Cheryl Cole, Angelina Jolie and Kate Middleton voted top female celebrities straight women would choose for lesbian ...

PUBLISHED: 07:49 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 20:16 EST, 18 June 2012

Cheryl Cole is the starlet women would most like to have a lesbian fling with, according to findings.

Fellow brunettes Angelina Jolie and the Duchess of Cambridge were also rated highly during a study exploring female sexuality.

More than half of heterosexual girls questioned (51 per cent) admitted to passionately kissing another woman on the lips, with 37 per cent saying they were drunk at the time.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Angelina Jolie and Cheryl Cole topped a list of celebrities women would most like a lesbian encounter with

London-based women admitted to having the most girl-on-girl experiences (63 per cent), while those in Birmingham (27 per cent) were less experimental.

The main reason behind same-sex dalliances was drunkenness (37 per cent) while a quarter said they were driven by curiosity.

Elizabeth Morgan, a professor of psychology at Boise State University who is not associated with the recent findings, believes that straight women often feel more than a friendly affection for other women.

THE FEMALE STARS STRAIGHT WOMEN WOULD MOST LIKE TO KISS

Cheryl Cole
Angelina Jolie
Kate Middleton
Rihanna
Jennifer Anniston
Jessie J

One of her studies discovered that 60 per cent of the 484 straight women questioned, had been attracted to another female at some point in their lives with a further 45 per cent admitting to kissing a woman and 50 per cent confessing to enjoying fantasies about other ladies.

At the time Prof Morgan said: 'Women are encouraged to be emotionally close to each other. That provides an opportunity for intimacy and romantic feelings to develop.'

In the re! cent pol l women between the ages of 32-52) were found to have had the most lesbian encounters (52 per cent), followed by women between the ages of 18-30 (47 per cent).

And a quarter said women were better kisses than men in general

Some of the most famous celebrity lesbian liaisons caught on camera include Halle Berry and Britney Spears (Saturday Night Live), Jessica Biel and Sarah Silverman (MTV awards), Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron (Head in The Clouds), and Britney Spears and Madonna at the 2003 MTV awards.

More than 2,000 straight women were involved in the survey commissioned by Universal Playback to coincide with the DVD release of lesbian TV drama Lip Service: Series 2 out June 18.