Whaddya gonna do, arrest me?

It's amazing what £1m can get you. You could buy yourself a nice country pile, snap up the rights to a C-list celebrity wedding, or just sit in the hotseat and heckle Chris Tarrant with nothing to lose. Alternatively, you could book Sharon Stone to screw up the launch of a new hotel.

The stunningly well-preserved 51-year old was invited to emcee the opening of the Mardan Palace Hotel in Turkey, for which she simply had to show up and read her lines off a teleprompter. Unfortunately, this proved to be her undoing when the word "Azerbaijan" scrolled onto the screen. Coming off-script, she's reported to have said "What is that? I can't pronounce this! Chaka Khan! Chaka Khan!"

It's not the first time that Sharon's opened her mouth and got into trouble (as opposed to her legs). This time last year, she wondered out loud whether the earthquake that killed almost 70,000 people was simply karma in action, because China was "not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine."

Admittedly, there's nothing new about celebrities speaking their mind, only to realise that they don't actually have one. The difference is, Sharon is widely reputed to have a near-genius IQ of 154. That's six less than Einstein if anyone's counting. As a consequence, she's always fancied herself as something of a philosophical feminist, commenting "If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination." Unfortunately, so is a big mouth and insufficient intellect to back it up. Verdict? Sharon Stone - dumb as a rock.