Carolyn Robertson
posted in CelebritiesLet's hear it for the dads!
PEOPLE magazine has revealed its pick for this year's Sexiest Man Alive. It's not a twenty-something-year-old heartthrob who took the title, or your typical Hollywood heartbreaker.
Instead, it's tattoo afficiando and father-of-four David Beckham. The 40-year-old former footballer graces the cover of the magazine's hotly contested issue, following in the footsteps of stars such as Adam Levine, Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds.
While Beckham fans are rabid over the big announcement, closer to home they're far less impressed.
"We kind of laughed about it with the boys and the boys kind of laughed at me and said, 'Really?! Sexiest man alive? Really?'" admits David, who has boys Brooklyn, 16, Romeo, 12, Cruz, 10, and daughter Harper, 4, with his wife Victoria Beckham. "Brooklyn was the one who was like, 'Are you sure it's not me that's meant to be there today?'"
I can't say I've been waiting on pins and needles for today's Sexiest Man Alive reveal, but now that we know PEOPLE's choice, I must admit I think it's a pretty good one.
It's not David Beckham's obvious, um, assets that win me over. Those underwear billboards? They do nothing for me. (Well, nothing might be an exaggeration.) Show me a picture of the guy with his kids, though, and I'm a total goner. It's almost impossible to resist.
Don't believe me? Take a look...
David has admitted many times over that Harper has him wrapped around her little finger, and the pics of the two of them together are adorable. What I love even more, though, is seeing how hands-on and openly affectionate he is with his sons, even now that they're getting so grown up.
Need a little more convincing? How about the fact that DB is an outspoken breastfeeding advocate? Or that he once donated his entire $1 million a month football salary to children's charities? Or that he adorably chaperoned Brooklyn's first date by sitting 5 tables away from the young couple at a sushi restaurant?
I also love how he wasted no time earlier this year in very publicly shutting down those in the media who tried to criticize his parenting.
“Why do people feel they have the right to criticize a parent about their own children without having any facts??” he wrote on Instagram in response to articles about 4-year-old Harper being spotted with a pacifier. “Everybody who has children knows that when they aren’t feeling well or have a fever you do what comforts them best and most of the time it’s a pacifier so those who criticize think twice about what you say about other people’s children because actually you have no right to criticize me as a parent…”
Thank you, David Beckham. I rest my case.
Well done, PEOPLE. This Year's Sexiest Man Alive just might to live up to the hype.
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