The Top 10 Sexiest Assistants in Movie History | SPIKE

Don't ask us why, but for some reason one of the predominant male fantasies has always been to have a sexy-as-hell secretary.  Whether it's the typing proficiency or courteous manner in which they answer the telephone, hot secretaries are just a total turn-on.

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By Jeff Kelly

10. Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) - Iron Man

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In the smash hit Iron Man, Tony Stark and his personal assistant Pepper Potts taught us a very valuable lesson: sexual harassment in the workplace is not only okay, but it's positively hilarious.  We have to love the way that Pepper not only just sort of goes with Stark's numerous inappropriate comments, but dishes back little potshots in the process before ultimately succumbing to his charm and wiles.  Played by the strikingly beautiful (yet beanpole-ish) Gwyneth Paltrow, Pepper Potts is every bit as hot as she is fully within her right to sue her boss for that pesky repeated sexual harassment.

9. Sue Ellen Crandall (Christina Applegate) - Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

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Poor Sue Ellen.  We've all been there: your mom bails on you for the summer to travel overseas and leaves you in the hands of some crotchety old woman who almost immediately drops dead.  What do you, a sexy blonde teenager, do?  Naturally, you get a job as the personal assistant to the head of a giant fashion company by lying like crazy on your resume and then having someone else do your work for you.  And hey, if Kelly Bundy ever came to us pleading for help, we'd be hard pressed to turn her down.  Bonus points for getting to stomp all over the scheming of an extra greasy David Duchovny and his bitchy girlfriend in the process.

8. Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) - Ghostbusters

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Now we know what you're thinking: Janine Melnitz?  Really?  But come on, you can't tell us that when you were a kid watching Ghostbusters you didn't have even a little bit of a crush on the bespectacled, obnoxious New York secretary.  Besides, when she doesn't have those Coke bottle glasses and short, mousy haircut, Annie Potts really was kinda smokin' hot back in the day.  Plus, the fact that over the course of two films she's into guys like Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis, it only gave us hope that we might have actually had a chance with her.

7. Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) - Two Weeks Notice

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First of all, you have to really respect a woman who is willing to put up with the pompous foppishness of Hugh Grant, and Lucy Kelson does just that.  Second, you can't deny that even after all these years, Sandra Bullock is still exceptionally adorable.  Third, in this film she is a brilliant do-gooder who is only working for a big bad corporation in order to prompt change from the inside.  And fourth, and most importantly, we discover during the course of the film that she's very flexible.  No, not in terms of her schedule.  She can bend like a pretzel.  Screw typing proficiency, those are the sort of qualifications we want to see on our secretaries' resume.

6. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) - Secretary

Source: Lions Gate Entertainment

You didn't think we could actually make a list about sexy secretaries and not include a character in a movie written specifically about a secretary who has a submissive spanking fetish, did you?  Of course not.  In Secretary, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lee Holloway, a woman who works for a sleazy-as-ever James Spader.   She enjoys kink and being bent over a desk and spanked, though we're not sure how good she is at filing paperwork of transferring calls.  The only problem is we can't decide what's creepier: the fact that we can't look at Maggie without thinking of her bro Jake, or the fact that we have to watch James Spader do the spanking in this movie.  Or, well, do anything in this movie, actually.  Seriously, the guy just gives us the heebie jeebies.