12 in all, than any other model it was only fitting that the surgically enhanced Miss Anderson should hold pole position. Pamela’s first appearance came on the cover of Playboy magazine October 1989 and continued her appearances right through to January 2007. With countless pictorials and shoots throughout her Playboy career, it’s a just reward for the Canadian born beauty who still remains a close friend of Mr Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner.
With a career that has followed more curves than her shapely figure, Bo Derek has now retired to the quiet life with the actor, John Corbett, who played Sarah Jessica Parker’s long suffering boyfriend Aden in Sex and the City.
But in her hey day Bo was the girl to be seen with having made the photograph of her run along the beach in the movie ‘10′, as famous as Ursula Andres’s beach character, Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond movie, Dr No.
Both John Derek, Bo’s husband at that time and Hugh Hefner both realised the potential of this Californian born beauty.
After Bo made her initial splash in the 1979 movie ‘10’, which saw her appearing alongside British actor, Dudley Moore, Bo made several appearances in a spate of fairly luke warm movies in the 1980’s such as Tarzan, The Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Cant Do It.
But her lack of acting skills was no restriction to her physical attraction when Hefner made her one of his 1980’s Playboy Bunnygirls, having Bo appear on the cover of at least 7 Playboy magazines.
Following the flop of Tarzan, The Ape Man, Bo posed on the cover of Playboy magazine on the September 1981 issue and in the same year she graced the cover of Playboy’s Leading Ladies 1981.
But it was her role as Jenny Hanley in ‘10’ that really caught the male populations attention and for which Hugh had Bo posing on the cover of his March 1980 Playboy magazine in a beach setting where she appeared on the cover wearing a bikini.
With no let up in the physical interest of Bo Derek, she went on to appear as the Bunnygirl on the covers of Playboy magazine, July 1984, Playboy’s Parody Winter 1984 and again on the cover of the December 1994 Playboy.
Bo made the first of her many appearances in Playboy, starting with the March 1980 issue with her first pictorial being photographed by her then husband John Derek. The twelve page spread featured photos of Bo with her pet greyhound together jogging and sunbathing, as well as her sailing and swimming in the river, all nude.
In 2000 Bo was nominated as the “Worst Actress of the Century”. However, she subsequently made a respectable showing as Jamie Kennedy’s mom and Ryan O’Neal’s wife in Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003). In addition, she can be seen on TV in Fashion House playing one of the main characters, notorious fashion designer Maria Gianni. Derek was a judge at the 2006 Miss Universe pageant.
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