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The actress Eva Mendes – Ask Men’s No 1 2009, People’s Most Beautiful At Any Age 2012 – is rather glamorous. Up close she is so striking you feel as if you are rubbernecking: skin silky, face radiant and lynx-like, lethal cheekbones with rollercoaster curves.

She has fronted ads for Cartier, Revlon, Morgan, Cocio, Campari, Thierry Mugler’s Angel fragrance,Calvin Klein’s Seductive Comfort lingerie and Vogue spectacles. She has been a spokeswoman for Pantene, Reebok Easytone trainers and Australia’s 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty. In 2009 she was named Magnum Ice Cream’s Global Pleasure Ambassador (one for the passport, that) with a remit that included liaising with the firm’s professor of pleasure and hosting a pleasure summit in Istanbul. It was here that she divulged that chocolate, hard work and three massages a week do it for her.

Perhaps still not quite an A list Hollywood celebrity, she has nonetheless added some notable celluloid performances to her CV – Denzel Washington’s mistress in the 2001 police drama Training Day; Joaquin Phoenix’s sexy squeeze in the compelling 2007 cop thriller We Own the Night; and perhaps best of all – the canny, fast-talking gossip columnist Sara Melas in Hitch, the 2005 blockbuster romantic comedy that costarred Will Smith as the dating coach she falls for.

Throw in some tasteful glamour photographic shoots, and one has plenty to visually admire.