Jonathan Bailey is leaning into his newest position: Folks journal’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”
“It’s an enormous honor,” the actor, 37, stated in his cowl story. “Clearly, I’m extremely flattered. And it’s utterly absurd.”
Requested whether or not he’s able to personal the “web’s boyfriend” title, Bailey replied bashfully, “I don’t learn about that. There’s so lots of them, proper?”
Although he’s conscious of the general public’s thirst, he tries to not let it get to his head.
“I feel typically you get actually sucked in,” he defined, including, “I’d learn [the online comments] as soon as a month. I’d dive in.”
The UK native — who stars in “Depraved,” “Bridgerton” and “Jurassic World: Rebirth” — appeared on Monday’s episode of “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” shortly after Web page Six revealed he had been chosen as this yr’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”
“It’s an honor of a lifetime,” he instructed host Fallon earlier than quipping, “And I wanna say, Jimmy, thanks a lot for turning it down in order that I might be right here.”
Bailey recalled getting the information whereas he was starring because the title position in a modern-dress manufacturing of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” in London.
“For these of you who don’t know, it’s not a comedy,” he shared with the viewers, noting that he was “hollowing [himself] out on stage each night time.”
Whereas he was “within the zone” of the very critical play, he admitted, “The one factor madder than doing ‘Richard II’ is being invited into this.”
Bailey went on to disclose that he drunkenly spilled the key to his mates, who responded in disbelief, “Yeah, yeah yeah, do your affirmations.”
Cheekily nodding to being the primary overtly homosexual man to be topped, he added, “In 2025, I’m type of thrilled that Folks journal have invited somebody in, to bestow this honor on somebody who can actually cherish the worth of an attractive man.”
