Image Credit: Steven Lippman
Eddie Cibrian, star of NBC’s new fall drama The Playboy Club, is, one must admit, an excellent model for Charisma, a luxury home brand that includes bedding, robes, bath rugs, and towels. For the fall 2011 campaign, he was photographed in bed, of course, and while those shots are worth looking at (check them out here, along with a behind-the-scenes video in which Cibrian is half-naked but hearing compliments like, “Look at those sheets! Ohmygod!”), it’s the bathtub shots that make me happy. I love when male celebrities agree to be photographed in a bathtub because it always feels so random even if it isn’t. See: Colin Firth and David Boreanaz. Therefore, I’m adding Cibrian’s shoot to my list of Great Pop Culture Moments in Bathtubs, which, my editor Mike Bruno said I could blog “only if you include the ‘When Doves Cry’ video, which starts with doves opening double doors to a purple misty room containing Prince in a tub. As Morris Day would say, ‘So sexy!’” So, we have that. What else should be on this list? Other colleagues have nominated Fatal Attraction, Scarface, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Pretty Woman. Off the top of my head, my submissions would include:
• Bull Durham. As Annie would say to Crash, “Oh my.”
• Out of Sight. George Clooney looks great in that light.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I just like how fresh Moaning Myrtle is. And let’s be honest, a bathroom is the WORST place to haunt, so she deserves moments like this.
• True Blood: Eric waits for Bill.
• The Vampire Diaries: This is the reason you build new sets.
• Would the The Money Pit Count?
Your turn.
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isn’t he the duchebag that cheated on his wife?
that is the only thing he is known for.
And you are only known as gossip reading ‘markinnyc’. This is really worse!
I’ve seen Cibrian in at least three TV series that were not that bad.
10-4
Gotta give Helen Mirren my vote for looking beautiful in a bathtub at 64.
And the most unpleasant bathtub scene would definitely go to Zach Galifianakis.
What lies beneath…creakiest bathtub scene
Please to add: David Boreanaz is the tub, with the beer hat, arguing with Bones. He. Stands. Up.
LOVE! The beer hat make it perfect!
Oh yes, he is just beautiful.
And I think George Clooney looks good in *any* light!
Seriously, it’s nice that us ladies have some eye candy. At least I don’t have to listen to my ex-boyfriend make nasty comments about women anymore.
nasty lying cheating man who married nasty lying cheating woman
And your partner is just cheating on you. But since you’re so busy gossiping about others you don’t have an idea what’s happening in your life! LOL.
hmm you cheat you get a tv show and fame.
You write nonsense and you still get your comment published at EW. So what’s your point? That you don’t have a business so you mind anyone else’s business?
Chandler Bing in Monica’s bath. But it’s ok cause he’s got his boat!
Right on! That one was the best!!
Well that DID butch it up a bit.
Mariah Carey getting into her bath on MTV Cribs!
Carrie, when she’s sitting in the bathtub crying and trying to clean the pig’s blood off of herself. Classic!
Mariah still looks good, she was complaining I heard the other night about her post-babies weight, but she still looked great…
This was the dumbest idea ever. When people see Eddie Cibrian they are reminded of his scandulous relationship with Leann, the photos of him making out with LR at his kids soccer game, and his bad beahvior towards his wife and kids. What a great idea. Put a man who threatens his wife and then ditches his kids to attend LR concerts on their pages? The company made a poor choice, just like Shape mag made a very poor choice when they put LR on their covers. Besides, we see enough of EC on a DAILY basis via LR twitpics and staged photo-ops, so it’s like putting Spencer on their pages.
No one except tabloid readers and crap TV viewers who think they are “we” know about a “scandalous relationship”.
I know Cibrian only as an actor.
Why are EW readers so obsessed with the private lives of other people? Is it Entertainment Weekly or Gossip Today?
actually there was an interview that the reson why he was killed off the series was because he was an ass.. though i know his a good actor but maybe just maybe there’s a reason why there are tabloids and gossips about it.
i meant the csi miami series…. and i do agree that he looks good….
Same here, I didn’t know anything about LR and all that. But then, I’m not as ‘up on it all’ as some people are. That, and most of the time I just don’t care. They’re entertainers. Entertain me and I’m okay.
Actually, watching EC in that video and seeing those pics made me completely forget that he’d left his wife for LR. He is gorgeous. He is the dispropotionately hot dude in that relationship, because LR is not much to look at compared to him.
Forget the bathtub. Kevin Bacon in the shower in Wild Things. I mean, if he’s gonna get wet …….
If you are talking bathtubs – you are talking Breaking Bad.
As for Cibrian – when people see him show up on a show they know it is just about done.
I think the man is fine! No matter what has happened in the past with his relationships (which, no it wasn’t right but it’s been like two years), you can’t deny how good-looking he is!
casting eddie in your show is the equivalent of having 6 taps at your bar, with two of them being bud light. you’re telling your audience in advance–this is the best we could get and we’re sorry, but we have to do something.
He and Ms Rimes are now happily married. All parties involved seem to have moved on so why can’t uninvolved parties get a life and get over it?
Eddie was great on The Young and the Restless and again on Third Watch. I’m looking forward to his new show and I think he’s incredibly handsome in this campaign.
I completely agree. Didn’t her (Leann Rimes) ex-husband get remarried before she did to Eddie Cibrian? I think if they can heal from the hurt so well, then maybe everyone else should cut them some slack!