Tom Cruise Appointed "The Sexiest Little-Man"

I always wondered how Tom Cruise once managed to become such an acclaimed sex symbol (maybe some of you will pause for a few seconds before actually remembering those days) so many years ago... when he's only 5'7". Now I seem to finally get a clue. You see, news just came in that Tom was voted "The Sexiest Little-Man" in a British poll.

I had no idea such polls existed - or that there were actually people who took interest in looking at several dozen small guys and of ranking them on how sexy they are. But apparently, such a top does exist, and part of the mystery of Tom's success (even the fact that so many women still see him as sexy) suddenly seems to make more sense. I was thinking that there must be a whole network of people out there interested in little people. And just in case you were interested, here is a little disambiguation of the list for you, just in case you were wondering who the rest of the small guys are.

1. Tom Cruise
2. Richard Hammond - English Columnist, TV and Radio presenter best known for co-presenting a show called Top gear. (Top gear...Top Gun...what is with little guys and being number one?) And incidentally, this guy is nicknamed "The Hamster". If that's not sexy as hell, I don't know what is.
3. Mark Owen - English singer/songwriter, but he may be best known for being one fifth of the hugely successful Take That. Yes, we have heard of him, thank you.
4. Lewis Hamilton - British Formula One driver.
5. Jamie Cullum - British singer/pianist, who - in the words of his own site - "is known for updated arrangements of jazz standards, unconventional cover tunes, and his own distinctive compositions"
6. James McAvoy - we know about him now that he's done a sex scene with Keira Knightley. Kidding.
7. Michael Owen - the "wonder boy" of Newcastle United football team. Yes, we know all about him too.
8. Kelly Jones - musician, lyricist, lead singer of the band Stereophonics.
9. Declan Donnelly - actor and British TV star.
10. Robert Carlyle - Scottish film actor, best known for his performances as psychopaths or killers.

So we've got actors, singers, TV presenters and...at the top (or should it have been at the bottom of the list, just to make it all the more suggestive) we have Scientology Tom, everybody's favorite little man. I have to hand it to the people who made the top - if they still find him sexy and attractive, there may still be hope for other people out there, taller maybe but with the same basic problem of trying to make themselves as visible as possible. Kanye West, anyone?