LONDON:

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has been voted the world’s sexiest “small man” in an online poll conducted by onepoll.com. The five-foot-seven-inch (1.7 metres) Cruise, who is shorter than his wife Katie Holmes and ex-wife Nicole Kidman, beats British TV presenter Richard Hammond and actor Mark Owen to take the top spot. Also in the top 10 sexiest small males were Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton, jazz star Jamie Cullum, actor James MCAvoy and English soccer ace Michael Owen. John Sewell of onepoll.com said, “It gives short guys hope.”