Reese Witherspoon voted the most 'likeable' female celebrity

Actress Reese Witherspoon has been voted the most 'likeable' female celebrity in a new poll.

The Oscar-winning Walk The Line star, 30, beat Jennifer Aniston to the top spot.

Almost three-quarters (74%) of people voted for Witherspoon in the survey, which asked participants to judge which celebrities, from a list of the 10 women who regularly graced magazine covers and gossip columns in 2007, they found the most appealing, confident, glamorous, interesting and over-exposed.

Aniston received 70 per cent of the vote, while Angelina Jolie came in third position with 53 per cent. She was followed by singer Jennifer Lopez in fourth place with 52 per cent.

Katie Holmes, the wife of Tom Cruise, came in fifth spot with 32 per cent.

More than 1,000 women aged 13 and over took part in the E-Score Celebrity survey.

At the bottom of the scale, Paris Hilton edged out Britney Spears to be voted the least appealing star with a 9 per cent likability rating to the Toxic singer's 11. And the hotel heiress topped the list for the most 'over-exposed' celebrity with 75 per cent to Spears, who got 68 per cent.