It’s the year that sees the United States of America going to the polls to vote for the next leader of the Free World. It’s the year that China hosts the Olympic Games and 2008 is the year that Maxim has come up with one of its hottest top 100 lists of The ultimate of the world’s most beautiful women.

So here, we’ll take you through the count down in good old traditional, reverse order, from 10 - 1.

10

Still only 22 years old, Ashley Tisdale comes in at a respectable number 10 and with at least another 10 years to her career and her talents, singing, dancing and acting, she could possibly find herself at the number one spot in the very near future. The High School Musical star is set to hit TV screens again this fall in HSM 3!

9

Surprisingly at number nine Maxim’s little poll saw the troubled star of the big screen, Lindsay Lohan riding high at number 9. Following her car accident, her time in rehab and the unending rumours concerning her love life, it would appear that Lindsay is still a hot favourite with the guys! Lohan is currently working on her comeback with roles in Dare to Love Me and Ye Olde Times.

8

With an interview in Maxim that told of Christina Aguilera’s insatiable sexual appetite it was a slam dunk that she would find herself in the top ten! With an interview in Maxim that told of insatiable sexual appetite it was a slam dunk that she would find herself in the top ten!Referring to her sexual fantasies, Aguilera said, “I love to play doctor, I got my husband a doctor’s outfit and bag full of sex toys. I wore the naughty nurse outfit, of course.” But of course, we didn’t think your husband would be wearing it!

7

As always, the removal of clothing and revealing a shape like Eva Mendez is a sure fire way to put yourself squarely in the public eye. In the 2001 movie Training Day, Eva’s nude scene made her one of Hollywood’s hottest commodities with roles in Stuck on You with Matt Damon and with Will Smith in Hitch, and Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night. 

6

Elisha Cuthbert graced the May 2008 cover of Maxim magazine which, along with her roles in horror flicks House of Wax and Captivity, and on TV’s 24, with Keifer Sutherland, brought Cuthbert to the number 6 position in the Maxim hot 100!

5

As the vampire slaying Buffy, gained attention as a sex siren that any vampire would be proud to do battle with, but for now Sarah has left all that ‘make believe’ stuff behind her and is now entering the world of reality in the big-screen reimagining of We joke!  

4

At number 4 is everyone’s favourite Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria (now with Parker added to the end since she married Tony Parker) the Mexican-American is all set to spice up the elementary-school-set comedy Lower Learning. Now what on earth could a girl like Eva be teaching?

3

The ‘loved up’ Jessica Biel holds the number 4 position this year although 7 is a number more connected with Jessica as she appeared in family TV show, But Jessica is about to leave the safe family set behind as she embarks on her next role in a small-town woman who is turned into a sexually adventurous bombshell following a freak accident.

2

With what began as a fairly safe, non sexual movie career, Scarlett Johansson has now veered as far away from her beginnings to become a dangerously curvy bombshell and the possessor of Hollywood’s plumpest lips after Angelina Jolie’s. Scarlett’s next movie sees her pouting her lips in The Spirit.