As gossip slows down for the year (only to speed right back up in January with the Golden Globes), let’s take a moment to enjoy Sam Heughan, the star of Outlander. Over the course of the year, we’ve gotten some requests for MOAR SAM, although at the time, there weren’t that many photos of him around. People do seem to enjoy him and Outlander though – I watched half of an Outlander marathon and I wasn’t really feeling it, but even I can understand why Sam is a thing. He’s beautiful, his accent is hot, his body is amazing and he genuinely seems like a nice guy in real life.
So enjoy these two covers from The Box Magazine. I can’t believe there’s a magazine called “The Box” and it puts half-naked men on the cover, but there you go. Sam talked to the mag about his workouts – he does CrossFit – and his background as an endurance athlete. I’m also including an assortment of photos of Sam from the past few months.
A lot of people were surprised that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave some Golden Globe nominations to Outlander – the show got nominated for Best TV Drama, plus Caitriona Balfe got an acting nomination, as did Tobias Menzies (who plays two roles on the show). But Sam was notably snubbed. Still… maybe he’ll come out for the Globes? That would be fun!
Covers courtesy of The Box, additional photos courtesy of WENN.
Not for me.
Yeah, me neither and I usually like ginger guys. He’s too buff and too pretty.
I have read the first Outlander book and it was horrible. Like incredibly bad. The plot is stupid and all the characters are annoying. Is the show any better? Should I give it a try?
@Locke Lomora Same! All my friends raved about it but I haven’t been able to even finish it, which is weird for me. The main character’s husband is so incredibly boring, I just remember skipping the pages when he spoke. And the main character has no redeeming qualities herself. Ugh.
Yes, the plot is awful, and have not even managed to read any of the books for the fear they are even worse than the series… But quite unexpectedly I could not take my eyes off Sam Heughan in his kilt i.e. as Jamie, and ended up watching every single episode twice 😀
I managed to get through the first two books, but the third was so bad and bizarrely racist do I threw them all out. Definitely racist and some homophobic undertones in the books, ugh.
Yeah, apart from the awful plot and characters, the thing that I also didn’t like that there was a slight homophobic vibe to the book. And if I remeber correctly, there were some anti-Muslim undertones too.
I adore Scotland + romance books and could not make it past the first 30 pages of this book. I’ve tried the series and just can’t – the filing locations are glorious though.
No the show is worse because the actress that plays Claire manages to be at once completely obnoxious and boring.
And the husband/villain are played by the same creepy man
like a screen door in a hurricane
Lol yasssss!
Most certainly.
+3.
Knew him in the theatre scene back in the day. Nice guy. And openly gay then.
I just felt a tremor in the force. It was though a million tumblr voices suddenly cried out, and then were suddenly silent.
Isn’t he ‘dating’ the boring chick who can’t act on the show? Thanks for destroying my belief in true love, Fluff.
Lol! T Fanty! He is not dating her, not sure who he is dating and had no idea he was openly gay back in the day. I think she has a boyfriend not in the acting biz.
I find him more attractive as Jamie, I don’t know…
Haha Fanty!
Outlander is a weird one for me, I did like it, then I really didn’t but I stuck with it until the last episode. He deserved the nom over Balfe, his acting in the last episode alone deserved it. He and Mensies had some really tough and grim material to work with and they both excelled.
mom2two, its the scruff that works when he is in character. Normally, he just looks like a very beautiful doll.
I don’t watch Outlander but isn’t she fairly publicly in a LTR with some non-famous guy? I read Datalounge and one of the Twihards who ran that blog insisting KStew and RPatz were secretly married and had two kids, moved into Outlander fandom and is doing the same thing, insisting the two leads are secretly married.
Yeah, the hardcore fans get really upset when their actor doesn’t marry the character’s true love. That’s a whole thing, right? I guess that’s why studios do it. Because someone, somewhere wants to believe it.
I read a blind about him recently; supposedly he’s pushing the dating rumours himself to cover up the fact that he’s gay. I don’t usually believe blinds on principle, but reading the comments here, I think this has a ring of truth to it.
