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Chris Hemsworth named world’s sexiest man

Chris Hemsworth in the 2014 incarnation of Thor.

Chris Hemsworth in the 2014 incarnation of Thor. Photo: AAP

Australian actor and Thor avenger Chris Hemsworth is the world’s sexiest man, People magazine says.

Hemsworth, who also starred as Formula One racer James Hunt in the Ron Howard-directed Rush was unveiled as the winner on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! program.

With his face at first masked and his voice digitally modified, Hemsworth, 31, speaking from Australia, toyed with playful yes-or-no questions from the American TV audience.

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Kimmel’s instructions and teasers to his crowd: “If you guess correctly, the sexiest man alive will make love to you, so this is big. I will give you three clues. He is sexy, he is a man, he is alive.”

Is he in a band? No. Over age 35? Wrong, again.

“Are you hairy?” a bearded, balding man in the audience asked, smiling.

“Just up here,” the still unknown masked person asked, gesturing to his head.

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Chris Hemsworth in a scene from Thor: The Dark World. Photo: Supplied

Fast forward: the audience zeroed in on the guy as a non-American, buffed dude who is an actor that has played a superhero in the movies, wielding a hammer: Thor in the Marvel Studios superhero movies? Bingo!

Hemsworth’s award was a small facial mirror.

“Anything you would like to say to the men who lost, specifically Matt Damon?” Kimmel asked, referring to the popular American actor.

“I like everything there is about being sexy, to pursing the lips the right way to squinting at the essential time. Thank you, Matt, and all the other previous intelligent men. This is based on an IQ test, not just the physical appearance,” the actor said.

Asked if there was anyone he wanted to thank, Hemsworth said, “My parents, I guess, for putting this together.”

“I think you’ve bought me a couple of weeks of bragging rights around the house,” Hemsworth told People magazine.

“I can just say to her, ‘Now remember, this is what the people think, so I don’t need to do the dishes anymore, I don’t need to change nappies. I’m above that. I’ve made it now’,” he says.

He joins a list of A-Listers to have received the honour, including Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Patrick Swayze, Sean Connery, Ben Affleck, Channing Tatum and Adam Levine.

Mel Gibson, another Aussie, was the first in 1985.

Hemsworth, 31, and his 38-year-old wife, Elsa Pataky, have three children. The actor’s younger brother, Liam, stars in the The Hunger Games franchise.

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