Meet Beverly Center's Hunky Santa

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If you didn't know about Beverly Center's "exhaustive two-month search" for Hunky Santa 2008/09, in which there were 350 applicants, well, uh, now you know. The winner, actor Eli Wilhide, a "6' 1" all American, guy-next-door with brown hair and hazel eyes," will be seen at the mall's Snow Globes Polar Express display, during the evenings and weekends, beginning at 2pm Friday, November 28. And why is he looking so business casual right? Before he was appearing in CSI Miami and Disney's Suite Life on Deck, Wilhide was a motivational speaker for Tony Robbins. [PR Newswire]