Whine & Cheese

Hot For Teacher, Part 2

A little pre-posted treat for you while I am away and get you ready for GLEE...

May I present, Matthew Morrison in the 2010 issue of Vogue:

For more shirtless Mr. Schu... recall the original Hot For Teacher post.

Oil Spill Hunk

I was just innocently doing my multi-daily review of Yahoo! news and this picture related to the Gulf oil spill certain got my attention.

A fisherman holds up an oil-stained buoy that washed up on the beach at South Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River on May 14 near Venice, La. Oil continues leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead as BP continues to work on containing the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.

via news.yahoo.com

I am really not sure if they got this "news" photo mixed up with calendar shoot, just too bad his head is cut off in the pic.

Allan Wu Hoo!

Even though Amazing Race wasn't on last night, thought I'd still go back to the previous week's episode that featured an appearance by the host of The Amazing Race Asia, Allan Wu.

You may recall Wu was on hand to pass a clue off to the racers while they were traveling through Singapore.  I certainly wasn't blind to the fact that Wu was quite attractive...

But thanks to my buddy Jeff who suggested I do an image search on Wu, I certainly didn't realize all the "hubba hubba" that was really going on!  So here's you Monday eye-opener!

Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American and a graduate of UC Berkeley and is 38 years old (as of this writing).  No surprise that he is has modeled and also aced (a bio lists him as "Singapore’s one and only hunkalicious action hero").

This is only a small sampling of pix.  If you liked to see more it's as easy as typing his name into an image search... there are so many of the variety, that you don't even have to add in the world "shirtless" (though I will still do my search whore hit hint here and now: Allan Wu Shirtless)...

If you are more interested in knowing more beyond the visuals, and he seems like a genuinely nice guy, he tweets as wulander and there is also a link there to his website (no surprise, wulander.com).

Justin Gaston Shirtless 2010

I stumbled onto the picture below a couple of months ago and I am glad I kept it as it now comes in handy as Justin Gaston dueted with former contestant Brooke White last night on Idol.

Justin is still trying to find his way into the music business.  I first became aware of him on Nashville Star (here's a link to my eye-candy post about him back then) but even with his good looks he didn't last too long there.  Next up, he gained fame by dating Miley Cyrus, but that didn't do much either other than elevating him to boy-toy status.  Also, he has been in the background as a football player on Glee, but not sure he's had a speaking part on the show.  Last night, it was mentioned that now he is part of some Web/Internet-based talent show, which doesn't exactly sound like a ticket to stardom either... so his appearance on Idol last night seems to be his biggest "get" to date, though ending up on the short end of the vocal stick vs. Ms. White, IMHO not the strongest vocalist Idol has ever seen, is probably not such good news either.

I am sure your eyes have wandered down already, so I was not totally surprised with Justin's new look. I'm guessing with this latest attempt at a music career, he wants to step away from the boy-ish/twink, clean-cut look that served him so well in his modeling career (again you can check out my first post about him or just do an image search on him and believe me you'll get an eyeful!)... while not so much a fan of the longer hair (tho hardly "throw out of bed" territory), it is at least nice to see that he's not worried about shaving the rest of the bod! 

So enjoy... some things are better seen, then heard!

The Art of Short Track

No April Foolin' here... I'm delivering the goods today!

Nearly a month ago I did a Hunks of Vancouver post and received a comment (Thanks Loraine, if you ever find your way back here!) letting me know the source of one of the photos I used in that post, more often than not, I simply "borrow" these photos from a simple Google/Yahoo search and really never know their origin. 

While I thought the pic of short track speed skater JR Celski in his undies (again, check out the Vancouver post) had an artistic flair to it (certainly not a pre-shower, dirty mirror iPhone pic!), again, thanks to Loraine I learned it was Ewoud Broeksma, who does these incredible sports photographic portraits that show off the human body at its peak. 

Here are few more. In order: Apolo Anton Ohno, JR Celski (from the same shoot of that original photo), and a member of what seems to be the first family of Canadian short track, Francois Hamlin. His brother Charles was the big medal earner in Vancouver, but Francois did take home a gold as a member of Team Canada in the 5000m relay.

Here's a link to a lot more... just a friendly warning, that much like Francois, the non-Americans in particular do not have (m)any qualms about taking it all off... but it is all very tasteful and (I think!) there is really nothing risque-r than a butt.

Aiden Turner Shirtless

I have had these "research" files of All My Children's Aiden Turner sitting on my desktop since before this season of Dancing With The Stars...

Thus far, I don't think he's shown a heck of a lot of personality or charisma thus far (perhaps just nervousness) and, last night, he even made poor Edyta storm out of the room (tho methinks this practice session drama is more manufactured than ever this season).  That said, DWTS does have a history of folks loving their soap stars/studs. So while I don't think he will last long as his predecessors, I think that voting block/base may save him for this first cut.  If so, I suggest they don't hold back on a scantily-dressed dance for next week!

Hunks Of Vancouver

As promised in a post earlier this week, here is my compilation... or should I say awarding the hunks of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, no surprise that I couldn't just narrow it down to three medalists.  We'll start with a couple of expected suspects, then take a walk down the proverbial road not taken.

This first one may be a bit unexpected.  While I don't like to limit myself to having a "type," I will admit it typically doesn't often include redheads or guys with really long hair.  But alas, there is always that exception to the rule and as one of the faces of the Games and of snowboarding itself, it was just too hard to ignore Shaun White. While I was quite prepared to hate him going in the games (along with fellow darlings Lindsay and Bode), I found his combination of "duuuude!-ness" and well-spoked-ness to be quite charming.  And look, despite having to wear those Winter Wonderland pajamas to "work" Shaun is showing off in the latest Rolling Stone that there is quite a nice body underneath it all.

