LadyGang - People's Sexiest Man Alive is....

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

This week, the LadyGang welcomes Charlotte Triggs, Editor-in-Chief of PEOPLE magazine, for an exclusive inside look at how the legendary Sexiest Man Alive issue comes together — from the steamy photo shoots to the impossible debates over Hollywood’s hottest. 👀Meanwhile, chaos reigns in LadyLand: Becca finds herself caught in a swirl of gossip she didn’t ask for, Keltie unveils yet another new face (seriously, what’s happening over there?!), and somehow a mysterious pair of men’s underwear has landed at Jac’s place — and no one’s sure who they belong to. 😳It’s hot takes, bad weeks, and major laughs — just another perfectly imperfect day with the LadyGang.We have fall deals for YOU!!Butcherbox: Go to ButcherBox.com/lady for free turkey or ham in your first box OR choose ground beef for life PLUS $20 off your first order AND FREE SHIPPING!Vimergy: Try VIMERGY liquid vitamins! Save 20% off your first order with the code "Ladygang" at Vimergy.comLadyGang is sponsored by BetterHelp! Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ladygangHiya Health: Your kids need good vitamins! Get 50% off at HiyaHealth.com/ladyPura: Does your car stink?! Get a FREE SET when you subscribe to two scents monthly for a year at Pura.comPeloton: Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread+ at OnePeloton.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

well what is this welcome to the lady gang that's amazing say that again the lady gang things are about to change around here each week we catch up with hollywood's hottest girl posse kelty knight becca tobin and jack vanik hello hello hello welcome to lady gang podcast it's becca tobin here with jack vanik and kelty knight and we are the sexiest podcasters alive oh yeah baby you know they actually had a category last year and um the the it was sexiest podcast podcast duo and travis kelsey won you know when you've been around this long it's like i i don't think we're gonna make another list until it's like 50 over 50 podcasters still going the old lady gang the people hanging on the most the longest yeah it's like girls who still do it

People you thought were dead, but are actually surprised to live, but haven't gotten any more successful. They're just plateauing, staying the same greatest plateau of the year. Longest plateau of a career. Gorgeous. Um, well, I'm excited for this episode actually. No, me too. In a little bit, we have Charlotte Triggs, who is the editor in chief of people. She's going to announce and talk about the newly released information about sexiest man alive. And then we're going to talk about mark mcgrath which is like our most important topic but before that do you think it's time yeah it's time for good week yes it is bad week oh no um who would like to go first i'll go um my good week is uh recently i went to the sequoias with my family because you don't have to knock knock

knock on wood okay so here's my question i was posting like general sherman's the biggest tree and the world and like we saw these giant sequoias it's travis kelsey's dick that's what everybody was saying i'm like is there a reference to the sequoias in one of her songs or something what does it say well i know wood but does it say general his dick is general sherman size no it's it's like sequoia biggest sequoia in that let me look at it hold on oh my god no i was just confused because i got so many dms about that i'm like i listened to that song i don't remember that reference but um forgive me it sounds cocky he amatized me and opened my eyes redwood tree it ain't hard to see his love was the key that opened my thighs okay well they weren't redwoods they

were sequoias so you guys got that wrong okay um but anyways it was it was really fun ranger jack has let us know that the redwoods are the tallest sequoias are big beefy boys um you know these Swifties are going to find any connection, Jack, you know, this by now they're going to look for a eucalyptus tree and the Swifties would be like a tree. Yeah. I love it. I know. I'm not mad. The Sequoias are very beautiful. I went there with Chris Knight. They're so pretty. Um, we stayed at this place called auto camp that has like airstreams and yurts and, um, like tiny homes and stuff. It was really cute, but they had a swing set there and I got on the swing and I swung for the first time in probably 30 years. You guys exhilarating. Yeah. You don't

have to tell me this. I've had a kid for almost four years. I've been on a swing set. I was going to ask, have you, have you swung alone? Yeah, but I, I do. I swing, but then after like two minutes, I get a little bit nauseous. Oh, I was swinging as hard as I could. I was going up. Like, you know, when you get at the top and you get like a little bit weightless and it like pushes you back down. I was like holy shit if you are feeling down get yourself to a park and get on a swing that lifted my spirits like nothing else I felt alive I felt the rush it was amazing I it was truly one of the simplest joys I've had in a long time so PSA to anybody out there that needs a little something it's right there yeah it was so fun but I was wondering because I was like I know

ford's been on a swing but like you really have to push ford doesn't seem like he's a swing guy no it is a solo activity so maybe he is he's okay he's all right with it you can't really tell when he loves anything so it's hard to know who knows shocker yeah that not shocking at all um okay so that's my good week get yourself out on a swing if you're feeling down um my bad week was jared and i were doing laundry the other night and sometimes his stuff like we do our laundry separately sometimes his stuff gets into mine and like vice versa so I was like doing my laundry he had a few pairs of underwear and I kind of like pushed him off to the side like on his bed to put away for himself and he comes in he goes by the

way these aren't my underwear and I was like huh excuse me come again I have a pair of men's underwear in at my house that are not Jared's and this is not the first time that this has happened And I'm so confused of where they're coming from because there was also a pair of like athletic shorts that I had from him being on a tour bus with all the dudes. That's what I'm saying. I know where they're coming from. They're John's. No, he's like very particular with his things. Like he would know and he does not. He's like has all of his stuff folded perfectly whenever he goes to travel. Like, this is a mysterious pair of underwear. And like I said, there is a pair of shorts that like randomly appeared in my apartment when we lived in Marina del Rey as well.

