Teen People's Sexiest Guys Ever from 2004: Catch Up with the Heartthrobs 20 Years Later

Photo:Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock At the top of the rankings wasLord of the RingsandPirates of the CaribbeanheartthrobOrlando Bloom. Years before he was happily engaged toKaty Perry, the action star catapulted to celebrity crush status as the elf Legolas and blacksmith Will Turner. From Bloom andThe O.C.’sAdam BrodytoSexiest Man AlivetitleholdersAdam LevineandBrad Pitt, many ofTeen Peoplereaders’ favorite men are now bona fide stars in their respective fields. Read on to see what all the buzz was about for 20 of these men, according to the 2004 article — and where the Sexiest Guys Ever are now.

Teen Says Her Stepsiblings Are Mad They Didn’t Get a ‘Grandkid Inheritance’ After Her Grandma’s Funeral

Two people hugging at a funeral (stock image).Photo:Getty Getty A teenage girl is being accused of lacking “empathy and compassion” for her stepsiblings after they got upset when they didn’t receive “a grandkid inheritance” upon her grandparents' deaths. The teen said the only extended family she has is on her late mother’s side, and “when dad remarried he insisted my stepsiblings had to be included or they couldn’t see us.”

Teen Secretly Enters Cooking Contest and Places Second, but When Mom Finds Out, She 'Explodes'

Teenage girl baking in stock photo.Photo:Getty Getty A 17-year-old girl says that her neurosurgeon mom is disappointed after she secretly entered a baking competition and came in second place. In a post shared toReddit, the anonymous teen writes that she has “always been seen as the ‘disappointment’ in my family.” “My mom is a neurosurgeon, and she’s constantly comparing me to my cousins, who are all excelling academically. I’ve never been great at school—my grades are average, and I struggle with math and science—so I’ve always felt like I can’t measure up to her expectations,” she continues.

Teen Snuck in Through the Window and Killed Girl, 15, Found in Pool of Blood

Madison Gesswein.Photo: Peachtree City Police Department A Georgia teenager will spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl in her bedroom in the middle of the night last year. Madison Gesswein, 15, was killed in her Peachtree City, Ga., home on Feb. 21, 2023, Peachtree City Police Departmentsaidat the time. Justus Smith (left); Jacobean Brown; and Yeshua Mathis.Peachtree City Police Department (3) Prosecutors said that Madison had an argument with the three defendants on the night before the murder, per theJournal-Constitutionand The Citizen.

Teen Storms Out of Birthday Party After Mom Uses the Occasion for Her Own 'Gender Reveal'

Sad lonely teenager celebrating birthday in a stock photo.Photo:Ievgen Chabanov / Alamy Stock Photo Ievgen Chabanov / Alamy Stock Photo A teenage boy says he left his own birthday party after his mom used the event to announce her unborn child’s sex. In a post shared onReddit, the anonymous 17-year-old teen writes that his mom made the announcement just as “everyone was coming up to a stage to share what they got me for my birthday.