One thing has modified for “Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey, one thing shouldn’t be the identical — he’s Folks journal’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025.
The journal’s choose was introduced Monday evening on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Bailey takes the mantle from “The Office” and “Jack Ryan” star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 choice.
“It’s a huge honor,” Bailey, 37, advised the journal. “Obviously, I’m incredibly flattered. And it’s completely absurd.”
Bailey had audiences swooning as Prince Fiyero in his 2024 big-screen debut in “Wicked,” the favored film musical through which he proudly urges fellow college students to hitch him in his shallowness. The second half arrives in theaters Nov. 21.
He dripped with appeal as Lord Anthony Bridgerton on Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” and earned a 2024 Emmy nomination for his function within the Showtime collection “Fellow Travelers.” Most lately, 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 sort of thrilled that People magazine have invited someone in – bestowed this honor on someone who can really cherish the value of a sexy man,” he mentioned.
Bailey advised Folks that he’s identified he needed 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 assist LGBTQ+ organizations.
“I know the LGBT sector is under immense threat at the moment,” he mentioned. “So it’s been amazing to meet people who have the expertise and see potential that I could have only dreamed of.”
The primary Sexiest Man Alive was Mel Gibson in 1985. Different previous recipients embrace 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 Folks’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 maintain it an entire secret — he shared to information together with his canine Benson, who can even be featured within the journal.
