According to Women’s Health, Brooklyn Decker has the best bikini body on the planet. We challenge any warm-blooded male to disagree with this fact.

Similarly, that publication’s partner magazine has released a poll with an obvious result: Kellan Lutz possesses the hottest beach body of any man in 2010.

The Twilight Saga star showed off his chiseled muscles and ridiculous abs in a recent Calven Klein underwear campaign. His body seems almost computer-generated, doesn’t it?

Rounding out the top five in this poll were Mario Lopez, Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner and Matthew McConaughey.

Drool over these studs, as well as a few more in the top 10 below. Then, vote for the sexiest…

Who has the best beach body?

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Selena Gomez turns 18 today, which means we know what the singer/actress is up to:

Purchasing tobacco and pornography and boning up on political facts so she can vote in this fall’s election.

Selena is also getting ready to say goodbye to her Wizards of Waverly Place co-stars, as she recently said this would be the final season of the show that made her famous.

So, what will Gomez do from there? A duet with Justin Bieber, if the star has her way. Hard to blame her for getting out of the acting business if that’s what the future holds for her, isn’t it?

But that’s for another day! Today is all about Selena turning 18. Enjoy the following photo montage in her honor and send in your birthday wishes to this cutie…

In a Web chat this week, Taylor Swift said she has a “tendency to run from love.”

But according to a rumor, the artist is fighting this tendency and giving a new man a chance.

Sources have linked Swift to Toby Hemingway, the actor who makes out with her in the music video for “A Rose to the Fallen.” Who the heck is Hemingway?

He’s 27 years old and he’s British. Major television appearance have included guest-starring roles on CSI: Miami and Bones. He also played a role in the 2006 movie The Covenant.

As she admits herself, Swift has never been part of a successful, long-term relationship. While she’s reportedly given Taylor Lautner and Cory Monteith a chance over the last year, neither worked out.

Here’s wishing good luck to Toby and Taylor! If they really are together, we hope it goes well.

In a Web chat this week, Taylor Swift said she has a “tendency to run from love.”

But according to a rumor, the artist is fighting this tendency and giving a new man a chance.

Sources have linked Swift to Toby Hemingway, the actor who makes out with her in the music video for “A Rose to the Fallen.” Who the heck is Hemingway?

He’s 27 years old and he’s British. Major television appearance have included guest-starring roles on CSI: Miami and Bones. He also played a role in the 2006 movie The Covenant.

As she admits herself, Swift has never been part of a successful, long-term relationship. While she’s reportedly given Taylor Lautner and Cory Monteith a chance over the last year, neither worked out.

Here’s wishing good luck to Toby and Taylor! If they really are together, we hope it goes well.

Following an incredible 2009, Taylor Swift took some time off.

But the singer is ready to take the music world by storm again, and has announced details for her upcoming album:

• It will be titled “Speak Now.”
• It will be released on October 25.

Why that title? Swift answer the question in a live Web chat today, telling fans it “pertains to the album as a concept, and as an entire theme of the record, more than I can even tell you.”

Taylor added that she’s been penning singles for the album since “Fearless” came out in 2008.

She said. “Thankfully, in the past two years I’ve experienced a lot of things that I’ve been dying to write about. A lot of things that I’ve wanted to say in the moment that I didn’t… Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person.”

The first song off the CD will hit the radio in mid-August. Titled “Mine,” Swift says it’s about “my tendency to run from love. It’s a recent tendency. Every example of love in my life has ended in goodbye. The song is about finding the exception to that.”

We’re just sad that exception didn’t include Taylor Lautner.

** In other upcoming album news, David Archuleta has already revealed the released date for his next CD.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has a serious beef with Taylor Lautner.

The actress appeared on The Wendy Williams Show this week and explained why she’s a proud member of Team Edward. Apparently, JLH showed up at the premiere of Eclipse, excited to get a photo of Lautner and show it off to her friends.

But listen below to what went down, as the actress explains how Taylor is evidently not on Team Jennifer. Funny stuff…

Take comfort, Team Jacob supporters: this is someone who believes women become prostitutes because they’re horny.

She may not be someone you want speaking for your squad anyway.

Justin Bieber owns the most-viewed video in YouTube history.

