Every year People magazine chooses the sexiest man alive. Sometimes I wholeheartedly agree (George Clooney – 1997 & 2006) – and others, it seems a bit of a miss (Nick Nolte – 1991). This year their choice was Matt Damon. Now, Matt is a handsome young buck and a terrific actor – but sexiest man alive??? I think not.
While in Salt Lake last week, Ashley, Kathleen and I took a stroll through the covers of all the previous years of Sexiest Man Alive issues and gave them our own 1 – 10 ratings (and for the most part, were in agreement).  As we were oggling the pics at People.com, we commented on how a person’s behavior impacts their sexiness.
- George Clooney: humanitarian/political activist = sexy.
- Brad Pitt: humanitarian = sexy.
- Mel Gibson: anti-semetism = not sexy.
- Sean Connery: wife beater = not sexy.
This year I have painstakingly reviewed potential candidates (it was quite a chore, as you can well imagine), and have selected my own honoree.
IÂ present to you now my choice for the 2007 Sexiest Man Alive:
Shemar Moore
Gaze upon his countenance and drool.
This man is simply gorgeous.
I don’t know much about him or his personality, but I’m a fan of his character on Criminal Minds.
At some point I may learn of some unsavory detail about his life that reduces his sexiness – but for now, this is my dream boy.
Who is your pick?
I wish I could have been there to vote with you girls…Alli I agree with all of your ratings….Matt D is not the sexiest man alive….my vote is Patrick Dempsey! I don’t know if he is a humanitarian but I love his hair.
Yes, Patrick Dempsey is very dreamy…
Ok- so I was in complete agreement with you for Shemar Moore being the sexiest man alive.. until my dream last night. Yes, I had a dream about Shemar. Not the kind that I would have liked, however. In my dream, he was drunk, gay and singing some very white-trash karaoke song (very poorly, I might add), and he had long, stringy, curly, ugly hair- and I thought “how could I have ever thought he was sexy?” And then I wake up and see this post… he’s back to being number one on my list.
Shemar is quite handsome. I have never heard of him before. I do not agree with Matt either, hasn’t he been on the cover before?
My noms would be my baby, Clive Owen (of course) or one of the boys from Supernatural. Either one will do. Both is even better.
Or Josh Holloway from Lost.
Clive Owen or Daniel Craig obvs.
I can’t really figure out why we are trying to find or lable someone the sexiest man alive. And gee whiz, aren’t we arrogant over here in the USA – perhaps the sexiest man alive is actually in Spain and none of us have ever heard of him.
Then there’s that “sexy is in the eye of the beholder” thing and the “sexy is as sexy does” that kind of gets in the way of all this. I mean, we all know someone’s CHARACTER is sexy, but them?
Some of them we seem to know more about (Brad Pitt has impressed me more recently, but when he was on the cover a while back, I didn’t find him particularly sexy). Seems to be this should either be Sexiest Character of the Day, or Most Exciting Guy To Look At For This Moment…
Shemar Moore is indeed a fabulous man to view. Josh Holloway is quite sex on screen (but I find Naveen Andrews playing Sayid to be tremendously sexy, too). But there are so many, how could we possibly choose?
We just finished watching the Bourne series here at our house. I love Matt Damon. He’s sexy. We also just watched Ocean’s 11 & 12. George Clooney: yes, quite sexy. Brad Pitt: more sexy in this movie than in some other things.
Nick Nolte? Okay, we’ve really got the “sexy is in the eye of the beholder” thing going here because I find him undesirable in many respects.
Since I do not watch shows with Patrick or Clive, it’s hard for me to include them in my Sexy Guy List – Attractive, sure, but I don’t know their on screen personas, so I can’t say either of them Sexiest Man Alive.
But why are we at this anyway. Seems like an exercise in frustration. None of them are going to saunter through my door and say, “should I turn this way or that?”
LOL…. These guys may not saunter through my door – but sometimes they saunter through my dreams. Hopefully a better dream than Ashley’s!
But it’s true, Kris, if you asked me later in the year… or month, or even week, I might have found someone else to give the title to.
I’m not sure I’ve ever see seen Clive or Daniel in action… Patrick DOES have fabulous hair, and I really enjoyed him in “Enchanted”….
Why can’t I get into Lost like everyone else?
Have you tried getting into Lost? Watch the first season and see how that goes….
