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hotness on social media and some earn their keep just by being handsome. Charmers, one and all. So we’ve brought them together for this new issue of The Most Beautiful Man In The World. For our second issue we are particularly excited to present an exclusive specially commissioned centrefold by London based fashion designers Meadham Kirchhoff with knitwear from their SS15 collection, self-portraits by photographer Jeff Hahn. Elsewhere in the issue we have gone global. We have photographed Jamie, captain of the British Deaf football team; Remi, a French freerunner; a bunch of Brazilian fitness obsessives; Ben, a professional dancer shot behind the scenes of the European leg of Kylie Minogue’s Kiss Me Once tour; and Ron, a mixed martial arts fighter from the Big Apple. It’s quite the mix. And wherever you are in the world you can follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter where you will find online exclusives, behind-the-scenes snippets and fresh footage from our stories. You can also order an issue direct to your door from our online store for the cost of print and postage at Themostbeautifulmanintheworld.bigcartel.com I and the team here at TMBMITW hope you enjoy!
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What inspired you to learn to dance? I always danced. My earliest memories, are as a baby, wrapped up, with my bottle in hand, dancing in front of Michael Jackson videos. This passion grew, until my parents put me into municipal dance class. At 14 I joined a youth musical, an adventure I continued up until my 17th birthday. But reality caught up with me, and I decided to put dancing aside to concentrate on a more ‘conventional’ future. After a chain of odd jobs, it was not until 2011 that I decided to give myself a chance and get on the road for castings. I was noticed by the director and choreographer Giuliano Peparini, who invited me to join the musical 1789 Les Amants de la Bastille. I was offered training to be a more complete performer and given access to the world of entertainment through several other projects. What music makes you run to the dance floor? When I party I like commercial songs. What’s your dream gig? I’d like to have the opportunity to go on a music tour again, for the human adventure of being on the road. Unfortunately with the Kylie tour, I didn’t have the opportunity to roam the world, just Europe and Australia, so I would love to tour globally on a future project. But I love to discover and feed
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my senses with different universes. I believe all of these experiences are enriching and can only make me grow in my art. I aspire to keep growing, in order to realise my own projects in the future. Which style of dance would you like to learn? I have always hoped to one day learn the couples dances – tango and salsa. Are you lucky in love? Love is something that requires a lot of time and energy. At present my career doesn’t leave me enough time to dedicate myself to a relationship. Do you believe in love at first sight? I believe in attraction at first sight. In regard to love, in my opinion it takes more than a look to get there. But I want to believe that a look can be the beginning of a beautiful love story. Which person would you choose to confide in? When I need to, I find friends to share my life stories with. If you had to do it all again, would you do anything differently? I wouldn’t change a thing. I consider that any experiences both good and bad forge who we are. I am the result of my past, and I try to stay true to my principles and my goals to advance. You look pretty fetching in the black wet look catsuit in the Kylie show… When I first saw that outfit, I thought that my big body will never fit in! In my first experience dancing with Kylie for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, during Into The Blue, my pants were way too tight, and suddenly totally ripped in between my legs – from the front to the back. I could see the public in the first row laughing. Do you work hard on your body? I started gym training a month before the start of the Kiss Me Once Tour. I knew by reputation of Kylie’s shows and her ‘nude’ dancers, ha ha! And I have kept up the pace and still go regularly to the gym and eat healthily. Is it weird to be up on stage with such an adoring audience watching you? No it’s not strange. It is however very powerful and difficult to express the feelings. A mixture of excitement and adrenaline that gives me access to a massive happiness. I will not be original in saying that the stage is the one place where I feel at my happiest. This is where I have