And he's like, by the way, these aren't mine. And I'm like, I never dated a man long enough in my like recent, like my short period of being single from my ex that I would have acquired a pair of men's shorts. Undies. Or undies. Like, there's just no way. So I don't know what the universe is doing. It's a glitch in the matrix.

something is going on in a different parallel timeline that underwear are getting put into my drawer that are not Jared's weird. And thank God that we have a good relationship because that would be really weird. Cause he's also gone a lot. He's like, well, hello, you have another husband that just pops in when I'm on tour. Yeah. But he also, uh, religiously watches our ring cam and like says hi to me every time I walk in. So he knows what my dad does. My dad does that for me. Yeah. He knows I got the mail and I'm like, Oh my God, thank God someone cares about me my husband could care less yeah yeah Jared's like oh what are those packages from I'm like just it's from nowhere it's yeah don't worry about it yeah so anyways who knows if that's

happened to anybody else let me know maybe it's a ghost keep us posted yeah I will okay um my good week is simple you know I go to my pretty today I know it's just oh thank you it's this light it's the light that I got that Kelty sent me I love it thank you yeah I know we haven't we haven't seen you in a while it's also because i just got fresh botox you guys it's beautiful you know i realized that my jowls are fixed when i get botox she gives me she'll she'll give me like because i pull down the corners of my mouth so much just naturally that she botoxes me in a frown well like i'll hold tension in my mouth a lot like i remember in dance class when i was little my teacher would always be like stop biting your lip like relax your mouth so i think that

that was creating jowls and it's really, this Botox has really lifted my face. So thank you for noticing. Very pretty. Thank you. Okay. So you know that I get the Russian manicures and they last a month and I can't really get a color because last time I got a color, it's a month of looking at the same color. So it's pretty tough. So I always do like the same neutral nail, but I was thinking I need to like switch it up because I need this to give me the same zest for life I can't keep looking at the same kind of nail so I did a short square nail you guys I haven't done a square shape in quite some time and I like it I like that too it's very Kelty you don't like it you look like you don't like it or is it a color I can't tell it's very

neutral yeah cute I like it no I I actually was honestly just going on trophies.com to get my trophy for being the influencer for doing one thing first in the Becca Kelty. Cause I've had short square nails for like ever. Well, I know you have like, that's like your shape, but like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess you have, but I, I, I just like needed something different. You influenced me. No, the, the reason that square works is I feel like, cause I had square for a long time. And then I've recently gone back to oval and then the little corners get nicked and they break square is in my opinion, the strongest nail shape. It, it is, but it's not like, I feel like the corners of the square I'm getting used to, like the sides of the square

are kind of, it's weird to have that after having, do you feel like your hand looks pretty or no? No, I think it's still more flattering for me to have an oval nail, but I'm excited to like, look down and see something new, you know, got to switch it up. Just need to see something now. Well, thank you for influencing me, Kelty. Give credit where credit is due. Thank you so much. I'm like, what is going on in your brain right now? You're making a weird face.

I know, I was like, she's short-circuiting. Let me live! Okay, so this is my bad week, and I don't know how much time we have, because I can make this very short or very long or very medium. I'll try to do my best. I'll just give it short, and if you have follow-up questions, then we can go there. Okay. I recently got in big old trouble for gossiping, you guys.

Oh! on the internet or in real life no in real life so every once in a while this happens you're like i'm not gonna do this anymore i just wrote a chapter about this in my book no i'm doing it there's scientific evidence that gossiping is good for you it literally saved society but anyway becca yeah because women would sit around while the men were out hunting being like cavemen the women would sit around you pass information around so that everybody in the tribe knew what was going on and you knew to trust. Gossip is necessary. I just did all this study, not to make it a science book, but I did all this study on like where gossip started and stuff. And it's because

normally animals would go and they would clean each other. Like, you know how when you see animals like picking nits, but then humans were like, we don't want to pick nits. So, but that's used, they used to sit around and they would like pick nits off each other. And that's how they would share information. That's why hairstylists get the most information because that's the exactly but gossip is like why society became a more like why we went past animal because gossip helped us become human okay sorry okay i'm just thrilled that's a hot topic okay but to like i mean we've evolved like i know i don't i know that my big mouth is not going to keep society safe or elevated or evolved. But however, I, I got a text message about three days ago from

