7. Hannah Simone
Zooey Deschanel gets all the headlines as the star of New Girl, but we’d pass on the “adorkable” geek and head straight to Hannah Simone if Playboy suddenly dropped its new skinless format and made a casting call to its set. You’d never know it by looking at her, but Simone is 36-years-old, which means if she’d only been a little more famous a little sooner she would have had plenty of R-rated Playboy years available for her.
Her career was floundering for years before New Girl, with her biggest gig being a video introducer for MuchMusic, which was Canada’s version of MTV, in her mid-20s. You could say, “Why didn’t Playboy make an exception?” but for every famous woman who lost her top for their magazine there was 100 in line behind her who would have done it, but didn’t have the filmography to back it up. We have no idea if she would have been open to the idea, but we would have at least seen an offer made before it was too late.
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