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show remains for me a very strong moment, because it is the first contact with the audience. How do you prepare for a show? For each show you need a preparation. I warm up an hour before by stretching and the gym, and then I take a shower. I prepare myself as if I were leaving for an important event. I need to feel ‘ready’ before facing the public. Before each show I stop and think of a time in my life when I have fantasized someday to live out my passion. It is good for me to recall where I come from, and repeat to myself how lucky I am today to be living my dreams. How do you wind down after a show? After a show I need to eat. And I love to hang out with my friends. Has your work brought you any fame? In France, after my two musicals, I can sometimes be recognised by the public. Kylie has allowed me to be more exposed, and opened the door of an international public. Arriving one morning in rehearsals, my colleagues showed me to my surprise some gay magazine had posted an article online about me at the Kylie show. After this article I had a surge of friend requests on Facebook and I instantly won about 3000 followers on Instagram! Have you had fun on the road? The tour was certainly one of the most beautiful professional and life experiences. I arrived in London, alone, I didn’t know anyone. I fell in love with this city, its energy. Working with Kylie is a chance in gold for a dancer, which helped create strong bonds between the dance team, and we have lived three wonderful months together. Do you have any holiday plans? Not for the moment. I have some upcoming projects. And I must admit that I have a real problem with being inactive. A break in the tour before the Australian leg allows us to find our loved ones, our lives again, after several months abroad, and to move forward on other projects. What are your Christmas plans? Normally each year my father, who has a restaurant, will open it to provide meals to people
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me
Christmas
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Warrior back in 2012 and we became friends right
hanger fitted out like an adult playground, with
away. When I moved to LA at the beginning of
trampolines, climbing frames, sprung flooring and
this year the Tempest Free-running Academy just
foam pits on split levels. It’s a brightly coloured riot
became my second home, I’m here almost every
of a fun house. I had been captivated by the place
day.” We move outside for some shots in amongst
since watching Remi’s instagram films showcasing
the neighbouring industrial units. Remi runs towards
his talents for free-running and acrobatics. It
the wall, launches himself up it and flips backwards.
doesn’t hurt that his physique also gets a look-in.
The sunshine is blazing down, Remi’s beautiful
The place (and his handsome athleticism) were
girlfriend Lyndrel has joined us, and continues the
just as impressive in person, early on a jet-lagged
easy conversation as we shoot her boyfriend. We
Friday morning. We chat to Remi as he starts to
wander around the lot, stopping every now and
warm up. “I started with gymnastics and dance
again to photograph. This is the start of the first
in France when I was 8 then started flipping and
day of a whole week of shooting in California. The
tricking outdoor with my friends when I was 15.
beauty and the casual relaxed atmosphere, with
At 20 I moved to the US, but I really only got into
the friendly nature of the guys, is exactly why we’re
free-running seriously when I moved to LA at the
here. “I love it here in Cali! It reminds me a lot of
beginning of this year and I’ve been training
Nice. Amazing weather all year long, the beach and
intensively since then!” Once he starts tumbling,
beautiful trees. I feel good just looking around me.”
it’s really quite breathtaking as he flies around the
I hate to be British about it, but surely something
room. We clamber over obstacles to try and get
must get him down? “The worst things probably the
the right angle for shots, as his momentum keeps
traffic and the cost of living, way more expensive
him moving in different directions, and he bounds
than Las Vegas where I used to live.” We leave Remi
across us. This constructed parkour playpark is
and Lyndrel, as they head inside to train, and we
really something quite unique. “I met the owner
jump into an Uber back towards the Hollywood Hills.
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on and starting swinging my hips in the spotlight.
I started when I was about 9.
That is literally why I started dancing. After that
How was that for a boy?
my mum decided to send me to dance class.
I tried to keep it a secret but when I got into theatre
You’ve just started performing in Wicked.
school, my teacher announced it to my whole
How is that?
class. I was like ‘noooo…’ I was mortified. I speak
It’s amazing. I was so nervous when I did the audition
to lots of dancers and around 80% of the guys had
because it’s the show I’ve always wanted to be
a lot of trouble when they were younger. I was
in. The first time I saw that show 8 years ago there
lucky. I didn’t really. It was fine for me. After my
was just something about it that really moved me.
teacher told everyone I left the next day anyway.