somebody that I would refer to as an acquaintance. We've never texted one another separately. We've always been at like charity events together or weddings, same weddings, or, you know, there's just never been anyone on one time. I don't know her children. It's a very surface, surface relationship. I got a text from her that was hot, crazy, crazy. I don't want to call any woman crazy. It was heated. It was like, Oh my God, Becca, I really wanted to like you, but I am finding out that you are spreading a rumor about my family. I have children like this whole, this is not even a voice message. And I'm like, first of all, I'm shocked. I even have this number saved in my phone. No offense to her, but like, that's how not close we are. But I, then I get a call

from her husband. No. Yeah. The lore. The lore. Um, and then I'm talking to the husband and I'm like, I don't, I'm like, can you fill me in? Cause I was racking my brain. I was like, this woman's name has not come out of my mouth in almost a year. Like I have not, I really, normally I'm guilty right so I could know exactly what she's referring to when she's texting me but I was like oh my god for once in my life I'm actually like maybe innocent I'm not but like I was like I just can't maybe that maybe like she's wrong it's so then I talked to husband he starts to clear it up but what he's referring to is something that happened I think it was about a year ago and everybody involved is pretty sure it was like nine months to a year ago okay so I'm not gonna say

what it is. Cause Jesus Christ, I have learned my lesson. We can't continue this. It's something about like family, her family and like some alleged illegal activity. Okay. Oh, you did not rail housewives this girl. Like, no, I didn't. Okay. So here's, here's the thing. I needed her to know. I think the reason that she got so upset was because she thought that I was the person who like went home and like Googled people, right? Oh, you, you were Lisa Barlow, but you did not Barlow. I did not Lisa Barlow. I was told this. If you know one thing about Becca, I know she's not doing extra studying. Okay. Like I'm Googling. I'm not even going as far to find out how to spell your last name. Becca's not a person that's going to pop up on her computer for extra credit.

However, do I love when other people do the work for me and they bring it to my attention? Of I love it. I can't live without it. So this was told to me a few times in the last, I mean, obviously like this past year it's been dead. I mean, I want to be like, babe, it's over. Like nobody's even talking about you anymore. Like, but congratulations. So anyways, this anyways, I felt for her. I empathize with her. I did eventually talk to her. It's a subject that was like obviously very sensitive to them. I just had to make sure. And I understood her place being like thinking that I was going around like Googling and trying to like up her family and smear her name, you know? So you were just the messenger. I was the messenger. And I did say

to her, I said, it was shitty of me to perpetuate a rumor. I understand why that is terrible. I said, I don't know you that well. We're not really good friends. And if we were, I promise you that like, this is not something I'm, you know, that I do, but I'm also not a perfect person. I was sitting at a table with two other couples that I know very well. Who ratted you out? I already found the rat what are we doing about the rat because it was a husband you guys no no but here's the best part kills me the rat kills me i'm like you didn't know we were in the sisterhood of secrecy like if i say that's how dumb men are that's how dumb men are but this is the best part about the husband okay so i was like i can't be a hypocrite and get mad at the husband granted i never named

my source. Okay. You don't name the source, but men are too dumb to know that. So I was like, I'm not mad at this husband. Like he's not out to get me. Like he's just a dumb guy. Okay. So he said, so the, the husband also called him to try to like get to the bottom of this whole thing. Oh my God. So the husband calls him and he goes, I know the husband calls him. He goes, and he, and he basically confronted him being like, so you told so-and-so that Becca Tobin told the story about blah, blah, blah. And this husband goes, well, uh, is it true? And the husband goes, well, I mean, a part of it, yes, there was that blah, blah, blah, but then it was dropped. Everything was fine. Like everything ended up being okay.

But then the other husband was like, well, it's not really a rumor if it's on the internet and everybody from the free world can just find it with a simple Google, bro. Oh my God. So I will say I do feel shitty. Like I just, I do feel shitty having talked about it. You were just a cog in the wheel. I know. But the girl, wait, you guys, the girl's stepmom confronted me two days ago. These people need to chill out. They need to chill. How much confrontation does But also, are you filming this? Like, God damn it. This is the Real Housewives of Austin.

I know. If it could be filmed, it would be. This is incredible. The mother-in-law. I know. I need to know everything. Her stepmom. The stepmom?

Uh-huh. The audacity of the stepmom. Knock, knock, knock. Not like at my door, but we were at the same thing with one another. And she came over to you. Settled right up next to me. No. No.

Oh, and you hated in-person confrontation. she goes hey I'm let's say blah blah blah Jane Smith hi no she goes hi Jane Smith nice to meet you and I go yeah I've met you I've actually met her that's the other thing I'm like who's the asshole now I've met you many times and you think you still don't know who I am I said hi yeah Becca Tobin good to see you she goes and then I turned my turn again to like try to go to the bar and like ignore it and she like taps me in the arm she goes yeah I'm so-and-so so-and-so stepmom oh my god you're i'm so-and-so so-and-so stepmom and what and i said yeah i actually spoke to her a couple days ago good to see you so what did she i would have left this way you can't leave the

house i wanted to be like so you guys are really like loving you feels like this feels like a very weird threat to me so like i have a question what i read on the internet is it true because you're really not doing a great job of like protecting your family by being such a psycho it's definitely true if they're so defensive about it all. A hundred percent. Becca, is this person a known person? Like, are they leeching on to you being a gossip for the fame? Like, are they like, oh my God, Becca Tobin, you know her, Katie Ungley? No, no, not at all. Definitely not. Their proximity to it, like they're definitely not, it's not like it's like a, no, it's a, yeah. Honestly, it makes me feel better about my life. Thank you so much because, you know,

