Daily Telegraph article on H&A's "new bad boy", Robbo, played by Jake Ryan:
Home and Away’s new bad boy Jake Ryan to hit our screens as Pia Miller’s new love interest
TATTOOS. Check. Buff body. Check. Cheeky smile. Check.
Meet Jake Ryan, the new Home and Away bad boy who producers hope will fill the heart-throb void left when Stephen Peacocke’s much-loved character Brax left the bay in 2015.
Ryan, a 33-year-old from Melbourne, will make his screen debut as Robbo on the Channel Seven soap in two weeks.
Like Peacocke, he plays a bad boy cast as a love interest for the show’s leading lady. This time it’s Pia Miller.
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Until then the actor, who has also appeared in Wentworth and Underbelly, is enjoying his last days of anonymity.
“I’m completely not prepared for the fame,” the now Bondi-based Ryan said.
“Sometimes these bad boy characters can work in your favour and maybe no one will like me.”
It’s a big tick of approval for Ryan, who actually never dreamt of becoming an actor. Like his predecessor, he too dreamt of a life in professional sport.
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He pursued taekwondo from a young age, was the Australian heavyweight champion for 10 consecutive years and only missed Olympic glory in 2008 because of a career-ending knee injury that forced him to consider a new path.
“If someone said to me when I was 22 or 23 that I would have a career as an actor, I would have laughed at them. I mean, I hated drama at school. I was such a jock. But I came across the late great actor Bill Hunter who planted the seed of acting and over the years it grew,” he said.
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Ryan, who is single, went to acting school and did any sort of jobs to make ends meet.
He’s now well aware of another side-effect of working in Summer Bay — you have to be beach body ready all year round.
“There is a thing called athletes’ curse, where the second you stop training full-time you have to really be careful because you can put on weight really quickly. That’s been a battle of mine. So coming on to Home and Away, I think I lost about 13kg.”
& from the dailymail (based on the daily telegraph article):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...Away-role.html
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