Never let it be said that celebs are vain, shallow creatures.
Well, OK, some may seem vain and shallow, but some have substance between their lugholes too.
Crazy as it may seem, there's more to Jodie Marsh than sauce 'n' skimpy gear.
The kink queen supreme has 11 GCSEs and three A-levels to her name, and at one point was rumoured to be thinking of studying law at university - but, as we all know, she chose the path to showbiz instead.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/22/Jodie-Marsh-0508-7.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Jodie Marsh"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Abi Titmuss is another lady who swapped academia for a less intellectually demanding way of life.\r\n
\r\nBefore starring on the front page of lads' mags, Abi studied at City University and worked as a nurse.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/6/Abi-Titmuss-0405.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Abi Titmuss"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
As you'd expect from someone who's a United Nations representative, Angelina Jolie has brains to go with her bee-stung lips.
As a teenager, she studied at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute before undertaking a major in film studies at New York University.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/13/Angelina-Jolie-0304.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Angelina Jolie 03.04"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
So how does Jennifer Aniston match up?
Jen also fine-tuned her acting skills in the Big Apple, graduating as a drama student from New York's High School Of The Performing Arts.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/18/Jennifer-Aniston-1208-10.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Jennifer Aniston "},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Kate Moss may be the toast of the modelling world, but her run of education hasn't been quite so high-hitting.
Having infamously been discovered by a model scout in New York's JFK airport at the age of 14, Kate finished high school in Riddlesdown, Croydon, but according to one of her biographers \"out of eight GCSEs she scraped through with one C (in Science) and all the rest were Ds, Es and Fs\".<\/p>","url":"2008/12/8/Kate-Moss-1208.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Kate Moss 12.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Super-Wag Victoria Beckham may have a life of luxury now, but once upon a time she went to school, just like the rest of us.
After reportedly being inspired by the musical Fame, Vic booked herself onto a three-year course in acting and modelling at the Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom, Surrey.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/16/Victoria-Beckham-1008-7.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Victoria Beckham "},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Few would guess Kate Beckinsale is a closet brainbox.
The LA-based hottie, and Posh's new best friend, read French and Russian literature at Oxford University before deciding to go into acting.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Kate-Beckinsale-1108.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Kate Beckinsale 11.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Despite attending a rather swanky institution, New York's Dwight School, Paris Hilton only managed to earn a GED, rather than a high school diploma because she dropped out early.
Not that she really needs many qualifications, with her background...<\/p>","url":"2008/12/31/Paris-Hilton-1208-29.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Paris Hilton "},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Jessica Simpson also dropped out of school early, in order to fully concentrate on her singing career.
However, it's said she was a very talented cheerleader during her time there.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/9/Jessica-Simpson-0908.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Jessica Simpson 09.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Not for Jessica's sister Ashlee the mundane routine of high school.
Instead, she became the youngest person ever to be admitted to the esteemed American School Of Ballet, at the age of 11.
By 14, she was dancing professionally on the road with Jess in tow.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/11/Ashlee-Simpson-0408-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Ashlee Simpson 04.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Geri Halliwell might be Ginger Spice, but is she Gifted Spice too?
Well, she's bright enough to have penned children's books featuring a central character called Ugenia Lavender - and to be a spokesperson for the United Nations, too.
Her solid educational background must help in these roles; she sat her GCSEs at the Watford Girls Grammar School and went on to study A-levels at the Camden School For Girls.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/1/Geri-Halliwell-1108-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Geri Halliwell 11.08 "},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Sienna Miller started off at a girls boarding school in Ascot, Berkshire, but her passion for acting started to flourish in earnest after she enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.
Yep, that's the same place Angelina Jolie went to.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/26/Sienna-Miller-0508.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Sienna Miller 05.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Lily Allen might be one of the most outspoken celebs in the business, but her articulate nature hasn't been formulated from a love of education.
The popster attended the infamous Bedales School, whose previous students include Daniel Day-Lewis and Minnie Driver.
However, Lily was kicked out of numerous other public schools, by her own admission, for smoking, drinking and \"doing things with boys that I shouldn't have\".<\/p>","url":"2008/12/19/Lily-Allen-1208-2.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Lily Allen 12.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
She's got a reputation for being super-ambitious, so it should come as little shock to learn that Madonna was a straight-A student at Rochester Adams High School in Michigan.
She was also a member of the cheerleading squad (that's where those thighs came from, eh?).
So talented a teen was Madge, she won a dance scholarship to the University Of Michigan, where her ballet teacher persuaded her to pursue a professional career as a dancer, whereupon she moved to New York. The rest is history.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/13/Madonna-1008.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Madonna 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
No surprises that screen darling Natalie Portman is a major clever clogs.
The star studied psychology at Harvard and speaks French and German, as well as her mother tongue languages of English and Hebrew.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Natalie-Portman-0908-7.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Natalie Portman 09.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
You may think Coleen Rooney, as she is now known, is all about shopping and tending to Wayne's needs... but the gal's got a brain on her.
She left school with 11 GCSEs, including an A* in performing arts.
Whoop whoop.<\/p>","url":"2008/6/6/Coleen-Mcloughlin-0406.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Coleen Mcloughlin"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Don't go underestimating Thandie Newton in the intelligence stakes.
She studied dance at the Arts Educational School, Tring, before going on to read anthropology at Cambridge.
It was while studying at university that she first got noticed for her acting skills and became in demand for future film roles.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/7/Thandie-Newton-1008-7.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Thandie Newton 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Reese Witherspoon was scoring roles in films before she even graduated from high school in Nashville, Tennessee.
