Synopsis: From coast to coast, thousands of hopefuls gathered in recent weeks to get the chance to compete for the crown of the sexiest man or woman in America. Talent, personality and strategy were not required, just physical beauty and innate sexiness. Now TV viewers get their chance to vote on the Hot Zone/Round One Participants from each region.as they face a celebrity panel of experts, including Rachel Hunter, Randolph Duke and Lorenzo Lamas.

Crisscrossing America for casting calls in many cities and pouring over audition tapes, the producers divided the country into "Hot Zones" that included every state. From the thousands who tried, only 32 people from each zone made the cut. They'll be judged by the celebrity panel and, at the end of each episode, viewers are invited to vote online for their favorite male and female hotties. Votes are only accepted from 10:00 p.m., ET that night until 3:00 p.m., ET the next day. The following week we'll learn whom America chose and repeat the whole process for 32 candidates from Hot Zone 2, and so on until one breathtaking man and one stunning woman are crowned "The Sexiest People in America."