I went to go to the Emmys in a sunglass because there were so many people that I couldn't make eye contact with. And that was like uncomfortable for me. So I'm feeling better about this. Thank you so much, Becca. I'm sorry that happened to you. But you know what? The world, every once in a while, every few years, the world really reminds you to like

redo your gossip, like your- Strategy. Strategy. It's not that you're going to stop gossiping, but you have to become real careful again. But here's the thing. I thought about it and I was like, I'm not going to stop. No, no, you know what? Nobody stops.

You just have to, you have to pivot who you're talking to. Also, if you give me two cocktails, I'm going to tell you, unless, unless I'm protecting information from my good friends, like I'll never rat. I will never do that with good friends. Yeah. I have loyalty, but if I barely know you and I have some sort of juicy information, I'm at dinner and i'm on my second dirty martini if you think for one second that i'm a big enough more evolved human than to share like i am going to tell your secrets dude the tea we need the tea

it's what keeps us it's not secrets it's bullshit in this world a secret you're a very good secret keeper you literally are keeper of the key secret keeper but the tea will be poured yeah and i'm never trying to ruin anybody's life like it's just not that's i'm not in the business of being mean if if everybody knew that just seems like a very direct place to be mad when it's like somebody told you that yeah and if the internet knows like it's you're not the one who spilt the beans no and all i want to do right now is google that information but i'm not i wouldn't dare because i'm sure they're tapping my phone you got an ip address i know as soon as we finish we're gonna I want all the info. Okay. Um, no, cause I'll be gossiping. You guys, you can gossip. I don't

even know these people. Okay. Um, my bad week is, uh, I was very excited because the, uh, video of me screaming at lady world that I want to yell at people and write bad emails has hit 1 million views, which is very exciting. But I went through because, you know, I'm Kelty and I love like attention. I was going through the comments and I was writing back to everyone being what they're like scene girl i saw you and i felt really happy and then i saw the comment that said someone stole her butt cheeks oh my god isn't that so funny that's such a good dig someone stole her butt cheeks i mean your outfit was not doing you any favors a hundred percent she doesn't really have but

I don't have a bow cheek. I've always had a flat ass. I've told you I'm built like Spongebob. Like I am flat and lean. Oh my God. That was so funny. Okay. My good week is that I went and saw Dr. Diamond and I don't know if you guys noticed, but look at what he gave me. What? What did he give you? Cheeks? Cheekbone. Did you get filler? Okay. So here's the thing about Dr. Diamond. First, he let me film. I was like, can I just film and ask you all these questions. And then he like, let me film, which was very cute. I mean, he loves attention too. He's Dr. Diamond, but I went and he was like, I have a big photo shoot

coming up. I'm shooting the cover of the book. And I was like, I want to just be my best self, but like, don't make me look crazy. And he was like, okay. And he reminded me. So I usually go to the cheap. I love her, but like the cheaper option for Botox. And I don't, I haven't even gotten filler in so long. I've just been getting Botox and she just does the thing that people do where you do the whole face. You do the neck, you do the face, you do the lips, you do everything. And Dr. Diamond, you know, he's such an expert. He looked at me and he goes, we can't put any more Botox in your forehead because your eyebrows are falling. And he's like, does it really bother you, the lines? And I was like, the lines don't bother me. But what I hate is like, I have that

one line above my eyebrow. And he's like, we can't do that. And he's like, but then he reminded me that when you start feeling a little sad, you do the temples. You know how he always did the temples and you were like filler and no one else does the temples. Like, I mean, it's kind of aggressive, but I wanted like a little bit temples too. He did this right here and it lifted up everything. I feel like I have a pretty cheekbone and I looked in the mirror and I was like, you really are so good at what you do. Like he really, and I got the insta facial, which I've never had before. And it's crazy. So it's first they laser off all your, um, brown spots. So it's that laser. Then they go in with something that feels like aggressive sandpaper and it like

resurfaces everything. And then- Like microdermabrasion? No, it's like a, I don't know. It's a laser. It's a laser with a microneedle. And then they take your blood and then they put your plasma all over your face. And then this girl took like a handheld roller and rolled my face. It was so painful. I was like, I'm going to kill you. And then it's been healing. Like, I don't know if you guys can really see. Your skin looks good. It's just starting to flake off. It's been a week.

It's just starting to flake off. They said it'll take two weeks. But honestly, I'm like, why do I go to the cheap place when I should just go to Dr. Diamond? Like, I just feel better. I feel like he really cares. He, like, really looks at me. Still is hot. Anyway, just Dr. Diamond, thank you so much.