There’s something about Outlander that I really don’t like, and I can’t put my finger on it. I’ve never seen it, or read the book but after seeing about a thousand GIF sets on tumblr, it just really turned me off it. And off him. And I don’t know why. There is no logical or rational explanation for it, at all. I can see objectively that he’s an attractive man, but he just repulses me and I can’t explain why. I have him and the show blacklisted in every way I can think of, just so I won’t see it on my dash.
Outing Sam and his fake ‘relationship’ with co-star Caitriona Balfe. She’s actually dating music manager Tony McGill.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2015/12/blind-item-6-842.html
Love the show. Love the books. Like millions of people. As for Caitriona Balfe, she’s acting her way to a Golden Globes Award. Cha-ching
Interesting. I kept getting gay vibes from him since the beginning but figured it must be all in my head.
I think he is a good looking guy but he istoo beautiful for me, if that makes any sense. There is just no intensity about him. Im a MacAvoy girl.
Yes, interesting. I got the vibe, too, but shook it off since his character has such great chemistry with Claire. Anyway, as long as they keep the on-film flame going, it’s cool. And, yes, he is too pretty for my taste (I’m more the Mads Mikkelsen type).
Yes, he totally has that very beautiful gay guy vibe.
You sound exactly like an old gossip so I think you’re lying and you didn’t know him.
Oh darling, of course I’m an old gossip. Have you never met a theatre queen before?
Everyone in the biz knows he’s gay, which is not a big deal here. But it is in the US and in the movie industry, so I don’t think anyone was shocked or upset that he’s decided to closet. And really he’s not exactly closeting hard. It’s like Luke Evans 2.0.
You are an ahole. Eff you. Don’t effing eff with someone’s career d-ickhead.
Oh Fluff, you’ve set the cat amongst the pigeons. Rabid Outlander fans make Robsten fans look positively tame. (Feeling v lucky to have bought Uncle Vanya tickets before the Tobias Menzies casting was announced).
@Tina Ah, you are so lucky that you managed to get those tickets. It is my dream to see Menzies on stage. Maybe one day.
He looks better in the photos. The magazine really shaped his eyebrows and did something to his face.
@EsCon! Outlander!!
I can’t decide whether I have a love-hate relationship with this show, or just a hate-hate relationship with it.
No, I just remembered that I hate it. Especially since whatshername decided to punish her husband for beating her by having s*x with him, which made him respect her. I miss Fifty Shades of Grey.
I was really liking it and then they went on that huge hiatus and I couldn’t get back into it, especially knowing what was coming towards the end of book one. I really miss seeing Murtagh and Angus. Okay, and Hot Dougal even though he is a jerk.
Same for me. There was too long a break and I started nit picking and then couldn’t be bothered with the second half.
@Fanty! Jamie Fraser!
To answer the headline question: You damn right I would. Look at his beautiful chiselled face. The soft auburn curls, the sweet smile. The…….. ~record scraaaatch~ Oh, I’m sorry, I thought we were discussing Cumbersnoot. (The hook is deep.)
But you have to keep watching it! Who said he should have been nominated over Catriona Balfe? Lindy? You’re right. The last episode was shattering and he was fantastic. Love Tobias Menzies too.
I’m going to have to pretend I didn’t see that thing Fluff wrote….please, let me keep a few illusions…..
@T Fanty, that episode you mention, I was watching it with my Mom (who did not read the Outlander books and came into the show cold) and she said that was the stupidest thing she has seen in all her years of watching television. The books deal with the fall out of that much better but the show could not dwell on it as long as the books…but they made a bad choice with that. I rolled my eyes at that one.
The show is hit or miss for me. Some episodes tell me that it could be a top notch show and some episodes are cheesy. Maybe doing 13 episodes for a second season and kind of being more confident in the overall storytelling will have show consistent second season. It’s not a show for me that is a must watch when it airs, but a DVR catch up. I don’t really think he was snubbed for a Golden Globe. I don’t think he was better than the actors nominated. He might have been top ten, if they nominated ten, but not top 5. The best actor on that show is Tobias Menzies, who did deserve his nomination. The mid-season finale episode (where Black Jack is holding Claire and they are having a very tense meeting) was probably Balfe’s best episode and was terrific between her and Menzies.
