... on HIMSELF

Strengths: "My personality. I never take life too seriously. I always love to have a bit of a joke. I'm not a terribly serious person. I love to think I'm the sort of person who put themselves last and puts everyone else first. I'm an open communicator and a pretty giving person. I prefer to have the whole quality not quantity thing happening with friends, so I can make sure I'm giving my best to anyone who is in my presence. I'm making sure life's about having fun at the moment and not taking things too seriously." 

Weakness: "I can be impatient. I'm definitely a 3 strikes you're out kind of person. I can be quite tolerant but I think I can be a bit too much of a perfectionist when it comes to myself sometimes. I'm a bit hard on myself. With a lot of things, I probably try to make them perfect too quickly instead of just letting them happen naturally. Whether it's relationships or work, money. I want it all to happen now, instead of just letting it all unfold in natural time. I often try to put things in place to really speed up the process. In material things, I have a weakness for after shave. I like cologne. I love being around women, I love being in relationships. Definitely women are a weakness, they always know how to push my buttons. If I meet a nice girl who I really like, I can find it very easy to get weak in the knees and fall in love very quickly." 

Others may not see: "My cooking ability. I love cooking. I toyed with the idea of being a chef many years ago. I've always done the cooking. I love watching cooking shows and experimenting and doing different things. I've been told I'm a pretty good cook anyway. I taught myself, I watch a hell of a lot of cooking shows. I learned over the years what tastes work with what. So I'll try different things and experiment. I've got a few specialties. I love cooking with seafood. I make tempura oysters with wasabi and soy dressing which are quite nice. Any opportunity I get, I always love to do something.  I like cooking for girlfriends. From my experience, all girls seem to like it. I think if you can cook, it's probably one of the best things you can on a date for a girl." 

I've been known to ... "like time to myself. When I'm in a relationship, I need time to be me and do what I want to do away from the other person. I think it's very important to maintain that feeling of independence in a relationship even though you are a team. But I think it's very important to do things that make you happy as an individual."

Interests: "Movies, tennis, socializing with friends and family. I love tennis - it's my favorite sport. I actually went to the French open a couple years ago. I really enjoy it. I'd play every day if I could. I'm either going for a run or tennis or going to the gym." 

Turn-ons: "Fun and interesting people. I just love being with my family and my friends. I really crave that realness from people. That's what I really enjoy, just meeting people who are really down to earth and you can have great conversations with, without having to worry about what car you drive, how much money you earn, what clothes you're wearing, which is the world that I come from originally in Brisbane. I love a girl who's a great conversationalist, who is down to earth, who has terrific family values, it's very important. I like someone who likes a good laugh, and doesn't take life too seriously. I love a nice smile, nice eyes. But other than that I don't really have any particular traits that I always go for. As long as they're a nice person."

Turn-offs: "Pretentious people. I must say, I don't find myself getting too worked up about things in life. I'll tell you one thing that really does annoy me is bad service. Whether it be you're on the phone with tele sales or you're buying a hamburger, I think if you're ever paying for something, having worked in the service industry myself and my family have always had bakeries, I've always had an understanding on how important it is to have that good repor with your customers and I cannot stand it when people are rude. Bad service really pisses me off."

Special Talents: "Impersonating people. Even when I was young, I'd always be impersonating relatives or people at movies. I'm always doing silly voices and stuff like that. A few years ago, I attempted to do some stand up comedy in Queensland and I did Michael Douglas, a few Simpsons characters, Christopher Walken and Al Pacino. I can sing OK, I'm not the greatest singer in the world but I can hold a tune. I've been in a couple of rock bands. I was in one throughout school. A few years ago, I was in one before I came here to channel 10 and we used to do a few covers and a few rock tunes. But basically when I started reading the weekends I had to give it away." 

Titles: "Cleo Magazine Bachelor of the Year 2005. I've won a few little minor journalism awards but nothing too serious."

