I’m addicted to Law & Order. I don’t know why, because I’m normally extremely queasy. But there’s something about it I find fascinating, in a train-wreck kind of way. I especially loved it when I lived in New York. Even though the street names started sounding a bit too real. My Lower East Side address was a particularly popular spot with L&O hoodlums and villains. But, as a blonde who once had aspirations to be a lawyer (before I went to uni and realised how un-LA-Law-like a career it would give me), I have to ask: have you noticed the brunette bias going on in this show? First there was Jill Hennessy, Angie Harmon and Cary Lowell. And, of course, there’s the kick-assly cool Mariska Hargitay. And now, there’s Alana de la Garza, who plays the new DA, Connie Rubirosa, she of the perfectly arched eyebrows. The casting directors obviously love a chic, chiseled brunette. Okay, sure there was Stephanie March, but she was really just a token ice-maiden. I’m trying not to be an extra-sensitive blonde here, but it does often seem that people assume brunettes are not only more sophisticated (the Audrey Hepburn thing), but smarter. Really, couldn’t brunettes be happy with just being shinier? It’s quite greedy really.

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