1. "Jockey would like to offer our support for Jon Hamm in the form of a lifetime supply of Jockey underwear," a rep for the company says in a statement to E! News.
2. Jon Hamm: "They’re literally pointing at pictures of my penis in my pants–and underwear, by the way. I wear underwear every day of my life. I’ve never not worn underwear.”
3. Jon Hamm Is Being Treated Like an Actress, and He Hates It.
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1. Jon Hamm Crotch Brouhaha: Jockey Offers Free Underwear to Mad Men Star
Jon Hamm is getting quite the, um, support, amid all the needling fixation on his family jewels.
Undies staple Jockey has made the Mad Men star a rather generous proposition after unsubstantiated reports surfaced that the actor had supposedly been asked to put on some skivvies after purportedly going commando while wearing the show's body-skimming '60s-era outfits.
And the underwear company wants to make sure that the 42-year-old actor will be amply covered for a long time to come.
Jon Hamm on the pop-culture obsession with his crotch: "They're called 'privates' for a reason"
"Jockey would like to offer our support for Jon Hamm in the form of a lifetime supply of Jockey underwear," a rep for the company says in a statement to E! News.
Hamm, for his part, has been anything but amused by the constant chatter over his junk: In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the star cops to being peeved by the invasive scrutiny.
"Most of it's tongue-in-cheek, but it is a little rude," he said, adding, "They're called 'privates' for a reason. I'm wearing pants, for f--k's sake. Lay off."
In other words, peeps: Deep-six all that willy-nilly obsession with Mr. Hamm's willy.
2. Jon Hamm: “I wear underwear every day of my life”
The "Mad Men" actor speaks out against the Internet meme inspired by his anatomy
On Wednesday’s Nerdist podcast, “You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes,” during which Holmes gets actors to share their “secret weirdness,” “Mad Men” actor Jon Hamm addressed his not-so-secret weirdness: his “Internet Penis Sensation,” as Holmes put it.
Of the attention that the press has given Hamm’s unusually large genitalia, Hamm said:
“I have friends with five year old boys who don’t pay as much attention to their penises as much as the Internet has all of a sudden decided to pay to mine. And it’s juvenile and it’s ridiculous, but it’s the perfect storm of prurience and titillation and page-clicks and this that and the other.”
But Hamm squashed rumors that he routinely goes commando, saying, ”And it’s not like I’m running around with my dick out. They’re literally pointing at pictures of my penis in my pants–and underwear, by the way. I wear underwear every day of my life. I’ve never not worn underwear.”
And lo, Jon Hamm’s penis just got another headline.
3. Jon Hamm Is Being Treated Like an Actress, and He Hates It.
Jon Hamm has a great job playing repressed advertising executive Don Draper on Mad Men, what appears to be a terrific long-standing life partnership with actress and director Jennifer Westfeldt, and a great deal of critical respect for his work. He’s also got a large … problem. Just as actresses have been plagued by paparazzi shots up their skirts and with flashes that can, at times, expose their nipples, Hamm's become perturbed by the proliferation of photos of and gossip about his penis, whether he's caught at an unflattering angle on the street or asked to wear underwear on the Mad Men set so he's not exposed by tighter-fitting suits.
"They're called privates for a reason. I'm wearing pants, for fuck's sake," he grumbled to Rolling Stone. "When people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my cock, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal."
For an earlier generation of actors, it wouldn't have been. But for actresses, having your anatomy scrutinized has long been part of the celebrity, er, package. The questions that Hamm faces, from whether he should just invest in some Calvins to whether he should be flattered by the attention, are ones actresses have fielded forever. It's a framing that acts as if the problem were the kind of underwear starlets and their stylists were picking out, rather than the photographers who zoom telephoto lenses in on their crotches. It says that if people get a glimpse of your body once, they're entitled to speculate about it forever, and you're a prude for reminding people that you're more than the sum of your junk.
What makes Hamm different from, say, Anne Hathaway, who had to weather discussion about the appearance of her nipples in her Academy Awards dress, is that Hamm isn't used to being objectified. He has outrage left to burn, rather than being exhausted by endless appearance-based prying and insane body standards. It might be easy for men to brush off how women are treated when they're unaffected. But when they're subject to the same standards, men often discover quickly how difficult to endure they really are.
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