I woulda picked Bradley Cooper for the cover of People Magazine’s annual Hottest Bachelor’s issue but hey, Chace Crawford will do just fine.

Chace, who was been signed to replace Zac Efron in the Footloose remake, talked about dating Carrie Underwood in the People article but I was far more interesting about his reaction to the rumors that he and Gossip Girl co-star Ed Westwick are having a gay love affair: “You know what we really did the first time we heard it? Ed goes, ‘Oh, did you hear that rumor about us being gay?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, man.’ He starts laughing and we’re kind of like, ‘Okay, you want to go play pool and have a beer?'”

Others on the list include the dreamy Chris Pine of Star Trek and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert.