We've made plenty of snide comments about Wilmer Valderrama in the past. I believe we even may have compared him, visually, to a strung out serial killer at some point. But now that I think about it, maybe he was just recovering from the stress of dating Lindsay Lohan. Sure, at the time we were all like, "Poor Lindsay! She's taking this so hard. Boo, Wilmer, you broke her heart." And now, it's a bit more like, "Oh, man. She's really kind of gone overboard, hasn't she? How long do you think it's been like this? It's sad: she's nuts. It must have been stressful for him to deal with her obvious problems for so long. "
And, like Ben Affleck rising from the greasy, bloated, gambling-addicted flames of his broken engagement to J Lo to emerge once again as a cute guy who would probably be pretty amusing to hang out and watch the game with, Wilmer has finally crawled his way out of Skeevewatch and turned into a pretty sharp-looking guy of late. Behold, besuited:
Classy! Sharp! We're not looking at the pinky-ring! Everything else is good!
Then we've got the no-suit-but-still-kinda-dressed-up, appropriate-for-a-holiday-party-or-dinner-with-your-parents look:
And, finally, the most casual incarnation:
We do try and give credit when it's due, and it's definitely due in Wilmer's case. There was an article about him in Entertainment Weekly about a month ago, in which he seemed pretty smart and together and serious about transitioning to producing and more adult roles, and I must say, it's nice to see someone back that up with what looks like an actual change, other than following the Tara Reid role of cleaning up briefly and then, the next day, falling over a curb in a drunken stupor and crying that no one takes you seriously AGAIN. He seems to have a weakness for the man-jewelry, but overall, he's skeeveless, and that's just what we like to see.
Now, if he would just stop talking about all the starlets he's slept with, we'd be in business.
