Icon of new masculinity Channing Tatum joins the distinguished company of basically every Hollywood "it" guy since 1985 as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive of 2012.

Vladimir Putin, The Bionic Russian President, took time off from killing snow leopards with throwing knives to give an interview to Outdoor Life. In it, we learn that the oft-shirtless Putin has been closely watching how Obama bares his own toned flesh.

Back in 2008, the New York Fire Department canceled its annual beefcake photo calendar because one of the men pictured had some blue movies out there. Cut to 2011 when the FDNA is so strapped for cash that the department has resurrected the guilty pleasure.

Former CNN stud Thomas Roberts officially has a job at MSNBC. Congrats! To celebrate, watch this completely gratuitous and rather shirtless report he did about measuring body fat percentage. Yes, he's that gay, and we love him for it.

The Gulf Coast: Devastated by hurricanes and oil spills. But nothing can compare to the latest insult. President Barack Obama has refused to strip down and show off his sculpted pecs to the press on a pristine Florida beach.

[Computer-Generated Idealization of a Human Male Cristiano Ronaldo takes off his shirt after Real Madrid beat the LA Galaxy 3-2 last night in LA.]

A mystery hunk is gay. And he's going to announce it to the world on 90210. Also today: David O. Russell storms off another set, Sela Ward is given a gun and a badge, and Dustin Hoffman's new TV career.

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] Feb. 1 @ 12:30pm Eating at Macelleria with model Jesus Luz (Is that her boyfriend? He's even hunkier in person!) and her daughter Lourdes.