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Parling shares best beard with Hollywood star

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Geoff Parling can now rank himself alongside Hollywood royalty after claiming the 2013's Sexiest Beard title with actor and director George Clooney.

Leicester lock Parling was the joint winner of the My Hairy Valentine Sexiest Beard Award, handed out by the Beard Liberation Front, alongside Clooney, the star of films such as Out Of Sight, Ocean’s 11 and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Tigers prop Martin Castrogiovanni finished third in the public vote.

They were ahead of Hollywood heartthrobs Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt, singers Tom Jones and Robert Plant and former England football captain David Beckham. Ospreys and Wales forward Adam Jones, cricketer Matt Prior and actor Brian Blessed were also nominated.