Top ten... cads & cadettes

If all's fair in love and war, collateral damage is part of the game. Or so these love rats would have us believe. We take a look at the top ten heart breakers who have openly cheated on and humiliated their loved-ones. Ouch!

Hurricane Britney Spears, 21, has left a trail of devastation in her wake. The not-so-virginal pop princess left Justin Timberlake sobbing into the microphone after rumours of her infidelities. Punk tough guy Fred Durst was also humiliated after he protested his 'pure' love for Britney, only for her to be caught on camera snogging Colin Farrell.

Zoë Ball, 32, may be the original ladette but she's now officially a cadette. Clearly bored with being stuck at home holding baby Woody, two, as her husband DJ Norman Cook went off to work, Zoë began spending four nights a week in London. Soon she was playing fast and loose with rival DJ Daniel Peppe, leaving a heartbroken Norman pleading for Zoë to come home.

Sir Anthony Hopkins, 65, spent 29 years talking of his horror of emotional commitment as he repeatedly cheated on his longsuffering second wife, Jenni. So it has come as a surprise to many that less than a year after divorcing the old ball-and-chain, he chose this St David's Day to tie the knot with his antique-dealing girlfriend Stella Arroyave, 46.

Look up cad in the dictionary, and you'll find James Hewitt, 44, who two-timed Princess Diana. His current girlfriend, divorcée Kate Simon, settles his VAT bill. How does he repay her? By spending Valentine's night with 24-year-old socialite Emma Jones.

Russian ice hockey player Sergei Federov, 33, may be a tough guy, but he met his match in Anna Kournikova, 21. They married in the summer of 2001 but kept it secret to protect her lucrative endorsements. As a result, Anna was free to cavort with Enrique Iglesias and rival hockey player Pavel Bure. The divorced pair are not in contact.

When Kate Moss gave birth last year, Jade Jagger, 31, sent her a SLAG necklace because Kate had dallied with her man. But Jade's own behaviour isn't beyond criticism. She spied The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams at the recent MTV awards, and the pair became an item, but left Jade's boyfriend Dan Williams to find out about it in the tabloids.

He made Kylie cry with his infidelities, but model James Gooding, 30, seems to have changed his ideas about commitment. At the Brits aftershow party, as Kylie happily cavorted with superstud Justin Timberlake, Gooding brought along his new girlfriend, singer Victoria Harrison, and then made a play for his starry ex.

Brazilian showjumper Doda Miranda, 30, has left his wife Sibele Dorsa and their children for 18-year-old billionheiress Athina Onassis Roussel. According to Sibele, Doda 'won't tolerate excess fat in his girlfriends' and sure enough, Greek-shaped Athina recently checked into a S"o Paolo clinic for liposuction.

After her public humiliation at the hands of Mr Bing, you'd think that Liz Hurley, 37, might be sympathetic to another woman's situation. But having swiped wealthy computer geek Arun Nayar, 37, from his wife, her friend Valentina Pedroni, Liz announced her ill-gotten gain to the world in the front row of the Christian Dior show.

No sooner had Rachel Hunter, 33, left wrinkly rocker Rod Stewart, than quick-as-a-paparazzi-flash she was in the arms of Robbie 'someone love me' Williams. Nine months later, after naked cavorting for the tabloids, Rachel dumped him the day before his 29th birthday. Ouch. Repeat: Puddle of Mudd singer Wes Scatlin was not involved.