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^ a b Russell, Chrissie (10 November 2010)."David Gandy on what it's really like to be one of the world's biggest male supermodels". In 2017 he was asked if "tall, dark and handsome" is universally attractive in the human experience and he stated that not enough cross-cultural work had been conducted to be very confident in the concept's scientific validity. The New Zealand Herald described further that "At 191cm, he's taller than most models and up close - with his dark, almost black hair and bronzed olive complexion - he's like a live version of Michelangelo's Statue of David." Studies ĭavid Puts is an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the evolutionary bases of human sexuality. Model David Gandy has often been called tall, dark and handsome in the media. In the 2010s, Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh, Randeep Hooda, and Arjun Kapoor were described by the phrase in the Indian media. As an idiom it is both lexically and sequentially fixed. The term came to prominent use in the early 1900s and was commonly used in Hollywood during the 1920s to describe Rudolph Valentino. " Tall, dark, and handsome" is a phrase that refers to an appealing man, often found in romantic fiction aimed at women. Ranveer Singh, a Bollywood actor, has been called tall, dark and handsome in the media.
