Jonathan Bailey Named People’s “Sexiest Man of the Year”

People has named British actor Jonathan Bailey as their “Sexiest Man of the year.” The news was revealed on The Tonight Show by host Jimmy Fallon, who highlighted Bailey’s work this year in both Wicked: For Good and Jurassic World Rebirth.

“It’s an honor of a lifetime,” Bailey told Fallon. “And I want to say, Jimmy, thank you so much for turning it down so that I could be here.”

Fallon asked Bailey if it was challenging to keep the news a secret,but Bailey said it was “surprisingly not.”

“Because not that many people are going, ‘Are you…?'” he said. “We’re starting the Wicked press tour and I went away with some friends just before,just to get a bit of pal time. And we went out and we had a few drinks, and I was like, ‘Guys, guys.’ I was like, ‘I’m the sexiest man alive.’ and they were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, do your a”