10 HOT STORIES
LAST MINUTE stocking stuffer suggestion: Blu Tack. Because we predict a comeback for the posters of your adolescent bedroom. Certainly, there is a glut of heart-throbs worthy of wall space at the moment.
You know the type: floppy haired, twinkly eyed, symmetrical. Theirs is not the complicated sex appeal of the enigmatic alt-hunk, nor the dashing glamour of the middle-aged matinee idol; it is a straightforward, open-hearted, obvious beauty with a bouncy, good-natured attitude to match. They are as likely to make you go ‘aww’ as ‘phwoar’.
See Timothée Chalamet. Although he veers towards alt-fashion choices – see also 6ft 5in (!) Jacob Elordi and his excellent bag collection – his boyish good looks are all part of the charm. Or Bobby Brazier, springing around Strictly, dedicating a dance to his late mum (aww) and performing the lift from Dirty Dancing (phwoar). Who else? Harris Dickinson, again more indie-and-tattoo than the OG heart-throbs of yesteryear but nevertheless a crowd-pleaser (only someone like him could pull off a mullet, as he does in A Murder At The End Of The World). Archie Madekwe in Prada shorts at the Fashion Awards. White Lotus season two’s troubled Essex lad Leo Woodall is back as Dexter in February’s Netflix reboot of One Day. Jack Grealish (who possesses heart-throb hair) is the inheritor of the Man U-era David Beckham crown (or headband). Mind you, he’ll have to share that with the extraordinarily pretty Romeo Beckham.
Speaking of Becks and the renewed appreciation of h
