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Inside the life of Hollywood's newest bad boy: Hunk Jeremy Allen White is a chain-smoking troubled former addict who's been through a messy divorce and must be breathalysed every time he sees his children

With his tattooed biceps, artfully dishevelled hair and mournful, blue-eyed gaze, Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto hardly needs to display his ability with a paring knife to show that chefs can be sexy.

The enormous appeal of Tinseltown's latest heartthrob – whose roguish image has created such carnal frenzy on social media that he's been dubbed 'the internet's new boyfriend' – was driven home earlier this month when Calvin Klein launched an advertising campaign featuring a musclebound White stripping down to a pair of its skin-tight boxers. The buzz surrounding the ads was turned up a notch shortly afterwards when the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned posters from a Calvin Klein campaign which featured the British singer FKA Twigs with a breast partially exposed. Despite his diminutive stature, big nose, protruding eyes and strong resemblance to a young Gene Wilder, the social media generation – which often prefers its pin-ups to be 'alt' (alternative) rather than conventionally Hollywood handsome – reckons White has the right stuff.

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