Hotties from History

Hotty from History #23- Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966)

• When he was at Hertford college, Oxford, Waugh would rarely be seen without a snifter of brandy or a flute of champagne. When asked if he did anything for his college, he replied “I drink.” Followers should be reminded that at the time Waugh was at University, binge drinking was not such a fashion and was reserved for bohemian intellectuals and those from the titillating twenties that put the ‘art’ into party.
• Before worming his way into the Literary world, Waugh did not make much of a success of himself. He left Oxford without a degree and was fired from a job for seducing the matron. Lucky her. 
• He tried to remove Salvador Dali’s moustache, thinking it was joke. In the modern day, this is probably equivalent to removing Karl Lagerfeld’s sunglasses.
• He was fluid with is sexuality, and had a number of relationships with men during his youth. His older brother Alec was actually kicked out of school for publishing a novel, The Loom of Youth (during his school years!), which focused on gay relationships. The Waugh’s are idols for artists everywhere who have discovered their sexuality and struggled to be open about it in the art world, and we admire him for his ability to survive the hideous levels of homophobia that were rife at that time.
• He had seven children. As we all know, men become about five times hotter when they are holding a baby. Also…seven children? That’s a hell of a lot of loin fruit. Evelyn Waugh’s loins…we salute you. 
• Waugh’s work was summarised by Time magazine as “a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.” So yes, Waugh was a big snob, but in the best possible way. It was Waugh that mourned the loss of the cucumber sandwich laid out on willow pattern plates, the hereditary and compulsory British taste for tea and the careful mannerisms which non Brits usually refer to as ‘uptight’ but this blogger believes is simply a reflection of our unique discerning qualities.
• Thanks to the TV adaptation of his novel, Brideshead Revisited, we all got to see Jeremy Irons involved in homo erotica and being artfully semi naked in various idyllic situations.
• Waugh’s brilliant literary legacy+Jeremy Irons semi naked= happy hottiesfromhistory bloggers.

-Georgia