Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez is the new Goldie Hawn. Er… she is? Well, Sony seems to think so, as the studio is negotiating with her to star in the remake of the 1987 Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy Overboard.

This one has been in development for a while now, but we’re not sure we’d heard J-Lo’s name attached to the lead before (Katherine Heigl was mentioned at one point, but we guess she passed).

Still, while she’s yet to prove herself a truly natural comedienne, we’re pretty sure she could pull of the role of the snooty, spoiled woman who falls off her yacht, only to be saved by a dodgy-yet-charming carpenter, who, upon learning at the hospital that she’s got amnesia, fools her into thinking she’s his wife.

Cue comedy hi-jinks as joins him at home to help look after his four children.

Garry Marshall directed the original, but the remake doesn’t have a helmer attached just yet.

The actress-and-singer - who has two-year-old twins Max and Emme with husband Marc Anthony - has enjoyed spending time away from the spotlight and thinks it has helped her realise what's important to her.

She said: "I think you have to know what is most important to you. And I think you have to realise that as much as you put into work, you have to put into your relationship and your children - but more so. That is how you balance it.

"For me, my family is the most important thing and everything else comes after that. It is hard to do everything, but you just have to. You have to make that effort. I have put so much time into my career in the past, so much time trying to get ahead and all that. But you have to do as much and then more for your home life too."