The Crush: Sofía Vergara

Sofía Vergara is the highest-paid actress on TV, which is a feat Crush would like to give her a sisterly slap on the back for as it proves that being in films such as The Smurfs, The Three Stooges and Chasing Papi (exactly!) will not stop you from making a trunkload of cash if you are very good in one very good thing.

That one thing is not Machete Kills — even though Sofía’s character Desdemona shoots bullets from a bionic bra — it is Modern Family, the best thing on telly ever. Her character Gloria, a fiery Colombian bombshell who adds glamour and Latina hot-hot-hotness to the Emmy-winning series, puts Mrs Malaprop to shame with her attempts to master her adopted language (‘He scared the baby cheeses out of me’), her truly appalling singing voice and her (s)mothering style.

Sofía and the other cast members net a reported $350,000 per show, but savvy Sof tops up her earnings with some shameless advertising gigs — meaning last year she made a ma-husive £30 million. Only a fool would berate her for, say, being the face of an anti-dandruff shampoo, because this gal has principles. She turned down a major role in The Paperboy (starring a mainly naked Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron) because filming clashed with her day job, and she always puts Family first. Beautiful, funny and, let’s not be coy, voluptuously loaded; Señorita Vergara is Crush’s poster girl for poster girls. Now what’s the Spanish for swoon?