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The most beautiful man ever 2 is ….

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Angryatheist · 30/08/2026 12:19

Happy Paul Newman GIF

It’s still Paul Newman, he actually walked around looking like this
As you were …

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spottybelly · 30/08/2026 21:18

Elvis
Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture Show
Morten Harket (then and now!)

Angryatheist · 30/08/2026 21:20

DinoLil · 30/08/2026 20:41

Is this what we've come to????

Yes

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ItsIn · 30/08/2026 21:25

David Ginola

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OrneryWorld · 30/08/2026 21:28

Adam Ant aka The Dandy Highwayman.

Charlottejbt · 30/08/2026 21:29

Peanutbutterflies · 30/08/2026 17:31

Im adding gene Kelly to the list!

Yes!!! I would have nominated Elvis as "most beautiful", but if it had been "sexiest" then Gene Kelly would have given him a run for his money, while also being undeniably one of the most beautiful men of all time.

Do you know what film the thread title reminded me of, along with the photos of Paul Newman? It's the black comedy What A Way To Go with Shirley Maclaine, in which she works her way through a succession of incredibly gorgeous husbands who all die in outlandish ways. One of them is a young Paul Newman as an avant garde artist in Paris, and he's almost too beautiful to be a real human being. But the husband who steals the show? It's the ever -magnetic, gorgeous, graceful Gene Kelly. Even in middle age, and playing an unsympathetic and vaguely camp actor whio atarts off doing a hokey act in an unflattering clown costume and finishes his story arc as a megalomaniacal himbo building a Barbie style pink mansion - even here, he is sex on (fantastic) legs. It's a very funny and underrated film.

Best Gene Kelly film for sheer hotness? Summer Stock. Amazing chemistry with Judy Garland. I wanted to be her so badly when he holds her and they sing the duet You, Wonderful You. That smile! That body! OMG...----

OttersOnAPlane · 30/08/2026 21:30

therapymedswhatelse · 30/08/2026 20:55

And Ed Skrein as Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones. He has that twinkle in his eye and a cheeky/dirty grin.

Michiel Huisman was much more gorgeous as Daario Naharis.

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SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:32

Andrew Scott
Marlon in Streetcar
David Olusoga
Paul Newman number 1 though 😍

ConstantlyFuriosa · 30/08/2026 21:33

You can’t have Butch without Sundance:

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booksnbaking · 30/08/2026 21:34

deancastielsam · 30/08/2026 20:12

Has anyone said David Essex- fancied him in The River, he’s aged incredibly well.

Also a Japanese actor Takeru Satoh

Yes, he has been mentioned! I still think Rock On is one of the sexiest songs evah.

SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:35

Sigh

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SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:37

Evan Dando

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Flannelfeet · 30/08/2026 21:40

Marc bolan 🥰. Yungblud (Dominic Harrison) Pete wentz and my husband 🥰(he was in a band years ago). He resembles marc bolan a bit, strong cheekbones and sexy dark hair. 🤭

FastFood · 30/08/2026 21:42

Buster Keaton

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KiIIingMeDeftly · 30/08/2026 21:45

SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:37

Evan Dando

I'd forgotten about him, he was gorgeous back then! Googled to see what he looks like now and found out he's been accused of sexual harassment, sigh.

Flannelfeet · 30/08/2026 21:46

Nightnova · 30/08/2026 19:53

Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Bend it like Beckham

Oh he was seriously hot. Not so now though. Certainly hasn't aged like a fine wine...more like aged tanking too much wine 🤭

AngleofRepose · 30/08/2026 21:49

SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:37

Evan Dando

OMG, totally forgot about him, you're not wrong!

AngleofRepose · 30/08/2026 21:50

KiIIingMeDeftly · 30/08/2026 21:45

I'd forgotten about him, he was gorgeous back then! Googled to see what he looks like now and found out he's been accused of sexual harassment, sigh.

oh no!

SexyFrenchDepression · 30/08/2026 21:56

Rob Lowe is beautiful. I have met him and he is so striking in RL, those eyes and cheek bones.

I have always had a massive crush on Kiefer Sutherland and Christian Slater also. They look good as they have aged also. Both have that bad boy vibe.

Michael Praed in Riders, I agree with David Essex also, still gorgeous now IMO.

Spaniels4Eva · 30/08/2026 21:56

I felt a bit queasy when someone said Paul Walker. I'd loved him as an actor till I found out he had a very very young girlfriend....they started dating when she was 16 and he was 33 Envy and he'd known her even younger as the babysitter to his daughter in Hawaii. Moved her and her whole family to the states. Grim.

SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 21:59

@AngleofRepose i was pretty obsessed in the 90s. Beautiful man!

SinuousTendrils · 30/08/2026 22:01

KiIIingMeDeftly · 30/08/2026 21:45

I'd forgotten about him, he was gorgeous back then! Googled to see what he looks like now and found out he's been accused of sexual harassment, sigh.

Not surprised, he was always a bit of a dickhead so it seemed

Fgfgfg · 30/08/2026 22:04

I posted a young Patrick Dempsey on the other thread so now we can have an older version. He's ageing well.

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lemmein · 30/08/2026 22:05

Either/or

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booksnbaking · 30/08/2026 22:09

All the threads about Reading Festival took me back to the late 70s and Ian Gillan…

Mind you, how much of that was absolutely massive hair envy? Answer: Probably lots.

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heartsinvisiblefury · 30/08/2026 22:15

Gene Kelly and that smile

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