Matt Damon, People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2007, is in good company.
The magazine started the award in 1985, with Mel Gibson. Past winners include: Mark Harmon, Harry Hamlin, John F. Kennedy Jr., Sean Connery, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Nick Nolte, Richard Gere, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Matthew McConaughey.
We realized we could connect all the winners to each other through their work and personal relations. Ocean’s Eleven boasts the highest concentration of Sexiest Men, with two-time winners George Clooney and Brad Pitt starring alongside Damon.
Clooney and Pitt have been campaigning for Damon since 2001. At his crowning last year, Clooney told People: “If you’ve been around him, you know he’s sexy. His eyes pop. They have a twinkle. He’s got a good smile.”
Ben Affleck, Damon’s old friend and co-writer of Good Will Hunting, beat him to the title in 2002. His co-star in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jude Law, was Sexiest Man of 2004.