And the Adorkable of the Year 2009 Is…

By Square on January 1, 2010 in Random Hotness

2009 Adorkables of the Year

The people have spoken. 7 days, 9 adorkables, over 3,400 votes and 1 winner. Instead of the usual use (and abuse) of mah husband, we now invite 2008 Adorkable of the Year, Zachary Levi to announce the winner. Not that you don’t know it yet anyway.

All hail my boyfriend, Justin Bartha!

Justin Bartha

Justin won with a whopping 1,008 votes and that’s 30% of the entire thing! I seriously don’t know what happened during the past couple of days but I really thought we are going to have the first winner that actually can give an acceptance speech! Preston was a crowd favorite for the first half of the battle, but I guess the supreme adorkable quality of Justin Bartha surpasses him. Well, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind giving it anyway. I’d like to think that Preston, who is the first runner up with 26% of the votes will always be the next door adorkable of our hearts. For a guy who isn’t a celebrity, this is truly a monumental accomplishment.

2009 Results

To everyone who voted, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. 2009 was a good year in shirtlessness and here’s to another great one in 2010!

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Critter on January 1st, 2010 at 10:02 am

I gotta give it up for Preston. I voted for him and I really wanted him to win, but, oh well. I also agree with the fact that he came in second and he isn’t even famous (well, I think NOW he is.) And thank you Square for always being there when I had free time to snoop around. Another year gone! Here comes 2010!
DoverDavid on January 1st, 2010 at 10:06 am

I voted for Justin on the very first day and am glad he won! Now I have to watch the Hangover just to see his chest in action. Happy New Year 2010 to Square and all who visit!
VinVin Jacla on January 1st, 2010 at 5:24 pm

yey! i’m so proud of my boyfriend! lol
Katie on January 1st, 2010 at 8:10 pm

OMG YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!! Myyyyyy future husband <3
Boris on January 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 am

Looks like our boy Preston was not dork enough… Just as well, he can be move to the awsomely handsome dude!
kyle michel sullivan on January 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 am

This is wrong, wrong, wrong. I don’t even know who Justin Bartha is since I watch next to no television. I wanted Preston to win because of not only his adorable looks that can shift from dork to doll in the space of a nanosecond, but his genial personality and off-kilter outlook on life. He’s the epitome of gentle low-key Adorkability!

Except…considering he does not have some TV show or massive publicity campaign behind him and got as far as he did strictly on his own merits, I’m proud to have supported and voted for him and wish I could have done so a thousand times. And not because I think he’s really a dork…but just because he’s Preston.
Chris in Long Beach on January 2nd, 2010 at 11:29 am

So now the winner and 1st runner up have to walk the catwalk in underwear or naked…What? Justin Bartha is not available…Oh well, the first runner up will have to do it alone – Preston, go ahead…naked preferred or show us some pubic bush for here the mortals!
Justin on January 2nd, 2010 at 11:45 am

Haha Kyle your crush on Preston is very sweet. And so is Preston — his rambling stream-of-consciousness posts are absolutely adorable.

I, too, wanted to see Preston win, mostly because he’s just a regular guy and not a celebrity. Well, that, and I feel proud to have been the one to first post his pix here on the forum. And he’s just insanely hot.

But Justin Bartha is a very deserving recipient. VERY deserving. (BTW Kyle, he’s not a TV actor — he’s a film actor.) I can’t wait to get to see more of that hairy chest of his in future films.

Thanks, again, Square for providing us with this sublime blog. Yours is a public service that is second to none.

Lastly, I still say that those of us who voted for Preston should get a congratulatory dinner (or maybe just lunch, since Preston only got second place) with the man himself. Alas, Preston hasn’t agreed to that, yet
Complex on January 2nd, 2010 at 1:22 pm

YaY!!!!! I didn’t vote but I would’ve picked him. Freakin adorable. Marriage material right there.
squarebart on January 2nd, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Bartha was my favorite too. I think the Preston fans have missed the fact that he’s just not really a dork. To me, he looks like a hipster — my neighborhood is full of hipsters, believe me — very different thing! He was, in the style of Am. Idol judges, very much presented as the one to win, but the public spoke. Cheers for democracy!
5236 on January 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 am

