<P> People reportedly paid $4.1 million for photos of newborn Shiloh Nouvel Jolie - Pitt, the child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt . The photos set a single - day traffic record for their website, attracting 26.5 million page views . </P> <P> The annual feature the "Sexiest Man Alive" is billed as a benchmark of male attractiveness and typically includes only famous people and celebrities . It is determined using a procedure similar to the procedure used for Time's Person of the Year . The origin of the title was a discussion on a planned story on Mel Gibson . Someone exclaimed, "Oh my God, he is the sexiest man alive!" And someone else said, "You should use that as a cover line ." </P> <P> For the first decade or so, the feature appeared at uneven intervals . Originally awarded in the wintertime, it shifted around the calendar, resulting in gaps as short as seven months and as long as a year and a half (with no selection at all during 1994, however 21 years later People selected Keanu Reeves to fill the 1994 gap, the runners up for that year included Hugh Grant and Jim Carrey). Since 1997, the dates have settled between mid-November and early December . </P> <P> Dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below . </P>

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