Charities: "Camp Quality, Red Kite, Cancer Council and Leukemia Foundation. Both personally and with my job as well. My mother had breast cancer about 5 yrs ago, so anything to do with cancer. I've always been quite passionate about being involved in and trying to support it in any way I can. She's fine now, she's in full remission, but look it's scary for a while, so I think it's a great cause particularly having 2 young children as well. I do a lot with the leukemia foundation and also a couple of charities called camp quality and red kite which is helping kids with cancer as well. I feel if I can help someone out, it's the least I can do. I guess the one good thing about when you do have profile, you can find ways to help out. I think it's very greedy if you don't. I think there's so many celebrities who do so many great things with charities. I think life's been good to you, you should try to at least help those that life hasn't been so good to. It doesn't take too much."

15 minutes of fame: "Has to be the night I won Cleo Bachelor ... It feels good to be wanted by great looking women ... even if it was for a night."

Travels: "England, Ireland, Wales, Japan, Bali, Thailand, New Zealand, USA."

Spirituality: "I was raised a Catholic/Christian. It's something that empowers me but I don't necessity put my faith in the church or the bible but I do believe in God. I think as long as you believe in something that's positive, that's all that matters to me."

Fashion sense: "I always dress myself when I'm on air so I'd like to think I have pretty good taste. Suit and tie all the time. I love clothes, I love shopping. I'm forever spending money on clothes whether it be casual or suits. I have a varied wardrobe, I wouldn't say I have a particular style. Today I was wearing flip flops, a hat, a shirt and some tattered jeans but the night before I was wearing a sports jacket and a collared shirt. Whatever the occasion calls for, I think I've pretty much got it in my wardrobe, anyway."

Staying healthy: "Gym, running, tennis."

What touches my soul: "My two children."

... on WOMEN 

I first notice ... "eyes. I like eyes that smile. I like eyes that look like they're very caring. It is a cliche but eyes are the windows of the soul, I believe. I like to be able to look into someone's eyes and immediately feel warm. I like to feel trust and engaged really by them."

Attention-getters: "With a friendly smile and intelligent conversation. I'm never someone who will really just go on looks, I really won't find a girl attractive until I know that she's a good personality, an intelligent person and someone who I respect. I don't like shy girls, I like a girl who's fun. So if I see a girl sort of smiling and laughing and having fun, and if I can get a good sense of her personality from across the room, then she'd certainly catch my eye." 

Ideal woman: "One who is understanding, giving, has a terrific sense of humour and is great in bed. It's just very important to have a very trusting person in my life. I need someone who trusts me and knows that I'm with them and that's it. That's obviously very important as well. Family values are very important. Someone who loves their family. That's very important to be close to your family, it gives you a good solid grounding. Just a great personality is just so important. Someone who's good fun and really just doesn't cause a lot of unnecessary stress." 

I can't resist a woman who ... "knows how to not take life too seriously."

Most important quality in a woman: "Her ability to communicate. I need to be with someone who I respect intellectually, and also someone who can hold a good conversation, is a really interesting person, really, is someone I enjoy being around."

Ideal date: "Cook her dinner and a nice glass of wine. Ideally something that has a reasonable level of intimacy. For instance, I don't really like considering a movie a date because often you don't get to talk. But a good date for me whether it be going out for a nice dinner or staying home and cooking a nice dinner or going to a nice quiet bar where we can have a conversation, that to me is a good date where I can really get the opportunity to know someone, not just through having a dance or going to a movie and holding hands. It's more for me about getting to know a person instead of just looking at them."

I'd call a woman back after a first date ... "if there was an unforgettable kiss at the end of the night."

I'd never date a woman who ... "doesn't accept my life the way it is. I love my life, I love my job. I love the fact that I have children. I love the fact that I'm very close to my family and I have a really close wonderful group of friends so I guess I would love to be with someone who accepts every facet of that 100%. I believe enough in my life that it's a good one and the people around me are good, so I see no reason why if I am to be with someone that they wouldn't love it too."

