Ah the decade that was the noughties maybe behind us now, as we step into an Olympic 2012 but the decade certainly had its fair share of boy hotness we take you on a little trip down memory lane for some boys you may remember and what they’re up to now!
15 Phixx
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First in our line up of hot dudes from the 2000s is the boyband Phixx, we can’t really choose one, but they were hot and they formed in 2003 as runners up from the UK talent show: PopStars The Rivals. Usually topless and sporting a rather vampiric look, long before Twilight was a twinkle, Phixx huffed and puffed their way through 4 top 20 singles in the UK before disbanding in 2006.
14 Joshua Rafter.
With bated breath the nation watched Josh enter the Big Brother house in 2001, back when people watched the ailing non-celebrity version of the show. Muscles entered the building first eventually followed by his rather cute face. There was a moment of ‘would they, wouldn’t they’ with the already impounded Brian Dowling, the eventual winner of the series, but alas it was not to be. The property guru took no time to get his pecs out and our summer was complete. Joshua can be found hocking homes for the LGBT community (and everyone else for that matter) on Old Compton Street and life has been kind to his face, as he’s still a stunner 11 years on.
13 Jake Hook.
We first saw Jake in his seriously hot and rather (for the time) edgy music video “Smooth” in 2003, it even had boy on boy snogging, which we thought was pretty noble! His single went to #32 in the Belgium Singles chart and he pretty much fell off the radar after a run of live tours with Phixx and Jamiela – that is until 2009 when he wrote and produced Coming Home a Double Platinum Smash Hit by The Soldiers. Since then he’s been steadily working in his studio has now produced and written for over 18 top 45 albums and singles.
12 Kieron Richardson.
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Openly gay actor from the hit British soap Hollyoaks. Richardson was inspired to come out by Joe McElderry (what an inspiration he is too) and he did so in a blaze of glory on This Morning in September 2010. Kieron has played the part of Ste Hay on the soap since 2006, after being briefly written out Ste has returned to our screens as a full-time character. Hurrah. You can listen to his sultry tones on the online radio station Gaydio.
11 Mitch Hewer.
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We nearly fainted when a Mitch skipped on to Skins in 2007. After Skins he went to star in ‘Never Forget’ a musical based on the songs of Take That. In 2008 Hewer provided a defining moment in his career when he got his kit off in Cosmopolitan magazine to bring attention to testicular cancer.
10 O-TOWN.
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Okay, this may turn into an orgy, but we just couldn’t decide on which boy to chose from this boy-band turned Man band. Take N-Sync add Backstreet Boys, slightly soil and wrap them in plastic looking costumes and you’ve got O-TOWN, why this band never succeeded the first time around I’ll never know. Their first single was called Liquid Dreams – how much more homoerotic do you want!
9 Doctor Christian Jessen.
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Have you seen this man’s body? No seriously. We almost fainted when Doctor Christian appeared topless in one of his eat good/get naked/stand in a hideously lit white box room programmes for channel 4. Christian is rarely off Channel 4’s airwaves now.
8 Scott Maslen.
He’s been voted as one of sexiest men on television. He is mostly notable from the long-running BBC soap Eastenders. Maslen is actually an east ender in real life, born in Woolwich in 1971. He originally signed up to be a marine, however, after an injury he became an ‘international’ male model. Yes, the link is very obvious to us too! However don’t get too excited lads, the man is a ladies man, married to his long term lady, after nine years together.
7 Michael Chad Murray.
It was until 2005 that Michael Chad Murray came into general consciousness but it was Paris Hilton’s infamous film House of Wax that catapulted Michael into our hearts! Google Image search him and you’ll get to see why Michael’s star remains brightly lit – the enduring image is of a naked Michael with only a basketball between our lustful eyes and his modesty. Mostly recently Michael has been portraying the character Lucas Scott in the hit drama series One Tree Hill.
