Each year, the editors at People magazine rolls up their sleeves and set themselves to the task of choosing who is the Sexiest Man Alive (see the official SMA Cover Gallery). Their choice for 2008 is non other than the X-Men’s hirsute living weapon – Wolverine… a.k.a. Hugh Jackman.
And they weren’t the only ones. earlier that month, Open Salon named Hugh Jackman one of its sexiest men living. A three-time host of the Tony Awards, Jackman hosted the 81st Academy Awards on February 22, 2009.
Whether he’s belting out showtunes onstage or slicing and dicing evil mutants, Jackman is a quadruple threat who can act, sing, dance and fight with claws or swords. He shows quite a range – from The Boy From Oz (a lavish musical biography of Peter Allen, a super-camp dancer and lounge singer who married Liza Minnelli and later died from complications from AIDS) to box office action superstar Wolverine.
At the age of 40, with an athletic muscular physique his wife of 12 years calls "the Body of Doom", 6ft 2in tall Hugh Jackman is now officially the sex-symbol of 2008. Move over Brad and Matt, its time for someone furrier.
Jackman has been invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If he accepts, he will be inducted in September 2009.