Apart from dancing, do you do anything to
How was theatre school?
keep in shape?
Amazing. The best 5 years of my life - just
To be honest, I never have. Obviously a lot of boys
incredible. I went to Sylvia Young and 2 out of
go to the gym because they have to do all the lifts.
the 5 days it’s just dance and theatre all day. It’s
Obviously you also need to look good. I need to start.
just incredible to be able to do that at school.
What are your plans for the future?
Any famous classmates?
I want to do as much as I can. I already have
I was at school with Rita Ora. My era was the
my own YouTube channel where I do my own
era of the bands. There was a guy called Jake
choreography (Spsalter1). I want to start training
Roche who is in an up-and-coming band called
in
Rixton. There was also Nathan from the Wanted;
Gaga is a big dream of mine, or Celine Dion
a girl from The Saturdays and Jamie Blackley
because she uses more contemporary dance in
who has just started making big Hollywood films.
her shows. I also really want to get into acting. I
What made you want to get into dancing?
don’t just want to be pigeon holed as a dancer.
I was 8 and I was on holiday and there was a stage
I want to open as many doors as possible.
and a spotlight and some music came on. I just ran
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Ron says his girlfriends are driven even crazier when
arriving in the USA when he was 11, Ronny Arana
in
Ecuador,
he tells them he strips for a second job. “They think
Leon found his path turning towards professional
it’s funny! After Magic Mike, all girls want a little
fighting early on – as he got tough to fight back
Channing Tatum in their life,” he laughs. Getting
against school bullies. “The whole fighting thing
into the profession was something of an accident.
started because I was always a bit smaller and I
Ron was already working at a strip joint but only as
got bullied at school. Big time,” the 23-year-old
a bar tender when Magic Mike was released. The
explains. “I was always the smallest guy. Especially
bar owner – spotting a prime opportunity – insisted
when I came to the States. It was a tough time.
all the staff from the bar head out to cinemas to
But when I was 16 I started jujitsu classes and from
flyer about the strip bar to drum up extra business.
there I began training and realised I could get a
With women flocking around him to take a flyer
career out of it,” he says. Now a professional Mixed
or two, Ron found himself being asked if he was
Martial Arts fighter, Ron is on a winning streak (he’s
one of the strippers on stage and, in an effort to
won every match he’s played both professionally
ensure the girls batting their eyelids up at him
and in the amateur circuit) and holds ambitions of
would come to the bar, he said “Yes!” Before he
fighting for big money. While he is a cool headed
knew it, he found himself on stage shaking his tush
guy, the Brooklyn based fighter admits he used to
for even more cash. But he says his lovers don’t
struggle with keeping his hands clean outside of
mind that he fights by day and dances by night.
the ring. Often getting into scraps as a kid, Ron
“They get naughty about it! They have this guy
says he learnt the hard way that fighting anywhere
who can fight but he can also move. What are the
outside the ring is a bad idea. “Like all fights start
odds?” Showcasing those moves in clubs across
– it was about a woman,” Ron says about the
Manhattan, Ron also lends his physique for hire. He
incident that left him unconscious and without his
says he hasn’t had to fight off any of his admirers
front teeth. “I learned that bar fights are not the
when he’s standing in tiny underwear. “Obviously if
way to go and that was the last ‘unofficial’ fight
you do very naughty stuff, you give them the door
I’ve ever had,” he insists. “When I am in the ring
to think everything they want to do is all right,”
and in training, I am definitely a bull. But all the rest
he explains. “But if they are having fun and you
of the time I am a very calm, easy-going person. I
make them know that you are working they have
have become the lover more than the fighter when
to have respect for you. A little respect! I mean,
I am outside.” With his career in its early stage the
what is respect out there when you are dancing
budding athlete reveals he uses his well-sculpted
in a thong? There is not much respect left in that
body to bring in some extra cash on the side of his
moment!” he laughs.. While it is safe to say Ron is
training and competing. “I am a stripper at night,”
enjoying what life is throwing at him at the moment,
he laughs. “I am young, I can still do it. I am 23.
