juice of orange

One memory I always have of Patrick Stewart is that in one year TV Guide ran a reader’s poll for the sexiest man and woman on TV. And even before the Internet, somehow the Star Trek fans created a campaign to try and get Patrick Stewart to win. And they succeeded! At the time it was a funny shock. Even the cover of the TV Guide called it a “surprise”! People seemed to mention a lot that he was bald and that it was odd for a bald man to win sexiest man, let alone it being Patrick Stewart from Star Trek of all people! Especially given that his counterpart who won sexiest woman was Cindy Crawford! The funny thing is that if people were told today that Patrick Stewart won sexiest man on TV one year during TNG’s run, I don’t think anyone these days would think it odd or anything. It almost sounds silly to describe it how I remembered it was back then, that it was a shock and almost a laughable result that he’d won. I feel like people nowadays would react with, “Yeah? He should have won!”