Say “hello, actress” to AN ACTRESS

It’s not just our footballers who dip into the glamourous world of entertainment to find their girlfriends, American sportsmen do it too. Brad Penny, a famous baseball player with the LA Dodgers, insisted on taking an actress for a WAG. For those uninitiated into American culture, baseball is their version of rounders, and his actress girlfriend is a popular thespian called Eliza Dushku.

Whoa, that costume is not appropriate for the beach!

If you were watching 2003 Steven Seagal/Ja Rule classic Half Past Dead very closely, you may have seen today’s WAG Yasmina Filali flaunting her wares. The actress and model is popular in her native Germany, where she gained notoriety playing a stripper in TV series Die Rote Meile (‘The Red Mile’). She found her way into several other TV shows, helped by SAT.1 Chief Exec boyfriend Fred Kogel, but eventually left her well-connected partner to marry ex-Sunderland and Euro 96 winning defender Thomas Helmer.

Mrs Harry Kewell could be off to Italy

After his release from Liverpool, word on the rumour vine is that Socceroo Harry Kewell could be joining forgetful Norwegian John Arne Riise at Roma. Unfortunately, this tiny island would become one fine WAG lighter, as his wife Sheree Murphy (and their three children) would also head off to the land of pasta, corruption and inexplicably good looking people.

North America’s most prolific ‘puck bunny’

On the other side of the pond, WAGs who like to snare their partners from the National Hockey League are known as ‘puck bunnies’, and the most celebrated of the pack is Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert. According to the beauts at wagrankings.com, she grew up as a huge hockey fan and is currently a season ticket holder at the Los Angeles Kings. Her stick wielding scalps have included New York Rangers’ Sean Avery, Montreal Canadiens’ Mike Komisarek and she currently steps out with Calgary Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf.