Apparently her less than stellar movie career isn't due to bad luck or bad judgment, oh no! It's her good looks which are doing the damage.

Justin Timberlake's other half tells Allure magazine in its latest issue that the curse of being really, really ridiculously good looking is what's holding her career back from reaching the stellar heights.

"Yeah, it really is a problem," she told the mag. "I have to be blunt."

Okay. But your huge sense of entitlement and sense of modesty aren't involved in any way?

Biel's latest film, Powder Blue, in which she plays a stripper, is heading straight to DVD. Her previous movie Easy Virtue (released in New Zealand soon), has struggled to find a US distributor, despite boasting a cast including Colin Firth and Kristin Scott-Thomas.

Blame the economy? Blame scripting? Finance? The powers that be? No. Blame her looks.

"I just want an opportunity," she told the mag. "If you don't like the audition, don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me - that's hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!"

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Let's not get started on I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Ugh! That movie! I saw it like two years ago and still I'm bitter about losing those two hours of my life. Hand on my heart, I swear I didn't laugh once. Thank god I didn't pay for the privilege - and if you did, commiserations.

"I'm in there with everybody else, fighting for the good parts," Biel went on about her hard-knock life. "Yes, The Illusionist has made a difference - but a huge, massive difference, so I can pick and choose what I want? No."

Competition is fierce for meaty acting roles amongst 27-year-old Biel's peers, and the actress says she's aiming for the parts which automatically get offered to Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman.

Let's add Anne Hathaway to the mix. I'd say she'd get offered roles before the Biel as well.

Funny, Scarlett and Natalie's good looks don't seem to hinder their work in the slightest. And out of those three women, Biel is a distant third in the looks department in my opinion. I'm not saying she's not good looking. Of course she is. But so good looking that it's an actual impediment to her work? Someone's been sipping on the delusional juice.

Fact. Scarlett and Natalie are crazily beautiful with great bodies, and can act to boot. I don't think you would have seen either of them taking a part in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Fact. Jessica Biel has an amazing body, but the big screen presence of a plank of wood. It's just the way it is. The reason she's not getting juicy parts in movies is that people don't seem to want to see movies with her in them. And as much as she tries to stay relevant via association with Justin Timberlake, that seems to be the way the cookie is crumbling.

How brave of her to try and overcome the adversity and the obstacles that her good looks have built up around her. She's a regular hero. Someone make a TV movie of her week about her!

And bizarre that actresses like Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron all seem to solider on with the burden of being good-looking and actually producing work people want to see.

Ms Miller on the move

Reports out of the UK are declaring that Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty's year-long love affair is officially, certainly over. Done. Cooked. Kaput.

The blonde actress, 26, and the still-married father of four got together secretly a year ago in controversial circumstances. She was dating Welsh actor Rhys Ifans at the time. He was very much married and had a newborn daughter, June Catherine, with wife Rosetta.

This prompted one of my favourite gossipy moments of 2008 - a photo emerging of the word ‘SLUT' spray painted on the wall of Sienna's London home.

Londoners! Love you. What a bunch of hardasses.

A pal of the couple told the Mirror this week: "Sienna loved being with Balthazar but there was too much baggage and she couldn't commit to anything more than a few months. They are still good friends."

Whether he intends attempting on a return to the family fold is unclear.

But her form dictates Sienna can't be without a man for long. Who'd be an ideal boyfriend for a blonde starlet with a liberal approach to fidelity?

Russell Brand enjoys the company of the ladies on an ever-rotating basis and boasts a fast-rising profile in the US - but I quite like him, so don't fancy throwing him under the Sienna bus. Sean Penn? The two are pals back from the days when Sienna was with Jude Law. Penn's now officially separated from wife Robin, which may lessen his appeal to Sienna somewhat, but a fling's not off the cards.

Shall I chance the wrath of a legion of Twi-hards and suggest fellow Brit Rob Pattinson? He's young, he's hot, and his name's on everyone's lips in Hollywood. Toyboys are all the rage, no? Ask Madonna. It'd be guaranteed publicity for the actress, who has a stint on Broadway in the play After Miss Julie and the release of the big-budget G.I. Joe movie coming out this year.

Kick off your Sunday shoes

Chace Crawford has just been announced as winning the lead role of Ren McCormack in the upcoming big-screen remake of Footloose.

Paramount Pictures confirmed his selection on Tuesday.

Gossip Girl star Crawford, 23, has been a hot tip for the lead role of the big city boy who moves to a small town where they're banned from kicking up their heels since Zac Efron dropped out of the role in March.

Kevin Bacon made the role famous in the 1984 original, which also featured John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Sarah Jessica Parker and the late Chris Penn. Oh, and a killer ‘80s soundtrack.

The movie already has a release date of June 18, 2010.

E! News is reporting that Miley Cyrus is a front-runner to play the leading lady role opposite Crawford in the film. Amanda Bynes, Hayden Panettiere and dancer Julianne Hough have all auditioned for the role of preacher's daughter Ariel Moore.

Madonna auditioned for the original ‘80s role, but lost out to Lori Singer. Remember that. It could win you a pub quiz one day.

That could possibly have led to a sticky situation for the Hough clan, as Julianne's brother Derek auditioned for the role of Ren. What would have happened when they had to make out? Shudder. Thankfully, Crawford's success means an uncomfortable work story avoided.

Miley can definitely sing and dance, but does the one-woman tween industry have time in her busy schedule to fit a whole movie in the mix? No word as yet.

Personally, I don't see why it's necessary to remake all those classic flicks. Yes, for the money, I know, but apart from that. Are screenwriters really coming up with no good, fresh ideas?

All the old-school horror flicks have already been pillaged. Next up are Weird Science. Short Circuit, and The Karate Kid.

If they touch Goonies, The Gremlins or the Back to the Future trilogy I will officially lose my shit.

I saw the remake of Psycho. That sucked. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was never going to measure up to the seventies classic, even with Johnny Depp (The songs! The special effects! The Oompa-Loompas!) Planet of the Apes? I Am Legend? Ugh. Fail.

Stop this madness! I feel a Facebook group coming on.

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