There’s more than one way to win this weekly competition, and we hope that part of the fun is the sheer range of ploys people use—wittingly or not—to grab that spotlight. But even if it wasn’t by design, the approach the Sussexes took recently earned all the subsequent murmurs of appreciation. It was dazzling: fly in to New York for an award, let the photographers descend, exaggerate your ride home so it sounds like a French Connection–caliber chase scene, and there you have worldwide headlines. Harry and Meghan earned 71.8 percent of your votes, with Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump a distant second, tied at 11.5 percent. (Together again!) Trailing badly, like so many outmaneuvered paparazzi, were Princess Kate, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Ja Morant, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Nicolas Sarkozy.
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
