John Krasinski, Sexiest Man Alive 2024.
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One of monoculture’s final touchstones reared its head this week, maybe for the last time: People’s Sexiest Man Alive.
The award has long functioned as a proxy for the location of common taste that makes you go “wait, what?,” then “sure, I guess.” Some choices make more sense than others. Dwayne Johnson got it in 2016, right after he voiced Maui in Moana and just before he confessed his presidential aspirations to GQ. The Voice judge Blake Shelton got it in 2017, the year he featured on his new girlfriend Gwen Stefani’s Christmas album and his own country-album hit No. 1. But if I gave you three guesses, would you actually remember that Paul…
