20 Sexy Celebrity Grannies

Grannies are not what they used to be. These days the women listed below can still have any man they want and can still turn the eyes of every man in the room. I have gathered together 20 of the hottest women around who are old enough to be my granny, or perhaps even my great-granny! I’ll tell you what, they could teach me a lot more than some floozey like Lindsay Lohan.

Joan Collins

Born: 23 May, 1933 - 75 years old

The five-times married British actress is the oldest entry on this list but who could forget her role as “super bitch” Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, which catapaulted her to sex-symbol status when she was pushing 50? Her 2006 role as man-eater Eva De Wolffe in Footballer’s Wives suggests she is not about to give up her vixen status just yet.

Sophia Loren

Born: 20 September, 1934 - 73 years old

Internationally renowned sex-symbol Loren claimed she would perform a striptease if her favourite soccer team, Napoli, won promotion to Italy’s Serie A for the 2007/08 season. While the club achieved promotion to Italy’s top flight, Loren unfortunately did not do a striptease. However, this photo shows French actor Gerard Depardieu trying to get a closer look at what the Napoli fans were denied!

Julie Andrews

Born: 1 October, 1935 - 72 years old

Who didn’t have a thing about Mary Poppins? Julie Andrews has aged so gracefully and is still a remarkably beautiful woman. Even now she could send me to bed without any supper and I would happily oblige!

Barbara Windsor

Born: 6 August, 1937 - 70 years old

Even as battleaxe Peggy Mitchell on soap-opera Eastenders she’s still the hottest woman on Albert Square. As Peggy, Windsor is petit, blonde, top heavy, owns a pub and is willing to fry up a cooked breakfast at a moment’s notice. What more could a man wish for? Oh yes, and she’s incredibly “cheeky” as this scene from Carry on Abroad shows…

Jane Fonda

Born: 21 December, 1937 - 70 years old

Now entering her eighth decade, Fonda can still look more chicque and glamorous than women half her age. Releasing a series of fitness videos between 1982 and 1995 has ensured the actress, who shot to fame as Barbarella in the 1960s, has remained in fantastic shape, as this photo from the film Monster in Law shows. If I had a mother-in-law who looked like that, I’d be round hers to do some “odd jobs” as often as possible!

Tina Turner

Born: 26 November, 1939 - 68 years old

Now almost 70 years old, legendary performer Tina Turner doesn’t look a day over 40. Her energetic stage performances have kept her in great shape and judging from the photo below, taken at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony in February 2008, Turner certainly gives Beyonce, some 42 years her junior, a run for her money.

Raquel Welch

Born: 5 September, 1940 - 67 years old

The below video is a clip of her in 2006 show Welcome to the Captain which proves she has not changed much since her iconic appearance in 1966 movie One Million Years BC and easily puts women a third of her age to shame.

Linda Gray

Born: 12 September, 1940 - 67 years old

Gray starred as Sue Ellen, the long-suffering wife of JR in Dallas. A former model, her stockinged leg appeared in the promotional poster for the film version of The Graduate in 1967. She continues to defy her advancing years and was recently seen in the UK in a touring production of Terms of Endearment.

Britt Ekland

Born: 6 October, 1942 - 65 years old

What is it with ex-Bond girls who manage to defy the ageing process and still look great some 30 to 40 years after they shot to fame? Ekland played Mary Goodnight in the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun and while she has succumbed to the call of the “trout pout”, as shown in a screengrab from her appearance on daytime show Loose Women in January 2008, she still cuts a fine figure of a women at the age of 65.

Stephanie Powers

Born: 2 November, 1942 - 65 years old

Best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in 1980s television show Hart to Hart, Powers remains a fine figure of a woman for someone in her seventh decade. Powers is an outstanding polo player and released a fitness DVD, Powers Pilates, which explains how she looked so great in a Hart to Hart reunion show with co-star Robert Wagner earlier this year.

Debbie Harry

Born: 1 July, 1945 - 63 years old

Enduring punk singer Deborah Harry shows no signs of giving up after 32 years in the music industry. Famous for fronting the band Blondie, Harry has also enjoyed solo success with five albums. The promotional image from her latest single, Heat of the Moment, shows she has the same sex appeal as she did in the 1970s, 1980s and indeed, 1990s.

Helen Mirren

Born: 26 July, 1945 - 62 years old

This incredible bikini photograph of the 62-year-old actress would put a lot of women half her age to shame. Mirren has been regarded as a prime example of a sexy older woman for at least the last 10 years and the latest photos of her in her skimpies prove the notion that she is actually getting better with age.

Goldie Hawn

Born: 21 November, 1945 - 62 years old

The kooky actress who starred in a string of comedy movies during the 1980s and 1990s, such as Wildcats, Bird on a Wire and Housesitter, manages to look youthful in her seventh decade and is infinitely hotter than her actress daughter Kate Hudson.

Dolly Parton

Born: 19 January, 1946 - 62 years old

The original human Barbie-doll continues to defy her age and the voluptuous Country and Western legend looks incredible for a woman in her 60s. In March 2008, Parton claimed that men who didn’t stare at her world-famous chest were gay. And she’d probably be right.

Joanna Lumley

Born: 1 May, 1946 - 62 years old

Maybe it’s her distinctive plummy voice, or maybe it’s the fact she was a Bond Girl and a former topless model. In any case Lumley is still one of the sexiest British female actors as her appearance on the Friday Night Project below proves. For the record, I also fancied her rotten as chain-smoking, hard-drinking, train-wreck Patsy Stone in sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

Cher

Born: 20 May, 1946 - 62 years old

Now performing to sell-out crowds in Las Vegas, Cher may be a gay icon but looking as good as she does as she enters her 60s, she will also have plenty of heterosexual male fans singing her praises too!

Felicity Kendall

Born: 25 September, 1946 - 61 years old

Considered the “thinking man’s crumpet” in the 1970s, Kendall shot to fame in as Barbara Good in BBC sitcom The Good Life. She was voted Rear of the Year due to her wearing an unconventionally sexy combination of tight jeans and wellington boots on the show. She then managed to set pulses racing again in 2003 as gardener-turned-detective Rosemary Boxer in Rosemary & Thyme until the show ended in 2007.

Susan Sarandon

Born: 4 October, 1946 - 61 years old

Sarandon was voted by readers of Playboy magazine as the owner of “Best Celebrity Breasts of the Summer of 1981″ and judging from the photo below, she would still be in with a shot of the title 17 years later.

Ivana Trump

Born: 20 February, 1949 - 59 years old

OK, she’s not quite 60, but she will be in just over six months time so that qualifies her for the list as far as I am concerned. Anyway, it’s likely the former wife of business magnate Donald, who recently married an Italian model some 24 years her junior, will be looking this good in a bikini for a while yet!

Meryl Streep

Born: 22 June, 1949 - 59 years old

The Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA winner has just returned to the big-screen in an adaptation of musical Mama Mia. Co-star Pierce Brosnan admits he fancied Streep while at drama school and even while she is pushing 60, I expect she still does it for him!

So there you have it, 20 women of pensionable age you would give your right arm to have a crack at and who are likely to be thought of as sexy and glamorous examples of older women for many years to come.

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