Many people would argue that Kate Beckinsale isn’t strictly a WAG, and in many ways those people would be absolutely right. Mainly because, technically - if you’re really nit-picking - she isn’t a WAG. She’s married to some kind of cigar smoking movie man, the director Len Wiseman. But the big news is that she is POSH SPICE’S new best pal. That makes her an honorary WAG, so ner!

The pretty actress was at the LA Galaxy game at the weekend, enjoying the continuing journey to disaster that saw Beckham’s team go down 3-2 to a Toronto side made up of men who hardly play football. Like the Beckhams, she is a Brit abroad trying to break LA.

Gentlemen have been said to enjoy both Beckinsale’s enormous brain (she studied at Oxford AND Paris), and her sensual looking body. The very same body that appeared opposite the world’s most unusual actor Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbour. That film was awful, but was it really as awful as the one she made about being a vampire? The jury isn’t sure.

Here’s a clip of her “acting” (pretending to have sex) in “a film” (Underworld):