One thing has modified for “Depraved” star Jonathan Bailey, one thing shouldn’t be the identical — he’s Individuals journal’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025.
The journal’s choose was introduced Monday evening on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Bailey takes the mantle from “The Workplace” and “Jack Ryan” star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 choice.
“It’s an enormous honor,” Bailey, 37, advised the journal. “Clearly, I’m extremely flattered. And it’s fully absurd.”
Bailey had audiences swooning as Prince Fiyero in his 2024 big-screen debut in “Depraved,” the favored film musical by which he proudly urges fellow college students to hitch him in his shallowness. The second half arrives in theaters Nov. 21.
He dripped with allure as Lord Anthony Bridgerton on Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” and earned a 2024 Emmy nomination for his function within the Showtime collection “Fellow Vacationers.” Most not too long ago, he starred in “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which got here out in July.
Bailey advised Fallon that the title was an “honor of a lifetime.”
“I’m type of thrilled that Individuals journal have invited somebody in – bestowed this honor on somebody who can actually cherish the worth of a horny man,” he stated.
Bailey advised Those that he’s identified he wished to be an actor since he was 5 years previous and his grandmother took him to see a manufacturing of the musical “Oliver!” Inside two years he had achieved that dream, preforming with the Royal Shakespeare Firm.
He’s had loads of stage credit since then, together with starring in Shakespeare’s Richard II in London earlier this yr.
Bailey, who has spoken brazenly about being a homosexual actor, based The Shameless Fund, which helps to help LGBTQ+ organizations.
“I do know the LGBT sector is beneath immense risk in the intervening time,” he stated. “So it’s been superb to fulfill individuals who have the experience and see potential that I may have solely dreamed of.”
The primary Sexiest Man Alive was Mel Gibson in 1985. Different previous recipients embody Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John F. Kennedy Jr., David Beckham, Michael B. Jordan, John Legend, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Rudd, Pierce Brosnan and Patrick Dempsey.
Bailey, who would be the cowl story in Individuals’s version popping out Friday, needed to keep tight-lipped in regards to the information. However he admitted to the journal that he couldn’t hold it a whole secret — he shared to information together with his canine Benson, who may also be featured within the journal.