he makes it clear throwing punches professionally
By the time I’m 40 I can look back and laugh and
is the true path for him. “The MMA fighting.
think ‘Oh shit! I was a stripper before.’ I never hide
That’s my career. That’s what I see the future in.
it,” he says. Admitting his career as a fighter works
Stripping is just to pay some of the bills,” he says.
wonders on ladies who want a strong man to date.
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Vince shot to fitness-community fame back in
fitness character gets boring for me. I don’t want to
2010, when his shots taken by god of muscle-
push the fitness thing. Its only one dimension of me,
photography Luis Rafael went viral. “We met by
and not one that I find all that flattering!” So why
chance through a mutual friend on Facebook. He
has he moved to LA? “Acting and photography.
just wanted to do a test shoot and I agreed, and
Landscape photography. I want to move on
then the images got out there. It was just before
to shooting girls, but I’m just starting with it, and
Luis’ rise to fitness photography legend status.
it’s going pretty well. There’s always something
Now everyone wants to be shot by him!” Vince is
to shoot. You just have to be receptive to it and
in good shape, a tall and solid guy, I ask him what
aware, and it’ll be there. Everyone sees the world
he does to stay fit. “I played football and coached
through their unique lens, and to not capture that
in South Florida. I just moved out to California five
would be blasphemous. LA is such a good place
months ago. I trained in conditioning and speed,
for it. The diversity is key. You can travel within a
so I have a good foundation, but day to day it just
100-mile radius and you’ll witness such an eclectic
depends on how I feel. There’s no real structure.
mixture of scenery.” We aren’t that different, I
I try to be aware of what my body is asking me
say. We are both documenting our own vision of
to do. Some days it’s running, others I’ll swim, or
beauty. “There’s beauty in everything. Simpler is
lift weights. It’s the same with my food. There’s
often better. In my photography I am saying, ‘This is
no set structure.” Is this why he has moved to LA?
my point of view, and this is the beauty that I see.’”
Because there’s a thriving fitness community? “The
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most families, I was pushed around by my oldest
Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood’s premier go-
brothers and pretty much excluded. I considered
go bar. You don’t expect fully clothed barmen to
myself the ‘ugly duckling’ of the family. However,
be the centres of attention in these places, with
instead of feeling sorry for myself I discovered the
buff dancers in thongs twerking away right beside
gym. At first the gym was my getaway but then I
them, but Alex doesn’t have trouble attracting
began to get inspired and motivated to be fit and
looks from the crowd with his toned body showing
live a healthy life.” When I ask him if he’s caught
through his tee and crazily sparkling eyes. A hot
up yet he tells me that his brother’s are still bigger
bod and the skills needed to serve a packed bar
– but from middle-aged spread rather than muscle!
with a thumping soundtrack might don’t guarantee
The swimwear Alex is lying across is all his own. He
a great personality, though. As I met up with him
has a huge canvas bag with hundreds of pairs
the day after our brief encounter in his workplace, I
of trunks in every colour. I gather that this is the
asked myself, “Can he really look that good and also
result of his time dancing on bars while studying.
be a nice guy?” I needn’t have been worried. In the
A fellow dancer tells me how he would come off a
bright sunlight of a lazy Los Angeles afternoon, Alex
podium after a 40-minute set to find Alex revising
showed me he’s attentive, courteous, hospitable
with his textbooks in the changing room. When
and chatty. He brought his best mate to the shoot -
pushed, though, he admits he also has a bit of a
they’d spent the morning running errands together.
lycra fetish - which no one minds when you have
They’ve got an obvious chilled camaraderie, and
a body like Alex. But despite the raunchy display
we felt included in their friendship immediately.
