What is ‘Sexiest Man Alive’?<\/p>\n
People\u00a0magazine has been awarding the title since 1985, when it chose “Mad Max” star Mel Gibson as its inaugural “Sexiest Man Alive.”<\/p>\n
Since then, it’s become a pop culture touchstone in the English-speaking world, with bookmakers even taking bets on who will win the title. Although\u00a0People\u00a0is focused on pop\u00a0culture and Hollywood<\/a> news, it is known for having strong relationships with celebrities and is not seen as an unreliable tabloid.\u00a0<\/p>\n In recent years, the magazine has been criticized for being out of touch or choosing actors who only appeal to the “minivan majority” of suburban women over 40. Last year’s winner, “The Office” and “A Quiet Place” actor-director John Krasinski was mocked for having come long past the actor’s appeal to a younger generation.<\/p>\n An unconventional choice<\/p>\n Krasinski’s selection may have come, however, after the magazine reached out to other actors and was rejected. Agreeing to be “Sexiest Man Alive”\u00a0comes with a required photoshoot and in-depth profile that many more private actors may be uncomfortable with. Rumors swirled, for example, that\u00a0“Game of Thrones” and “Last of Us” star Pedro Pascal turned the magazine down twice.<\/p>\n Despite the convenience of being in the middle of the promotion cycle for the follow-up to his hit film “Wicked”, in which he plays the male lead, Bailey remains an unconventional choice as the first openly gay “Sexiest Man Alive.”<\/p>\n “Wicked: For Good” opens later in November. Bailey stars alongside Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande<\/a> in the retelling of the “Wizard of Oz”<\/a> from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West. The film is expected to be a major box office success and result in multiple Academy Award nominations, including a potential acting nomination for Bailey.<\/p>\n Edited by: Rana Taha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Brimming with charm,” and “dashing” is how US-based magazine\u00a0People\u00a0described their new “Sexiest Man Alive”\u00a0when they revealed Jonathan Bailey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-261796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bailey starred alongside actress Simone Ashley in Season 2 of ‘Bridgerton’Image: Liam Daniel\/Netflix<\/p>\n