HUGH LAURIE - LAURIE STUNNED BY SHOWER SCENE

British actor HUGH LAURIE is still recovering from his first shower scene and can't fathom why he was chosen to bare all in hit US medical drama HOUSE.

The former funnyman is among the stars on People magazine's new Sexiest Men Alive list - thanks to his cranky TV character DR GREGORY HOUSE, but he's still baffled as to why anyone would want to see him showering.

He says, "It's my first and I hope last shower scene... This was a traumatic event for me.

"It struck me as a misuse of resources, let me put it that way, because they've (producers) gone to the trouble of hiring young, beautiful people with smooth skin and high bottoms and then they pick the old guy with buns of yoghurt."