The Folks have spoken. Former Gray’s Anatomy dreamboat Patrick Dempsey has been named Folks’s Sexiest Man Alive 2023.
“I’m glad it’s taking place at this level in my life,” the 57-year-old Dempsey instructed Folks. “It’s good to have the popularity, and positively my ego takes just a little bump, nevertheless it provides me the platform to make use of it for one thing optimistic.”
The information was revealed Tuesday evening on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! “If you already know something about me, you already know I’m an enormous fan of horny males who’re alive,” the host quipped throughout his opening monologue. With the assistance of “innovative hologram expertise” which modified Dempsey’s voice and changed his face with a lizard’s head, Jimmy Kimmel then interviewed Folks’s Sexiest Man Alive with out revealing his identification. Early viewers guesses included Timothée Chalamet, Harry Kinds and Travis Kelce, earlier than they started to dwelling in on Dempsey’s identification resulting from his age. In the end, it was an viewers member named Keith who accurately discovered that the lizard man, was in truth, “Dr. McDreamy” from Gray’s Anatomy.
After the large reveal, Dempsey joined Kimmel for an interview the place he revealed that he was by no means anticipating be named the sexiest man dwell. “I used to be fully shocked, after which I began laughing, like, it is a joke, proper?” he stated. “I’ve at all times been the bridesmaid!”
After starring in eleven seasons of Gray’s Anatomy as Meredith Gray’s love curiosity, neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dempsey returns to the display screen December 25 as Italian driver Piero Taruffi in Michael Mann’s Ferrari, co-starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz. Ferrari acquired an interim SAG Settlement permitting the celebs to attend the Venice Movie Pageant, resulting in the pink carpet pictures of Dempsey that will have given him the sting he wanted to nab the title of Sexiest Man. An avid race automobile driver, Dempsey stated that he’d “been following the film for years” and that he reached out to Mann asking to be within the movie. “I known as Michael and stated, ‘I need to talk about being part of this,’ ” Dempsey recollects. “That taught me should you actually need one thing, it’s important to do it your self.”
Dempsey follows an extended line of dwelling horny males that features, however is just not restricted to, George Clooney, Michael B. Jordan, Ben Affleck, Idris Elba, Paul Rudd, and Brad Pitt, in addition to maybe much less apparent picks like Blake Shelton, John Legend, and most lately, Chris Evans. At 57, Dempsey is the second oldest man to be named Folks’s Sexiest Man Alive after Sean Connery, who was bestowed the title in 1989, when he was 59 years outdated. “I peaked a few years in the past,” joked Dempsey. “However I’m nonetheless right here.”
