Eastenders’ Jake Wood wins heat’s Weird Crush Award 2015!
He beats Ed Sheeran and Jon Richardson to the title
Eastenders’ Jake Wood has been crowned the winner of heat’s Weird Crush Award 2015!
The 42-year-old actor, who has played Max Branning on the BBC soap for nine years, stormed to victory ahead of 8 Out of 10 Cats comedian Jon Richardson in second place.
Jake’s meteoric rise from heat’s Weird Crush tenth spot in 2014 to the chart summit was no doubt helped by his flamboyant ‘snakehips’ performances on Strictly Come Dancing last year.
He enthused: "I’m absolutely honoured. It’s the award I wanted to win more than any other. I’m so happy I won."
"Thank you to the people that voted for me. I’m doing it for the weird crushes all over the world. Ginger, tall, freaky looking guys with a sexy glint in their eyes, that’s me."
Silver medallist Jon Richardson said: "After slipping into fourth last year I'm delighted that I've managed to get some weirdness back into my game and surge back into the top two.
“Crucially this means of course that I qualify for Champions League Weird Crush. I am looking forward to travelling out to Zagreb with the lads to take on some of the weirdest men in Europe."
Editor-in-chief Lucie Cave commented: "heat's Weird Crush celebrates that fact that sexy comes in all shapes, sizes and degrees of hair loss – so we're delighted that our readers voted Jake Wood their winner.
“That he is both bald and red-headed, qualities seen by the foolish as a bar to hotness, is a ringing endorsement of the Weird Crush campaign."
You can see the full Top 25 in our gallery right here.
The Weird Crush winners so far are as follows:
2010 – Karl Pilkington 2011 – Richard Osman 2012 – no poll 2013 – Russell Howard 2014 – Matt Richardson 2015 – Jake Wood