Because I was feeling kind of ugly and worn out. And I was like, mm-mm. And then I got reborn. You look great. I'm doing Fraxel on Thursday. Was the Fraxel maybe what I did? Maybe. I'm not sure I don't even know what's in the insta facial I'm like should we just tell people

what's in it she's like no but it's like it seems like it's a bunch of different things it's like he does all the things at one time where normally you go for like one and then the other but it's interesting because I was going to the cheapy place for an IPL you know to get off my spots and I would go and pay like $500 and I would be like wait nothing turned brown you know when you get an IPL and it all turns brown and then it like flakes off and you're beautiful and I was And they were like, you just don't have anything left. And then I go to Dr. Diamond and like my whole face was brown. And I was like, you just didn't.

Anyway, he's the best. He really is. I'm just sad that by the time I get my, like get the balls to do my facelift, he's going to be, it's going to be a million dollars for him to do it. Cause his prices are just so expensive. But you know what? We'll see. Maybe he'll give you 20% off with code diamond.

You know, I'm going to have to start talking to him again and just be like, hey, remember me? He's like, that's still $200,000. I know. It's like so expensive. But you know what? Have you seen the pictures of Kris Jenner's face, like actual facelift, which is still looks great, but like everybody needs to know that all these like, oh my God, it's lighting.

It's pictures. It's like me in this light right now. Like this is not what I look like in person under normal light. she doesn't look 35 no it's not magic it's great good for her but she still looks her age she just looks great for her age so yeah she looks like she got a good facelift yeah yeah it's crazy I don't know people just I think what it's better I think it's nice to hear that because people are like well I'm so by the time I'm 70 I can't afford a $300,000 facelift so I'm just going to look like donkey dick, but you're going to just look 70. Everyone kind of looks like

donkey dick without the right lighting anyway. You know what I mean? That's true. Yeah. Okay. Well, when we come back, speaking of looking like donkey dick. Yeah. We'll be right back. Sonnet insurance wants to know what would you do with an extra hour in your day and more money in your pocket with Sonnet? You can quote and buy home and auto insurance online or over the phone your choice on your time whatever works best for you and canadian university and college alumni could save over two thousand dollars a year that's real money back where it belongs save time save money save yourself from the way insurance used to be get your quote at sonnet.ca switch save simple sonnet now back to the lady gang ladies and mostly ladies it is that time of year again

People has crowned their sexiest man alive. And if you've been listening to Lady Gang for the past decade, you know we always have opinions on this. But today, we decided to go straight to the source. We are joined by the woman who oversees it all, editor-in-chief of People, Charlotte Triggs. Okay, you're the one. How many people, how many men sent you flower baskets this year trying to get named the

sexiest man alive? What have you been riding with? First of all, thank you so much for having me, by the way. I just have to say, I'm such a fan of the show. So it's really an honor to be here. And I'm so excited to be talking about this. You know, I have not actually gotten all the bribes that you would think, but hopefully after people see how amazing this issue turned out for our 40th anniversary issue, like how many sexy photo shoots and how many shirtless guys there are in there, I I'm expecting maybe some flowers and champagne afterwards.

I love this. Okay. So I'm taking us back to lady world because this is how iconic this list is. we had Mark McGrath on stage at Lady World and he, during his set, shouted out, you know, hey guys, it's me, 1997's people's most sexiest rocker, Mark McGrath. Now that was 30 years ago and he's still using that title. So what does it mean to be a part of this issue? Like, can it, what do you sell more tickets to your thing? Like what, why is it such an honor to be named in this people issue? You know, honestly, it is a big deal to be sexiest man alive. And it's a big deal even just to be in the issue at all you can see people never they never shut up about it right because it's so exciting and it's such a happy fun designation it's like it's sort of like being an

oscar winner but like the designation in the fun pure fluffy silly space of just being sexy it's like bragging rights they don't have to be then saying anything about themselves we said it for you know? So it's like this amazing fun moment where it's like, you know, it's just like, just honestly so much fun and people really do love it. It's like George Clooney even mentioned it in his Oscar speech that he was sexiest man alive in 1997. You know what I mean? Like they don't forget. They remember the year. They remember all the details. It's a big deal. Then they would. Okay. I want to go through us and see before Charlotte announces, tell us who we think it should be. So I'm going to start with Jack. Jack, who do you think?

I don't want to go first, but I will. You know what? Actually, I will because it just hit me from what you just said. Because my sexiest man of my year this year is Mark McGrath. I'm bringing it back from 1997 because the man looks the same, doesn't age. He's the best person I've ever met this year and he holds the key to my heart so i'm i'm going vintage with mine okay oh becca okay can i do a two-parter yes okay i'll also go vintage nostalgia but it's also coming no offense to mark mcgrath but he's also like back in the zeitgeist i think joshua jackson for all of us millennial women it's just something like the little tween inside of me goes crazy but then also the woman inside of me goes crazy. So, and he's like back in the, in the thing. And then I

also, Michael B. Jordan is a hot topic on this podcast. I feel like he's been on the list. And was he the actual sexiest man? He was the actual cover maybe like eight years ago. I gotta look up which year that was, but yeah, he was cover and he, we had the tight sweater. He looked really good. I'm going to get that image and send it over so you can see. Well, he's kept the title in my heart so okay i love it wait can i say i have my i have a real one it just came to me too um mine is and it's a little niche but like maybe not because i feel like the girls are coming back around um adam brody i think is like such a good one because he's he's like sexy in the way that he's the man that you marry you know it's like it's like mature sex sexy mature if you will

