John Krasinski was announced as the 2024 Sexiest Man Alive by the People magazine on the Late Show with Steven Colbert on Tuesday evening. People began the tradition of naming the sexiest men since 1985, with multiple actors taking home the title more than once.

Krasinski succeeds Patrick Dempsey who won the title in 2023. The first winner was Mel Gibson in 1985.

Before Dempsey, several actors and sportsmen have won the title including Chris Evans (2022), Paul Rudd (2021), Michael B Jordan (2020), John Legend (2019), Idris Elba (2018), Blake Shelton (2017), Dwayne Johnson (2016), David Beckham (2015), Chris Hemsworth (2014), Adam Levine (2013), Channing Tatum (2012), Bradley Cooper (2011) and Ryan Reynolds (2010).

Johnny Depp won the title in 2009 and 2003. Others winners in the 2000s include High Jackman (2008), Matt Damon (2007), George Clooney (2006), Matthew McConaughey (2005), Jude Law (2004), Ben Affleck (2002), Pierce Brosnan (2001) and Brad Pitt (2000).

For Clooney, who took home the title in 2006, it was not the first time. He had bagged it in 1997 too. Pitt too won it in 1995 before reclaiming it in 2000.

In 1993, People named the Sexiest Couple Alive for a change when they gave the award to Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford. Richard Gere won the title separately in 1999.

Other winners in the 1990s were Harrison Ford (1998), Denzel Washington (1996), Keanu Reeves (1994), Nick Nolte (1992), Patrick Swayze (1991) and Tom Cruise (1990).

In the 1980s, besides Gibson, Sean Connery clinched the title in 1989, John F Kennedy Jr in 1988, Harry Hamlin in 1987 and Mark Harmon in 1986.

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The Voice US fans were left blindsided after a contestant suddenly quit the show, leaving a judge in the lurch.

On the latest episode of the singing competition, which airs on network NBC, Canadian singer Michael Bublé, who is a judge on the show, was informed that Tanner Frick had left the show ahead of the knockouts stage.

Presenter Carson Daly told Bublé: “Michael, Tanner left the competition after rehearsals. You still have Cameron [Wright] and Sloane [Simon].”

No reason was given for Frick’s decision to leave the show – and fans have become even more confused after the contestant appeared to reference the news in cryptic message posted on Instagram and TikTok.

The singer shared a video showing him performing one of his songs, captioning the post: “Ain’t nobody want me anyway.”

However, viewers of the show noted the discrepancy in his statement, as Frick had received support from the judges during his appearances on the series.

In his first audition, all four judges – including Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani and Reba McEntire – turned their chairs around to signify they wanted to send him through to the next round.

Frick initially opted to go with McEntire, who sent him home in the battle stage of the competition – but Bublé swooped in to save him from being eliminated, telling Daly: “Tanner Frick was a huge win for me. That’s a former four-chair turn and a piece of the puzzle that I didn’t have.”

He said of Frick: “I needed that country singer and now I feel like I’m completely in the game. It’s a brave new world we’re about to head into.”

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Frick’s fans expressed surprise over his exit from the show in the comments section of his post, with one writing: “Sure was surprised to hear that you had departed The Voice… I predicted you to go all the way to win it this year. “

Another added: “Ugh I hate that you left The Voice. I had you as my top #1 artist! So sad to see you go but I hope everything is OK!”

An additional fan wrote: “You were definitely one of my favs!!” with another chiming in: “Oh no, where did you go? I felt like you could win The Voice.

The Office star John Krasinski has been named by People magazine as the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

“I’m so proud to see my friend go from goofy, lovable boy next door to a big sex hunk,” Colbert said.

Krasinski made a surprise appearance on the show after the announcement and jokingly gave Colbert tips and tricks on how to achieve the title, like a bizarre diet and “stealing the DNA of a sexy man”. Former Sexiest Man Alive winner Chris Evans, too, made a cameo via a pre-recorded video.

When asked how his wife Emily Blunt reacted to the news, Krasinski said, “There was so much laughter on the other end of the phone.”

In an interview with People magazine, Krasinski revealed that he was shocked at the selection. “Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts. Other than maybe I’m being punked. That’s not how I wake up, thinking, ‘Is this the day that I’ll be asked to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And yet it was the day you guys did it. You guys have really raised the bar for me.”

The A Quiet Place director succeeds Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey, who was last year’s recipient.

Previous recipients of the award include Paul Rudd, Michael B. Jordan, John Legend, Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba and Bradley Cooper, to name a few.

The tradition of People magazine giving the title of ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ began in 1985, with actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson being the first one.

Imsha Rehman, a Pakistani influencer and TikTok star, has deactivated her social media accounts after her private video leaked.

Who is Imsha Rehman?

Hailing from Lahore, Imsha Rehman was born on October 7, 2002. Before deactivation, she was active on TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms. 

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The alleged video that went viral resulted in online backlash on the TikToker with users slamming Lahore-based Imsha Rehman for deliberately leaking the video online for fame and attention.

However, reports from local media says Imsha Rehman’s social media accounts were hacked.

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Several users circulated screenshots from the video on X, forcing the TikToker to quit social media. Before deactivating her accounts, Imsha Rehman said the backlash was “overwhelming”.

This comes after private videos of another social media influencer Minahil Malik from Karachi was leaked online. Minahil has claimed that the leaked video was “fake” and filed a complaint with the authorities.

A senior Pakistani actress, Mishi Khan, alleged that influencers are intentionally leaking the video and “stooping to the lowest level” without naming 30-year-old Minahil.

A MASTER of the acting craft, Timothy West played everyone from Shakespeare’s King Lear to Stan on EastEnders.

Yet perhaps his most cherished moments on screen were as himself — pootling in a boat on Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys with Prunella Scales, his beloved wife of 61 years.

