I haven't the slightest idea who Matthew Beard is but have found that most of the people mentioned in some or most of the newspaper type articles are total strangers to me.

Definition of nebbish from Webster's Dictionary...
a timid, meek, or ineffectual person

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(Matthew) Beard — 26, lanky, fine-boned, with a perpetual wowed look on his face that can’t believe his good fortune — is the latest in a long line of adorably nebbish British heartthrobs that has included Hugh Grant and Jeremy Northam.