6 Duncan James.
Tousled dirty blonde hair, killer abs thing going on. James was in the decades arguably most successful boy band Blue, who reigned supreme from 2000-2004. After
Tousled dirty blonde hair, killer abs thing going on. James was in the decades arguably most successful boy band Blue, who reigned supreme from 2000-2004. After Blue Split, James released Future Past his only solo work to date which reached a rather poorly 55 in the UK charts. James along with his Bluey cohorts had a little bit of a comeback with Eurovision with the song I AM which reached #16 in the UK Charts. In 2009 the sun-kissed king came out as bisexual to the now defunct News Of The World and then as gay in Feb 2014.
5 Daniel Radcliffe.
It’s almost wrong to put Dan on this list as he almost feels like our little brother. We’ve grown up with him since 2001 when Radcliff and his wizardly crew stormed the film scene with the Harry Potter franchise, but it wasn’t till he got his kit off for Equus that we actually saw that Mr Radcliffe has some serious sexy potential. Oh, the queens lined the street for a sneaky peak at Harry Wand! Daniel is one of the world youngest millionaires which is always giving someone a certain magmatism.
It’s almost wrong to put Dan on this list as he almost feels like our little brother. We’ve grown up with him since 2001 when Radcliff and his wizardly crew stormed the film scene with the Harry Potter franchise, but it wasn’t till he got his kit off for Equus that we actually saw that Mr Radcliffe has some serious sexy potential. Oh, the queens lined the street for a sneaky peak at Harry Wand! Daniel is one of the world youngest millionaires which is always giving someone a certain magmatism.
4 Justin Timberlake.
So Mr Timberlake wasn’t strictly born of the decade that was 2000, but in 2001 a pert 22-year-old ex N-Syncer rocked our world with his debut solo album: Justified. The ups and downs of his relationship to Britney and his legendary topless shoot with Rolling Stone kept the gay boys Crying A River. Justin Timberlake is now a film star, with his role in Social Network really bringing his acting into the limelight. A Hollywood producer and even has his own line of Tequila as well as whole host of other business ventures!
3 Barrack Obama. Now this name is what we like to call a game changer. Barrack bowled onto the world’s screens, radios and hearts in 2008 when he began his race to the presidency in the US. No child was left
Now this name is what we like to call a game changer. Barrack bowled onto the world’s screens, radios and hearts in 2008 when he began his race to the presidency in the US. No child was left un-kissed, no photo opportunity was missed, including a topless shoot in a candid holiday shot, which quite frankly changed our minds about the hottest president since JFK. Houseflies everywhere went into hiding, whilst Obama was on the trail for the premiership. Barack ranks number three in our list of hotties from the noughties, never underestimate being the leader of one of the world’s most powerful countries.
2 Randy Harrison. Oh, those pillow lips, the big puppy eyes and the floppy blonde mop and with a name like Randy how can anyone resist this openly gay actor from the American version of
Oh, those pillow lips, the big puppy eyes and the floppy blonde mop and with a name like Randy how can anyone resist this openly gay actor from the American version of Queer As Folk. Playing the part that Charlie Hunnam took in the UK version, we get to see Harrison in a variety of eye-opening ways.
1 ZAC EFRON.
Oh Zac Zac Zac. When we first saw you we felt naughty stirrings which we thought we probably shouldn’t. However looking your most recent pictures we’ve come to the conclusion we were absolutely right. With a string of high grossing movies: Hairspray, 17 Again, and High School Musical. He was “The Hair” before Justin Bieber. In fact you never see the two in the same room at the same time. Just a suggestion but perhaps Justin is actually just the cut offs from Efron’s hair. It seems there is nothing this boy can’t do: Act, Sing and look good, move over Andrew Stone Zac is the real triple threat. Little might you know but Zac has had 8-charted songs in the UK and 10 the US! He’s reportedly worth a cool $10.8m. Step over Brad Pitt I think we’ve found our new Man for the decade.