AceShowbiz - John Krasinski's Sexiest Man Alive title couldn't be more right, according to his former "The Office" co-star Kate Flannery. Amid a wave of mixed response on social media platforms, the actress said the "A Quiet Place" director winning the title was the right call.

"Let me tell you something. This is so long overdue!" Flannery said in an interview with TMZ on Wednesday, November 13. "John Krasinski's gotten robbed every year since 2005, in my opinion. It's so time."

"Have you seen him lately?" she asked. "Have you seen him since Jack Ryan? He is so jacked up. He is so hot my eyes are melting every time I see him in person. He and [Emily Blunt, his wife] are so good-looking I have to squint. He is really, really hot. Is nobody paying attention? I'm so glad people are finally paying attention."

Flannery continued detailing Krasinski's positive traits, "I'm not drunk, I'm telling you for real: John has always been adorable and really cute, but I feel like people haven't seen his sexiness since he's so cute. So it's the perfect marriage of two things: cute and hot and sexy and funny and smart and, I mean, he's much more than Jim."

"John was always one of the kindest, funniest, smartest kids," she went on gushing while recalling their earliest days together on "The Office". "I mean, when I met him on 'The Office' he hadn't done anything. I really hadn't done anything of note either. We also became famous together, and John always had that something, that really special something."

"He has so many talents," Flannery added of Krasinski's multifaceted abilities. "He's an amazing director, he's an amazing actor. He's really funny, he's really smart - [but] he doesn't have to be funny. Because some people have to, and it's exhausting. So John is not exhausting. And yeah, you see a spark in someone right away, and John has always had it."

Flannery isn't the only former "The Office" co-star who has reacted positively to the news. Angela Kinsey told Entertainment Weekly, "I'm so tickled by it. I found out this morning. I love John. He's such a good person and I'm so happy for all the success he's having. But I think of him like my little brother, so this is like your little brother getting Sexiest Man Alive! You're kind of like, 'What is happening?' But he's such a cutie."

Flannery and Kinsey spoke highly of Krasinski amid protest from social media users over the actor landing the honor. "John Krasinski is PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in 2024 . . . Another devastating Tuesday night in November," someone wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Another reacted to the news, "John Krasinski?????? Our nation's most trying hour and you give us John Krasinski?!?!?!"