IT'S official - Leon Galston is the sexiest schoolboy in Britain.

The handsome hunk, who attends Rossall School in Blackpool, was selected from thousands of entries to appear in Bliss Magazine as one of the five finalists in a competition run by the teenage magazine earlier this year.

Leon was, in fact, featured by the star-spotting Citizen in February for his achievement before going on to scoop the Bliss title after hundreds of the magazine's readers had voted for him.

The shy 16-year-old told the Citizen: "I was more shocked when I won the whole thing than I was when I was picked out of the thousands at first."

Leon has been studying hard for his GCSEs and his modelling success hasn't really had time to sink in yet. He said: "All the finalists were invited to Sound Republic in London for dinner with some of the readers who voted for us."

You can catch a glimpse of Leon in this month's Bliss at the restaurant with lucky reader Nichola Larkin, 18, from Essex, who was picked to have a 'date' with her dream boy.

Leon's immediate plans following his GCSEs are to relax a bit before embarking on a tour of the South of France with Rossall Rugby team in August. He is a keen rugby player and is keeping his options open for the future but is considering working for Boss models in Manchester.

Leon is following in the footsteps of Mum, Jeannie, who was a beauty queen and model and who is also entering her daughter, 5' 9" Jade,14, into a modelling competition this week. Proud Jeannie also offered some inside information about her son, explaining: "He's a Red Dwarf freak, loves anything to do with the Seventies and has the strangest collection of shirts imaginable."

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