One thing has modified for “Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey, one thing just isn’t the identical — he’s Individuals journal’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025.
The journal’s decide 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 during which he proudly urges fellow college students to affix 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 position within the Showtime collection “Fellow Travelers.” Most just 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 kind of thrilled that Individuals journal have invited somebody in – bestowed this honor on somebody who can actually cherish the worth of an attractive man,” he mentioned.
Bailey advised Those who he is recognized 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 is 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 Individuals’s version popping out Friday, needed to keep tight-lipped concerning the information. However he admitted to the journal that he could not hold it a whole secret — he shared to information along with his canine Benson, who may also be featured within the journal.
