The results are in. A candidate has won. We finally know who has been chosen to lead us into a brighter tomorrow. Of course, I am talking about People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” who was announced Monday night as Jonathan Bailey. Bailey — star of Wicked and Bridgerton and parasocial boyfriend of theater kids everywhere — is the first openly gay man to hold the title. After a rather polarizing choice with last year’s John Krasinski , People seems quite confident its pick will go over well. The magazine even wrote “we know, we nailed it” in the headline. Bailey called the title both “a huge honor” and “completely absurd.”
Naturally, the polycule known as the Wicked cast is thrilled at the selection of one of their own — they celebrated the news with a video congratulat

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