Pass notesUS news This article is more than 10 years oldThis article is more than 10 years oldThe Maroon 5 frontman has been deemed the most attractive man on the planet by People magazine, but not everyone is as delighted by the news as he isName: Adam Levine.
Age: 34.
Appearance: Tattooed and smirking.
Tattoos, schmattoos. Even respectable BBC presenters have those nowadays. Levine's "body art" is a far bigger deal than David Dimbleby's scorpion. When he strips, you can see a rose, a tiger, a guitar, a paw print, a flying eagle, a shark, a pin-up girl, a heart with "Mom" on it …
Is that why he's smirking? Is he about to unveil a freshly inked anaconda on his you-know what? Noooooooo! He's smirking because People magazine has just named him Sexiest Man Alive.
Shouldn't that be Sexiest Nonentity Alive? Au contraire. Levine fronts the internationally successful band Maroon 5. You may know them from such hits as Makes Me Wonder and Moves Like Jagger.
I wouldn't bet on it. He's also a judge on the US incarnation of The Voice, where he upset patriots earlier this year by joking "I hate this country" when a couple of his contestants were eliminated.
And we should care about this Sexiest Man fluff because …? Because there's been an ugly backlash, with website Jezebel insisting his "terribly smug personality and terribly terrible music" make him unfit to join the ranks of Channing Tatum (2012), Bradley Cooper (2011) and Ryan Reynolds (2010).
Hmmmmmmmmmm. Madeleine Davies, who called the choice "piss-poor", was shocked to the core by Levine's confession that he only does yoga "because the classes are always packed with beautiful women", claiming: "I would rather have sex with Norm from Cheers."
Classy. Meanwhile, in a "terrible-news alert", Laura Beck commented: "I'm conflicted because my undercarriage is all YES PLEASE and my brain is telling my mouth to throw up on my vulva."
Ew. "It's such a mess," she went on. "I just want to fuck him and then kill him. IS THAT SO WRONG?"
Do we have time to explore why it's apparently OK to say that kind of thing about a man but not about a woman? Sadly not. We've just missed International Men's Day.
Would Davies and Beck be in with a chance anyway? Probably not. Levine is currently engaged to Victoria's Secret's Behati Prinsloo.
What does the man himself have to say? "I feel ssssexy!" apparently.
Do say: "I want you."
Don't say: "I want you dead."
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