Kelty like really really like looking at him as a whole and I think he is just so sexy okay mine I'm going opposite sides Jason Momoa still is one of the only celebrities that has ever taken my breath away on a carpet where I'm like you're such a man with that scrunchie on your wrist and then Machine Gun Kelly like I'm going both sides of the spectrum um okay Charlotte take us there tell us who it is this year now I want to preface this by I had to do a little prep for this episode so I know who it is the girls have no idea and there is a great possibility that Jack Vanek will not know who this is so I'm just prefacing this by she is not in the pop culture zeitgeist as you can see but only only crime frogs she follows Charlotte you know you're like

interesting stories on people magazine like weird weird stuff or crime that's where jack goes on the site and the app okay she's not going to hot goss and we love her for that okay all right i hope you guys are gonna be excited actually i'm super excited to be telling you for the first time the cover this year is jonathan bailey and he is absolutely sizzling in this photo shoot you guys are gonna freak out when you see the pictures it's like too good you're gonna like lose it And for those who don't know, in case you actually are having to go Google over there. I'm looking right now. You know him.

You know him. He's from Bridgerton. Literally before we got on. Shut up. Shut up. I predicted this. She said it's going to be someone from Bridgerton because it's the show I don't watch. She did say that.

I literally guessed it. I guessed it. I was right. Bridgerton and he's in Wicked. He's in Wicked. Yeah, Wicked for good. which he has a giant, giant story arc in that, of course, he's like the handsome prince. I mean, he's incredible and he's such a nice guy, but this is, is this game changing? Because wait,

the girls are looking, are you looking at hot pictures of Jonathan Bailey now? Yeah. Okay. Why did you pick him, Charlotte? Why did you guys feel like this was the moment for Jonathan? So the sexiest man alive crown, as it were, is all about somebody who is hitting the zeitgeist and is really having their moment. The best ones that we've ever had have been people that we've kind of captured it right as they become a megastar and an A-lister. And this is one of the ingredients, being sexiest man alive is one of the ingredients that like certifies you as an A-lister actually, like it's next level. So, you know, we're proud of that, right? It's like the power that people have. You guys have good taste.

Yeah, we do. We've got a long 40 year history of picking some serious winners in there. So he is having his year it's a giant year for him I mean obviously you guys know him from Bridgerton he was also in Jurassic Jurassic World Rebirth I think oh the slutty little glasses oh my god I forgot about the slutty little glasses oh he falls from like a hundred foot cliff and the glasses are still on and he's still looking smoking hot in that movie I mean so that was amazing everybody loved his red carpet tour where he and Scarlett Johansson were just like so like fun. Nuzzling. Yeah. Yeah. And then of course, Wicked, where he like sings. I mean, I think everybody loves a guy who can sing like that. You know what I mean? There's something a little

extra next level about that. That's a talent not everybody has. He's just so handsome and he's also so nice. The nicest guy you'll ever meet. Plus he got really, really into the photo shoot. And like I told my photo director that my goal was for her to get at least one of the guys that we shot to take a shirt off. And Jonathan Bailey literally could not keep his shirt on. Give the people what they want. He understands the assignment. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. So true. And so when you decide his, yeah, he's hot. He's super hot. And he was so hot in Bridgerton. Um, he really like gives you the, I want to burn for you vibe. What I like about it is that he has chosen roles that are so different. Like Bridgerton, Jurassic Park and Wicked or Jurassic

World. These are three things that are so wildly different. Like you're giving me the range. Do you know what I mean? And also he spent his summer doing Richard the third on, on the West end. You know what I mean? Like this guy, a, he doesn't rest and B you're right. He's got it all. He can do action. He can do Shakespeare. You know, he can like sing. He's, he's really got the range. like you just pointed out. I mean, absolutely. So when you went and you did the Pinterest board for like what you wanted other than shirtless photos, like how, how involved are you in being like, okay, well my job, you're like, mom, what do you do this week at work? And you're like, my job was to decide what Jonathan Bailey was going to wear on the cover of people.

