Along similar lines, I give you The Weather Channel’s Stephanie Abrams, Samantha Mohr, and Heather Tesch.
Not to mention Erica Hill, currently on CBS’s “Early Show”, but formerly on “Anderson Cooper 360”.
James May!
I submit George Stephanopoulos.
Nigella Lawson would be it. Anything to rescue her from that Saatchi fucker. Gods, I hate him twice over.
Jessica Hynes/Stevenson is on the list.
Dido.
Not quite crumpet, but I was awfully attracted to Phillipa Boyens in the LOTR-ext. ed. DVD commentaries.
Because sometimes slower is better. 
Susanna Reid, BBC breakfast news presenter. She is mighty fine. “Posh and Dirty” I reckon.
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Shame on whoever said Carol Vorderman. She is not “the thinking man’s crumpet” but rather a phenomenon first illuminated by VIZ magazine…a “Borderline Boiler” (the head says no! but the nuts say go!)
From everything I’ve read, Natalie Portman is quite intelligent.
If you plan on stalking her, pick your own tree. This one is taken.
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Actually, now that she’s lost some weight, she’s much more crumpet-like.
I like the term “crumpet”. But what is it with Brits and comparing people to baked goods?
There was a an allusion in a Dick Francis novel to a talk show host being a puff pastry - tasty, fast rising but full of hot air. 
I also tend to think of “weatherwomen*” and “intelligent” as being mutually exclusive terms, but suppose that tastes vary.
Weathermen come off the same way. The Willard Scott School of Babbling Birdbrains has much to answer for.
Well, at least on The Weather Channel, the majority of them are actually meteorologists.
Not only that, but Samantha Mohr is a notch or two up from Crumpet: she’s a Stone Fox!
I think in terms of current looks, Tina Fey could literally be the dictionary definition of the Thinking Man’s Beauty (which is the phrase here in America). Any woman who can make dorky, 1950s librarian glasses look unbelievably sexy gets my vote (I actually think she looks less attractive when she takes them off!)
Going back a decade or two Blair Brown fit the description quite well. Bios of her often called her just that. Also the X-Files’ Gillian Anderson.
Problem with Natalie Portman is, although in real life she is very intelligent, she just doesn’t come off that way in films. She’s certainly not a bimbo, but I think its because she’s just so fucking pretty she’s in a class by herself. In fact, IMO she’s still one of the top five most beautiful girls in the world! Same would go for Jennifer Connelly, although she’s always been too overtly sexual to be a TMB.
I am pretty sure that he is <sigh>
I’ll add two more to that list, and guess what? They’re both also gay 
Hugh Laurie
Stephen Fry
But that’s ok. As long as I’m dreaming anyway, I can dream them straight, right?
Hugh Laurie isn’t gay. He is, however, happily married.
Mmmm…someone else beside PJ put the LOTR profits to good use.
In her day, I’d have chosen Linda Ellerbee. She’s still an impressive lady, having fought off cancer and doing all that great stuff with kids for Nick News. But in her days at the sadly departed Weekend and NBC News Overnight, she was majorly hot as well.
As for “Crumpet”, since I was brung up in the American Northeast, all I can think of are TatyKake Butterscotch Crumpets, which I’m sure are unlike the British meaning of the word. And I don’t want to think of the great Linda Ellerbee as one of three indented finger cakes in a package, covered with butterscotch topping.
Or maybe I do. Hmmm.
slaps forehead how could I forget Hugh Laurie? I love Dr. House!!! I have watched a few interviews with him and he has said he doesn’t understand why women find him sexy. He’s very self deprecating and I find that inexplicably hot.
HotSmoke, I’m totally with you. As it is, as it was, as it always will be. Hugh Laurie.