--- title: Cosmopolitan Ditches Its Onetime "Sexiest Man" Scott Brown description: The magazine named Brown “America’s sexiest man” in the 80s but says it is endorsing his competitor in the 2014 New Hampshire senate race. canonical: https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/ author: Elizabeth Barber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-24T07:02:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:22:38.284Z article:section: Politics og:title: Cosmo Ditches "Sexiest Man" Scott Brown og:description: The mag famously named him its "Sexiest Man" in the 80s but will endorse his rival in the 2014 senate race. og:url: https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7a010d619289b/6986a504361760413690e07c/islamic-state-politic_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5048 og:image:height: 2840 og:image:alt: Scott Brown og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cosmo Ditches "Sexiest Man" Scott Brown twitter:description: The mag famously named him its "Sexiest Man" in the 80s but will endorse his rival in the 2014 senate race. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7a010d619289b/6986a504361760413690e07c/islamic-state-politic_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Cosmopolitan_ Ditches 'Sexiest Man' Scott Brown in Senate Race > Sponsored content. 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In this Sept. 12, 2014 photo, Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown speaks during a campaign event at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.Elise Amendola—AP by [Elizabeth Barber](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Sep 24, 2014 7:02 AM UTC _Cosmopolitan_ is “picking brains over brawn” in the 2014 Senate race in New Hampshire: the magazine is endorsing not Scott Brown, its 1982 “Sexiest Man in America,” but his competitor, Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, the magazine said Tuesday. “While we wish we could support the man who once posed nude in our pages, his policy positions just aren’t as [solid as his abs](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a31268/jeanne-shaheen-new-hampshire-senate-endorsement/) were in the ’80s,” _Cosmo_ said of the Republican candidate, a onetime Senator from Massachusetts who has decamped to the Granite State. _Cosmo_ added that Brown lagged behind incumbent candidate Shaheen in clarifying his positions on key women’s issues, including access to reproductive care. “Brown said he disapproved of cutting family planning funding, but also supported a bill to defund Planned Parenthood,” _Cosmo_ said. “And when reporters tried to ask him about his views on contraception access, he literally [hid in the bathroom](http://news.yahoo.com/scott-brown-hid-bathroom-avoid-talking-hobby-lobby-204222248.html) to avoid answering the question.” In June 1982, _Cosmo_ ran a two-page centerfold of a beaming, naked Brown, the winner of its “Sexiest Man in America” contest and then a 22-year-old law student at Boston College. Two decades later, when Brown was a Senator and running for re-election in Massachusetts (he lost to the liberal Elizabeth Warren), _Cosmo_ again [lauded](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a10586/scott-brown-nude-in-cosmo/) him as looking “pretty damn good for his age,” quipping “Vote for Brown. He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package.” Polls in New Hampshire have shown a [tight race](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/18/scott-brown-closing-jeanne-shaheen/nWCnqQdhlCzct3GgeXTUZI/story.html) between Shaheen and Brown, who appears to be buoyed by the state’s discontent with President Barack Obama. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/"},"headline":"Cosmopolitan Ditches 'Sexiest Man' Scott Brown in Senate Race","datePublished":"2014-09-24T07:02:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:22:38.284Z","description":"Does he get no thanks for posing nude back in '82?","url":"https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/","keywords":["2014 Election","Senate","Massachusetts","new hampshire"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7a010d619289b/6986a504361760413690e07c/islamic-state-politic_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7a010d619289b/6986a504361760413690e07c/islamic-state-politic_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Scott Brown","caption":"Scott Brown","creditText":"Elise Amendola—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2014-election/","name":"2014 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3424099/cosmopolitan-scott-brown-sexiest-man-2014-senate-race-new-hampshire-jeanne-shaheen/","name":"Cosmopolitan Ditches 'Sexiest Man' Scott Brown in Senate Race"}}]}] ```