Carrying on with Autism’s sexiest celebrity men of 2014 and your chance to vote for your own celebrity number two on my list is:
Griffin goes to YouTube several times a day, types in Bublé, and picks his favourite videos. He sleeps with Bublé playing all night, and his therapists and parents have discovered that his music is incredibly calming when Griffin is overwhelmed or needs a sensory break. Mr Bublé’s music, and performances, truly speak to this remarkable little boy and has added so much to his life.
When Michael Bublé heard about this young man, he recorded this special message and song. This story continues to get tweeted from our site.
Thank you Michael.
Peter Capaldi, the actor who plays the tv time traveling character, Dr Who did two nice deeds for autistic children last year. First, he took time out on set to chat and be photographed with a young autistic girl. But it is his second gesture that makes him numero uno sexy for 2014.
Peter Capaldi sends heartwarming video message to young autistic boy whose grandmother has recently died.
Mr Goodall’s mother had recently passed away, His son Thomas 9, who has autism, grieving for his grandmother, sent a letter to Dr Who and this resulted in Mr Capaldi sending this video message prior to the funeral in character to Thomas.
One view of the video below makes it clear why Peter Capaldi wins as Autism’s Sexiest Male Celebrity of 2014
Thank you Peter.
We are also going to add Donnie Wahlberg to the list to make it an even 10. He gets on the list, not for the Ice Bucket Attack reward but for taking on the autism cause as a partner to Jenny McCarthy and being a new step dad to Ethan. Besides – he is already pretty sexy.
Although the “Autism’s Sexiest Celebrity Men” contest is a fun things to do, I find it to be truly sexist. There are plenty of female celebrity autism advocates out there. Why do the men warrant a “sexy” classification?
Laura, I planned on following up with a similar one for women – although I personally didn’t want to use “sexy” as I do think it to be even more sexist when applied to women. People magazine does a cover for men but do they for women? I don’t know.
Unfortunately, I was unable to come up with enough women who did anything behind the scenes specifically in 2014. Now don’t get me wrong – I bet there are a lot out there but the media didn’t pick them up. As for celebrities who are autism advocates, I think there are a lot and most are women. So I had been thinking of doing a story on that but probably not a poll.
As to your question, Why do the men warrant a “sexy” classification? – it was more tongue in cheek. They really don’t and in my opening paragraph I said that these guys did nice things and that is sexy to me. I didn’t say but hope to imply that looks alone aren’t what make a man sexy.
Thanks for your comment and I hope that explains my rational.
Roberta