Jonathan Bailey can formally add Folks’s 2025 Sexiest Man Alive to his resume.
Bailey, 37, was revealed as this 12 months’s hottest honoree through 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 need to say, Jimmy, thanks a lot for turning it down in order that I could possibly be right here.”
Bailey, who realized the information earlier this 12 months, mentioned that it wasn’t exhausting 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 Photos
Fallon held up two totally different covers of the Sexiest Man Alive subject: 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massive reveal comes days after Dancing With the Stars introduced that decide Derek Hough gained the Sexiest 40-Yr-Outdated class in Folks’s Sexiest Man Alive 2025 Reader’s Selection Ballot.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 gained.
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 superb and mind-blowing,” Bailey, 37, informed British GQ in an interview printed on Wednesday, September 3. “With every part taking place on the earth proper now, I’m going to cease performing […]
“No manner I’m profitable this. I believe the opposite guys have 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 have been to win that, I might shave my head,” he mentioned to spouse Hayley Erbert within the clip. “I might shave my head, and I’ve by no means shaved my head, I believe, 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, nevertheless, refused to shave his head through the dwell present. DWTS season 34 contestant Dylan Efron additionally gained the class for Sexiest Tattoos.
Final 12 months, Folks named John Krasinski because the 2024 hunk.
“Simply instant blackout, truly. Zero ideas,” Krasinski, 46, informed the outlet of his response on the time. “Aside from possibly I’m being punked. That’s not how I get up, considering, ‘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 plenty of pleasure concerned in me telling her,” he mentioned, noting that Blunt jokingly shared she would wallpaper their dwelling with the quilt if he gained. “Do we’ve that on digicam? As a result of that’s like a binding contract, I believe. My kids will love that, it gained’t be bizarre in any respect.”
Jokes apart, Krasinski gushed over his life in Brooklyn with Blunt.
“It’s that stunning factor the place while you’re married to somebody, you’re continually studying and altering and evolving,” he mentioned. “And I’m so fortunate to undergo all that along with her.”
In Krasinski’s eyes, nevertheless, the title doesn’t change his duties round the home. “I believe it’s going to make me do extra family chores,” he mentioned. “After this comes out, she’ll be like, ‘All proper, meaning you’re going to essentially earn it right here at dwelling.’”
