VICTORIA BECKHAM - BECKHAM NAMED WORST DRESSED WOMAN

SPICE GIRL VICTORIA BECKHAM has beaten out competition from AMY WINEHOUSE to top a list naming the world's worst dressed women. Style icon Beckham took the number one spot on designer Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual Worst Dressed Women List for wearing "one skinny-mini monstrosity after another". Winehouse's beehive hairstyle and her penchant for polka-dot clothing earned her the number two position, while Mary-Kate Olsen is at three because "she resembles a tattered toothpick-trapped in a hurricane". Rounding out the top five are singers Fergie and Kelly Clarkson. Blackwell did, however, take pity on beleaguered Britney Spears because of her ongoing personal troubles: "For those of you who were expecting to see Britney's name adorn the 2007 list, I felt that it was inappropriate at this time to make comment, when her personal life is in such upheaval. I hope 2008 is a better year for her."