Nicholas Hoult Forty Times

As much as we loved Nicholas Hoult's "slutty blond" phase, as we called it, there was only so depressed we could be about it when he shaved it off because... our boy shaved it off and wore a leather suit to the Met Gala and that was all also extremely, extremely hot as well. (And sidenote: is there some reason I don't see usually Nicky's name being bandied about for James Bond? Why isn't he always on every list of contenders I see?) But I'm glad he sneaked in a surprise treat for us before the big shave happened -- I shouldn't have doubted he'd treat us so right, as he's always been a very good boy. And Nicky, whilst still slutty blond, went and shot a cover-shoot for The Face magazine for us.

Or so it seems? The Face, once a UK magazine, apparently shut down earlier this year... only to be snatched up and bought by a Chinese firm, who are immediately relaunching it? With Mr. Hoult as their first cover star? I honestly spent all weekend (I'm always so annoyed when these things drop on the weekend) trying to figure out this mystery to no avail -- they do have a website but all it contains for the moment is a form to fill out the newsletter to find out when the relaunch is actually happening. They've also got a bare-bones Instagram account. But none of these things contain anything about this photo-shoot yet, so I have no idea where all this shoot was coming from. 

As far as I can tell it popped up on Reddit first, and then the images and video spread like wildfire from there. For obvious reasons! As I said when I posted some of the shoot on Bluesky -- this shoot is "Chris Evans in Flaunt magazine" level stuff (the goldest of golden standards) from where I stand...

... and it should be celebrated as such. And I'm annoyed I can't link to a proper source -- I'm even more annoyed that I can't immediately order ten copies of this issue, to be honest. So when that news does land I will surely post more -- hopefully there will be even more photos from this shoot to come once it does because...

... well for one you can't give us a glimpse of an image like THAT in the video and then never feed us a proper full body photo. You simply cannot. Anyway I gathered up everything I could find, and it's a lot, but it could always be more. That's the number one golden rule of gratuity. MORE. GIMME MORE. But hit the jump for what we got for now...