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star Ben Hardy has said that Tom Daley deserved to beat him in this year’s Attitude HOT 100 poll.

The Olympic medal-winning diver topped the HOT 100 list voted for by Attitude readers for the second consecutive year, while former Attitude cover star Hardy finished 30 places behind, in a very respectable 31st place.

Hardy has since spoken about his placing, insisting he is happy to finish in Daley’s wake. “He seems like a really nice lad and good-looking boy, so fair play to him, ” Hardy told our friends at Digital Spy.

“I was happy with 31,” he continued. “People kept coming up to me and offering commiserations and I was like, ‘I’m quite chuffed’. Everyone was like, ‘Oh, unlucky’, but I’d have been happy to be 100th.”

Th 23-year-old actor then revealed that he has a ‘man crush’ on a few of Hollywood’s leading men, saying: “I have so many man crushes – ‘my brother’ Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper – if he’s here today, I might get a bit squealish.”

To see the HOT 100 list in full, download the latest issue of Attitude now at pocketmags.com/attitude or order via post at newsstand.co.uk/attitude. You can pick up a physical copy in the shops too, of course.

Meanwhile, Olly Murs – who did not place in the Attitude HOT 100 – has since been voted ‘Rear of the Year’. Find out more here.

The Attitude HOT 100 was presented in association with DiscoverLA.com, and took place at the spectacular, 32-storey Paramount Bar, Restaurant & Events Space.