Her latest movie "Rendition" flopped at box offices, but fans
still love Reese Witherspoon.
The actress proved to be the most-liked celebrity among ten
women who regularly found their way onto magazine covers and into
gossip columns in 2007, according to a poll on Friday.
For its E-Score Celebrity survey, E-Poll Market Research asked
more than 1,100 people ages 13 and older whom they found the most
appealing, confident, glamorous, interesting and over-exposed,
among other qualities.
Witherspoon, 30, who has been in the spotlight since winning an
Oscar for playing country singer June Carter in Walk the Line,
topped the list with a personal appeal rating of 74 percent,
followed by former Friends TV star Jennifer Aniston at 70
percent.
The Oscar winner has not had any major movie hits since Walk the
Line, but has been the focus of numerous headlines and stories this
year due to her divorce from actor Ryan Phillippe and subsequent
involvement with Jake Gyllenhaal, her co-star in "Rendition."
That movie, an espionage thriller, has proved to be a major
disappointment at box offices taking in only 17 million U.S.
dollars so far in global ticket sales.
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie, who is now the companion of Aniston's
ex-husband Brad Pitt, was the No. 3 most appealing celebrity at 53
percent.
Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez was behind her with a 52 percent
rating, while Katie Holmes followed at 32 percent and behind her
was former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham in the No. 6 position with a
rating of 28 percent.
Troubled celebrities of 2007--Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie,
Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears--who all have battled drug and
alcohol abuse and run into legal problems, rounded out the list
with Hilton the least-liked.
She had a low 9 percent appeal rating, and was deemed to be the
most over-exposed. Only one notch above Hilton was pop singer
Spears with 11 percent likeability and a 68 percent over-exposed
rating to Hilton's 75 percent.
(China Daily/Agencies January 7, 2008)
