Boggart Blog has never understood how television comedy Sex And The City became such a big thing. We have previously blogged about the sheer unsexiness of the characters and the small-mindedness of the producers who have sued small businesses that opened up with names like Spex And The City or Pets And The City for infringement of copyright.

But while we may throw the odd barb at publicists who try to market Sarah Jessica Parker as some uberhottie who makes all red blooded men want to eat her knickers we would draw the line at some of the things that have been said this week. And then step over it.

For example we would not stoop so low as to even repeat the remark make by a Daily Telegraph film critic who said SJP looked like a “skeletal transvestite.” You would never read anything so unkind in Boggart Blog. Nor would you catch us repeating Piers Morgan’s quip about seeing better looking winos under the arches at Charing Cross.

We should bear in mind that the lady is an actress, there is nothing in the rules that says she has to be good looking; she is not Carrie Bradshaw the character she is best known for portraying. This is a good thing as the fictional Carrie’s boyfriend is known only as big and the real Sarah is so skinny any bloke with a todger thicker than a cocktail stick would surely split her in two.

Forget that though, drama is about suspension of disbelief.

It is totally unfair to suggest, as somebody did, that Ms. Parker is the most repulsive woman in the world and we Boggart Blogger are not the kind of people who would look for cheap laughs by mocking someone’s physical appearance. Let’s look more deeply then at how SJP became known as the world’s least sexy woman.

It all seems to stem from the scene in Tim Burton’s film Ed. Wood. At one point her character asks “Do I really look like a horse?” This prompted online satire mag The Onion to say of her in 2006; “From horse face to household name.”

So does she look like a horse? Far be it from us to comment dear readers, you must decide for yourselves. But don’t offer her a carrot, she’ll have your fingers off.