Daily Tele ranks Sydney Rooster Joey Manu hottest NRL star of 2021

Where have all the hot footy players gone? Remember the likes of Andrew “ET” Ettingshausen, Craig Wing, Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Girdler and David “Wolfman” Williams? Well, The Daily Telegraph feels we’ve lost our mojo in terms of appreciating our top rugby league “talent”, and so we have pulled together a shortlist of our 20 most attractive players in the game now. We assembled an expert panel — Chic Management’s Mimi O’Brien, reality stars Jules Robinson, Elly Miles and Abbie Chatfield, model Simone Holtznagel and Telegraph entertainment journalist Jonathon “J.Mo” Moran — to come up with their hottest male in rugby league. Hottest NRL player Sydney Rooster centre Joey Manu was the resounding winner, while NZ Warriors Reece Walsh also polled well. Rounding out our top five are Manly’s Reuben Garrick, Penrith’s Jarome Luai and Melbourne’s Ryan Papenhuyzen. Daily Telegraph – News Feed latest episode “We don’t care about bodies, we know how it feels to be judged on that,” I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! winner Chatfield said. “Men think that having big muscles and going to the gym will make them more likeable to women. But women exist through a female gaze obviously, which is why we are able to think about their vibe and their energy and their faces in terms of what makes them a good human”. Model Simone Holtznagel added: “If guys were judged the way that they look at women, they would hate it. “We are all used to it, so I think that is why girls tend to go for guys who are nicer, who are funny and have personality, not simply based on their looks.” Jules Robinson said she and her fellow experts went further than just looks with their analysis. “We have all looked at it on a deeper level of not just aesthetically what they look like and thought about the kind of person we think they are,” she said. “Men and women just look at things in a different way. Men focus very much on a woman’s body, whereas we have looked at the guys’ personalities.”