How I show I care: "Poetry. I'm definitely romantic. I'm always very open about my feelings. If I'm thinking something or feeling something, I'll say it. I'll never second guess myself as far as if I want to tell a girl exactly how I feel about her, I'll do it, it won't bother me in the slightest. I'm definitely able to convey my feelings. I love doing things that will put a smile on someone's face, whether it be taking them out to lunch, breakfast or dinner. I'm just always trying to be quite thoughtful if I really care about someone, I leave no stone unturned in making them really know that. I love writing poetry, it always can mean something quite special. Sending flowers and all that sort of thing, I know often it's quite cliche but it's more in the way, like for instance I'll never send flowers on Valentine's Day but I'll probably do it the day beforehand. When I do make an effort to be romantic, I try to make it quite special. I try not to do it a lot in the sense that when I do it I want it to be special for the person I'm doing it for. It's not like I want to write a poem for every girl I ever date, because then I guess it just loses its impact a little bit. A few times when I've really been with someone special, I've done that."

What makes a woman unforgettable: "The way she talks to my family or friends and I watch proudly from the other side of the room. My family and friends are all very similar to me, we have a good time and we get along so well, were just happy go lucky people and often some people can maybe think we're a bit crazy, but when people do think that I normally think they're people who take life a little too seriously. One of the most satisfying feelings I can get is when I'll be standing on the other side of the room and I'll see a girl who I might have only been dating and meeting my friends and family for the first time, and I'll just see them making such an effort talking without me having to hold their hand and be beside them 24/7, displaying that independence and also a genuine wanting to get to know them better as well."

I wish women understood ... "that we need time to do our own thing every once and a while."

One thing a woman has never done for me yet, but I would love it: "Serenaded me with song. I absolutely love music. A friend of mine who I've been on a couple of dates with, she's a singer and that actually happened for the first time the other day, she serenaded me which was absolutely wonderful. I've been in a few bands myself, I love singing, I love songs, I love music, I particularly love hearing it from people who can do it really well, because I know how hard it is and how enjoyable it can be." 

... on RELATIONSHIPS 

On relationships: "Love being in them. It's all I've known. I've got to a stage now where I'm 30 and all my friends and family are trying to tell me to be single but I guess because all of I've ever known is being in a relationship and caring for someone else, I really enjoy that. I enjoy waking up next to the same person every day and knowing everything about them and knowing that I'm the person who can help them out of their bad mood or cheer them up or anything like that. I wouldn't say that I'm desperate to be in another relationship but it's certainly something I do enjoy being in. I'm quite realistic about life in that having known what it takes for a marriage to work and fail, I know, I guess, what I need out of a relationship. Not that I'm always seeking perfection, I'm certainly not. But if I'm going to take that leap, I'm going to make sure it's the last time I do it. It hurts when you fall once, it will hurt even more the second time if it happens. When I was 19, you take that leap, whereas once you know how it feels you treat the situation with a little more trepidation."

Top relationship keys: "Communication and plenty of understanding. Acceptance, being a 30 yr old man, you're of course not fresh of the truck, you're going to have a bit of history. I guess whoever I'm with needs to accept that. I'm not going to be doing a lot of things for the first time. That's pretty important."

A woman in a relationship with me can expect ... "to get complete honesty. I'm very loving, very caring. I'm understanding, well I hope I'm understanding of what a woman needs and what is important to her. I'm more the sort of person, I'd like to think in a relationship, that I put the other person first. I'd like to think that by be very giving and very caring, I'd make them pretty happy. I'm a very loyal guy."

