Rugby star — and TTNO fan-fave — Ben Cohen strips for Attitude mag and says this about his physique:
I don’t think I’ve got a good body. And that’s not cause I want you to say I have. I don’t look in the mirror and go: ‘Fucking hell Benny, good body.’ I look at it and go, actually, I need to lose some more weight, I need to do some more work and I’ll go into the gym and I’ll try, I don’t really think I have a good body. If people do than fair enough. I think it’s my genetic make-up. I don’t really have much of a say in it.”
I’m sorry, Mr. Cohen, but they simply do not make ‘em much hotter. Predictably, more after the jump (underwear shots, possibly NSFW)…
Courtesy Towleroad.
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Okay, that quote only makes him hotter in my mind. He now officially leads me to distraction. Sigh…
I think Benny would make an excellent 40th birthday prezzie for me. Hint.
wow. just wow.
I think what he is saying is the truth. He needs to work out more, and I think he needs someone like me to help spot, work out the kinks, and help towel him dry when his arms are too sore to do the job.
Nice to know you haven’t lost your appreciation for stocky, hairy, Jewish men
And yet, despite the name… not Jewish!
Six things that tell us why Ben Cohen is Jewish
1. His surname is Cohen, after all. This should be a giveaway in itself, as a Cohen is a Jewish priest, and it’s hard to disagree that having Ben in the England team is a blessing, which no doubt helped towards England’s victory.
2.Ben’s first name is Ben – which is a nice Jewish name meaning ‘son’. So Ben Cohen means ‘son of a Cohen’.
3. When asked in a TV interview on the day of the victory parade how he came to play rugby, Ben replied “I was just brought in to make up the numbers” – something which happens to a lot of Jewish people on sports teams (who are often there just “to make up the numbers”)
4. He says two of his favourite films are Meet The Parents and Snatch – both of which feature prominent Jewish characters (Ben Stiller as a neurotic Jewish nurse in Meet The Parents and Mike Reid impersonating a Hassidic Jew in Snatch).
5. He is from Northampton, which has a Jewish community.
6. He shares his name with a lot of other Jewish people called Ben Cohen, the most famous being Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben And Jerry’s. Not only is he totally Jewish, but the company’s ice-cream is 100% kosher certified.
Related links:
Ben Cohen official site
Yes, nice cut and paste, Brian, but the fact remains: his family’s Jewishness is several generations removed and he doesn’t self-identify as Jewish (in the very same article you quote!!!), something I’m pretty sure he’d have no problem doing if he really felt he was. Equals not Jewish.
And, really, Brian? He’s Jewish because he likes Jewish-character movies and shares the same name as other Jews? Really?
Had to laugh at the entry title – I taught myself how to play “Ben” on the violin many moons ago.
Not bad. He doesn’t totally ring my bell, but maybe that’s because he’s not Jewish.
(Disclosure: my hawt boyfriend isn’t Jewish, but has been mistaken for Jewish in the past. As I also have a thing for Jewish guys, my attraction to him makes total sense.)