Taut tradies vying for hot spot

By Angela Thompson
Updated November 6 2012 - 2:00am, first published April 12 2011 - 11:04am
Bianca Dye and former winner Mick Jessop will be at the Hottest Tradie finals. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Bianca Dye and former winner Mick Jessop will be at the Hottest Tradie finals. Picture: GREG TOTMAN

Bianca Dye likes a well-defined set of abs as much as the next disc jockette but brawn must be backed by brains, she insists.The adopted Illawarra TV and radio personality will host the Australia's Hottest Tradie competition finals in Sydney tonight and says she is impressed with the size of the candidates' ... intellect."It's nice to see in the competition this year [that] they're as smart as they are hot," she said."[2010 winner] Matt Wilson ... is looking at possibly making a move to television, so they're actually looking for someone who can hold a sentence."More than 730 tradies entered this year's competition, run by dating website RSVP.Five finalists were determined by public voting, with more than 300,000 votes cast.Inaugural competition winner Mick Jessop, a qualified carpenter now of Albion Park, will be among the judges at tonight's final.Jessop dabbled in modelling after his 2009 win but said he had since taken up work in the mines."I'm not that type that [would] leave my career to take up something like modelling," he said.Jessop and partner Rebecca Stanton welcomed their first child, Harper, on November 25.

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