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Intelligent and witty Timothy, who died in his sleep on Tuesday aged 90, displayed a devotion to his wife that brought a lump to the throat.

Intended as a travelogue, Great Canal Journeys instead became a reflection on the couple’s decades-long love story — undimmed after Fawlty Towers star Prunella’s dementia diagnosis in 2013.

After a canal ride to Langollen, Denbighs, where they had spent their honeymoon 50 years before, she said: “We just fit, somehow. He never bores me. When he talks, it’s interesting or entertaining.”

Modest and gently spoken, he said: “She can’t remember things very well. But you don’t have to remember things on the canal. You can just enjoy things as they happen — so it’s perfect for her.”

‘Incredible talents’

He is survived by Prunella, 92, their two sons — actor-director Samuel and teacher Joseph — and his daughter Juliet from an earlier marriage to actress Jacqueline Boyer.

His children said in a statement yesterday: “After a long and extraordinary life, our darling father Timothy died peacefully in his sleep yesterday evening. Tim was with friends and family at the end.”

Timothy Lancaster West CBE was born in Bradford in 1934 and his actor parents Olive and Lockwood advised him to avoid the theatre at all costs.

But after stints selling office furniture, and as a recording engineer, at age 22 he became an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre.

He would soon start acting — for much of the 1950s in provincial theatres before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. He later went on to play Macbeth twice and King Lear four times.

He was also a French intelligence agent in 1973 film The Day Of The Jackal and took the title role in BBC TV biopic Churchill And The Generals in 1979.

His versatility saw him play Russian despot Joseph Stalin on stage, and greedy mill owner Bradley Hardacre in Eighties comedy Brass on ITV then Channel 4 — a satire of dour BBC working-class dramas of the previous decade.

He also played Stan Carter on EastEnders, and Coronation Street’s Eric Babbage, love interest of Gloria Price.

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With acting in his blood, he continued until the end. Hours after his death was announced, he was seen in BBC soap Doctors, as the neighbour of a patient who fell in their garden.

The BBC show tweeted that it was “a moving reminder of his in- credible talent.”

He met Prunella in 1961. Cast together in BBC play She Died Young, they bonded by doing crosswords and eating Polo mints.

Prunella, later famous as Sybil in Seventies sitcom classic Fawlty Towers, said: “We had a mild, Times-crossword flirtation, and he said, ‘Would you like to come to the pictures?’ I said, ‘Yeah, love to’.”

They kept in touch by post before a fateful date in Oxford. Timothy said: “We went punting, had a meal somewhere and the rest is history.”

The sad thing is you watch the gradual disappearance of the person you knew and loved

Timothy West

But in 2013, Prunella was diagnosed with vascular dementia, and Timothy cared for her in their home of 50 years in Wandsworth, South West London. The next year, they began their canal series.

Two years later, he said: “The sad thing is you watch the gradual disappearance of the person you knew and loved.

“Perhaps we have been to a concert, play or film and there is not much we can say because Pru will have a fairly hazy memory.

“I should think it is very frustrating for Pru. She is very kind and does not let on. It is frustrating for me, of course. We need each other.”

But they cherished her moments of lucidity, while viewers delighted in their affection and gentle ribbing.

With Pru’s speech and mobility failing, in 2019 they signed off with a tear-jerking trip to Oxford.

He said this year: “I would give anything to have the old Pru back. But the fact she doesn’t have to worry about anything very much is a crumb of comfort.”

Actress Dame Joanna Lumley said yesterday: “Timothy and Pru did an amazing job convincing people dementia was not something you should be always afraid of — rather something you could embrace and live with, and live with well.”

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US actor Dave Coulier, best known for his role as Joey Gladstone in Full House, has announced he has stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The actor is 65.

According to the American Cancer Society, over 80,000 Americans are diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma each year. Also known as B-cell lymphoma, it is a type of cancer that develops in B-lymphocytes.

Talking to PEOPLE, Dave Coulier revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer in October. It was an upper respiratory infection which caused major swelling in his lymph nodes that led to the discovery. As his swelling increased rapidly one area became as big as a golf ball, he said. After a biopsy, PET and CT scans, it was confirmed that he was having stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Two weeks into his diagnosis, the veteran artist began chemotherapy. He shaved his head as a “preemptive strike” after his close circle backed him to take the disease head-on, he added.

Dave Coulier starred in the popular sitcom Full House alongside the late Bob Saget, John Stamos, Lori Loughlin, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The hugely successful show ran for eight seasons between 1987 and 1995. 

What is Non-Hodgkin lymphoma?

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that forms in the lymph system. The lymph system is part of the immune system which protects the body from infection and disease. According to the US government’s National Cancer Institute, non-Hodgkin lymphoma grows and spreads at different rates and can be indolent or aggressive. Indolent lymphoma tends to grow and spread slowly, and has few signs and symptoms. Aggressive lymphoma grows and spreads quickly, and has signs and symptoms that can be severe. The treatments for indolent and aggressive lymphoma are different.

According to the website, the aggressive kind of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which Dave was diagnised with, is called the ‘Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.’ It is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It grows quickly in the lymph nodes and often the spleen, liver, bone marrow, or other organs are also affected. Signs and symptoms of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma may include fever, drenching night sweats, and weight loss. These are also called B symptoms.

How serious are non-Hodgkin lymphomas?

According to the Cleveland Clinic’s website, 3 in 100,000 people worldwide die of some type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Serious non-Hodgkin lymphoma conditions can make the patient’s body more vulnerable to life-threatening infections, other kinds of cancer or heart disease. 73% percent of people with these conditions are alive five years after their diagnosis. People diagnosed before the condition spreads live longer than people who are diagnosed after the condition spreads, the report added.