What I expect: "To be easygoing and understanding. I just expect them to have a good time with life and just enjoy every day and every moment as it comes instead of worrying about tomorrow, worry about yesterday. Just enjoying what I can offer them and what life can offer them at the moment. I think if you live your life that way, you'll be pretty happy. Obviously you want to be loved. I want to look into her eyes every day and be quite confident that there's no other person who I'd rather be with. To feel that way, she needs to be those things that I've mentioned, understanding, loving, caring and happy to embrace the moment and embrace life. And I think if she does all those things then I'll feel that way and that's really all I sort of expect is just to be content and happy with the person I'm spending time with."

When I'm in love, I ... "tell her when I feel it."

What makes me feel close to a woman: "An honest conversation. Just about anything. Definitely when I'm in a relationship, when you feel that you're having a conversation with someone who you love and you feel that they haven't shared this with anyone before. Or you know for them to be telling you a certain thing about their personal life that is quite personal to them for them to share it with you is I think a good sign that obviously they care enough about you to trust you and share that with you."

Greatest relationship lesson: "Be careful who you give to. I mean, being the way I am, it's all great but you need to be very careful about who you give it to because being the person I am, unfortunately in a lot of ways I wish I could change and be a little more guarded but I've been one to play games and not give 100% as far as my honesty is concerned. And by being giving, open, loving and caring, often it can speed a relationship up a little bit because it probably cuts out a lot of ... I speak to a lot of my friends and the guys do the whole we don't call a girl for 3 days after and all that sort of rubbish, well I'm the sort of the person if I had a great date, I'll call her the next day or send her a text when I get home or something like that. I don't think about the games and the rules. I just pretty much go with it. By saying all of that, I'm not going to change the person who I am and I am very giving and very caring but by being that way, I don't think a lot of guys are like that so I think a girl can kind of hook in a little bit too quickly and often when that happens, when the relationship's suddenly in that serious mode, things tend to change and people tend to change and I've often found myself in a situation where I've probably been too loving and too giving to the wrong people who probably haven't deserved that from me. I guess I just got to be a little bit more careful about who I give it to."

What makes a woman marriage material: "I don't have a relationship with someone I couldn't see myself marrying. Having been married before, I know what I'm looking for in a person and what I need to really make me happy so I can get a reasonable sense of that quite early on in a relationship. I've got to a stage in life being 30, I'm just not the sort of person who wants to go around dating lots of different women. I hope that the next woman that I date could be my wife, that's how I think. I don't want to be a guy who's going to be dating for years and years and years. So if I do find myself in a relationship, there's a very good chance that the way I'm thinking is that hopefully she could be the one. But people change, times change and sometimes skew down a path that you don't want them to go and then obviously it changes. But I'm always actively trying to ensure that it's going down the right path any relationship that I'm in. I just think it's a waste of time being with someone that you ... I mean, even if you don't get married, I think you still need to think that it's the person that you want to marry because I think that's the ultimate endorsement of the way you feel about someone. If it doesn't grow I think particularly in the first 3 months, I think you're with the wrong person. It would be important to me that they have realized their goals and dreams in life. Because I think to be happy in a relationship, you have to be a happy individual as well. I would be very dubious about marrying someone who maybe hadn't had a career or hadn't reached her potential in what she wanted to do in her every day life. I think it's very important that when I decide I'm going to marry someone that they are very comfortable with themselves and where they're at in their lives."

... on SEX 

What makes sex good: "When it's honest and uninhibited."

I feel my sexiest when ... "I am gazing into her eyes ... whilst in the throws. That sort of deep look when you're in the room with that person, there's nothing else that exists around you except you and her."

Most sensual part of a woman's body: "Her torso. I love a woman's stomach."

Sexiest thing a woman can wear in private: "Nothing but a hat. I love things like that. One of the great things about when you're in a sexual relationship, after you do know someone and trust someone, you can be more uninhibited and free and really do a few different things. I love that feeling when you're doing something and you get that sense that you know that there's not too many people who are doing it the way I'm doing it right now."

