Smooching and smoochers - the Selfridges kissing list celebrates Jack and Ennis while Anne is to announce the Oscar noms

Valentines Day is still quite a way off - although so is Easter and the shops are already full of chocolate bunnies and cadbury creme eggs (not that I'm complaining about those). Nevertheless, kissing booths seem to be springing up all over the capital in order to pour warmth and sunshine into the hearts and lips of Londoners. To mark the opening of Selfridges' very own kissing booth, the world famous easy-to-get-lost-in store has announced its top ten kisses of the Noughties. And number three on the list is a kiss shared by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Now that does warm the heart.


Number one is, I'm sorry to say, Madonna and Britney's out to shock while failing miserably MTV awards snog. The runner up is that revolting upside down rainy kiss in Spider-Man. You can see the rest of the list here and they're an odd bunch.


Apparently, the factor these kissing booths have in common is that if you don't fancy kissing your own chum, you can pucker up with a Victorian gent or lady on a red couch. There are added benefits - at the Tabernacle booth, your kiss is appraised and you are given a list of ways in which you can improve your technique. Very romantic. But at the Selfridges kissing booth you get a glass of gin. Hmmm, let me think a moment while I make up my mind.


The run up to the Oscars feels like it lasts at least a year and we haven't even had the nominations yet. But that will change next Tuesday (2 February) when they will be announced by none other than Jake's regular co-star and his very own Love and Other Drugs smoocher Anne Hathaway. As you'll read, the Oscars have been put back a couple of weeks to make way for the Winter Olympics. That way stars can win awards and still compete in the luge.


Includes pictures from IHJ.