Rob Lowe Jokingly Laments 'Never' Being PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive

Mar. 15, 2025

Rob Lowe attends the 2024 Fox Upfront at The Ritz-Carlton Nomad on May 13, 2024.Photo:Roy Rochlin/Getty

Roy Rochlin/Getty

We hear you,Rob Lowe.

During the season 3 premiere ofThe Floor, Lowe (who hosts the Fox trivia game show) was chatting with a contestant whose category of expertise wasthe Met Gala, which prompted him to reveal he’s “never” been to the annual glamorous New York City event.

“Ask me how many times I’ve beenPEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive?” he jokingly asked the contestant.

“Never,” he said, answering his own question as he pulled a fake crying face to poke fun at his disappointment at never gracing the annual issue’s cover.

Rob Lowe on the season 3 premiere of ‘The Floor’.FOX

FOX

This is not the first time Lowe has expressed his sadness at never being crowned Sexiest Man Alive.

In 2019,his son John Owen Lowetrolled him about it during an appearance onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show. “You should ask him how many times he’s been on the cover,” John told hostEllen DeGeneres, who was showing off that Lowe was featured in the issue’s “Sexy at Every Age” spread.

“You haven’t been on the cover, not for lack of examples why you should be,” she said, which prompted the actor to further lament his lack of cover status.

“I’ve never been the Sexiest Man Alive. Never! There’s always been somebody sexier, and I’m very angry about it.”

He then tried to explain his own logic behind why he hasn’t been SMA before, something he said he’d “spent a lot of time thinking about it.”

“I blame Russian collusion, honestly. This is an election I should have won,” he joked, while his son John begged him to stop, also joking, “Honestly surprised he’s not shirtless right now.”

Rob Lowe hosts season 3 of ‘The Floor’.Dan Smith/FOX

Dan Smith/FOX

Lowe is far from the only star to weigh in on his lack of SMA status.Will Ferrellhas been on a pseudo-campaign sinceJohn Krasinski was named the 2024 Sexiest Man Alive, an effort that originated in July whenhe told PEOPLE he was “planting the seeds” to get on the cover.

He later joked withSavannah GuthrieonTodaythathe “got zero votes” despite his best efforts, and she told him, “I didn’t have a vote but I would vote for you.”

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The Floorairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.

source: people.com