of sexuality, it seems Alex is looking for love,
We’re shooting guerilla style, heading to a pool-
and wants
side location secured at the last minute, and they
aesthetic actually a curse, then could people
bundle in for the ride. Alex turns heads wherever
see only Alex the trophy sex object, not Alex the
he goes. He has a real physical presence. I ask him
person and life partner? Maybe, says Alex, for now
what attracted him to the gym when he first started
- but for the time being he’s happy to sit back and
working out, and he tells me how as a kid he felt
let history take its course. He says, “I hope love is
scrawny compared to his intimidating hulk of a big
part of my journey but I haven’t found love yet.”
brother.
@Alex_Sanchez87 on instagram
“I am the youngest of 7 siblings. Like in
to find a companion. Is his physical
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Friday
Hello Jamie, it’s Colin here from The Most Beautiful Man…magazine. Are you happy to do the interview over WhatsApp? Will be a bit sporadic but fun. Yeah that’s sound mate Well shall we start with the football since you in your kit is your current WhatsApp pic. Who do you play for and in what position? I am a striker. I play for Great Britain deaf football – I’m the captain, England deaf football, St John’s DFC, Littleton FC and Bretforton FC. I play football 4 times a week, it keeps me very fit. I have always been the top goalscorer every season for my clubs throughout my life. Won so many trophies and cups.
Tell me about being deaf. Have you always been?
My fave food place is NANDOS! Looking good. Where did you get the top?
When I see men signing to each other Hello
It’s nice. Tell me about that.
It’s always really nice to watch
5 mins Absolute lie
Hey, how was your weekend? Yeah good man yours?
Simple I don’t take 30 mins or so lol I ain’t fussy with my hair
Let me guess: football?
What are you fussy about?
Casting/shoots and so on What’s the ambition? To keep rising in the modeling world. Want to be a well-known model. It’s been my dream since I was 16. Then become a TV star probs ;)
Haha ye.
How was the partying? Ye class. Pulled as usual lol Ha. Do you have a game plan when it comes to pulling?
Lips or eyes aha
And what’s your favourite part of your body?
But if someone I don’t know touches it I will bang them out
Suit is too an
Ha
What part of your body are you most complimented on?
Well it would go back to place anyway hah
It looks good for five minutes work
yeah football and
What do you think your reputation is with women? I don’t care. I’m just enjoying my time being single and making the most of it until I find someone.
That’s it lol
Yes, good. Tiring! What did you get up to?
Yeah once or twice a week
Lol don’t need to
lol noone believes me pal
How about if someone messes with it?
Tuesday
Aha good party lol
Are you on any dating apps? O ye
Just to add on my portfolio mate
*Topman
Bad man
(be honest)
Yeah exactly man
Shot by Nicholas Andrews in Camden Town. What was this for? Do you do a lot of modeling?
How long did you spend doing your hair?
Like I said I’m fussy so I turn them all down
I hairdry it to one side takes a min or 2 then one go on the wax and hairspray it
I like how expressive it is
You’ve changed your profile picture.
No ordered it online aha
A few ye
I ain’t even joking
Sign language is so cool tho
Thursday
Do you go on dates? Did you go there?
Ah sound man. Hahahah did ya
Yeah a few shots of them pal
Would never do that haha
China ha ha
Crazy
Were you in football kit for TMBMITW shoot?
Noooo lol
My abs prob lol Good one. No burger gut for you. I know
Girls lol
Do you have a favourite emoji?
My missus has to be 11/10 And I’m a massive junk food eater, I hate veg n all that healthy suit Shit* What’s your dream McDonald’s order?
Nah. They just come to me baby! Were you out clubbing?
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Is that your dream date situation as well?
A date in McDonald’s?
It was in Ireland though. I was surprised (perhaps stupidly) to learn every country has a different sign language.
Have you always been into football? When did it start?
Ye I’m naturally slim. Lucky I know!
