Blake Shelton’s Homophobic, Racist Tweets Resurface After Being Named People’s Sexiest Man Alive

It was announced on Tuesday that Blake Shelton has been chosen as People’s 2017 Sexiest Man Alive, and will grace the magazine’s cover of the issue out on Friday.

Aside from users taking to Twitter to share their thoughts on why they don’t think Shelton was the top choice looks-wise, others brought up his past indiscretions. One user, Ken Tremendous, tweeted, “You know what I find sexy in a man? ‘Being kind of [expletive]’ and ‘being not very smart.’”

Along with the sarcastic words, Tremendous shared four screenshots of past tweets by Shelton that were racist and homophobic in nature.

“Standing in line at a coffee shop in LA talking with the man in front of me,” one of the Shelton tweet screenshots read, from back in 2011. “He orders a skinny caramel latte. I couldn’t tell he was gay!!!”

Another one said, “Wish the [expletive] in the next room would either shut up or learn some English so I would at least know what he’s planning to bomb!!”

All of the tweets are no longer available on Shelton’s Twitter, as he deleted them last year after they first started circulating virally.

“Can my humor at times be inappropriate and immature? Yes. Hateful? Never,” Shelton wrote in his apology tweet in 2016. “That said I deeply apologize to anybody who may have been offended.”

After his deletion of the tweets and his apology, most people have left it alone, but since being selected for People’s annual award, “The Voice” judge’s tweets are resurfacing and being used as more examples as to why he didn’t deserve the magazine’s honor.

An honor which Shelton told People he is very happy to have under his belt and can’t wait to “shove this up [co-star] Adam’s [Levine] [expletive]” on “The Voice” and bring it up constantly.

“It’s going to be used in every conversation, whether it’s at ‘The Voice,’ or at the feed in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, or in a conversation with a doctor,” Shelton told the magazine. “When [people] would say to Adam, ‘Mr. Sexy,’ you’d always see him go, ‘Well, awwww…’ If you say that to me, it’s going to be, ‘You’re damn right, I’m Mr. Sexy! I’ve been ugly my whole life, if I can be sexy for a year, I’m taking it. I’m taking it.”