Manu traded his gladiator gear for some budgie
smugglers in Pamela Anderson's A*Muse Fashion Show during the NZ Fashion Week. Manu looked gorgeous although slightly more hairy (check out that wig!).
For those not familiar with the term "budgie smugglers" here is the explanation: Australian slang term for men's tight-fitting Speedo-style swimwear. We Aussies are a creative lot..heh.
The following articles relate to Manu and the fashion show:
Sunday Star Times - 27 September 2009
KIWI CREW GET COSY IN THE CARAVAN
Has
Tommy Lee been going to the gym? No, it's former Shortland St actor Manu
Bennett.
Bennett met Pamela Anderson when she visited the Auckland studios of
gladiator movie Spartacus on Thursday. Then on Friday night the pair
(pictured right) had a ''good old chinwag'' at Fashion Week with Keisha
Castle-Hughes and Lucy Lawless in Anderson's caravan after the A*Muse
show, in which they both modelled (Bennett wearing a pair of budgie
smugglers and his Spartacus wig).
Bennett: ''Pam was equally as awestruck to meet Keisha because she knew WhaleRider, and then having Lucy there being the warrior woman, and Pamela Anderson being the buxom Baywatch babe, and Keisha, the young innocent WhaleRider girl, and myself in my crazy wig, it was quite an entourage.'' Anderson told the Star-Times she found Kiwi men ''gorgeous'' so did she hit on him? Bennett: ''I'm not actually going to put words to that . . . I gave her a bit of a Maori welcome to New Zealand, she gave me a nice hug in return.''
NZ
Herald 26 September 2009
Showtime - and Pammy's the pin-up girl
It was a fun show. Former Shortland Star Manu Bennett was virtually
unrecognisable as a hulky, long-haired, caveman-style figure who brandished his
surfboard on the runway like a shield. Anderson has signed it and it will
be sold for charity for the Starship Foundation. The connection was made when
she visited the set of Spartacus: Blood and Sword on Thursday and met its star,
Lucy Lawless, who was at the after-party.
