PopGoesTheNews.com A Canadian has been named Cosmopolitan's Hottest Bachelor of 2011. Chris Van Vliet of Pickering, Ont. was given the title — and $10,000 — at an event in New York City last night.
Van Vliet, 28, will donate his prize money to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland. The former Toronto-based SUN TV entertainment reporter is now working for 19 Action News on WOIO, the CBS station in Cleveland.
A graduate of Pine Ridge Secondary School in Pickering, Van Vliet studied communications at Waterloo's Wilfrid Laurier University and learned the ropes at Rogers Television before landing a gig as a news reporter on Peterborough's CHEX. He moved to Vancouver to host an entertainment show on Citytv and Razer but returned to his home province to host SUN TV's Inside Jam!. He left the show in early 2010 to take the WOIO job south of the border and, a year later, earned an Emmy nomination for his work.
Van Vliet represented Ohio in Cosmopolitan's annual Hottest Bachelor competition, which is decided by online votes. In his profile he said he likes when women compliment his eyes. "That tells me you've looked into them, which is intimate," Van Vliet said, adding he also appreciates a woman who flashes him a smile.
Last year, Van Vliet was named one of Cleveland's 11 hottest bachelors by the syndicated TV show Inside Edition.
Photo courtesy Cosmopolitan.
