The Crush: Travis Fimmel

Butch, beardy boys dressed in leather and chainmail? No, it’s not the staff of a Vauxhall fetish club, it’s Vikings — our new favourite Game of Thrones-shaped show (streaming now on LoveFilm).

We like the swords, sex and battles, but most of all we like Travis Fimmel. My, how he’s grown! In the early 2000s Crush was determined to spend the rest of its life, or at least a week in Ibiza, with pretty boy Travis. This floppy-haired Australian Adonis, the first male model to secure a six-figure advertising deal, bulged out of billboards and university-dorm walls in Calvin Klein pants.

Oh, how we longed for a CK-sponsored sleepover — it would have been all crisp white sheets, stripey PJs, pillow fights and soft-focus frolicking. We might have even braided each other’s hair. Thankfully, we grew up and moved on to real men. Hurrah, then, that Travis has finally become one. We are thrilled to be reacquainted with the model turned actor. As lead Viking Ragnar Lothbrok he’s rugged and weathered with patchy facial hair and a bit of a paunch. Now we’re hoping for that sleepover all over again...