Over the last few years, Jon Hamm has become the international poster-boy for drinking whiskey, smoking cigarettes, and sleeping with your secretary. From the murky pool of Hollywood anonymity, his role as Don Draper has not only brought him into the homes and hearts of Mad Men fans worldwide, but established him as one of the most iconic screen presences of his generation. The man just oozes cool. Like an overripe piece of fruit being squeezed by public adoration, Hamm's charm, charisma and sex appeal just burst over every project he's attached to. Regardless of your gender or sexuality, if you still maintain you don't fancy him a little bit then you're making small animals cry with your lies. Hamm was something of a late bloomer in the industry though, there was no breakout childhood role or iconic coming-of-age performance in a teen drama, and it was well into his 30s that he began to appear on most of our radars. His life prior is about as interesting as you'd expect of a man scratching around acting gigs and part-time jobs for the better part of his youth, and Hamm's the proud owner of really, really strange CV. From what-almost-was to what-bizarrely-is, Jon Hamm's led a life as colourful as any of the characters he's played on screen. Here are 12 such nuggets of information that might change how you look at him forever.
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