Aussielicious

OK, the time difference confused me, so I’m a day late on wishing Neil Patrick Harris a happy 37th birthday. Neil gets my award for the best gay role model around and the best advertisement for our community amongst the straight community.

He’s funny, he’s got a killer smile, he’s not in your face, he lives his life out of the tabloids, with his beautiful boyfriend/partner. He’s got a good body without being intimidating, and he seems like a great guy willing to take the piss out of himself and have a great laugh. He can also sing and dance which will come in handy on a quiet weekend with nothing to do… I imagine.

Neil also seems to prove wrong the recent statement in the press that gay actors can’t convincingly play straight, leveled at Sean Hayes in his role on Broadway. Neil plays Barney, the womanising batchelor guy (as opposed to the big purple dinosaur) on “How I met your mother” and does a great job of it.

A belated birthday present? I’m officially giving Neil the first ever Aussielicious Award Role Model Award! Happy birthday Neil.

P.S. He’s also top of my wish list for an interview. Anyone?

Nearly an hour ago Marco Dapper officially became the favourite DNA Coverboy of Aussielicious readers in the second Aussielicious Awards. Out of the 755 votes over the past week, Marco took 32% of them leading clearly from the outset.

Personally, Marco is a guy that is to be admired. Prior to his famous frontal nude scene in Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, he freely admits he was a homophobe and had homophobic friends. Then as he pursued acting he decided to challenge his beliefs with the role of the bi-curious lust object of pretty much the rest of the cast. He lost friends over the role because they couldn’t understand how he could do it. You have to admire someone who challenges their perceptions of life so enthusiastically.

Marco was photographed for DNA’s issue number 86 by the Aussie-living-in-LA Lewis Payton who captured his stunning body beautifully, although with someone as hot and spectacularly put together as Marco, that wouldn’t be hard. Congratulations Marco on becoming the second Aussielicious Awards winner.

Just a half way point reminder to you all to go here and vote for your favourite DNA Coverboy if you haven’t already. All five of them are spectacular examples of men and blinding evidence of discipline and good genetics. They are also just good old fashioned eye candy.

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The finalists are in and it’s time to vote. You’ve got a week to vote for your favourite DNA Coverboy. From left to right, in order of their appearance on the cover are Brent Van Zandt, Ryan Daharsh, Rusty Joiner, Marco Dapper and Vincent Gough. Sadly no Aussies made the cut but that’s ok, they guys in the running are all seriously sexy boys.

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You’ve all got about 30 hours left to nominate your favourite DNA Model. Then tomorrow afternoon Sydney time the voting will commence to see who will take out the Aussielicious Award for the title of favourite DNA Coverboy. There’s been some strong contenders already and I have to say I’m approving whole heartedly. But then DNA usually does a great job so it’s making your jobs tough. Go through your collection of old editions and see if anyone you had forgotten about deserves a shot at the title

It’s time for the second round of the Aussielicious Awards, so until Sunday afternoon, Sydney time, I’m taking nominations for your favourite DNA coverboy. There’s been 104 issues now over the past 8 years and there’s been a wide range of guys on the cover to suit all tastes, from the twinkier guys to the buff as all hell.

I think my favourite was Rusty Joiner from issue #71. If I died in his arms, it would be with a smile. So get nominating. The top 5 guys with the most votes will then be put up for a week of stiff (oh my the images in my head) competition to take out the second Aussielicious Award.

While Daniel Macpherson was out in front in the voting last week for the hottest Aussie, I managed to get in touch with his PR person and send off some questions for an interview. Now that Anthony has officially been crowned the hottest Aussie I want to try and get an interview with him but his official site doesn’t have any contact details, or even seem to get updated very often. Does anyone reading this have any ideas?
For those of you that think I’ve been harsh on Anthony, don’t doubt for a second that I think he’s hot, he’s just not the typical blog muscle guy fodder that gets the votes in these competitions and I think it’s refreshing. Can you imagine staring into his big brown eyes while he sang to you? God I can.

In a late surge of votes the Hottest Aussie has been decided. Anthony Callea has taken out the very first Aussielicious Award and shows that it’s not always the typical stunners that take out the crown. Anthony first won me over with the performance below as a contestant in the second series of Australian Idol. His performance had me in tears. Anthony is only 5’1″ from what I understand but he’s sexy, articulate and out and proud. He’s also obviously got some enthusiastic fans who voted with gusto in this poll.
It’s good timing too. Australian Idol starts another season tonight and if the hype is to be believed, they have uncovered some fantastic talent and fingers crossed, some hotties.
Congratulations Anthony!

After a week of taking nominations for the first ever Aussielicious Awards it’s time to vote for your hottest Aussie. The Anthony Callea fans drummed up business for him and are probably going to do it again for actual voting, so if you wanna see someone win, you’d better drum up support for them too!

Left to right in the photos above we have Anthony Callea, Hugh Jackman, Gay Olympic Diver Matthew Mitcham, Daniel Macpherson and the delicious Will Fennell. It’s a nice cross section of ages, body types, hirsute-ness and talents and I think, pretty representative of what we’ve got going on in Australia although we do have a bit more of a cultural mix here.

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We’ve had plenty of nominations for the Hot Aussielicious Awards. It took longer than I thought for Daniel McPherson (centre) to be nominated but thankfully he was. There have been some glaring omissions so far, like the delicious Tom Williams (right). Get creative, get nominating!

Today my email was flooded with nominations for Anthony Callea for the Aussielicious Awards and, sure he’s pretty cute, but he’s not your typical “hottest guy on the planet” so I thought something was up.

Sure enough when I checked my incoming links this evening, someone has posted the competition on an Anthony Callea fan forum. SO! From here on in we can just accept that Anthony will be in the final 5 and stop trying to influence the judges, i.e. me? Let’s have some diversity in the votes. Damien from NZ nominated someone I was hoping would get a look in, Daniel McPherson. Yum.