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This is my first blog of the year and I'm tapping away on my laptop whilst lounging on a picnic rug in the park under a tree. Well, not so much lounging. More beached, actually, like a stranded Minke on the sand bar.
My pasty white skin hasn't seen many rays since I came back from the UK a week or so ago, and I'm not much one for fake tans. Cheap and whiffy, if you ask me. Or as Londoners would say, "very Northern," in snooty reference to the 'new money' WAGS from Manchester.
Pasty white is fine if you're toned and buff, but if you're like me and your body has morphed into a more surrealist form like the lines in a Dali painting, that's not such a good look.
But check out the tone and definition on Harry McNaughton who plays Gerald the gay PA on Shorty St. And look, man pecs too! The actor took part in the Sovereign Capital Classic (part of the Ocean Swim series) in Wellington on Saturday along with co-stars Bonnie Soper and Kiel McNaughton. Harry and Bonnie swam the 2.8km Capital Classic; Kiel the 750m race.
Do you remember when the ocean race was only really associated with Rodney Hide's weight loss regime? Thank god the Shorty St stars have added some much needed glam and glitz - Bonnie especially. She even makes a Speedo suit look good.
Soper is one to watch this year. The blonde beauty is morphing into quite the sultry star. She has a real old Hollywood glamour about her. Of course, her appeal is undoubtedly helped by the fact she plays the role (on the soap) of a gorgeous Florence Nightingale-type with moral issues. Don't all blokes have fantasies about protecting-slash-bedding the girl next door sort?
Since Spy-ing her at the Qantas Film and Television Awards last year in that plunging silver sequin micro-mini dress that left little to the imagination, Soper (no relation to Barry, the veteran NewstalkZB reporter, I understand) is standing out to be quite the sexpot, too.
Check her out at the A1GP Poker Tournament at SkyCity last week. Click here for photos from the event. She's very va-va-voom! Bonnie and her boobs proved to be quite the draw card - and the distraction, if you're one of the poor schleb sods playing against her. There's no denying it, the girl knows how to work it.
It's no wonder Neil Waka kept his shades on and racing driver Chris van der Drift wasn't happy to remove his helmet. The poor lads couldn't focus.
Rachel Glucina
Pictured above: Shortland Street actors Kiel McNaughton, Bonnie Soper and Harry McNaughton. Photo / supplied
