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What do you get when a male celebrity intentionally and self-consciously tries to be sexy? You get bad beefcake. And hey, in my book there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Silly though it is, sometimes bad beefcake is actually sort of cute. Case in point: recently a whole series of photos of Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford popped on the web. No question the boy is adorable - but he might want to rethink the fringe suede jacket, ten gallon hat and come-hither smile. (Okay, he can keep the come-hither smile.) Now that’s bad beefcake, and I love it.
Anyway, Mr. Crawford’s recent photo shoot got me reminiscing about bad beefcake from years past, and I pulled together some of my favorite photos for AfterElton.com readers to enjoy. Brad Pitt, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Lowe, Mario Lopez, Sean Connery – all beautiful men – but all with very bad beefcake lurking in their closet.
I hope you enjoy the gallery of schmaltz after the break. And hey, if you have any favorite bad beefcake shots of your own, please share the wealth and post them in the comments!
Saved by the Bell's Mark-Paul Gosselaar & Mario Lopez. In these get-ups not even the Bell could save them
Brad Pitt enjoying his morning coffee in comfort.
George Hamilton sucking it in.
Zac Efron being, well, Zac Efron.
Dolph Lundgren
Lorenzo Lamas
Gregory Harrison These are some of my all-time favorites. Do you know of a particularly egregious bad beefcake shot? If so, please share! Submitted by on Mon, 2008-01-14 11:31. |
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OK, so the Sean Connery one
That Sean Connery pic is from Zardoz, isn't it?
Yes it is. But that was for
The 1980's: heyday of Bad Beef
I also think that some of those pics aren't THAT bad. The Bard Pitt pic is pretty hot (although he looks like a deer in headlights), and Zac just has a little too much hair gel but still looks good.
Looking back, I think most of the pics from the 80's will fall into this category. The big hair and make-up alone should see to that. Here are some funnier one's I've found:
The HOFF (The hair alone sends me chills!)
FABIO: (NEVER looked good to me!?!)
MAGNUM P.I. (looked much better WITHOUT the Hawaiian shirt)
I'm sure there's tons more of 80's celeb hunks.
Sure they were hunky then, but the style looks funny now.
Brilliant! Love the Hasselhoff
hilarious!
I also think this one is pretty hilarious - I don't know what I find funnier, the obvious extensions or the bulge.
how can we not have any Burt in here?!
Show of hands: what's sexier, the bearskin rug or the dangling cigarette?
Smoking is so not sexy so
I love the caption for Zac
I love the caption for Zac Efron's pic. I hate it how the idiotic tweens are making him the new "Hot Shit". I mean, he didn't even sing in "High School Musical" (1) and how the <b>hell</b> was he a believable high school heartthrob basketball star? He's practically as short as I am and a skinny little shit with little muscle.
BTW, now that we've bonded over our mutual hatred of Zac, you should check out the DS game "High School Musical: Making the Cut" (a shameless ripoff of Ouendan). He looks chubby in all of the pics of him in that game. He must've gained a few pounds inbetween movies. The game is worth playing just for the Zac pics.
Some of us do appreciate
Hey.
I can't believe Dolph still has a career
But Europe is far more forgiving than Hollywood is. Just ask Sylvester Stallone or maybe Grace Jones. Even if she nabbed a 20 year old husband at the age of 48. We should all be so lucky.
Bad beefcake?
Yikes. Need I say anything.
The subject is fine, but I would love to know who was the stylist on this one.
Sorry about the pictures, I still havent gotten this thing down yet.