Please let me weigh in: I agree with everyone’s posts! Matt Damon is hot and sexy, but I wouldn’t make him #1. I’m sure that putting him on the cover is a marketing decision. Clive Owen, Patrick Dempsey, Daniel Craig: Hot, HOTTER, SMOKING HOT! Good taste ladies.
And I love the guys from Lost who were mentioned, but c’mon, you didn’t bring up Matthew Fox? I’m still gaga over him (and Scott Wolf) from Party of Five.
Allison, Shemar Moore is a stunning piece of work. Good choice. And of course, there are the ever-present gay rumors: http://www.usmagazine.com/shemar_moore
He really is beauty incarnate.
I would be hard-pressed to come up with my choice for sexiest man alive. Honorable mention goes to Chris Evans, Antonio Sabato, Brady Quinn, perennial fav Brad Pitt, Seann William Scott, David Beckham, James Marsden, Josh Duhamel, Steve Sandvoss, Tim Daly, Taye Diggs. The list could go on and on.
It’s nice to admire beauty. But I AM NOT GAY!
Not gay, huh? Well, we love you anyway. LOL….
So glad you weighed in. I have a few gay friends that I kept hoping would add their voices. You can keep dreaming about Shemar being gay, but I’m going to keep him straight in my fantasies, ok? 🙂
Michelle – I watched the Lost overview earlier this season where they recapped everything before starting the season again. It was interesting, but the whole fanatical religious undertones put me off. I’ve had enough of that in my real life and find I feel anxious and stressed out when I watch shows focusing on those kinds of themes. Maybe I’ll rent the first season and see if I can get hooked.
I almost mentioned Matthew Fox. He’s a honey as well. Okay, it sounds like I am just going to have to pay more attention and discover the studliness of Clive Owen, Patrick Dempsey & Daniel Craig. I seem to be missing out.
I am still in a stupor from imagining Clive “sauntering” through my front door in full King Arthur regalia asking “should I turn this way or that?” with his drop-deap sexy British accent and piercing green eyes.
I will just tell him, “That way. Left, down the hall to the bedroom.”
😀 😀
Mike, I love your taste in men. You have some delicious dishes in that list. You really need to look at the boyz from Supernatural. Just go to imdb and check out Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. Serious eye candy. And fine actors, the both of them. Hee.
Bad, bad, naughty Zoot.
“He’s a honey as well.” LOL.. A honey? LOLROF… Kristin, thank you for giving me a good laugh..
Well…. I have to tell you my landlord, who has become my best friend… is the walking definition of sexy. He oozes charisma and draws people to him, both genders, just from the charming nature of his personality. He is 1000% straight, and I’m glad.
Since none of you know him, I will comment on some of the men you’ve named, and one you haven’t.
First the one nobody has mentioned that I think is the sexiest one out there is Ewan McGregor. Did you see Moulin Rouge? He outshined Nicole Kidman in every scene. That smile is unbelievably sexy. Nicest smile I’ve ever seen. And he sang smiling…
I also think Matt Damon is nice looking, but not enough to get the award. The best I saw him was in “The Talented Mr. Ripley’ when he stood up out of the tub nude, and the ripples of muscles he had.. in all the right places..
Clive Owen I’ve only seen once – in a movie about some gay men in the Holocaust – Bent. He had to beat his lover to death to prove he wasn’t gay. And then he found love in the concentration camp before both of them were killed by the Nazi’s. It’s the only holocaust movie I know of that was told about gay victims – we all know the Nazi’s rounded up Jews, but not many know that perhaps a million homosexuals also were killed..
Anyway, Brad Pitt was at his ‘sexy’ peak in “A River Runs through It.” Still very boyish, but now he has aged (and nicely too).
I still have a great deal of appreciation for Antonio Banderas.
Lastly, I’d have to disagree with whoever said Sean Connery wasn’t sexy. And for older men, I still think Pierce Brosnan is beautiful.
And I don’t want to not mention Jake Gyllenhall and the late Heath Ledger. They couldn’t have chosen two better leads for Brokeback..
Kristin used the term ‘a honey.’ When I lived in SLC and went to The Sun a few times, I heard terms like Stud muffin and stud puppy. LOL..
Hmmmm I just re-read the Sean Connery line above. I didn’t know he was a wife beater? Wasn’t that David Soul? I never heard that before.. If so, I agree, not sexy.. Doesn’t matter how well put together someone is physically – actions matter.
And one more to add… Enrique Iglesias..
Yeah – Sean Connery was sexy until his ex-wife claimed he beat her, and I read this quote.
