Maria from the Sound of Music is famous for entertaining the Von Trapp children with a song about her favourite things. These days some people may be happy to stand up and proclaim they like bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens, but others have a soft spot for things slightly less pure.

Dirty minds! Not those kind of things.

What I'm talking about are the guilty pleasures, the things you secretly love but wouldn't shout from the rooftops that you were a fan of. Maybe you'd admit to some, but keep others hidden. Perhaps you and your mates get together and enjoy certain things, but you wouldn't admit you were a fan of them to strangers. Would you get your minds of out the gutter? I'm talking about the ultimate guilty pleasures in the entertainment business.

America's Next Top Model. It's a tussle to decide which comes out on top in a showdown between the two supermodel driven reality shows - Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model and Heidi Klum's Project Runway. Both are compulsive watching on a Friday night but for my money ANTM has the edge over its design-based rival.

Whether you watch it for Tyra's crazy makeup, Miss J's outlandish outfits, or the combination of pretty girls, bitchiness and high glamour, there's something for everyone. Sit back and enjoy the fighting over food and the phone, the ridiculous photos shoots and the exotic locations - as well as gawping at the multi-million dollar LA mansion the girls call home. It's not been quite the same since brutally honest Janice Dickinson called it quits on the judging panel and Twiggy took her place, but it's still my must-see Friday night viewing. All the more enjoyable with a wine and something high calorie that models can't eat in hand!

E! Channel. This blessed channel is where the husband and I frequently clash at tele time. He thinks it's a load of drivel, I think its one of the best things to ever hit satellite TV - and I'm not alone. Granted, some of the hosts and hostesses can be a little bit to perky in the all-American, toothy kind of way, and there are plenty of repeats, but the programming is all class, if you don't want too much in the way of mental stimulation.

For one, E! News seems to make the latest from Hollywood seem totally important when presented in a news style format - making me feel less shallow. The E! True Hollywood Stories have whiled away many a day when I've been off sick.

And how can you knock a network that produced Girls Of The Playboy Mansion, Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane, Rich Kids: Cattle Drive and Keeping Up With The Kardashians? I rest my case.

Perez Hilton. Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavandeira, is a Miami raised Cuban boy with the sharpest tongue this side of Hollywood. His up to the minute blog is the new Hollywood gospel, and he's even become somewhat of a celebrity himself.

He's a renegade celebrity reporter in a land of magazines that toe the celeb line - ignoring copyrights, outing closeted celebrities, drawing rude doodles over photos, and calling it as he sees it.

Perez breaks most celeb news before anyone else, and his site is always my first go to source for goss.

The Spice Girls. Before you start laughing no, I'm not a fan now, but back in the day everyone has a touch of Spice Girls fever. We argued over our favourite (mine was always Baby). We screeched along to their cheesy pop tunes on girly nights in, and out in public. We watched Victoria Beckham get thinner and thinner.

Now that the fivesome is back on the scene, thinner, more mature and with kiddywinks in tow, it kind of makes you look back in affection for their crazy early days. They were never the same after Geri left, but their early play for worldwide domination involved over the top costumes, platform sneakers, and double decker buses. And I don't think anyone ever figured out what zigahzigah was supposed to mean.

Britney Spears. How can you not be intrigued by the moving, breathing train wreck that is Britney Spears? Yes, I think she's got some serious issues and it's not even cool to make fun of her anymore, but you can't deny that people are still interested by the fallen pop tart.

She started out as the beautiful blonde-haired, brown eyed American dream, with a crazy career and a supposed dream life. The wheels started to fall off a few years in. A couple of brief marriages to deadbeats didn't help matters, and after two kids, several stints in rehab, that famous MTV performance (or non-performance?) and a comeback album which failed to set the world on fire Britney's adrift in a sea of celebrity snappers.

What keeps me interested in her is I think she's got what it takes to claw her way back to the top if she sorts out her personal issues. I don't like her music, never have, but everyone loves a comeback, and I'm rooting for Britney - as a mother and as the performer everyone knows she can be.

Home and Away. After almost 20 years on the box Home and Away has undergone something of a resurgence, and it's now pretty cool to admit you're up with the coming and goings in Summer Bay. (Is it just me, or does it never really look very summery there?)

In true soap tradition storyline are too ridiculously far-fetched for real life, and easy to predict, but it doesn't make them any less enjoyable. Baby snatching! Stalkers! Cults! Plane crashes! Everyone's got a soft spot for Sally, can quote Alf Ocker lingo ("you flaming mongrels" or words to that effect), or wonders what it'd be like if the Big Smoke in your area was the Yabbie Creek.

Others just like it for what it is: good old far-fetched Aussie cheese.

What are your guilty pleasure in the entertainment biz? Let me know.