Is it hot in here, or is People just about to crown 2025’s Sexiest Man Alive? The magazine will reveal its pick on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, with the late-night host making the special announcement at the same time the news will drop on the People app.
Former Sexiest Men Alive are eager to welcome the newest member of their attractive brotherhood. In an Instagram video shared by People on Monday, past winners including Patrick Dempsey (2023), Idris Elba (2018), Blake Shelton (2017), Ryan Reynolds (2010) and Harry Hamlin (1987) took part in a playful “pass the phone” montage — ending with a call from the still-unseen 2025 Sexiest Man Alive.
Reynolds, who ultimately passed the phone to the newcomer, gave him some sage advice ahead of his photoshoot: “Just be judicious about, you know, where you get your lips done,” the Deadpool actor warned. “You don’t do it at a gas station.”
John Krasinski, known for his role on The Office, his directing and starring turn in A Quiet Place, and the Prime Video action series Jack Ryan, was named 2024’s Sexiest Man Alive — a title he was shocked to receive, telling the magazine last year that he thought he was 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,” he recalled to People. “You guys have really raised the bar for me.”
Fans are throwing out names of the man they most want to nab the title in 2025. In the comments section of People’s Instagram video, multiple fans suggested Materialists star Pedro Pascal. Other notable stars whose names have appeared in the comments include Austin Butler, Joe Jonas, Glen Powell, Tom Hiddleston and Jensen Ackles.
It’s also possible that the person who earns the nod this year will be a repeat, as several men have received the honor of Sexiest Man Alive more than once. Brad Pitt earned the title in both 1995 and 2000, George Clooney in 1997 and 2006, and Johnny Depp in 2003 and 2009. Richard Gere also took home the title more than once: first in 1993, as part of a Sexiest Couple Alive honor with Cindy Crawford, and again in 1999.
