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Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel has been voted TV’s sexiest leading woman.One in five have the hots for Friel, a poll carried out by the Hallmark Channel revealed, reports the Daily Record.

Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives followed Friel in the sexiest female TV character top 10.

Evangeline Lily, who plays Kate Austin in Lost was at number three while Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was at the fourth spot.

Rounding off the top five was Rose Byrne, who plays Ellen Parson in Damages.

More than 1,600 TV viewers took part in the survey, which was aimed at examining the effects of sex appeal on keeping people hooked on their favourite TV shows.

The recipe for sexiness in a TV character was thought to include charisma (38 percent), looking great (36 percent) and not playing by the rules (12 percent). Continue…

Anna Friel has ruled out having any more children until ‘Pushing Daisies’ has finished.

The 31-year-old actress - who has a three-year-old daughter Gracie with partner, actor David Thewlis - wants to expand her family, but is more concerned with continuing her role in the hit US TV show.

Anna plays Charlotte Charles, who is bought back to life by her high school sweetheart, but discovers she will die again if she ever touches him.

She said: “I definitely want more kids. I’d like another two probably, but not yet. I can’t right now - I’m not sure how they would explain my character on ‘Pushing Daisies’ getting pregnant when her leading man can’t actually touch her. What am I - the Virgin Mary?”

Anna also said she is not worried about coping with pregnancy in weight-conscious city Los Angeles because the obsession with size is unhealthy.

She added: “I don’t think being self-obsessed is a very endearing quality to have. Just being self-aware and healthy is enough, I think.”

Anna Friel has revealed that getting naked in front of the cameras never gets easier.

‘Any scene that involves stripping off is hell,’ she says.

‘You just know it’s going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it’s always uncomfortable.

‘All you can do is grin and bare it.’

But Anna, 31 - who has daughter Gracie, 2, with boyfriend David Thewlis, 44 - says it has nothing to do with being self-conscious.

‘I’m in a really good place,’ she tells Celebs On Sunday.

‘I used to be a right worrier, but being in a steady relationship has made a massive difference.

‘I was on my own for 3 years before meeting David. I’m very happy with him, he’s a fantastic man.’

RADIANT Anna Friel is enjoying new-found success with American TV show Pushing Daisies.The British born beauty has seen her career rocket since taking on a role in the brand new drama.

Trading her Brookside roots for Hollywood has secured the brunette beauty secure an army of fans Stateside.

And the 31-year-old is set or British success too, with 5.7million people tuning in to watch its ITV debut last night.

Anna plays Chuck in the quirky series which is based on a man who can bring people back to life by touching them.

Speaking recently she said she never realised the programme would be such an instant success.

She said: “We all knew it was something special when we first got involved with the project but we didn’t realise other people would recognise it so quickly.

“I knew from reading the script that it was going to be wonderful but I didn’t realise how wonderful.”

Fresh-faced Anna, who is looking better than ever, is living the American dream as Britain’s hottest property in the States.

Anna Friel writes love letters to boyfriend David Thewlis to let him know how much she’s missing him.

The British actress - who has won critical acclaim in the US with her new TV drama ‘Pushing Daisies’ - is currently living in Los Angeles with the couple’s two-year-old daughter, Gracie, while ‘Harry Potter’ star David stays in Britain, and Anna is determined to keep the romance alive.

She said: “I think the element of surprise is the most romantic thing. And I still love writing letters. I know there’s email and everything but I like letters, and I like flowers of course - just like every other girl.

“I’ve been known to write love letters to David. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I like the old school way of doing things.”
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Anna Friel has admitted that she is concerned over the public’s current obsession with body image.

The actress expressed her disappointment at the way women with curves are currently treated in the media, TV and film industries.

Friel, who found fame on Channel 4’s Brookside, once vented her anger at a movie producer who advised her to eat less.

“I told him he could have me or a model without a brain,” Anna explained in an interview with Hot TV magazine. “The obsession with weight today is just incredible. Curves have gone out of the window and I don’t understand it.”
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Sexy Anna Friel is living the American dream as Britain’s hottest property in the States. Anna, 31, has been pulling in huge audiences for Pushing Daisies – despite baffling fans with her “funny” British accent.

But Anna, who is married to Harry Potter star David Thewlis, 45, laughs at any talk of her being a sex symbol.

She said: “I don’t like posed sexy. Quirkiness is sexy to me.” Pushing Daisies is about a pie-maker called Ned who brings people back from the dead with a touch.

Anna plays his sweetheart Chuck, who he revives after she is murdered. But the pair can never touch again as it would kill Chuck. So they have to find ingenious ways to kiss, cuddle – and even have sex.

Anna Friel of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” was a teen star in a U.K. soap called “Brookside.” Her character, Beth, murdered her father, fell in love with another woman and died in prison — off-screen (Friel said she was done with the show, and the producers wrote her out unceremoniously).

After 13 years of little to no decent work, Friel feared “Brookside” doomed her career. Until, that is, she read for Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, the undead pixie in “Daisies.”

Sadly, “Pushing Daises” won’t return until fall, but selected episodes can be seen on www.abc

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Here are three things we learned about her in the U.K. edition of Esquire:

•She loves that her character Chuck can’t touch her love, the Piemaker Ned, played by Lee Pace: “It’s fantastically tantalizing. It’s the longest foreplay in history. I think it goes back to those black-and-white movies of the Forties where you would watch the entire film and be happy with just a kiss at the end of it.” Continue…

The Former Brookside Actress Has Cracked America With Her Role In This Brilliant Romantic Comedy New! Pushing Daisies Sat, Stv, 9pm

Anna Friel clearly added the Frielgood factor to this US made show that looks set to be the most successful rom-com since Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis went Moonlighting.

Only this time the romantic tension is not so much based around will they/won’t they as can they/can’t they?

Lee Pace plays leading man Ned, a pie shop owner who has a special talent - with one touch, he can make the dead live again, though a second touch sees them off for good. Ned is no Sweeney Todd, mind you. The main use for his strange gift seems to be reviving expired fruit for his pies.

But private eye Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) discovers Ned’s gift and convinces the cash-strapped pie-man to help him solve murder cases (and collect the rewards) by bringing murder victims back to life to reveal their killer.

So far so fanciful, but Ned’s life changes when he is asked to revive his childhood sweetheart Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Charles (Friel) who has been murdered on a cruise ship. Continue…

She shot to fame as Brookside’s teenage lesbian, before wowing Broadway as the stripper with a heart in Closer. In real life, she’s been playing happy families with fellow actor David Thewlis. But now Anna Friel is back in the limelight as the star of Pushing Daisies, one of the year’s hottest new TV shows.

It was when she was driving along Hollywood Boulevard recently that Anna Friel realised that she had made it.

“I looked up and I saw a huge billboard by the road. There was my face, several metres high. It made me feel very proud. Especially,” she adds with a chuckle, “as they hadn’t had to give me any Botox!”

Aged 31, she could easily pass for 10 years younger. Friel, who has lived with Thewlis for the past seven years, laughs off her sex-symbol tag. “David knows just what I look like first thing in the morning,” she grins.

She’s even held on to her strong Rochdale vowels. Friel has reportedly employed a nanny from her home town so that while she is in Hollywood, her two-year-old daughter Gracie — named after Rochdale’s other famous native, Gracie Fields — does not lose touch with the accent, either. Continue…