The US magazine People has crowned Idris Elba the sexiest man alive, bringing an end to the reign of 2017’s winner, the country singer Blake Shelton, and marking a sad conclusion to a year when everybody in the world could justly claim to be both more intelligent than the president of the United States and sexier than the sexiest man alive. With the awarding of this consummate honour, Elba becomes only the third man of colour to hold the title in the 33 years since it began. The People award for sexiest man alive is so white that Nick Nolte has won it (tagline: “Strong, sensitive and squared-away at last, he’s a man’s man that women can’t resist”). The ages of the winner attest to this: Elba is the fourth man in his 40s in a row to win the award. For now we celebrate Idris Elba as their least terrible pick in memory, and eagerly await sexy developments.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2018 12:21 UTC