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Walton Goggins Is Making Receding Hairlines Sexy, So Cancel That Trip To Turkey

The White Lotus star Walton Goggins is making receding hairlines sexy, helping more men embrace their rising foreheads in a phenomenon aptly named ‘The Walton Goggins Effect.’

In the hit series, the 53-year-old actor plays Rick Hatchett, a mysterious and enigmatic man with a chip on his shoulder who has travelled to Thailand with his free-spirited girlfriend Chelsea, played by Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood.

In a Reddit thread dedicated to how Goggins pulls off the look, people were not afraid to admit how attractive they found the actor.

“I love Walton so much. He’s half forehead, half teeth, and yet it all works. The man is hot,” one person wrote.

“Walton Goggins somehow balding in the most handsome way possible,” another wrote online.

Hairstylist Luke Hersherson told The Telegraph that “it’s not just the hair on its own.”

“It’s a combination of his confidence, his nonchalance and his attitude, as well as his style. Everything works together.

“The fact that he is embracing it, rather than hiding it, also adds to the attractiveness, as well as the long hair – it gives him this, ‘I don’t give a shit’ attitude. I’m not sure we’d be talking about it if all those things weren’t true.”

Goggin’s on-screen girlfriend has also been the topic of conversation due to her veneer-less teeth.

In an interview with The Jonathan Ross Show, the 31-year-old actor said: “I can’t believe the impact my teeth are having. Americans can’t get over them.”

In another interview with On Demand Entertainment, the British actor said that her unique teeth would prevent her from being able to convincingly play an American.

“It’s the teeth. Like, no Americans have my teeth," she said. "They just don’t. I’d have to get veneers. Because … I think that genuinely is like one of the things."