Surefire way to seduce me: "Is to be herself and for me to feel myself around her. Put it this way, I would like a woman to be very confident about herself in the bedroom, to know what she wants, to not be shy. I would like for her to feel comfortable and if she feels comfortable, I'd like for me to feel comfortable as well."

... on LIFE

Making my mark: "By making people smile. I'm always more eager to make someone else happy before I worry about myself. I hope I already have made a mark on my children's lives and I hope I continue to do so. They've without a doubt been the most important thing in my life. It's hard to be as a constant influence as I'd like to be but I would like to think that I've already made an indelible mark on them and I hope that l continue to do so. We have such a good relationship as it is, so I can't see how I won't have an effect on their lives."

Responsibility to society: "I've got a responsibility to my family, first and foremost. I really don't worry too much about what people think about me. I definitely care what my family thinks about me. But a responsibility to society, probably no more than what I'm contributing already whether it be through charity. But I'm the sort of person who prefers to have a close knit group of friends and family and focus on them. I like to get my own backyard in shape before I worry about anything else." 

Valuable life lesson: "Nothing comes close to spending time with those you love. I never take it for granted because I know how hard it is to come by, special people in your life. I think when you do find those special people, you do your utmost to protect them and show them what they mean to you. No, I never take that for granted."

I must ... "win an Academy Award, marry the woman I love and live wealthy in Paris. I just love the place, it's almost like time stands still there. It was a place where I was blown away by its beauty and I thought the people ... one of the greatest misconceptions I think that the French are rude..."

Best advice received: "Luck is the residue of design."

Best advice I've given a woman: "You need to love yourself before anyone else will." 

... on HIS FAVORITE THINGS

Movie: "Jerry Maguire."

TV Show: "Inside The Actors Studio."

Book: "Da Vinci Code."

Music: "Absolutely everything from ABBA to ZZ Top."

Food: "Seafood."

... final THOUGHTS

Always in my refrigerator: "Juice, water, Vegemite. It's definitely an acquired taste. You know what, I can't do peanut butter and jelly either, I mean, what's with that? That's disgusting. I tried it when I was in America and I didn't like it."

Hottest possession: "I-Pod."

I would change places for 24 hours with ... "Jon Bon Jovi. Because he's the coolest. He's a great singer, he's a good looking guy and girls absolutely love him so I think that'd be a pretty interesting day."

I would most like to hang out with ... "Billy Crystal. From such a young age, I've always loved the Academy Awards and I've always particularly loved the episodes that he's hosted. One of my favorite movies is When Harry Met Sally. I've watched every single movie he's been in. I think he's a very intelligent guy. I've read a few articles and books on him and he's had a really interesting family life. I think he'd be an extremely interesting and funny guy to be around."

Celeb I'd love to take on a date: "Dido. She is someone I think is absolutely hot and she is a wonderful singer. I think she's absolutely gorgeous. She's got those beautiful sweet caring eyes and a lovely smile. And she looks like the sort of person that even though she is a celebrity, if you walked across the room and said hello to her she'd say hello back. I like the nice girl, the girl next door. Who else do I like? Jennifer Love Hewitt, I think is gorgeous. Obviously Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie is great looking as well, but Dido is my favorite."

Why I'm such a great catch: "Because I'm never boring. I'd like to think I'm never boring, anyway. I'm the sort of person who never says no to anything whether it be with friends or family. I'll always be pretty easy going and eager to participate and play along with whatever's going to make the people around me happy. The one thing that I offer more than most guys is openness and honesty and truth which is often something with a lot of guys from what I'm told from my girlfriends that you have to kind of chip away at over a period of time whereas with me I don't play those games. I'm just 100% so you'll know pretty early on whether you like me or not, I guess. I think being married so young, I was around a woman from a very young age that I loved and I cared about. I made mistakes and I learned from them. I never really had the chance to develop any bad habits in a young adult life that I'm sure a lot of guys may do. I was always putting someone else first. So I guess maybe that's why I'm a little bit that way."

Me in a word: "Real."