Weird Crush winners 2013
30. Aled Jones
He brings us the news from his comfy sofa every morning and he sang Walking In The Air!
29. Lord Coe
Behold the colossus who straddled Mount Olympics: let’s not forget his lordship also has two gold medals of his own.
27. Boris Johnson
It seems that bumbling and power make for a winning combination. Though this probably wasn’t the vote he wanted to win most.
28. Jonathan Ross
Switching from BBC to ITV hasn’t diminished his cheekiness one little bit. May he never grow up.
26. Tony Gardner
Fresh Meat’s Professor Shales won the heart of impressionable student Oregon until she realised how feeble he was. But feeble in a cute way. Tony’s a real, qualified doctor in real life, by the way.
25. Nick Knowles
Nicholas Simon Augustine Knowles (really) is exactly the bloke you want to be going out with when the shelves fall down. Good in a DIY crisis.
24. Dara O'Briain
A great, big cuddly giant of a man, with a brain almost as big as his famously oversized head. Extremely funny as well as being very, very good at hard sums.
23. Hugh Bonneville
He’s equally at home playing Mr Stink as he is as the 7th Earl of Grantham, and we’ve loved him since he didn’t recognise Julia Roberts at the dinner party in Notting Hill.
22. Rufus Hound
It takes a man with great strength of character to stand up to Keith Lemon (on Celebrity Juice). Not that he does any more – he left.
21. Simon Cowell
Go on Simon, tell us how bad at singing we are. There’s something ever so slightly Fifty Shades about our love for Simon…
20. Michel Roux Jr
He’s French and he could cook us breakfast in bed. Sold.
19. Karl Pilkington
Television’s mardiest travel presenter showed this year in Derek that he’s a great actor too. Cheer up, Karl!
18. Jake Wood
“Everybody loves a bit of Jake,” Max told heat with a leer at the National TV Awards this year. Indeed they do."
17. Michael McIntyre
The floppy fringe, the boyish demeanour – he’d be brilliant at cheering you up.
16. David Mitchell
It took us a while to tell the difference between David and his Peep Show character, but it probably takes him a while too.
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14. John Bishop
There’s just something about him that makes him look like he was in a Madchester band in the 90s. Even though he’s from Liverpool.
13. Gareth Malone
Even though the choirmaster is married with a baby daughter, people still think he’s gay. Maybe it’s a cunning ruse to appeal to women. Pretty odd if it was though.
12. Paul Hollywood
They call him The Silverback: he’s the first master-baker gorilla with blue steel.
11. Derren Brown
Do you fancy him? Or has he just made you think you do? Did you even really vote for him? We may never know.
10. Ed Sheeran
Amazing to think someone so young was in the A-Team. What’s that? He sang The A Team? Oh well.
9. Alan Rickman
Just imagine the former Professor Snape lying beside you and murmuring in your ear. Terrifying? Then maybe he’s not for you.
8. Alexander Armstrong
Daytime quiz show Pointless has two hosts. They’re both on this list. What is it about obscure knowledge that does it for us all?
7. Adam Richman
We could watch the Man Vs Food presenter eating massive platefuls of food all day. Matching him fork for fork.
6. Francis Boulle
He’s part-Cherokee, you know. Also, he sells diamonds. Diamonds.
5. Matt Smith
Just think – he could whisk you off to Jupiter for Valentine’s Day. If he had a real Tardis, which he doesn’t, because he’s an actor.
4. Benedict Cumberbatch
Look closely at that face. Go on – peer in there. Now can you tell us with absolute confidence that he isn’t part lion?
3. Richard Osman
Five places above his Pointless colleague Alexander Armstrong, the 6ft 7in trivia master (and former Weird Crush winner) is properly one of the wittiest men on telly.
2. Jon Richardson
He knows what eight out of ten cats think about everything, and that’s not a skill to be sniffed at. Also, used to share a flat with the Weird Crush winner…
1. Russell Howard
Here he is! He’s been climbing the ranks of the Weird Crush for a few years now, and at last he’s finally peaked. There’s nowhere higher to go, Russell. You’ve made it.