Esquire has named its sexiest woman alive and this year's winner is Penelope Cruz. I would have voted for a different Cruz sister, but they didn't ask me. No one remembers last year's winner who was Scarlett Johansson, and this year will probably be no different. The only time anyone remembers is when people get screwed over like Ryan Gosling losing to Bradley Cooper in People's sexiest man alive. of course there was that whole Gwyneth Paltrow winning the People award for Most Beautiful Woman. See, those are what the average person remembers. I do seem to recall that Jessica Biel won the first Esquire award and other winners have included Rihanna, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry and Charlize Theron. One time I would like Esquire or People to take a vote of readers to actually come up with someone that average people think are the sexiest people alive instead of making this a contest of who has the best publicist.
They picked a mother of 2 with real breasts and no real history of a drug problem so I say let's let Penelope have it without any real argument. She IS gorgeous.
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ReplyDeleteBetter than GOOP. If you look from the neck down Biel looks damn good in bathing suit/bikini. ScarJo meh.
ReplyDeleteIn career terms, Penny should have been the world's sexiest woman in 2004 or so. Now it kind of smells like a comeback attempt.
ReplyDeleteShe looks pretty damn hot in this cover shoot that's for sure! Yowza!
ReplyDeleteI agree with every syllable Nutty_Flavor typed.
ReplyDeleteYes it had been painfully clear that over the last few years whoever wins the Sexiest Man Alive has a movie coming out that month which was not the case I think in the beginning, before People became fully Kneepadded.
ReplyDeleteThee was a blind not long ago RE: an upcoming cover /titlethat would be out of nowhere..(ala Gwyneths) and the real reason behind it.. I can't remember the details but this is recalling it to mind(not saying it's Penny)
ReplyDeleteShe does look astonishingly lovely, and I hope it is actual recognition....
She is fantastically beautiful!
ReplyDeleteShe was pretty sexy when she kissed Scartlett. I wonder if she ever misses Tom Cruise. She's hot, but not 1/2 your net worth hot
ReplyDeleteShe looks great. Good choice.
ReplyDeleteshe was never anything. and woman includes models, singers and other beauties. not only actresses.
ReplyDeletequeen elisabeth II is next in line
What has she done this year, that anyone would even remember her?
ReplyDeleteShe's very pretty but please, she isn't even in the top ten. And hasn't anyone ever heard of Photoshop?
ReplyDeleteGee, Enty, if "Sexiest" was voted on over the internet, Cumberbatch would win everything thanks to the 119 Cumberbitches worldwide who spend their lives voting him into things...
ReplyDeleteCruz is 40 and looks great after 2 kids. I like that Esquire had the balls to name her when the pro-Netanyahu brigade was trying to get her, Almodovar and Bardem all sent to Movie Star Prison.
@Sadie..I was thinking the members of One Direction and whatever other piece of teen fluff was out there would win because teen girls would flood the voting.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree Penelope was a good choice.
I am okay with this as long as it means Goop is no longer the sexiest woman alive.
ReplyDeleteDouble Meh. SUSAN BOYLE was ROBBED!
ReplyDeleteAgree with disco, loved her in VCB. Enty really has a thing for her sister.
ReplyDeleteTricia - I think you're on to something!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who Esquires audience is. Penelope does look good and while I applaud they chose someone NOT 18 she's not been working much lately. But she does look good.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see a poll taken to get the public's ideal "sexiest".
She's very beautiful. I was never there on the ScarJo or goofy vote. Each to his/her own I guess
ReplyDeleteGoopy ;)
ReplyDeleteI agree @Tricia
ReplyDeleteThis statement may have been accurate like five/ten years ago
Goopy before, now putálope. If they keep this progression... Lena Dungham, you're next.
ReplyDeleteOf course all these 'prettiest, hottest, sexiest' promos are controlled by pr folks. But I agree, Cruz is beautiful and a great choice.
ReplyDeleteThe whole concept is just silly. If someone is the Sexiest Woman Alive in year X, what happens between that year and the next year to suddenly make her not the sexiest woman alive?
ReplyDeleteUgh.
ReplyDeleteSooo not the sexiest woman. Tired of having to pretend she's super hot, and tired of her getting nominated for an Oscar every other year.
She's alwYs been one I named when talking of who i think the prettiest actresses are, prob top of my list. Before her I thought the same of CZJ and Selma Hayek. But when they're personalities became I visible, I could see I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnd. THERES NEVER EVER JUST ONE, AND NEVER SOMEONE THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON.
I don't get the scar jo thing. I think she can look great, and theorems something sexy about her some times. - but not to tbe extent if tbe attn that's paid to that about her.
So... what is she promoting?
ReplyDeleteShe is beautiful, I'm happy for her but, if there's anything I've learned about these "honors", they're all coordinated through publicists and studios.
*shrug* I guess it's better than when they try to make some unknown "happen".
The choice is fitting for Esquire, this isn't Maxim or FHM or something. She's a classy choice. Well cultured, intelligent, working mother & wife, actual TALENT (big emphasis on that one), a hands-on philanthropist. She's the sexiest woman for people with more discerning tastes than swimsuit magazine fan bases.
ReplyDeleteI would have gone with JLO...
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