LOOKS and charisma may have earned actor Hugh Jackman, 40, the title of People's "Sexiest Man Alive", but his wife uses a more bizarre criterion, reported E! "Previously, my wife said the sexiest thing about me was that I took the garbage out," he said.

After news of the results broke, he said: "My (eight-year-old) son Oscar went, 'You? You've got to be kidding me!' And I thought, 'There's the truth!'"

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