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The Year In Crushes: 2018's Thirstiest Moments, From Peter Kavinsky To Those Olympic Figure Skaters Who Totally Weren't Banging

The hottest year on record?

In 2018, it felt like we were thirstier than ever. Partially because we all needed to drink an awful lot to get through just reading the news in the morning.

But also because oh, boy, the hotties.

Let’s relive 2018 through the year’s most iconic crushes.

Peter Kavinsky

Was this the year we finally learned to expect more from our A-list straight-dude crushes? Noah Centineo gained nine million Instagram followers in the space of a fortnight after To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before dropped on Netflix and became one of the hottest things in Hollywood almost overnight.

But it wasn’t just the forehead crinkle, the dreamy Ruffalo-Junior curls or the way he says “whoa whoa whoa” – the mature, considerate touches like Moving The Popcorn and the age-appropriate sexiness of instantly iconic moments like the hot tub scene and the Pocket Spin meant that Peter K was the whole package.

We all lost our minds a little, and it was beautiful.

 

Antoni’s Instagram

Remember how Netflix’s Queer Eye reboot only premiered this year?? That’s right – a year ago you had no idea who Tan, Antoni, Karamo, Bobby and JVN were.

And a year ago, you were not being shook by Antoni Porowski’s near-daily thirst traps.

Who cares if he can cook?

 

Winston Duke

Between Chadwick Boseman, Lupita N’yongo, Danai Gurira and absolute peak Michael B Jordan, there surely wasn’t a dry seat in the house at any Black Panther screenings.

So it takes some serious charisma to get some of that crush action for yourself. And hoo boy, did Winston Duke, as the brooding but secretly hilarious tribal chief M’baku, bring that charisma.

 

The figure skaters who totally aren’t banging

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have been partners for two decades, but spent their highly decorated stint in this year’s Winter Olympics spotlight insisting that they weren’t a real couple.

Obviously the obsession verged on creepy, after they denied it for the millionth time – but people stayed thirsty about it. I wonder why.

Tessa Thompson

Still shaking from her turn as the drunken mercenary with a giant gun Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, this year we got Tessa Thompson not only as a rainbow-haired artist-activist in Sorry To Bother You, but as Janelle Monae’s offsider in the videos for ‘Pynk’ (vagina pants!) and the intensely sexy, fun Prince homage ‘Make Me Feel’.

With the confirmation that the two are a couple for real… well, that sound you heard was every queer woman in the world fainting at once.

 

David Le’aupepe from Gang Of Youths dancing at Splendour

It became a meme for a reason.

 

Zac Efron’s man-beard

In the words of GOAT’s unofficial thirst correspondent, Sophie Giles:

I want to go camping with Man-Beard Efron and live off the land with him. I’ll be his Jane and he will be my Tarzan. My Bear Grylls. Mine.

‘Bloom’, Troye Sivan’s single about butt stuff

“Come into my garden” indeed.

 

The way Richard Madden says “Ma’am” in Bodyguard

 

Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding

The shirtless scenes! The slightly crooked teeth! The accent! The unstoppable politeness as he helps people with the carry-on bags in the climactic economy-class speech!

The shirtless scenes!

 

BDE

One cheeky deleted tweet from Ariana Grande was all it took: the entire internet suddenly decided that Pete Davidson had always projected the vibe of being hung like a centaur, and then we spent a full week thinking about who had the biggest figurative d**ks in showbiz.

It was fun while it lasted but boy, that was a real penis-y week.

 

Todd from The Bachelorette

Nobody expected the guy who turned up in a literal suit of armour to go almost all the way, but after Ali Oetjen broke his heart, it was clear that he’d won everyone else’s.

Everyone suddenly admitting that nobody has ever been hotter than 90s Brendan Fraser

We’ve all known it for years, but the Brendanaissance of 2018 brought everyone out of the woodwork to speak up for their younger selves.

The lesson? It’s never too late to own your thirst. Grab a Sprite and quench with pride.