So what was the vibe? Well, so we did, you know, part of the creative process for all of these shoots is that we kind of like, we do board it out actually, like the vision board of like what we're going to want to do. We call it the mood board or whatever. And then we send it over to the talent. This guy had a lot of ideas. He is a serious creative dynamo and he had a lot of ideas of what he wanted to do. So we shot it in the South of England and I think he's like a surfer. So he loves the beach. It was cold and he was in the water. He was in the water swimming as the sun was going down for this photo shoot. That's how dedicated he is to the product, to the art you know yeah to the cause exactly you know what I mean so and we shot him all day long

this guy was you know literally like from dawn to dusk shooting for people's sexiest man alive cover and he knocked it out of the park I mean it's just amazing he had his dog there his dog Benson you're gonna freak out it's so cute he's got his shirt off cuddling with the dog it's just really next level I haven't seen a shoot like this in such a long time it's so exciting and so fun okay he's no dummy everyone knows in a cold water you're you shrink like your your muscles get a little bit more toned your skin gets tighter the nipple gets a little hard yeah it's hard he knows right like yeah yeah yeah very manly you know i love this okay i do have i do want to fight with you on something charlotte i'm so sorry i'm i wanted to warm you up with some

niceties before I got mad with the people's readers of people magazine. So you have the people's readers poll as well, which is these other areas where the people vote or you vote. Well, we can vote too, but it's for the readers. It's not for, you know, so I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at the readers. We have an issue. Everyone sexiest game show host. okay jimmy fallon won over ryan seacrest now and nate burleson who i worked with nate and he's very handsome in real life so he probably technically on pure riz should have won but and fallon is lovely we love him but if you have not been in a room with ryan seacrest ryan seacrest is small but mighty like he is becca sized but it doesn't matter his eyes

will look like he's so tall no he's not tall at all he's like probably five nine like i mean he's fine he's tall he's not short short um wow kelty way to like never get a job again um guess who's not the new host of american idol it's me but ryan seacrest i always say this he's one of those people that like yes you look at him on camera and you're like you're good looking like you're cute. When you see him in real life, he is so hot. He has this magnetic, like that face and those eyes will see into your bowels. Well, Kelty, these readers haven't been in a room with him, most of them. So give them a little bit of a break. Right. So I want to let them know they got it wrong. No, they got it wrong. Just let them know. It's such a shame to get into your

bowels, she says. And experience that. Because honestly, here's the deal. First of all, all the feedback that we get, like, you know, this is a tale as old as time from the dawn of time. We're mad about it. We're mad about something. We've always gotten letters from people saying, what about this guy? What about this guy? This is my favorite. This is my favorite. And I was reading old issues because it's our 40th anniversary. So I read every single issue we've ever done, Sexiest Man Alive. The very first, actually the second year, the editor's letter said, this is the hardest thing that we do because everybody complains and says that they don't agree because everybody finds something different to be sexy. Well, everybody's got a

different opinion on sexy, but we get to pick sexiest man alive. So you know what? Sorry, guys. I will, however, take all the notes and use it for next year. That's what I'll do. Who's the very first sexiest man alive? Oh, actually, this is a really good story. So it was Mel Gibson. And it wasn't that we decided, hey, you know what would be fun to do? Let's do this thing called sexiest man alive and let's pick Mel Gibson. It was invented by accident. because they booked Mel Gibson for the cover in 1985 and flew a reporter and a photographer to Australia. And the photographer got these great pictures of him. He was super sexy. But the interview, literally they quoted in the first paragraph of the story, they're like,

I don't want to be doing this interview, he says. And the interview was, Kelty, I'm sure you've had bad interviews in your day, right? I've never had one. What are you talking about? They've never gone viral either. When you get a dud interview like that, you're like, oh my God, what am I going to do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do a story. So they had spent all this money to fly somebody to Australia to do this. They were like, what are we going to, what are we going to do with this? Do we even run it? Like, what the hell is this? And the photo editor was like, why don't you just call him the sexiest man alive and just run it. And it doesn't even matter what the interview says. And they're like, it's kind of not a bad idea. Like, let's try it. And of course, everybody

loved it. And it became this giant franchise born by accident because the actual thing was such a dud that they had to figure out how to package it, genius packaging. And it's like gone on to, you know, to this day, it's like something that people look forward to all year long. It's got this huge cultural impact. People talk about it. It's like everybody in America, even the people who aren't paying attention to pop culture know what this is and are, you know, sort of waiting to hear what it is every year. Wow. It's so fun. Only a man would be rewarded for being a dick. Yeah. It's so true. It's like the girl would just be taken on. It was all uphill from there. Right. And then now we've had some really cool people on this cover and they've now they do

really fun interviews and the interviews are way better than that first year. Yeah. Now they want it. They want it. Um, I have something to admit. I had a poster of Mel Gibson on my wall for like 10 years as a child it was the movie poster for forever young do you remember that movie he did where he got to like age backwards or whatever anyway why was i guess people magazine is right because mel gibson like for some for some area era of my life i thought that was the my sexiest man alive yeah sexiest man alive now i've moved on to i mean he's a lot of things but at that point in 1985 he was sexy very dreamboat very dreamboat yeah you're listening to the lady gang okay the next thing i want to um yell at you about charlotte

is that we have a category called sexiest cat dad these things don't go together charlotte i i want to my petition is to remove sexiest cat dad who is it it's dave franco oh he's so cute yes he's so cute i love him it's cute it's cute all right i can understand but some people are not into the cats like andrew laventhal who's our works on our team and like she yeah i think you know her she um actually runs this package for me and she's so amazing and so creative her hot take on the cat dads was that some of them seem like they they love their cats more than they would pay attention to you if you're their girlfriend or whatever she was like I don't know like these guys are awfully

obsessed with their cats so but hey you want to know what for those who are cat fans that is the reigning Charlotte's trying to save it right now I love it I love it cat people think that cat dads are hot like in cat people are cat people

it's audience segmentation right yeah it's true in his defense he's married so it could have been the cat came with you know the wife Allison. So I, I am curious to know how many single cat dads there are out there. Same. Oh, you think they stay single? Like is, is like, yeah. Like is. This is a tough room for cat fans here.

