Playgirl: Olbermann Sexiest Newscaster
Sep 13, 2:34 PM EST
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The countdown to the No. 1 sexiest male newscaster ends with ... Keith Olbermann at least according to a Playgirl magazine online poll.
The host of MSNBC's nightly "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" had linked his Web site to the Playgirl Web site and urged viewers to vote for him. The strategy worked: he came away the winner with 24 percent of the 50,000 votes cast.
"Voter turnout was phenomenal," Michele Zipp, the magazine's editor in chief, said Monday.
"Our readers jammed our e-mail server extolling the virtues of all those sexy news guys on TV."
Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity came in second and Anderson Cooper of CNN was third. Andy Rooney of CBS's "60 Minutes" who's 85 tied for fifth place with the boyish Bill Hemmer from CNN. And Fox's Bill O'Reilly received about 200 write-in votes.
Complete results will be listed in the October issue.
As winner, Olbermann won't be taking it all off in Playgirl's pages but he will choose a charity to receive $2,500 on his behalf.
No offense to Andy, but he's tied for 5th place?
