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PEOPLE/ARTS Wednesday 15 november 2017
People names Blake Shelton its Sexiest Man Alive 2017

By LEANNE ITALIE Man Alive. Only Shelton issue hits newsstands Friday.
Associated Press used some colorful lan- Growing up, Shelton told
NEW YORK (AP) — People guage to describe that ex- People, he had some awk-
magazine named Blake perience between his pal ward years.
Shelton its Sexiest Man Alive and banter partner on air. “I think to describe myself
for 2017 on Tuesday, but it Shelton said he was, in as a child, one word comes
took some convincing by fact, proud and honored to mind. And that’s fat,” he
his girlfriend Gwen Stefani to have been picked, add- said. “People say I haven’t
to get her guy on board. ing: “I’m not going to treat changed since before I
The country music super- this like Hugh Jackman or made it. And I’m still fat to-
star and coach on NBC’s one of those guys who’s day.
“The Voice” hates being humble about it. People That’s proof!”
the center of attention, the are going to hate me over He’s not, of course. He hops
magazine said. this. Because it’s going to on the treadmill to stay in
“She goes, ‘Listen to me,’” be used in every conver- shape, though he acknowl-
recalled the 6-foot-5, sation, whether it’s at ‘The edges the allure of chips
Oklahoma-bred Shelton. Voice’ or at the feed store and dip, a bag of Chee-
“’You’re going to regret this in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, tos when he’s starving and This June 7, 2016 file photo shows Blake Shelton performing at
for the rest of your life if you or in a conversation with a a trip to Sonic when he’s the 12th Annual Stars for Second Harvest Benefit at Ryman Audi-
don’t take this gift and just doctor. Until I have to hand back home in Tishomingo. torium in Nashville, Tenn. Shelton was named as People maga-
live in the moment.’ I’ve the title, which is what it is Shelton wasn’t the only zine’s 2017 “Sexiest Man Alive.”
been ugly my whole life. If I to me, over to someone sexiest man anointed. Associated Press
can be sexy for a year, I’m else, this is mine. This is like a The magazine named the “Today” show. lieves humor, confidence
taking it!’” certification.” Pearson men of NBC’s “This “I think being sexy is just and kindness are key. Oh,
Bonus for the outspoken Shelton’s latest album, is Us” as sexiest cast: Ster- being comfortable in your and “stubble.”
Shelton: He can hold the “Texoma Shore,” hit No. 1 ling K. Brown, who plays skin, and these two cats Hartley agreed: “Stubble
accolade over the head on the Billboard Top Coun- Randall; Milo Ventimiglia, are very comfortable in and forgiveness, that’s my
of Adam Levine, his fellow try Albums this week. who plays Jack; and Justin their skin,” Brown said at a mantra.
coach on the singing com- The magazine’s Sexiest Hartley, who plays Kevin. photoshoot of his co-stars The trio will be featured in-
petition and 2013’s Sexiest Man Alive special double Their reveal went to NBC’s Ventimiglia said he be- side the special issue.q
Glamour fuses with politics at annual Women of Year awards

By JOCELYN NOVECK year of the Glamour of only a very few people
AP National Writer awards, there was a dif- that could get her to leave
NEW YORK (AP) — There ferent sensation this time her new baby, even for
were movie stars and su- around, noted Cindi Leive, one night.
permodels, TV hosts and Glamour’s outgoing editor- Drew Barrymore intro-
pop stars. in-chief. duced Bee, and original
But perhaps the most rap- “There’s a feeling in the Wonder Woman Lynda
turous ovation at Glamour air,” she told the crowd at Carter introduced “Won-
magazine’s annual Wom- the beginning. She didn’t der Woman” director
en of the Year awards went have to explain that she Jenkins. Singer-actress Ze-
to 79-year-old Democratic was referring to the Har- ndaya, 21, introduced Wa-
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters vey Weinstein sexual ha- ters, who clearly had fans
of California, who delight- rassment scandal and the among the young women
ed the crowd — includ- subsequent cascade of al- from various girls’ organi-
ing hundreds of cheering legations in Hollywood and zations seated up in the
young girls — with a rous- elsewhere, with both wom- Keith Urban, left, and Nicole Kidman attend the 2017 Glamour balcony.Waters told them
ing speech that ended on en and men coming for- Women of the Year Awards at Kings Theatre on Monday, Nov. that she didn’t just want
a very political note. “Im- ward to accuse powerful 13, 2017, in New York. them to vote — she want-
peach him,” she exhorted men of sexual harassment, Associated Press ed them to become politi-
the audience. “Impeach assault or misconduct. Thomas. She hadn’t got- Kidman, accepting her cally active. “I want you to
45! Impeach 45!” “This is a singular moment ten the result she wanted award, noted it had been do everything you can to
Alongside Waters, honor- for women,” Leive said. “I back then, she explained “an extraordinary year — get ready to run for office,”
ees at Monday evening’s am so glad that we get to — Thomas was confirmed we’re in uncharted territory she said.
ceremony, held at a the- seize it.” anyway — but in just a few right now.” But she said she Also exhorting the young
ater in Brooklyn, included One of the most powerful years, official complaints of preferred to celebrate “all women to action was as-
actress Nicole Kidman, moments in the ceremony sexual harassment skyrock- of us, and what makes us, tronaut Whitson, 57, who
singer Solange Knowles, came when the two New eted. us.” She thanked her par- returned to Earth in Sep-
late-night host Samantha York Times reporters who “I saw that we had a ents, and then noted that tember after 288 days in
Bee, model Gigi Hadid, broke the Weinstein story chance to shift the narra- she had “an extraordinary space. In all, she has spent
film director Patty Jenkins, — Jodi Kantor and Megan tive,” Hill said. husband,” singer Keith Ur- 665 days in space — a re-
and fashion designer Ma- Twohey — took the stage Also appearing was Olym- ban. “As much as I’m a cord for a U.S. astronaut.
ria Grazia Chiuri of Christian to introduce a quartet of pic gymnast Aly Raisman, strong woman, I need help “I started as a farm girl in
Dior. Also honored were women who had experi- who came forward last and I need support,” she Iowa,” an emotional Whit-
record-setting astronaut enced sexual harassment week to allege she was said. son said. “I dreamed of be-
Peggy Whitson, Syrian refu- or assault. The first to speak: sexually abused by a U.S. Along with the honorees, ing an astronaut and an
gee and UNICEF ambas- Anita Hill, who has been a team doctor, Larry Nassar, there were plenty of high- explorer, and I made it.”
sador Muzoon Almellehan symbol of the fight against who has been accused by wattage presenters: Ser- She told the young women
and the many organizers sexual harassment ever more than 100 women and ena Williams, for example, that it had taken 10 years
of the January women’s since she testified in 1991 girls of sexual assault. “We came to introduce her of trying before she final-
marches. against then-Supreme need answers,” Raisman friend, Hadid, noting that ly was accepted in the
Though this was the 27th Court nominee Clarence said. the supermodel was one space program. q