It turns out you can top all the 'sexiest' person lists in the world and still not be marriage material (although, to be fair, we suspect George Clooney himself might just agree!). A recent seven-market Synovate survey on professions found that more respondents would choose to marry trades people, lawyers, business people, in fact just about anyone... than would choose to marry actors or musicians.

The survey asked people to nominate which, of a list of professions, they would choose a life partner from. It turns out medicine makes for marriage material with 16% nominating doctors and nurses and others in the field as preferred partners, higher than any other single profession. Answers were fairly spread among the professions and other popular choices were education (14%) and science and technology (10%).

Right down the bottom of the marriage material scale were those in retail (1%); the media, advertising and marketing fields at 2%; and entertainers, actors and musicians at 3%.

Mind you, Clooney played a doctor for years on ER, so perhaps he's still in contention…

To read more about the Synovate professions survey please click here.

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