In 1965 he told Playboy: “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don’t recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.”
I, too, admire Pierce Brosnan – have been a fan since his Remington Steele days. Very sexy and aging rather nicely. I’m a sucker of his accent, too.
I’m also very fond of silver-haired Mark Harmon, currently starring in NCIS. Sexy, sexy.
Kevin Costner was lovely to look at in Bull Durham, which we watched on TV last night. So much so, that in the scene where he’s come back to Susan Sarandon’s house and is sitting on the porch swing, even Craig turned to me and said, “He’s a looker, isn’t he…” I had to agree, though “looker” isn’t the term I would have used.
And you might all pooh pooh me, but although I don’t find Prince particularly attractive, I do find him really sexy at times. Can anyone give me a clue as to why?
Another odd name I could mention, if we are going for sexy, rather than drop dead gorgeous, of someone that got my attention. Darius Rucker.
Hootie & the Blowfish gave a concert at WSU several years back. Craig took me to it. This man was so exciting to watch on stage that evening I could hardly hold still. It may have been a once in a lifetime performance, but my heavens, that man could MOVE in just the right ways.
I’ll second Antonio Banderas for the sexy & gorgeous list. He’s a stud muffin. I think. Rob, can you state your view on his StudMuffinNess?
Prince simply oozes sex. I don’t find him attractive, but agree that there have been times I have found him sexy.
Antonio does need to be near the top of the list. Let’s go to Spain and see what other sexy men we can find there 🙂 We can take their photos and publish a book. “Sexy men of Spain”. Then off to Italy… Ireland… and so on, and so on…
Ok, I’m feeling the need to clarify my comment regarding Kevin Costner. (“He’s a real lookerâ€). We were watching Bull Durham and near the end, when Susan Sarandon (who, by the way, is very high on my list of sexiest women) has just left the ball park where the game has been rained out; she’s soaking wet, miserable and definitely not looking her best. She trudges back to her place and there’s Kevin Costner sitting on her porch. When the camera cuts to Kevin, the angles, lighting, the soft focus and everything else about the shot is reminiscent of those close-ups of starlets from the 50’s. By comparison to the images we’ve just had of Susan, he is indeed a looker.
LOL… no need to clarify Craig 🙂 I like that you can appreciate a “looker” of the same sex 🙂
Even without the comparison to Susan’s state, he was a total hottie.
Speaking of watching a movie recently and finding that you appreciate someone. Yesterday Mike and I watched Silkwood. I never cared for Kurt Russell before, but he was really sexy in this film…
Antonio Banderas was so hot in Evita that I still can hear him singing in my mind.. Kristin, terms like stud muffin and stud puppy are not terms I can use. They’re just too… I don’t know… bar scene for me I guess. I’ll stick with sexy, hot, good looking or even that safe, male heterosexual term – handsome..
Nobody has seconded my remarks about Ewan… am I out in left field about him? Honestly, I’ve never seen a smile like his before.
Craig I had to laugh at the need to clarify. Funny how women can refer to each other as sexy, but for straight men, there is such a discomfort to it. There is such fear there for some reason. Even as a gay man, the first 30 years of my life I was terrified to vocalize an opinion such as this.
But, god only created two genders, and both are beautiful… it doesn’t mean anything for either gender to notice or comment on someone of their same gender..
As a gay man, I still find that Jaclyn Smith, Claudia Schiffer, and others are drop dead gorgeous. I even find Rosalynn Carter to have such grace and poise that I find her stunning in some unidentifiable way.. my favorite first lady needless to say… LOL..
I have enjoyed reading everyones comments. Ewan McGregor is rather sexy. The film Bent tore my heart out! There are lots of sexy men out there but Shemar Moore is the sexiest. Allison has a fabulous nude photo’ of him. Oh why do I have to be so old! wait I can’t be that old if Shemar can still get my heart racing, oh God I hope Shemar is the reason!
Kris – I just discovered the Clive Owen was in the Bourne Identity…. he was the assassine (The Professor) out in the field by the country house…
BTW… I don’t actually HAVE a nude photo of Shemar… Kathy was just there when I discovered one on the internet 🙂
Well I found those photos.. What a body.. but what I truly appreciated was his reply to the news that the photos were out there:
“Thank god the water was fairly warm,â€
LOLROF..
re: Bourne Identity
I didn’t know. Well, Clive was the only assissin I liked, then.
Shemar all the way!!!!