Dodi Rasmussen El’circy is the stuff of AI dreams. The only catch: he’s real flesh and blood. We meet the half-Danish heartthrob on the streets of Copenhagen to answer the question on all his followers’ minds: who is this gorgeous guy?
If you ask ChatGPT to create the perfect boyfriend, the AI might draw up someone similar to Dodi Rasmussen El’circy. A former semi-professional football player and currently very professional model and social media star, the 22-year-old’s Hollywood-esque good looks and contagiously positive personality have catapulted El’circy into the realm of quintessential internet boyfriend material, netting him over 720,000 followers on TikTok and 323,000 on Instagram.
“Why don’t I see men like this on the streets?” one TikTok user asks in El’circy’s comments. “Literally my dream man omg,” writes another... and another, and another. There seems to be an infinite number of boys and girls drooling over El’circy’s wavy blond hair and washboard abs, and they’re not afraid to shout out their love from the virtual rooftops.
But, like most of our crushes, there is an air of mystery to El’circy, who has far more Google Images to browse than interviews or biographies. So... who the hell is he?
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Half-Danish internet sensation Dodi El'circy photographed in his mum’s native Copenhagen. Chequered technical jacket, Sunglasses. Both Louis Vuitton. Earrings. Talent’s own. Photo: Nikolaj Thaning Rentzmann
For one, El’circy is a real human, unlike “the world’s first digital supermodel” Shudu Gram, or “robot rapper” FN Meka. He might be at a Zoolander level of “ridiculously good-looking,” but he is in fact made of flesh and blood rather than computer code.
“I was born in Dubai and then I moved over to Manchester, England,” El’circy says over Zoom. In fact, he’s taking the call from the United Arab Emirates, where he spends his time when not in the United Kingdom or Denmark, his mother Hanne Rasmussen El’circy’s home country. He grew up attending Catholic schools and playing football, thanks to his father, who was “a bit of a football fanatic,” as was his older brother. He eventually trained at the Go-Pro Sports Football Academy Dubai before finding his feet as a midfielder at the prestigious Manchester City academy from 2012 to 2021. Next, he headed to Barcelona to join La Masia, the Catalan giants’ famed youth set-up.