But it’s kind of the same thing again and again. They shag. She says or does something as a “modern” woman, and gets into trouble. Jamie endangers himself and rescued her, but respects the fact that she did it, anyway. Rinse and repeat.
TFanty, that is a dynamic repeated throughout the books/show which gets tiresome. Also The No One is Ever Better Than Jamie Fraser in Anything trope that runs through the books. Not to give away future spoilers, but there is a character that is a good musician/singer and it’s later revealed that if Jamie did not have some unfortunate knock on the head he too would have been a good singer–because OF COURSE. It’s like the author cannot have Jamie be second best to anyone… At least she somehow has not managed to come up with a way that Jamie would have more medical knowledge and healing skills than Claire.
IMO in the books it was even worse. At least in the show they made the beatings less severe and didn’t have him aroused by it like he was in the books. And at least in the show they didn’t include the scene in which he rapes her (disgusting scene describing marital rape, which for some reason is defended by books diehard fans as passionate and romantic. Eww!).
Show is improved over book. Those books literally make no sense. Historically inaccurate, inconsistent, characters make unrealistic choices (really, the lead character would have to be mentally ill to choose to stay in the 18th century with abusive Jamie instead of going back to her time and husband). Show improved a little bit by skipping the biggest controversies, but still it seems very unrealistic.
And yes, Menzies is the best part of the show. His acting in two completely different and challenging roles (especially as BJR) is amazing. That Golden Globe nom for him is well deserved.
That pic of him on the plyo box makes me think I should watch Outlander. What is it about? Any good?
I almost never find him attractive outside of his Outlander costuming, and not just because I’m a sucker for a man in a kilt.
It’s like he needs to be a little dirty and stubbly to take away from the fact that his face looks like….a marshmallow or something. When he slicks his hair back and is all clean shaven, it just doesn’t work for me. He doesn’t look real.
Hah! I just said above he looks like a doll outside of his character! LOL!
Agree. Deep down in places I don’t talk about at parties, I want him in that kilt, I need him in that kilt.
genuine lol!
Nicely done.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE KILT!
Oh but I can.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s like a hall pass to my lady parts.
I can’t believe I just said that.
Agreed. I don’t like how his hair is styled outside of the show and I love a bit of stubble and messiness. He looks too perfect outside of Outlander. And then there is that kilt….
Yeah, he looks like an anime character when he’s shaven.
Agree with you completely. It’s something about the long curly auburn hair, the scruff, the kilt and that adorable Scottish brogue – YUM. Shaven, with short hair, modern day clothes and looking prettier than some women – no bueno!
I feel like I should find him attractive. It’s like his features are attractive independently but, when assembled, don’t quite match. But throw in the accent and it evens it all out? Hmmm, I don’t know. Seems like a swell guy though.
YES YES YES YES YES
Yes!!!!
no. i don’t get it either, is a good body all it takes to be considered attractive?
But look at his pretty pretty face.
that’s what i’m saying, i don’t think his face is pretty. his body yes, but his face is uninteresting.
No, it’s playing popular character on a TV show. You play one and suddenly you are considered attractive. 🙂
Personally I also can’t see it.
It’s called “The Box” because Crossfit gyms are known as “boxes” within the Crossfit community.
Yes exactly! I was coming here to say the same thing 🙂
He looks like Patrick Wilson’s little brother in the cover picture. That gets him a maybe.
I have season 2/part 2 of season 1???? on order to watch, but don’t know that I will. All the recaps I saw indicated it was going to route of rape/threat of same as an on-going plot device, and ugh with that.
Re Sam-he will inhabits that character, and does a good job with the material. To me, he’s needs a better hair cut for starters.
I would all day and all night. His voice is a panty dropper, get him dirty and in a kilt and I’m toast.
