There was some surprise when the boy-next-door star of The Bear revealed an impossibly toned body in a new ad campaign. It was a reminder, once again, that celebrities aren\u2019t like you or me<\/p>\n
Sex sells. Just ask the fashion label Calvin Klein, whose adverts flogging perfectly white (and salaciously tight) men\u2019s underwear have led to global pant domination. Its formula of \u201chunky celebrity guy du jour <\/em>brooding in tiny whities\u201d has been turning heads for decades, so you might think we\u2019d be immune to their masculine wiles by now. Not so, as the breathless response to last week\u2019s ads featuring the actor Jeremy Allen White proved. In the campaign video, White, best known as chef Carmy from the hit TV series The Bear<\/a>, is seen wandering New York, before climbing the stairs of a building and emerging on to its roof, where he strips down to his boxers and does some half-hearted exercise (mostly stretches but he chucks in a little pull-up too). This is before he falls on to a conveniently placed rooftop sofa (no plastic covering? Doesn\u2019t it get wet?), and we see that he had his trainers and socks on the whole time.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t his ability to remove his shorts while walking and without taking off his trainers<\/em> that got tongues wagging \u2013 or rather, panting. It was White\u2019s muscular, toned and tanned physique. The still images show him pulling the underwear waistband down to reveal a defined inguinal crease or \u201clove line\u201d (the pinnacle of the male physical ideal, apparently), and lounging on the rooftop in jeans, flies open and shimmied down to show the underwear. \u201cThis is what every woman needed to start 2024 off right,\u201d reads one comment on Calvin Klein\u2019s Instagram. \u201cI hope this is someone\u2019s gay awakening,\u201d reads another. A comment simply saying \u201cYES CHEF\u201d earned 1,600 likes.<\/p>\n Coco Khan is a freelance writer and co-host of the politics podcast Pod Save the UK<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was some surprise when the boy-next-door star of The Bear revealed an impossibly toned body in a new ad campaign. It was a reminder, once again, that celebrities aren\u2019t like you or me Sex sells. Just ask the fashion label Calvin Klein, whose adverts flogging perfectly white (and salaciously tight) men\u2019s underwear have led … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}