11:26AM, Mar 23, 2009
Being a Bond girl is a risky business - a third of the femmes who have flirted with 007 have ended up fatale.
And the bad news is that since Daniel Craig took over as the supercool spy, the death toll has been getting higher.
Sixteen of Bond's 51 lovers - -ranging from gold-paint smothered Jill Masterson in Goldfinger to Gemma Arterton's oil-slicked Agent Fields in Quantum of Solace- have met sticky ends.
Grisly fates include being devoured by pirhanhas (Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice), drowned (Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever) and stabbed (Miranda Frost in Die Another Day).
Sean Connery emerges as the fourth most safe Bond, Roger Moore's incarnation had a girlie death toll of 28 per cent while one lover died in each of Pierce Brosnan's last three films.
The survey for The Times points out that Daniel Craig has been an increasingly lethal spy to get entangled with - all his sexual partners have pegged it.