What dya mean
I studied sign language briefly for a while.
Just help my father sometimes – I’m also a painter & decorator
Christ. And you don’t look like you put on weight at all.
She’s a friend lol
Ye only to deaf people
Haha, yeah mad isn’t it. Nah don’t gym at all.
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White converse. Black skinny jeans and this top I’ll send to ya
So you sign?
That’s a lot of football. Do you have time for any other sport or the gym?
Tell me exactly what you wore
Large fries, hamburger, cheese mozzarella dippers, chicken selects and a McFlurry and Fanta drink
What you were wearing, even
Yeah since birth, profoundly deaf which means I can’t hear anything at all. My parents have done so well to have brought me up to who I am now. I have a lot of respect for them, people weren’t sure about mum sending me to a mainstream school but she was fully confident that I would be able to fit in and do well in the hearing community…and now I am very popular in the hearing and deaf communities. I can speak well and communicate very well without any problems. I count myself very lucky to be able to do this. But I like to balance both worlds because I also like to hang with deaf guys so I can sign and have a laugh with them but it’s always in London.
I rarely lose so I am a very bad loser.
Yeah
Yeah boi
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Willie is no stranger to having his photo taken,
working on Britney’s Circus tour, and formed a firm
gracing the covers in the last year of both Winq
cross-continental friendship, kept alive through
and DNA magazines, as well as becoming the
social media. Any of the 58,000 following Willie
campaign boy for Aussie swim brand TeamM8.
on Instagram will know that the boy really does
Originally from Miami, relocated to LA, and currently
love to hike. Runyon Canyon is his trail of choice,
stationed in Vegas, Willie is one of Britney Spears’
up in the Hollywood hills. Despite the incredible
longest standing dancers, currently performing
views out to the ocean, it’s the people-watching
in her residency at the Hard Rock Casino with
in tight-fitting sporstwear that is the real draw.
the Piece of Me show. We first met back in 2009,
@WillieGomez on instagram
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I love to dance. I have been go-go dancing in LA for the last seven and a half years. I dance at parties for money and I dance for fun anytime I hear music -
grocery
store,
etc.
store
check-out
Having
danced
line, for
airport, so
department
many
years
for
work anytime I hear music I start my go-go shuffle. I like to dance in any pair of ‘floppy shorts.’ My style of dancing has been called the ‘dick slang’ and involves puppetry of the penis. This high class act takes viewers from simple tricks, such as dropping cash and catching it on my boner, to performing windmills with the cock. The culmination of all the tricks is catching a hat on my hard dick, also known as the ‘hat trick.’ Baggy boxers and a baseball cap have always been a successful look for me. I produce a party every week at Fubar in Los Angeles. We have frat boys and skaters working it for dollar bills. It’s a relaxed fun night, filled with inappropriate shenanigans that you have to see to believe! We do lots of live shows at the parties. Hit shows include the towel dance, the booty drop, naughty boyfriend shows and more! I started the party two years ago with my best friend , the singer / comedian Gay Pimp, aka Jonny McGovern, who I knew from dancing on his tour. He was known in New York for throwing huge dirty gay parties so I knew he would be the perfect partner. We play hip hop, R&B, and trap (which incorporates hip hop and techno) so bring your dollars because the boys at my party want your money and they love it when you get up close and touch them. My dad was a diplomat when I was growing up, so I spent 8th and 9th grade in Latvia and high school in The Hague, in The Netherlands. So I think that because I wasn’t out when I went to school in Europe I am most attracted to Europeans. Specifically Scandinavians. I love blonds! I’m also a personal trainer. I train clients privately and do small-group personal training and group fitness. I also do online coaching. Check out my website for more information about working out with me: GregMckeonFitness.com. I love helping people change their lives though fitness. I have helped people loose extra pounds, pack on muscle, reveal abs… and in return they have built the confidence to date, find a lover and build their life the exact way they knew it
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