I think part of why he wasn’t nominated might have something to do with the fact that he wanted it so bad (which is not a bad thing) but kept tweeting articles about how good he was and his chances for nominations and bla bla bla…
Yes, I know women watch Outlander because its the porn series. He’s just not that appealing beyond a Cavill level bland stringy haired dude. No thanks. Not appealing or attractive.
I’d hit it like the broad side of a barn door but as the ladies say above he’s gay??!! Well whomever he’s dating “she” is lucky. I must be one of the few here who like the books and the show. I love to read cheesy fantasy romantic fiction to offset my other more intellectual reading. I love the chemistry between Sam and Catroina on the show. And some of the racist/homophobic vibes some of you are picking up from the books are probably due to the authors struggle to be historically accurate. Just throwing that out there. I tend to read one novel at a time and read other things between since they are so long. I know when I pick one up its a several month commitment of my time. I think I’m on the 5th book now. The series is different than the books. I’m also a sucker for most time travel plots and historical fiction.
I love the chemistry Sam and Catriona bring to the screen too, Ginger. I’ve read through four books but have found I need a break from them as they are so long and intense. The first season was very true to the first book IMO and I thought it was well done. It made we want to visit Scotland again as well as brush up on my 18th century Scottish history.
SPOILER ALERT – Can’t wait for the second season when they go to France (if they follow the second book).
I’m just seeing a better looking, buff Jesse Eisenberg in that first cover shot. That’s a nope from me!
He looks like three completely different guys in those pictures.
His last name it’s Heughan not Heughen. 🙂
Ever since Tom and Lorenzo said Sam looked like a female priest in a suit, I can’t un-see it!
The Box is a crossfit magazine. Popular among crossfitters. Crossfit gyms are called Boxes.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of the episodes after the break but I just finished the last book. I had issues with the first one. Like some of the scenarios just could not get behind. I couldn’t be totally on board with Claire and Jamie because she was already MARRIED… Even if he was a duller than a clod of dirt. Plus, the main character trait of the villain… Went on and on about that part of him. His behavior was brutal. And the scene with the spanking just.. Anyway. I finished outlander and was like nope, not reading any more. A year went by, I watched ythe first part of the show and decided to pick the books up again. I feel like the second book resolved some of the issues I had with the first and the characters grew on me. I read the rest of the series in a year, and I would read several books in between to get a break. But I loved coming to the book and feeling like I know the characters so well. I really like Claire and Jamie’s relationship. It’s a lot deeper than what you normally get to see in a typical book. As it should be, with the sheer length of the books!
All that being said, I don’t picture this guy as Jamie. I wish I could say I have some celeb in mind when I picture him, but it’s not Sam. And catriona is not who I picture as Claire. Randall, yes. But I can still appreciate the show for its own merit.
He’s stunning and hot af when he’s Jamie though.
First to stay somewhat positive here, let me say that Sam Heughan is a fine human being inside and out and a wonderful actor. I appreciate those of you who have tried to defend him, his career, his current character role as Jamie Fraser and his costars. Personally, I don’t care if he is gay or not. However, I did find many of the comments on this site offensive, rude and blatantly and totally not necessary. You have a right to an opinion, but to deliberately attack someone like you have, says way more about you than anything else. He and Cait are obviously good friends and I have never seen them pretend to be anything else. They do have wonderful chemistry on screen and you may not appreciate Outlander, but many people do and I wish it and its stars much success. You are mean spirited, spiteful people and should get a life.
Amen!
I am an avid reader, am currently rereading the 2nd book in the Outlander series. The portrayal of Jaime by Sam Heughan is brilliantly executed. He brings a sensitive depth to the character through his delivery, his eyes and stance as well as the glint of humor in a sideways look or twitch of a smile. He can be subtle or bold and seems to embody the moral character and ethics this person has been written about and it shines in his performances. We will be seeing much more of Sam Heughan in the future.
Well said Susan. It’s no body’s business what goes on in their private lives. I think people would be much happier if they focused on their own lives.
Here! Here! Susan well said!