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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Shaw

Show us your dome! Hot, balding, confident men are bringing sexy back

Ed Harris arrives at the Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Ed Harris arrives at the Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles. Harris has ‘been at some stage of balding for his entire career, something that has never once stopped him being considered sexy’, writes Rebecca Shaw. Photograph: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock

The Oscars were this week, and as usual I took the day off to judge the red carpet looks from my tracksuit pants-ed position on the couch, pick apart the monologue (love you Conan), declare I could write better presenter segments, and keep an eye on social media to see which stars cause the most buzz.

This year, I noticed something interesting: in a room full of classically handsome stars such as Chris Evans and Michael B Jordan, as well as newly minted hotties like Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams, I was reading many appreciative and deeply thirsty tweets about … bald 75-year-old Ed Harris.

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