Funny, I know Preston and even went out a coupla times. Here’s the skinny: he may first come off as down-to-earth and chill, but in reality he was so much *HIGH DRAMA* I had to kick him to the curb. Now you know.
wow on January 3rd, 2010 at 10:37 am

I Love Him >.<
Shakeb on January 3rd, 2010 at 3:18 pm

He is toooooooooo cute ^^ but I rather prefer Jim Parrack

Greetings from Spain!!!
Nick on January 4th, 2010 at 12:24 am

Love Justin just because he was IN The Hangover!! Hahaha! Love him!
And thanks Square for a great site I always love coming to! Here’s to more hot shirtlessness in 2010!!!
Wonderful Leonard on January 5th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

Preston should have won!! Justin is a hot dork though, so it all works out. Looking forward to hotness in 2010! peace
kyle michel sullivan on January 10th, 2010 at 1:23 am

So, 5236, you dated Preston. I envy you. As for “drama,” I’ve dealt with a number of actors and NOBODY’S more high maintenance than a James Dean Wannabe Method Queen, believe me. And that can be fun as well as maddening.

I’ll bet you Preston just needed a nice little cuddle to be made happy. That’s all a kitty cat wants as a way to prove you care about him enough to keep feeding him…until the cuddles stop coming; then it’s the usual “Hey! I’m Here! Pay Attention!” nonsense that goes away when the cuddles return.

My problem is, I haven’t had a cat to cuddle in years. I move too much and they HATE that. So now I scratch the ears of any cat that will let me, because kitty cats should always be petted. And Preston’s such a pretty kitty.
squarebart on January 23rd, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Here is documented hope for more shirtlessness…

“If it gets people in the seats, yes, Zac Efron and the Twilight guy. All the Twilight guys – every one of them with their shirts off, and Will Smith.”
– Justin Bartha, joking about the rumored cast of the sequel to Hangover
Preston on January 29th, 2010 at 3:59 am

Thanks for the votes guys. This has been an odd thing altogether for me. Not used to attention frankly. I get awkward and nervous around it. I do appreciate it though. Sorry it has taken me almost a month to say thanks. I just moved to San Francisco and it has been hectic here. Maybe I shouldn’t mention that. I meant Boise actually. I made a typo before. Disregard San Fransisker. Seriously though, thanks alot. My friends back home have been emailing me links to this site left and right. They all got a kick out of it. I’m not really sure what else to say now, so I’ll say thanks again and pickled herring.

@ Squarebart: I am not really a hipster at all. There are alot of hipsters in my new neighborhood. I don’t have the skinny jeans and the having fun by looking bored while leaning against a wall thing down yet.

@ 5236: I have no idea who you are. I have never dated anyone who “kicked me to the curb”. I have been nudged to the curb a few times, but am still friends with my ex’s. Also, I cannot think of anyone that I have dated who would use the term “here’s the skinny”. I am certain I haven’t dated anyone who uses either “chill” or “drama” to describe a person as those are pet peeves of mine. You chill glasses. I haven’t been in any plays since high school, so drama is out too. I must assume, 5236, that you are either someone I turned down, my on again off again (currently on again but were off on January 3rd) boyfriend, or Paula Poundstone. Why Paula? Oh, she knows.

@ Kyle and Justin: Thanks for being my cheerleaders. I need you to follow me around and do that for me in my day to day life. Actually, scratch that. That’d be odd for me and I’d have to get restraining orders. Who has time for all of that. And Kyle, change the word “cat” to “dog”. I am highly allergic to cats. It causes me to chill glasses in dramatic ways, there’s the skinny.

@ Square: Just thanks!
Kyle Michel Sullivan on February 14th, 2010 at 11:32 am

Too bad about you and kitties, Preston; consider my comment changed to doggie…and come to think about it, you do remind me of a terrier lost in thought. “Hmm…do I play fetch with my boi? Do I go for a walk? Do I chew up a shoe? Decisions, decisions.”

You know, I actually have been to Boise. On a job. In the summer. It was hot. And really REALLY nasty. I’d move back to NoCal ASAP, if I was you.
bcooper on July 3rd, 2010 at 8:02 pm

i would corrupt this adorkable hottie