Patrick Dempsey Named 2023 Sexiest Man Alive
Dunder Mifflin once employed the sexiest man alive.
The Office alum John Krasinski was revealed as People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2024 during the Nov. 12 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
And when host Stephen Colbert noted that it was Krasinski’s kindness and thoughtfulness that earned him the honor, the actor quipped, “I think it’s that—and the biceps.”
So, how did Krasinski react when he found out he won the coveted title? “Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts,” the 45-year-old told the magazine in an article published Nov. 12. “Other than maybe I’m being punked. That’s not how I wake up, thinking, ‘Is this the day that I’ll be asked to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And yet it was the day you guys did it. You guys have really raised the bar for me.”
Krasinski—who shares daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 8, with wife Emily Blunt—revealed that the Devil Wears Prada actress was “very excited” when she learned about the honor, and even promised to use his magazine cover as wallpaper in their Brooklyn home.
“Do we have that on camera? Because that’s like a binding contract, I think,” he joked. “My children will love that, it won’t be weird at all.”
But really, the Jack Ryan star added of his wife of 14 years, “There was a lot of joy involved in me telling her.”
“It’s that beautiful thing where when you’re married to someone, you’re constantly learning and changing and evolving,” he explained of their marriage. “And I’m so lucky to go through all that with her.”
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And Krasinski is not expecting that to change now that he’s been publicly recognized as a heartthrob—he just might have to prove himself a bit more at home.
“I think it’s going to make me do more household chores,” he joked to the magazine. “After this comes out, she’ll be like, ‘All right, that means you’re going to really earn it here at home.’”
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He dethroned the 2023 winner, Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey, who at the time admitted he couldn’t believe he’d earned the title.
“I was completely shocked,” he joked to People in November 2023. “I started laughing, like, this is a joke, right? I’ve always been a bridesmaid!”
And Dempsey wasn’t the only one in disbelief, as he revealed how his family—including wife Jillian Dempsey and their kids Talula Dempsey, 22, as well as 17-year-old twin sons Darby Dempsey, and Sullivan Dempsey—reacted to the news.
“They laughed quite hard,” he explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! after being unveiled as Sexiest Man Alive. “They were like, ‘No seriously, who is it?’’’
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