A movie about his life story is in the works.

Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the beloved singer is the latest subject for Bluewater Productions and its line of celebrity-based comic books.

Available in October, Fame: Justin Bieber will serve as a unique 32-page biography of the star, as it tells the story of his childhood and rise to stardom. The cover has captured his dashing good looks very well, hasn’t it?

Bieber joins Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner  and Kristen Stewart as celebs that have been featured in this series.

Click on the photos below for closer looks at their cover drawings:

As The Twilight Saga: Eclipse continues to fire up the global box office, women of all ages find themselves consumed with an insatiable hunger, devouring everything on the film, its characters and the stars that play them, while reserving a special lust for its eternally devoted leading man. Their heightened state of aroused obsession has caused men everywhere to ask the burning question: “What’s in it for me?”

Men wanting to inspire that kind of rapacious passion might try reading the novels by Stephenie Meyer on which the Twilight films are based. Think of it as research. Anything that sends the opposite sex into that much of a tizzy should be viewed as a textbook.

The films, which by necessity condense plot and scenes, play like cleaned-up CliffsNotes to those books which have been internalized by their “Twi-hard” fans who bring every romance-saturated memory of it with them into theaters, projecting it onto each frame like light on celluloid. The combination of page and film in their minds packs a powerful visceral punch. It’s as if your favorite rock star hit a walk-off home run in the World Series, like lightening striking the same place twice. One can’t help but sizzle.

The fact that the films and books have so strongly tapped into the sexual psyche of so many women says much of their desires, their place in our culture and society at large. At its heart is the romance between the supposedly “ordinary” human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), the exquisitely formed vampire she loves. Throw in a frisky werewolf in the sometimes person of Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) who literally has the hots for Bella, and you have the love triangle that reaches its peak with Eclipse. But the film’s just a tip of the book’s fire and iceberg.

The lesson for men of Edward is not how to seduce a woman, but how to get her to want to seduce you (homework to follow). While Jacob tempts Bella with a love that’s “as easy as breathing,” Edward takes her breath away because she loves him more than air, and every kiss and touch leaves her gasping for more. He’s constantly adoring her with contact; taking her face in his hands, brushing his fingers across her cheek, securing a protective arm around her waist, sliding his lips along her jaw.

Instead of exploring their anatomy, they explore the anatomy of a kiss. It’s first base to the umpteenth power, with true love multiplying their every liplock exponentially. The effect on Bella is beyond arousal. Her heart hammers, her skin flushes, her blood, which Edward craves, races in her veins. It’s no wonder romance novels are often referred to as “pornography for women.” Neither one is realistic.

The most sensuous scene in the book, omitted from the film, comes when Edward, returning in the night, awakens Bella, and demonstrates to her the benefits of his newly acquired big bed. Their reunion is comfortably sexy; a couple completely at home in each other, their conversation and every caress infused with a deep affection. You can almost hear the soft words and rhythmic breathing in the dark. But in a gender role reversal it is Edward who will stop Bella before they get “carried away.” “Must I always be the responsible one?” he’ll sigh. (Do vampires take cold showers?) It’s every junior high school girl’s dream: the beautiful, adoring boy who’ll take them anywhere except too far.

It’s an appealing escape in a culture that bombards them with images of tween starlets packaged like hookers to sell music and magazines, encouraging them to see their bodies as sexual before their minds are ready. As the pressure extends into adulthood, the message becomes more dangerous. (You never see cop shows about serial killers where the dead victims are all naked men.) In a world where real horror stories mar the nightly news, reporting women and children as prey, the idea of Edward’s a relief. He’s a natural predator turned mysterious protector who loves Bella so much, just being with her is enough.

“Tell me what you’re thinking, please?” is a sexy line to a segment of society who, often judged by their looks, just want to be heard, but it isn’t his only one. Edward’s unabashedly romantic declarations (“You are my world now…the only one who has touched my heart…”) roll off the tongue like foreplay, stimulating Bella to do more than just talk.

“Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?” Now there’s a line I’ve never heard in my entire post-pubescent life (and with any luck, I never will), but it’s the ironically frustrated plea of Edward. They’ve come a long way since their first kiss as evidenced by Bella’s perplexed retort, “Did you want to do that part?” (Of course he should do that part, otherwise what’s the point of having him there?) But Edward has reasons for restraint. He’s concerned for Bella’s premarital immortal soul and her breakable mortal body. It’s a big problem. With skin like marble, he could give new meaning to the term “Twi-hard,” a fear perhaps shared by virginal viewers. But even without the bloodlust, can a vampire ever really have safe sex?

Speaking of oxymorons, last time I checked, that physiological act was predicated on blood flowing from a working pump. I mean the heart, of course, and Edward’s doesn’t beat. The only explanation given in the first three books appears in Twilight when Edward assures Bella “I may not be a human, but I am a man.” Er…okay, if you say so.

But for all his talk of responsibility, the fourth installment, Breaking Dawn, will deliver a consummation with consequences. For now, the only things pregnant in the film Eclipse are the perpetually long pauses by its two leads, coming frequently mid-sentence. (Somewhere, Harold Pinter is impatiently drumming his fingers.) Trim a few of those pauses and they might have had time for that big bed reunion scene. But the predominantly female audience I saw it with didn’t seem to mind, scoring every dreamy close-up with a symphony of sighs and screams. Judging from their orgasmic reactions, had Rob’s head magically appeared on Taylor’s torso, it would have induced hysteric convulsions from which some girls might never have recovered.

Apparently, when women say they want a six-pack, they’re not talking about beer. If Jacob is the advertisement for abs, Edward is the argument for good grooming. Besides his strategically tousled hair, Bella finds his breath hypnotically sweet, and the delicious scent of his skin, intoxicating. Just a whiff makes her mind muddled. Bottle her blood with his breath and you might produce the world’s most potent pheromone. Their craving for each other is like an addiction, making it physically painful to be apart.

It’s why, though Edward never sleeps, he stays with Bella when she does, tucking her quilt between them so she won’t freeze beside his icy skin. It’s a comforting image for Twilight‘s youngest fans, and an over-protective parent’s wet dream, some of whom have become “Twi-moms.” Their busy modern lives leave them little time for romance as they juggle careers, kids and the vicissitudes of marriage. Sometimes, they just want to be tucked in, too, and if their bedtime reading revs their mood, who are men to complain?

In fantasy films, the parents, particularly missing ones, matter. It’s part of the mythology (The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, E.T., Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, et al.) that the central character be orphaned, from a broken home or otherwise displaced before they can begin their journey. Be they dysfunctional, disenfranchised or just plain rebellious, the bigger the void, the more room to fill, and Bella, Edward and Jacob are all adapting to the absence of birth mothers. Bella doesn’t just choose Edward, she chooses his family, one that will never leave or die. It doesn’t hurt that the dad’s a doctor. If you’re in as much jeopardy as Bella always is, it’s not just a convenience, it’s a necessity. But to join the Cullen’s unique clan of “blood relatives” she’ll have to become one of them.

“You wouldn’t have to change for me,” is the healthy alternative Jacob presents, but Bella wants to change. Like the TV ad that preys on women’s insecurities by hawking padded push-up bras with the slogan “You…only better,” she’s been sold the vampire look. With its promise of eternal youth and beauty, it’s the mother of all plastic surgeries. But for my money, the best bras, like the best men, let you be yourself. Bella, on the other hand, has some serious self-esteem issues. She wants to be as breathtaking as Edward to level the playing field, but she has awakened the pre-transformed humanity in him and he wants her the way she is. His idealized love and acceptance is the hope of every girl who ever fantasized about attracting the gorgeous “unattainable” boy, Pattinson included, as if he himself were a possibility. (Give it up. He’s not.) But a girl can dream, and what else are screenplays but daydreams on paper?

Personally, I identify with the porcelain-complexioned creatures of the night. I’ve never been much of a morning person, though the diet’s a deal-breaker. (There isn’t enough Kosher salt in the world…) Still, if I ever were granted eternal life, I hope I would have more to show for it than just a really killer CD collection. I guess an undying heavenly love will do for starters, and Bella’s love for Edward transcends time. It’s the real reason Bella wants to become a vampire. Without “death,” there’s no “do us part.”

