Thursday Morning Man: Chris Meloni!

Let’s face it, Christopher Meloni is one of the sexiest men to ever grace a television screen.

Today is his 59th birthday which comes during the same week that news has broken that he will be reprising his role of Elliot Stabler in a new NBC procedural built around the character he played for 12 seasons on Law & Order SVU.

While he’s best known for the role of Stabler, any gay man with HBO knows him best from his years on the prison drama Oz as sexy Chris Keller.

We really got to know him through his many nude scenes and his love scenes with his male lover Tobias Beecher (see two bottom videos). Too bad Keller was a murderer!

In 2014, Chris appeared on Conan O’Brien’s (see video below) and shared that he’s still propositioned by gay  fans of Oz which ended its six-year run on HBO in 2003.

‘I like to hit the gym and that’s usually when that happens,’ the actor said.

He described to O’Brien what usually goes down: ‘It’s mostly in the showers. They lather a bit too long down in the nether-regions, never speaking… You’re doing your thing and you’re washing and you can feel the energy. Your first thought is “Really’?”‘

The attention is no doubt in part to Meloni’s celebrated derriere which he sometimes displayed on Oz. He has even shared a backside shot or two on social media.

‘There was a national vote for the best butt in prime-time,’ he explained. ‘So I just jumped in the bandwagon.’

‘It’s a little bit genetic but I’m not afraid of the dead lift or the squat,’ he added. ‘I know at some point it’s going to fall so I may as well keep Father Time at bay as long as I can.’

So far, so god.

Happy birthday to Chris!