Celebrity Orlando Bloom

PEOPLE's Hottest Bachelor nearly didn't make it! While still a drama student in England, Orlando Bloom fell three stories, breaking his back. He could have been paralyzed, but the hunky Brit walked out of the hospital on crutches.


Then, director Peter Jackson cast him to star as elf warrior Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy–now among the highest grossing films of all time. In 2003, he scored another blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, with Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley.

Offscreen, Bloom, who dated starlet Kate Bosworth on-and-off for four years, eventually moved on with Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr, with whom he is engaged