I found this in an old Reveal magazine. Jane Ellis, the editor, and her feelings about a certain Mr Cumberbatch...
Benedict Cumberbatch, the award-winning actor who plays TV's Sherlock Holmes, recently topped a sexiest man national newspaper poll ahead of David Beckham
Now several of my colleagues cannot see why this should be. He certainly is not conventionally handsome and has said of his win: 'It makes me laugh. I don't know about being the sexiest man in the world. I'm barely the sexiest man in my flat and I'm the only guy living there.'
But this is all wrong thinking on the part of my colleagues and false modesty on Benedict's part. The guy is hot. Anyone who saw the Sherlock episode entitled A Scandal In Belgravia will attest to that. And, by the way, this episode has been viewed 2.5 million times, making it the most watched show on BBC iPlayer.
People have said it's because actress Lara Pulver gets her kit off, but it's Sherlock's reaction to her nudity that makes the show so damn sexy. Plus, I have actually seen Benedict himself in the nude playing Frankenstein's monster at London's National Theatre and I can tell you, it was far from being a shabby experience. Seems quite a few readers agree with me. You are tweeting things like: 'He shouldn't be sexy but he is', 'Epitome of sexy geek', and 'Prefer him to Mark Wright any day'.
Am I too old to have a poster of him up on my bedroom wall? (Don't answer that!)