Bella’s love for Jacob is more earthbound. Their most authentic kiss happens in the book when Jacob, in his wolf form, spontaneously licks Bella’s face, showing his playful, impetuous side, but it’s the later big smooch that gets all the play.

That grand kiss, with him bare-chested, sweeping her in his arms on a snow-capped mountaintop is the classic romance novel clinch. Throw a corseted bodice and heaving bosom on Bella and you’d have a tableau worthy of any grocery store paperback. But their film embrace is just a tamped down version of the book’s in which Jacob grabs Bella “with an eagerness not far from violence.” Unlike her encounters with Edward, Bella can let herself go, because, as she observes, “I didn’t have to be careful with Jacob, and he certainly wasn’t being careful with me.” It’s a passion that cannot, and perhaps should not, be sustained. As George Bernard Shaw once cautioned: “Imagine trying to shave oneself each day in that condition.” But that was back in a day when razors, like werewolves and vampires, had bite.

Love, however, does last, and in the book, Edward and Jacob’s love for Bella runs so deep, rather than lose her to each other, they both offer to share. Had Bella taken them up on that offer, it might have resulted in a film with an entirely different rating. (Think Twi-Hardcore.) Things come pretty close in the menage-a-tent scene in which a nearly naked Jacob warms up Bella with his body heat, as ice cold Edward hovers nearby. “I’m hotter than you,” is Jacob’s justification and the film’s best new line. As the guys verbally duel over a sleeping Bella, the sacrifices that come with commitment are made titillatingly clear. Even unconscious, Bella’s got it better than the rest of us, but where Jacob’s her reason to steam, Edward’s her raison d’etre.

For me, the sexiest scene in the films thus far occurred back in the first Twilight flick and it didn’t involve physical contact at all. Bella, having had the epiphany that Edward’s a vampire, waits for him in the school parking lot. When she sees him, a slow motion shot tracks her as she walks up to and past him, the camera turning with his head as their eyes connect, then continuing with them as he shadows her into the woods. With just one glance he knows she knows, he knows she wants him to follow her, and we know they’ll never be the same. Suddenly it doesn’t matter that she’s the only person whose mind he can’t read. Their bond is so deep, they can speak with a gaze, and she doesn’t need to look back to know that he’s there.

Some couples go their entire lives without ever achieving that kind of shorthand. Indeed, Edward’s effect on Bella is electric, and women feel the spark as they connect to him through her. Meyer has made it easy for them to identify, writing the novels in first person, from Bella’s point of view. It’s why (besides the obvious reasons) the screams for the guys are so much louder. Bella’s just the middleman, a stand-in for ourselves to vicariously experience the thralls of first love, once again or for the first time.

As a screenwriter, I’m always happy to see a female lead drive the story in this male dominated business that markets almost exclusively to boys. Why it’s taken from Titanic to Twilight to remind them of the power of girl dollars is a sadly cyclical mystery. But Meyer is no dummy. Her Midnight Sun, feeds the female frenzy for all things Edward while giving the boys a voice, by telling Twilight from his point of view. The novel, a sort of young adult Rashomon, was aborted when a partial, early draft was reprehensibly leaked online. But there’s no doubt the call of the wild (be it fans or financial) will eventually prevail on Meyer whose own romance with her male heartthrobs is too strong to resist. In fact, her most poignant writing in Eclipse comes in its last two pages which unravels in the mind of Jacob Black as a dialogue with his pack brothers while in his wolf form.

But it’s Edward, the vampire who wants to be good, who has our hearts. As Bella explains, it isn’t for his looks or wealth that she wants him, but because he’s the most loving, unselfish, brilliant, and decent being she knows. It’s what fuels her lust and the reason why sex with Edward is the most life-affirming thing she can think of – the one human experience she doesn’t want to die without.

