Australian Playboy
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Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of Playboy magazine that was published between February 1979 and January 2000 for a total of 252 editions.
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[edit] Content
Australian Playboy featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith.
An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually.
The first edition featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and featured her in pictorial. Notable Australian celebrities who have appeared in the magazine include:
- Rachel Hunter: supermodel (New Zealander)
- Emma Harrison: Neighbours actress
- Melissa George: Home and Away actress
- Dannii Minogue: international popstar and X Factor and Australia's Got Talent judge
- Fiona Horne: celebrity witch, writer, later contestant on Celebrity Survivor
- Kym Wilson: actress
- Gabrielle Richens: model, actress, TV presenter
- Wendy Botha: surfer
- Lynda Stoner: actress
- Joanne Capper: wife of Warwick Capper
- Jodie Young: TV presenter
- Tracy Lee: model
- Bindy Paxton: infamous for appearing on A Current Affair
One notable omission was Elle MacPherson, who posed nude for the US magazine, but was not featured in Australian Playboy. To date the biggest selling edition of Australian Playboy is the one with Dannii Minogue on the cover.
[edit] Demise
Australian Playboy ceased publication in late 1999 due to declining sales and increasing competition from lad's mags such as FHM and Ralph.
[edit] Further reading
- Johns, Carolyn (1982), "Rico Mettbach", The Australian Photography Yearbook (1983 ed.), Melbourne: Roscope Publishers, pp. 77–81, ISSN 0810-4883 — an early photo-essay on Australian eroticism (as opposed to pornography), featuring Playboy photographer Rico Mettbach. Includes some background into the magazine's readership and editorial history.
[edit] External links
- Australian Playboy Cover Database
- Australian Playboy Covers at PBCovers.com
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