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"    Photo: Getty Images   At 24, Beau Mirchoff is far removed from the hallowed halls of high school, but it seldom stops him from reliving those glorious days on MTV&amp;#039;s critically-acclaimed show Awkward, where his character Matty McKibben engaged in all the gossip, hook-ups, and spicy rounds of Spin the Bottle that make those four years so awkwardly fantastic. While Matty spent the last two seasons afraid to reveal his love for the show&amp;#039;s sweet lead Jenna Hamilton, Beau Mirchoff told us how season three will differ from the seasons before: more honesty, more dance moves, and the same amount of shirtless antics.    Name: William Beau Mirchoff Age:  24  Provence:  Los Angeles, CA Relationship status:  Taken  On being featured in ELLE.com&amp;#039;s Hot Topic column: &amp;quot;I want to say that I am humbled. And that it&amp;#039;s a great honor. It&amp;#039;s fantastic, and it makes me feel lovely. And I am going to use it as bragging rights\u2014no, I don&amp;#039;t want to say that! Retract my statement, I&amp;#039;m starting over!&amp;quot; On his status as a teenage beefcake:  &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know I was beefy! [Laughs] But Matty was hitting the gym a little bit, so thank you for observing. Does he feel like a piece of meat? Maybe he does!&amp;quot; How he wooed his girlfriend: &amp;quot;I was a goofball, and I kept pestering her all night. I was at this book launching party, and I introduced myself. Then when she&amp;#039;d start talking to another guy, I would creepily walk behind her and laugh my way into the conversation\u2026after a while, it wasn&amp;#039;t creepy and it became charming, I guess! I asked her out to lunch the very next morning. But we went to lunch at lunchtime. It wasn&amp;#039;t weird like that.&amp;quot; On those high-school kissing games: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve definitely played Spin the Bottle, but the one I remember more is Suck and Blow, and I remember the girl would always drop the card on purpose. This was like, sixth grade\u2026it was scandalous!&amp;quot; What are the chances of seeing Beau shirtless this season? &amp;quot;100 percent! It was in the fine print [on my contract]. I don&amp;#039;t have glasses, so I didn&amp;#039;t see that.&amp;quot; Can he dance? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not classically trained or anything, but I&amp;#039;ll rip up a dance floor. I make up moves: I do the noodle\u2014you act like your body has no bones in it. This topic is touched upon in the third season, and while I&amp;#039;m a slightly better dancer than Matty, what you see on TV is pretty much what I can offer.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s his go-to love song? &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a My Morning Jacket song, &amp;#039;Knot Comes Loose.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s probably a little arcane, not very mainstream. But if I ever get married, that will be the song I dance to.&amp;quot; On Matty&amp;#039;s official relationship with Jenna. &amp;quot;I think Matty&amp;#039;s finally giving love\u2026but it&amp;#039;s not being reciprocated in the ways that he needs. That&amp;#039;s not to say Jenna doesn&amp;#039;t love him, but maybe she&amp;#039;s a little blind or distracted in her own life. So that happens, and it&amp;#039;s interesting: Jenna and Matty have their problems this season, but Matty&amp;#039;s really honest about it, and he talks to her and he says what&amp;#039;s on his mind. They have real adult conversations. It&amp;#039;s nice to see that evolution in Matty.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s your most awkward Matty moment? &amp;quot;In the first season, there&amp;#039;s the scene where the boys digest Viagra, and then run around the quad together. So we were all wearing little socks. I had to fall on Ashley Rickards with nothing but this sock on, and my white buttocks flying in the air! So that was awkward; to anyone that was watching, I just want to say that it was really cold in L.A. that day!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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