So, how can one inspire that kind of lustful adoration? Well, it wouldn’t hurt if you were sculptured to perfection, freakishly fast and strong, could annihilate our enemies and deflect oncoming traffic with a single hand. But don’t despair. If you want to be irresistible to someone you care for, here are a few attainable tips from Edward which will work just as well:

Kiss: Tenderly, urgently, to communicate, to explore, and for no reason at all.
Smolder: Look into our eyes like you want to learn us, then ask us what we’re thinking. We’re going to tell you anyway, so you might as well get credit for it.
Say Things We’ll Savor: Telling us we’re beautiful is fine, but tell us why and we’ll believe you.
Be Gorgeous: Cultivate the best part of your DNA – your humanity. Chiseled cheekbones and chests make us look. Intelligence, integrity, imagination make us love.
Be Present: Be there in our dreams and share yours with us. Gift us yourself and you’ll be rewarded.
Do Good: Use your unique superpowers to make the world better, safer, wiser. If you save the day in big and small ways, at night we just might tuck you in.
Touch: Caress with affection, to comfort, to soothe, to talk without words, in casual and important ways.

Do all of this well and often, for its own sake as Edward does, without sex as an ulterior motive, and you just might find yourself the sparkling object of a shivering obsession of someone you love, being kissed in a way that’s as easy as breathing, but takes your breath away. Now, doesn’t that sound seductive?

Note: To read more about great first kisses in film go here. To read more about classic movie smooches, including in New Moon, go here.

What’s your favorite romantic moment in the Twilight books or films – or your favorite romantic moment in your own life? Tell us in Comments.

Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip’s Week in Review.

Below, we take a look back on the last seven days in the celeb world. Visit us daily and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest gossip, rumors, commentary and humor 24/7/365. Now, for the big Hollywood news of the past week …

• Mel Gibson’s daily rants against Oksana Grigorieva – during which he threatened her life and made countless vile slurs – shocked and appalled us. The actor has serious problems, but is he also the victim of an extortion plot?
• The View turned back the clock a few decades with some views on HIV that have to be heard to be believed. Let’s just say GLAAD isn’t exactly pleased.
• With her sentencing looming, Lindsay Lohan checked into rehab in a last-ditch bid to win over the judge. Can her new lawyer, Robert Shapiro, save her?

Oksana and Mel aren’t smiling much these days.

• Vienna Girardi’s ex says he hit that while she was engaged.
• These two peeps were convicted of extorting John Stamos.
• Bristol Palin announced she is engaged to Levi Johnston.
• Devon James really wants some of Tiger Woods’ DNA.
• Robert Pattinson referred to Courtney Love as a d!ck.
• Is the world ready for a Justin Bieber movie?

It’s Justin Bieber’s world. We just live in it.

• Tabloids really want to make Jennifer Aniston pregnant.
• Crista Flanagan is going retro … and not on Mad Men.
• Pamela Anderson and PETA are too hot for Montreal.
• Jessie Lunderby’s Playboy shoot was too hot for jail.
• Danielle Staub causes country club, real life chaos.
• Tila Tequila got kicked out of Celebrity Rehab.

The Hills cast celebrates six seasons of mostly contrived drama.

• The Hills ended its six-season run on a controversial note, basically admitting that it’s all fake … oh, sorry, we mean “open to interpretation.”
• The Bachelorette is down to just three guys, but in upsetting news, it looks like another betrayal is still to come soon: By Frank Neuschaefer.
• Couple news: The-Dream and Christina Milian are divorcing; Kelly Osbourne and Luke Worrall split, Audrina Patridge may be back with Corey Bohan, Ashley Greene is dating Brock Kelly, Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner may be back with ex-GF Sarah Hicks, and Kim Kardashian stepped out with Miles Austin.
• Wedding Bells: In one of the busiest weeks for celebrity nuptials in recent history, the following couples wed: Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood, Martin Lawrence and Shamicka Gibbs, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vazquez, Vanessa Marcil and Carmine Giovinazzo, and Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Congratulations to all!

Yesterday, we reported that Brock Kelly was likely dating Ashley Greene.

This news didn’t seem to stir up the emotions of Twilight Saga fans, but we have a feeling the following romance rumor will:

Life & Style reports that Taylor Lautner is back together with his high school sweetheart, Sarah Hicks. The couple reunited briefly last year and “are definitely back on,” an insider claims. “She’s absolutely gorgeous, and Taylor has always had a thing for her.”

In related news, sales of Sarah Hicks voodoo dolls have sky-rocketed in the last hour.

Over the past few months, Lautner has been linked to Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, among others. He’s also made love to millions of women in their fantasies.

None of those relationships have worked out, however.