We love cats, but it's like, if you're falling in love with someone, he's like, come back to my apartment. And then you're like, and there's like a hairball. And he's like, don't sit on that couch. I once went on a date with a famous man, very hot, very hot. And it was the first time I went back to his apartment in New York and I saw there was a litter box in the powder room of his apartment and I got the instant ick. I couldn't even make out with him. Yeah. I know. Thank God Dave Franco is so nice and so cute and has a great, great, great brows and is a dedicated, you know, husband, like we forgive him, but cat dad is so cute. He's so cute. But next year, he was very proud to be named sexiest cat dad, by the way, he like, you see him on Jimmy

Fallon. He was like bragging about it. He's super happy. Oh, he made it. He's so happy. Okay. Now I also, I'm confused. Um, so Jack, you might know this guy. Do you know this guy? He got named sexiest Tik TOK star, but I am, I'm following, you know, not that side of Tik TOK. His name's Henry Smith. Now last year it was the guy that was dating Kristen Cavallari, Mark Estes, which very sexual Montana boy, this man, Henry Smith. Do you know much about him, Charlotte? This was not your area exactly, but how did we pick Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, that person, right? That's, that's it, right? Yeah. I think that's, I forget. He's got so many Henry's. i can't remember like exactly what his brand name is but i think it's like five five henry's so i

mean this is where the power of like the people audience passion and like these people on tiktok get super into it and they camp the like this guy henry they campaign for these titles they want it they want it bad they're like after it they are like telling their audience go vote for me last year i don't know if you guys remember but role model campaigned super hard yes and then of course harry styles i think swept it because harry styles has 100 million followers and they can like do it in a blink of an eye you know what i mean but it's like these guys they're super intense they really want it they're after these titles and it becomes like you know like a really fun social conversation where people are you know they're they're dispatching their their fans to come and make

it happen for them. So it's like, this is also kind of a fun way where it's like, there may be people in corners of the internet that like, you know, we're like getting to know them on the basis of their sexiness. And then we see that they've got these really passionate, devoted audiences. And now all of a sudden they really, it does kind of push them a little bit next level to win these kind of designations. And then, you know, it's bragging rights for that. You know what? I'm going to actually pull that quote that Charlotte just said. I'm going to pretend she was talking, Charlotte on the Lady Gang podcast I'm going to pretend she was talking about us

and then I'm going to put it over all of our greatest pictures and be like you know people discover them and their sexiness first and then that's us for sure I actually recently found a clip of Role Model and I was also very sexually

attracted to Role Model so did he make the list? Stay tuned stay tuned there's more exciting news this week it's the sexiest week live, you're going to see more fun stuff later in the week. Okay. Great. You just might enjoy more stuff later in regards to that. I love it. Okay. As a, as a parting, as a parting gift to all of you, when you watch wicked and then you watch wicked for good and you see Jonathan Bailey dancing, let me just say this from my soul, a man that can five, six, seven, eight will five,

six, seven, eight. You, you know what I mean? You need a man with rhythm. You need a man with rhythm. Blake Shelton, Adam Levine. Like there is a reason Mark McGrath. There's a reason a man with rhythm. I'm saying the sexiest man alive like 10 years ago, but I thought you were talking about dancing. Big Shelton has rhythm. You need rhythm in life. Rhythm is rhythm, not cats rhythm. And then drop. That's the end. Charlotte. We're so excited. You can pick up the new issue on newsstands you can oh the people app changed my life thank you so much for the people app it like conglomerated everything i don't have to go searching and it just gives me what i want and i can swipe it like i'm on tiktok but it's the app thank you very much for that is

there anything else you want to tell the lady gang about this episode i mean this issue before we let you go back to your life i always love looking back at the 40 years and seeing all the amazing people who've been on the cover because it's just such a fun tradition i mean we've had like all the A-list stars. And I feel like this year is like better than ever. And when you see this photo shoot, you're going to freak out because it is just possibly one of the sexiest photo shoots we've ever done. Did you do slutty little glasses on one of them? Well, you want to know what, and actually there's no slutty little glasses in here, which is a little bit of a departure because we were thinking about taking stuff off, not putting stuff on.

Let his sexiness shine. Drop it like it's hot. Charlotte's like, we're not putting layers between the camera and you. You'll be looking right at it. Okay, well, you're amazing. Thank you so much. We'll shoot you an email, and we're excited. Thanks for letting us know.

No one tell anyone who it is. And we will see you next Tuesday. Lady Gang is hosted and produced by Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek, with social media support from Kali Carrera, audio and video editing from Jared Monaco, and additional support from Steve Delameter and Podcast One.