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The Grill

Style Magazine – April 2006

What’s your weekend ritual?
When I get a weekend (free) it’s a barbecue brekkie by the pool, I’ll mow the lawn and potter around my garden (ie. do nothing).

What’s your CD of the moment? Joss Stone – her voice is like warm honey. She sings me to sleep every night on my iPod.
What were you like at high school?

Depends who you ask – the teachers thought I was an angel (I never got caught) but my mum thought I was a delinquent (mums always know!).

What have you read lately that really got you thinking?
Paul Therouex’s – Dark Star Safari. It’s about his crosscountry trip across Africa. The hardship the people live under is jaw dropping and we’re all worried about paying an extra cent per litre for petrol.

What’s the oldest item of clothing you own?
Probably a pair of boxershorts that have been my favourite pj’s for years and are falling apart at the seams from too many spins in the washing machine.

What song always makes you happy?
Anything by Kylie (except Locomotion, which causes me to vomit).

What new age therapy or product do you swear by?
Nicotine and caffeine.

Dogs or cats?
Neither, never ever again. Had two huskies and spent my life stopping them escaping – till one day they went and caught a bus to Woree – and I’m not joking!

If you could play an instrument, what would it be?
The triangle (that would be the easiest to learn...yes?... good – because I’m so not musical).

Next holiday destination? What’s a holiday?
The last movie that made you cry? The Devil Wears Prada... I laughed so much I cried, having worked with magazine editors like Meryl Streep’s character I understood it totally, and it made everything so much funnier. What are your vices? I love my new age therapies (see above)! Australia needs more... People to vote yes to be a republic (and more designated smoking areas!).

What’s your life motto?
Aim high – at least if you miss you won’t shoot your foot off.

Tell us something about yourself that no one would know. There’s not much people don’t know about me. The fact that I sleep with a pillow between my knees is about as exciting as it gets.

What’s your lotto fantasy?
If I win $32 million in Powerball I ain’t lifting a finger to do anything ever again. If I only win $2
million I guess I’d settle for a house on the beach.

Tell us about your life at its most absurd?
Stranded in an obscure village near the Great Wall of China in a blizzard. The only way out was by donkey and I had to buy the friggin’ donkey!

What song will they play at your funeral?
Don’t really care cause I won’t hear it, but if I am still alive in my coffin I reckon
I’d like to hear Cowboys and Angels by George Michael.