There's some good news this morning for Bill Gates: if he ever finds himself fallen on hard times he can always make a few quid offloading his sperm on eager Chinese female recipients.

That's if China's Self magazine is to be believed, because the IT potentate secured second spot in a poll which asked 1,000 women from 15 cities whose precious bodily fluid they'd most like to accommodate for some hot baby-making action.

Regarding how on God's Green Earth a bespectacled, middle-aged Yank came to rate so highly on the Oriental "give me a baby, big fella" scale, well, as Mrs Merton might have put it: "So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Bill Gates?"

Here's the full top ten. No, we've never heard of most of 'em either:

1. Andy Lau
2. Bill Gates
3. Takeshi Kaneshiro
4. Liu Xiang
5. David Beckham
6. Li Ka-shing
7. Tony Leung
8. Louis Koo
9. Lee-hom Wang
10. Brad Pitt

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