Sunday, May 17, 2009

Nicky Whelan "Pepper Steiger in the Network Ten soap opera"


Nicky Whelan (born 1983) is an Australian model and actress who is perhaps best known for playing the role of Pepper Steiger in the Network Ten soap opera, Neighbours.Before Neighbours, Whelan hosted a number of shows including Coxy's Big Break, Seven Network, Beyond the Boundary, Ten Network, Melbourne Woman, Ten Network, and played the fictional celebrity Chrissie Grant on Russell Coight's Celebrity Challenge, a spin-off of All Aussie Adventures.Whelan is also known as the face of the rural Victorian city, Shepparton, and she also hosted the night racing at Mooney Valley for eight years.Whelan has also posed for a number of Australian magazines, including Ralph and Inside Sport. She was the first model to be on the cover of the Pumped Up Down Under calendar two years running . She was voted sports model of the year 2004 and 2005.Early in 2007, Nicky appeared on The Show Biz Show with David
Spade on Comedy Central in the U.S.A. Since then, Nicky and Spade have become very good friends. Nicky invited Spade to the set of Neighbours on July 14, 2007 (according to news.com.au, this was her last day of filming with the show) with the hopes he would make a cameo in an episode of the soap, but he was unable to secure a work visa in time.

Juliana Martins "Cindy Crawford Alikes Hot Brazilian"

Juliana Martins has been called the Brazilian Cindy Crawford, and, considering the amount of gorgeous Brazilian models there are these days, that's quite an endorsement. She's most familiar to North American babe-watchers for her spread in the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
After the contest, she signed on with Elite, who represents her to this day, although she is represented in Europe by Munich Models. Juliana's choice to pursue modeling was well informed, as industry players were soon calling Juliana "the Brazilian Cindy Crawford." When she was 15, Juliana first left her native Brazil and started traveling the world, living in locales as diverse as Switzerland, Canada and France. But Juliana's cosmopolitan teen years, ironically, haven't cured her dislike for flying

In the half-dozen years since Juliana decided to model professionally, she's worked for Ralph Lauren, Bruno Magli, Armani, Blumarine and Emmanuel Ungaro.She's been photographed by such noted shutterbugs as Ellen Von Uwerth, Bob Wolfenson and Steve Meisel. Moreover, she's appeared in fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, and was featured in the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, exposing her for the first time to the lucrative, though less fashion-minded, audience of mainstream America. Not surprisingly, Juliana now lives in New York City, whose clubs help to sate her appetite for dancing. But however much she enjoys the nightlife in the Big Apple, her hometown, Jos Bonifcio, still has a special place in the worldly model's heart. It's where "my life, family, and friends are," Juliana once explained. "It's the best place in the world."