Cleo's annual 50 Eligible Bachelors have been revealed, and among them are several prominent Australian musicians.
Every year, the magazine parades 50 supposedly eligible men. As they are all good-looking, successful and generally wealthy, they are 50 men that 99.3%* of Cleo's readership would have no chance of actually landing in the real world.But Cleo likes to let a girl dream, and among this year's standard crop of professional surfers, professional footballers and tanned-and-toned capitalists are: Eddie Jacobson (from Butterfingers); Grant Smillie (DJ); George Byrne (singer-songwriter); Blak Genius (rapper); Kid Kenobi (DJ); and Ben Lee (singer-songwriter-spiritual healer).
As usual, Cleo posed several personal and probing questions in an attempt to uncover the essence of the man:
Jacobson - one of the men behind the chick-magnet tune 'Your Mama's On The Top Of My Things-To-Do List' - lists his computer, guitar and George Foreman grill as the three things he's rescue if his house was on fire.
Smillie, when asked what animal he would want to be, replied 'Dolphin ... smart, fun and sophisticated'. We are led to believe that Smillie has had conversations with actual dolphins about the stunning work of 19th Century neoclassical French architect Pierre François L??onard Fontaine.
George Byrne showed his sensitive side when asked what alcoholic drink he would be, replying, "Probably a Cascade Premium. Because it's mother's choice of beer; I love her very much and she's a good judge." Aww.
The modestly named Blak Genius proved the most elusive of the bunch, claiming that his biggest vice is "Writing music and watching people enjoy my music, I just can't help it." It would seem that Genius has confused the word 'vice' with 'occupation'.
Kid Kenobi stated that we is turned on by blond girls, but not girlie girls, whilst Ben Lee was, unfortunately, unable to participate in the Q&A. We can only imagine how he would have responded to, "How much cleavage is too much?"...
*statistic may not be accurate, due to lack of actual research
****writer is possibly bitter for, again, having been overlooked for inclusion
