George the golden boy
HE has held on to his heartthrob status for decades.
And while George Clooney may be a little greyer than before, he is still able to beat off competition from younger celebrities – to be named the most handsome of them all.
The actor’s face has been found to have almost perfect dimensions based on the “Golden Ratio”, a mathematical formula of beauty dating back to the Ancient Greeks.
This states that if you take two measurements, one should be 1.618 times bigger than the other. A Harley Street plastic surgeon analysed eight measures of actors’ faces using a computer programme. A perfect 100% overall score would mean all measurements fit the 1.618 ratio.
Clooney, 56, got the closest to perfection, scoring 91.86%, just ahead of Bradley Cooper, 42, who got 91.8%, and Brad Pitt, 53, on 90.51%.
Former One Direction singer Harry Styles, 23, got a total score of 89.63% – although when looking at specific features, he had the most handsome eyes and chin.
Beckham had the most perfectly shaped face, while Ryan Gosling can boast the perfect nose, based on its length compared to its width.
Dr Julian De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery in London, said: “George Clooney has beautiful facial symmetry and gets closer than any other man to having what the Greeks considered the perfect face.”
Kendra Schmid, professor of biostatistics at Nebraska University in the US, said the study “adds to the evidence that features in proportion with the Golden Ratio are considered more attractive”, adding: “Of course, there is more to beauty than just geometry, but the Golden Ratio appears to play a large role.”
Thought up around 2 500 years ago, the Golden Ratio involves taking two measurements – and one distance being 1.618 times bigger than the other is considered ideal.
When applied to faces, an example would be measuring the width of the nose and the width of the mouth, and the mouth should be 1.618 times wider than the nose.
A beautiful face will have many examples of the golden ratio when you compare lots of different measurements.
Leonardo Da Vinci is thought to have used the ratio to draw Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, while Marilyn Monroe was close to fitting the ratio.
It can also apply to buildings and objects, and is thought to have been used to build the Parthenon in Athens in the 5th century BCE, and to design the Aston Martin. – Daily Mail