Jonathan Bailey can formally add Individuals’s 2025 Sexiest Man Alive to his resume.
Bailey, 37, was revealed as this yr’s hottest honoree in the course of the Monday, November 3, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The Depraved star stepped out on stage sporting an elegant black sweater and trousers. When Fallon, 51, requested Bailey how he felt about incomes the title, he replied, “I imply, it’s an honor of a lifetime.”
He joked, “And I wish to say, Jimmy, thanks a lot for turning it down in order that I may very well be right here.”
Bailey, who discovered the information earlier this yr, mentioned that it wasn’t arduous to maintain it secret.
“Surprisingly not, no,” he mentioned. “As a result of not many individuals are going, “Are you … ?”
Jonathan Bailey and Jimmy Fallon Todd Owyoung/NBC through Getty Pictures
Fallon held up two totally different covers of the Sexiest Man Alive difficulty: In a single, Bailey is standing within the ocean with a smoldering stare; within the different, he’s holding his canine, Benson.
Bailey’s massive reveal comes days after Dancing With the Stars introduced that choose Derek Hough received the Sexiest 40-Yr-Previous class in Individuals’s Sexiest Man Alive 2025 Reader’s Selection Ballot. Earlier than asserting the information, the ABC actuality present shared a clip of Hough reacting to being nominated — and declaring a serious hairdo change if he received.
From Bridgerton to Depraved to Jurassic Park, Jonathan Bailey has stayed booked and busy. “I’ve been working solidly for about three years now, which has been wonderful and mind-blowing,” Bailey, 37, informed British GQ in an interview printed on Wednesday, September 3. “With the whole lot taking place on the earth proper now, I’m going to cease appearing […]
“No manner I’m profitable this. I feel the opposite guys had been like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lewis Hamilton or another person. … Babe, I’m so assured that I’m not gonna win it, that if I had been to win that, I’d shave my head,” he mentioned to spouse Hayley Erbert within the clip. “I’d shave my head, and I’ve by no means shaved my head, I feel, in my life. Aside from after I was like 5.”
Erbert replied, “You heard it right here first, individuals. He’ll shave his head. Let’s get him to win that factor.”
Hough, nonetheless, refused to shave his head in the course of the dwell present. DWTS season 34 contestant Dylan Efron additionally received the class for Sexiest Tattoos.
Final yr, Individuals named John Krasinski because the 2024 hunk.
“Simply quick blackout, truly. Zero ideas,” Krasinski, 46, informed the outlet of his response on the time. “Apart from perhaps I’m being punked. That’s not how I get up, pondering, ‘Is that this the day that I’ll be requested to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And but it was the day you guys did it. You guys have actually raised the bar for me.”
The Workplace alum famous that spouse Emily Blunt — with whom he shares daughters Hazel, 11, and Violet, 9 — was “very excited” when she heard of her husband’s new standing. (The couple tied the knot in 2010.)
“There was a number of pleasure concerned in me telling her,” he mentioned, noting that Blunt jokingly shared she would wallpaper their residence with the quilt if he received. “Do we now have that on digicam? As a result of that’s like a binding contract, I feel. My youngsters will love that, it received’t be bizarre in any respect.”
Jokes apart, Krasinski gushed over his life in Brooklyn with Blunt.
“It’s that lovely factor the place while you’re married to somebody, you’re consistently studying and altering and evolving,” he mentioned. “And I’m so fortunate to undergo all that along with her.”
In Krasinski’s eyes, nonetheless, the title doesn’t change his duties round the home. “I feel it’s going to make me do extra family chores,” he mentioned. “After this comes out, she’ll be like, ‘All proper, which means you’re going to actually earn it right here at residence.’”