She put her acting career on hold in order to study English literature at top American university Stanford, but dropped out one year in after being offered two major parts in 1996 flicks Fear and Freeway.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/13/Reese-Witherspoon-1108-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Reese Witherspoon 11.08 "},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
By the time Claire Danes attended Yale uni to pursue a degree in psychology, she had already starred in Little Women and Romeo + Juliet, not to mention her breakthrough role in cult TV show My So-Called Life.
Despite having a letter of recommendation to the uni penned by film director Oliver Stone, Claire never finished her course; she dropped out two years in to continue with her film career.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Claire-Danes-0908.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Claire Danes 09.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Lily Cole's a bit of a bright spark, for all her supermod prowess.
The 20-year-old has A-levels in English, politics, drama, history, plus philosophy and ethics (phew), and has just recently put her modelling career on hold to study history of art at Cambridge.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Lily-Cole-0908.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Lily Cole 09.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
There's more to Demi Moore's toy boy than good looks and high jinx.
As a youngster, Ashton Kutcher studied biochemical engineering at the University Of Iowa.
In fact, it was towards the end of his time there that he was spotted by a model scout and a life in showbiz beckoned.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Ashton-Kutcher-0108.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Ashton Kutcher 01.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Amy Winehouse is lyrically gifted and she's got a talent for creating headlines too.
But what of her education?
Well, she was a pupil at the infamous Sylvia Young Theatre School, whose one-time students include Billie Piper and Emma Bunton.
However, Amy's time there was short-lived; she was expelled at the age of 14, and briefly attended the Brit School in Croydon, before kicking off a career as a professional singer.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/11/Amy-Winehouse-1108.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Amy Winehouse 11.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Matt Damon's certainly a bright spark.
Prior to throwing his weight around in action movies like the Bourne trilogy, the hunk attended Harvard University to read English.
But he didn't last the entire course there, dropping out in anticipation of the success of 1993 flick Geronimo: An American Legend.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Matt-Damon-0808.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Matt Damon 08.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
A high-flying education forms the basis to Jennifer Connelly's success in Celebville.
Having already appeared in 1984 epic Once Upon A Time In America, Jen enrolled at Yale before transferring to equally top-notch uni Stanford two years in.
She once released a single singing in phonetic Japanese, and is fluent in French and Italian.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Jennifer-Connelly-1208.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Jennifer Connelly 12.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
As a classically trained musician, you'd expect Myleene Klass to be educated.
But her resume is impressive by anyone's standards.
First she studied at the Notre Dame High School in Norwich where she spent the weekends singing at the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama, and then she enrolled in a musical theatre course at the Royal Academy Of Music.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/4/Myleene-Klass-1107.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Myleene Klass 11.07"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Hugh Hefner's aged noggin can do more than recognise a Playboy Bunny.
The king of all things boobs 'n' bums studied at the University Of Illinois and is rumoured as having a \"genius IQ of 152\".
Wowsers.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Hugh-Hefner-0908.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Hugh Hefner 09.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Former Playboy Mansion resident Bridget Marquardt is also one of the sharper tools in the box.
She graduated from California State University in Sacremento in 1998 with a BA in communications, which was upgraded to a masters at the University Of The Pacific in 2001.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Bridget-Marquardt-0109.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Bridget Marquardt 01.09"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Alicia Keys' vocal power is derived from years of training at the esteemed Professional Performance Arts School Of Manhattan, where she majored in choir.
Even outside of music, her grades were so exceptional that she graduated as Valedictorian (the highest-ranking student of a group of graduates) at the age of 16.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Alicia-Keys-1108.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Alicia Keys 11.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Mick Jagger isn't just a rocker... he's an educated rocker.
The Rolling Stones frontman passed three A-levels at Dartford Grammar School and then won a scholarship to the London School Of Economics.
Not bad for someone who allegedly can't get no satisfaction.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Mick-Jagger-0308.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Mick Jagger 03.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Cindy Crawford's got so much more to her than a trademark mole.
The supermod was the highest-achieving graduate at DeKalb High School in Illinois, and received a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University.
Pretty darn impressive.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/9/Cindy-Crawford-1008.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Cindy Crawford 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Don't go calling David Duchovny dim.
The X Files star studied at Princeton University before completing a masters degree in English literature at Yale.
He even began working on a PhD, but it remains unfinished.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/David-Duchovny-0108.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"David Duchovny 01.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Jodie Foster is a right brainiac.
She attended a French-speaking prep school in Los Angeles, and graduated as the best pupil in her year.
She then earnt a BA in literature at Yale University, and is fluent in German, as well as French.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Jodie-Foster-0808.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Jodie Foster 08.08"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Despite apparently suffering from low self-esteem at school, Geena Davis hit a high note academically.
She entered New England College in New Hampshire before transferring to Boston University, where she majored in drama.
She's also a member of the exclusive high IQ society Mensa.<\/p>","url":"2008/6/26/Geena-Davis-0905.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Geena Davis 09.05"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Sharon Stone graduated early from Saegertown High School in Pennsylvania, in a special accelerated study programme.
She went on to briefly attend Edinboro University, but quit in order to pursue a career in modelling (which later turned to acting).<\/p>","url":"2009/1/20/Sharon-Stone-0109-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Sharon Stone 01.09"},{"captionHeading":"How Brainy... ?","caption":"
Brian May is widely known as the rocker from Queen, but he's also one of the brightest celebs in showbiz.
He studied physics at Imperial College London, before embarking on a PhD which focused on the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System.
At that point, Queen became massive and Brian didn't finish his thesis until May 2008, more than 30 years after he started his research.
He is also Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, replacing Cherie Blair in the post from 2007.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/28/Brian-May-1008.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Brian May "}];