Katherine Heigl is not really my type — as you’ll see, there are only three blondes on my list and the other two aren’t as “bombshell” beautiful as she is. She’s also pretty new to me… I remember seeing her in some cheesy Gerard Depardieu movie years ago (she must have been 13 at the time) and then she dropped off the radar completely until Grey’s Anatomy (which I don’t watch).

So her making this list is unlikely, and a testament to how big an impact she made in just one film last year. In Heigl’s wonderful performance in Knocked Up as a woman on the rise who finds herself pregnant with a stoner’s baby, she was funny and sweet and perfectly captured the emotional roller coaster of pregnancy and childbirth. I feel she was robbed of an Academy Award nomination by the anti-comedy bias of that organization.

But who needs an Oscar when you can have… the #9 spot on my Celebrity Girlfriends list. Katherine Heigl, take a bow!

Starting today, I will post my top ten celebrity girlfriends, one at a time, over the next couple weeks.

Coming in at #10 is CNN anchor Erica Hill, a regular on Anderson Cooper’s AC360. Hill delivers the news updates and flirts with Cooper, a transparent ploy by CNN to trick people into thinking he’s straight. And they do have terrific chemistry. But I like to think Erica has terrific chemistry with me.

I generally despise CNN — from Lou Dobbs to Wolf Blitzer, the assbag quotient is annoyingly high — but Cooper is smart and funny and watchable. However, let’s be honest, the only reason I tune into his show is Erica Hill… to see her segue beautifully from a tragic story to a frivolous one, to watch her adorably subtle dance moves during the photo caption segments. When Katie Couric inevitably gets the boot from CBS, I say be bold and hand the reins over to TV news’ most delightful anchor, and my #10 Girlfriend… Erica Hill.