Google: Shaun White Shirtless, Shaun White Rolling Stone

Next up is the guy that fueled W&C during the Olympics... Apolo Anto Ohno.  I had close to 26,000 visitors in February (10k more than January!) and each day during the Games, it seemed that 80% of the search hits were for Apolo, more often that not hoping to see him in some state of undress.  Thankfully, I did deliver on those goods during his stint on DWTS, which included a shirtless pic and the naked GAP ad. Unfortunately, in that same post the YouTube of his cha-cha to "Push It" (and one of my all-time favorite dances from the show) is no longer available.  You can see those pix if you haven't already clicked on the link above, but here's a "new to me" smoldering Apolo pic:

Next, is Apolo's likely heir apparent in short-track, Filipino-Polish American J.R. Celski.  How's that for mix?  If you watched him race, you probably heard about his fairly recent scary accident where he sliced his leg with his own skate and almost bled out on a track, yikes!  But he is pretty darn adorable and despite looking like jailbait he is 19 going on 20, which I realize is still ridiculously young, but...

Google: JR Celski shirtless, JR Celski underwear

This next guy was my first "Who is that?" double-take of the Vancouver Games, the Gold Medalist in 5000M Speed Skating... Sven Kramer from The Netherlands. Kramer made news later in the Games when he had the best (gold medal winning + and Olympic record!) time in the 10000M, but since his coach directed him to the wrong lane during a switchover and he was disqualified.  Needless to say this Dutch Treat was pretty pissed about it, but seemed good later in the week for the team event... but certainly not much to angry about here:

It was while I was doing The Big Picture post, that Canadian ice dancer Scott Moir provided the spark for this very Hunks of Vancouver post.  I'll say again that one of my personal highlights of the Games was their medal ceremony and joyous singing of "O Canada!" with Moir being simply adorable!  It was virtually (ha!) impossible to get a picture of him without his equally charming partner, Tessa Virtue (get it now ? Virtue... virtually)... let alone one of him scantily dressed, but we don't always have to go for the skin shots now do we?  I think this series of pictures perfectly sums up his appeal.

Finally, you didn't think I'd get through a Winter Olympics-related post without a little curling now did you?  And you didn't think I was simply obsessed with it because of.. well, the actual curling?  Ok, I was actually riveted, but having cute to hot guys yelling "Haaaaaaaaarrrrrdddd!" increased the appeal of it. !

While they didn't do very well, but ince it was NBC here, obviously the American team received a lot of air time.  But even despite their poor record, it was still fun watching the young team which included Jason Smith and Chris Plys (left photo order, than the reverse of  Plys / Smith in the right pic). Plys was definitely the hunk of the team. I was hoping to stumble upon some screen caps where he showed off his many tattoos to NBC (lifting and even taking off his shirt), but alas could not find any (and anyhow, some of them were of a religious nature, ugh!).  Json Smith, however, is just adorkable! :-)

Now, if you want some real curling hunks... yes, I used "curling" and "hunks" in the same sentence... I suggest you look no further than John Morris of Canada (left two pix) and David Murdoch of Great Britain (tho he's Scottish, have learned from tennis' Andy Murray that distinction likes to be made). But these guys had the good looks and the bods too!

I am sure I have left out plenty of other candidates.  But as Vancouver is slipping from my memory and I am now forced to try and retain the names of the kids that are still on Idol, these are the ones that left a lasting impression on me.  Though I'd be more than happy for you to play along and let me know you own hunks of the Games. 

'Idol' Tim Urban Shirtless

Haven't had a chance to see the second week of the guys semifinal yet. With the switch-a-roo on the performance night's due the Bowersox medical drama (rumor has it was/is diabetes related), I was more curious to see what was going on "live" vs. catching up on the previous night. 

So I have no idea how Tim Urban did this week, though I can't imagine it could have been worse than his surprise return to the competition. After he finished singing, my thought was that... yes, it was too late to apologize. Thank you! I'm here all week!

So while he may not be the next American Idol, I am sure these photos will help semifinalist Tim Urban get a job or two in the future.

It isn't yet known if Tim Urban was competing in some sort of muscle man contest for these pictures, but "Oh No They Didn't" posted them and now all the blogosphere can feast its eyes on Tim Urban's glorious visage. Urban is one of the semi-finalists for "American Idol" and while he isn't one of the strongest vocalists in the competition, we may be seeing a lot of him due to the aforementioned hunky good looks and the fact that Vote for the Worst has thrown their weight behind Mr. Urban.

via blog.zap2it.com

If you are too lazy to click the link above, here are the pictures... a bit pitchy (tent) if you ask me! 

Update: Did finally get around to seeing this 2nd week of semis and also that he survived this week! While he definitely improved, it's probably not enough to get him into the "big show" with the Top 12, but given that I don't think the talent pool, especially with the guys, is that deep this season... who knows!  I agreed with Ellen he would be great on a show like Glee... in my opinion, reminiscent of Finn... cute and a passable/alright singing voice, fun to watch as long as if he's not singing all the time.

Legal!

A side-bar only birthday stud exception today... Happy 18th Birthday Taylor Lautner!

Ok, it's still knee-deep in old-man creepiness (but young at heart!) and he was still ummm... younger... when these pictures were taken, but...

Verdasco, Rated X: Part 2

If you're just checking in this afternoon, make sure to check out this morning's post as I stumbled upon even more pix from Fernando Verdasco's Calvin Klein undie campaign.  I chatted a bit in that post, but I'll just let the pictures to the talking on this post...yowza!