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Mr. Boy Gay
What happens when you add a lot of determination, a good looking individual, some luck, and a dare from a friend who says he will eat his hat if you get the job?
As a scared and innocent 18 year old from the Eastern Cape, I relocated to Jo'burg to find my fortune...but first I needed to study and did this at AFDA (The SA School for Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance). My first couple of months in the city of gold was a pretty lonely time for me. My social life was non-existent and to make matters worse I was going through an identity crisis that I was not sure how to handle.
Halfway through my first year, I started finding my feet and my voice. It was around this time that I met Simon. He was the strange boy with the American accent. Although he studied with me, I had never taken notice of him before because I had my own issues to work out.
Simon and I became friends.... We had a lot in common and it turned out that he was not American but really an Afrikaans boy who grew up in Jo'burg. He had been an exchange student in the States and had picked up the accent there.
We spent most of the rest of our studies working together and in each other's company.
If anyone wanted to find one of us the other would either be close by or in the know as to where to look. Towards the end of Third year Simon and I went to the M-net studios with another friend as moral support for an Audition. While we were waiting for her to finish the audition Si and I sat there chatting and I told him "We'll just as well you did not come to audition for this thing...You just don't have the right look." Well...This ignited the spark in Si's head and now he was out to prove me wrong.
The next day he went back to M-net, This time without me. He was going to show me that he could do anything if he set his mind to it. Later that day he informed me he had gone for the audition and that he would know the outcome in two weeks. I then proceeded to tell him: "I still believe that you do not have the right look for the job, and if you get that job I'll eat a hat".
I regret ever saying those words because two weeks later Simon ended up getting his first TV presenting job, and the rest is history (as they say). I never ate the hat... but he still rubs salt on the wound from time to time.
Simon Tuit is currently the presenter on MK TV's (Channel 324) Studio 1 and does a lot of Ramp and Photographic modeling. He is fast becoming one of South Africa's Youngest, hippest, and most hunky male celebrities.
Si I'm proud of You!
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