In a head-scratching moment on television, Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld attempted a peculiar โjokeโ about actor John Krasinskiโs gender identity after learning about his recent People magazine honor.
While hosting The Five, Gutfeld mentioned Krasinskiโs new title as sexiest man alive, before making an unexpected claim about The Office starโs gender identity.
โI think itโs great that People has announced that a trans, uh, male can be the sexiest one alive,โ Gutfeld said. โKrasinski never talks about it but heโs, you know, heโs trans. You know that?โ
His fellow host Jesse Watters, whoโs had his own share of controversial moments, appeared puzzled by the comment and mentioned he โdidnโt knowโ about this claim, but Gutfeld kept pushing the narrative.

โYes, heโs trans,โ Gutfeld insisted, before describing the title as โredundantโ and trying to land another joke with: โIโm assuming โaliveโ is a given.โ
While itโs true that some social media users expressed surprise at Peopleโs selection, suggesting stars like Jonathan Bailey or Paul Mescal might have been better choices, this isnโt Gutfeldโs first eyebrow-raising TV moment.
Just months ago, he sparked controversy by declaring that protecting LGBTQ+ youth from being outed to their parents was the โmost amoral act since slavery,โ continuing with: โWeโre watching right now the sexual exploitation of children and theyโre usingโฆ this lie of privacy. Theyโre actually coming for kidsโฆ they say itโs an attack on childrenโs privacy by parents. Thatโs not real.โ

He further stirred the pot by claiming LGBTQ+ activists were attempting to discuss sexuality with children without parental consent.
โIn the old days, if someone talked to your kid like that, youโd be in jail or dead. There is no privacy separation between parents and children, and you should fight to the death on that one,โ he said.