The 'Next' thing was chosen for modelling
It must have been like
naturally, you're coming into your next destiny
You're not really realizing that...
because its taken some time
football, modelling
I mean!
I've been lucky!
Talk us through
so you've gone through 'Next'
How do you mentally prepare for that?
Well funnily enough, which I didn't tell you. I did model from the age of
7 or 8 until I was
12 or 13
so I did that, and I did quite well! I was in Kylie Minouges video
I did all the catalogues when I was younger and what not!
and I think I got to about 11 or 12 and I said mum
don't want to do it no more, I want to play football
leave me alone
the money was good!
they were getting new kitchens!
John didn't see none of it!
Yeah, so I did do that when I was younger and then
so
idont know
maybe a little bit in the back of my mind,
when I retire
35-36 whatever
I could go into a bit of modeling you know?
As you do!
but I didn't know nothing about the game really!
and yeah, that was it! I sort of fell into it
The first, 3-4 months was rubbish
i didn't do much
and then
you know, the agents were great, they stayed with me
They kept me going out to the castings and what ont
They sent me out to America
and then I was lucky enough, when I was in New York
to be front cover!
Some guy I met
Front cover of Man of the World!
and I was like "oh lovely!"
Cheers mate!
since that came out, its sort of gone onwards and upwards!
my agents have all been great!
You were at Dolce and Gabbana last month?
Yep, I opened with Dolce, that was great!
Talk about D&G
Honestly,
Thats very high level
so er
I wasn't even gonna go to Milan Fashion Week
If I'm honest with you
I was shooting in Bolonge
and my plane got cancelled
it was a strike
so the only way I could get home was to get a train into Milan
and then I think I was waiting for a day or
few hours
And while I was there, I went to see my agents in Eps
and they said, look just go and see D&G
and go and see Armani
Fashion week is coming up and it would be nice to go and see them and say hello
That was it! Went and said hello
and I thought nothing of it! Back to london!
Best way to be with modeling? Just go with the flow!
Most of the time you don't know
too much in advance of what your week
just go with the flow, go meet people
you don't know who you're meeting, you don't know
what it could lead to
but I'm enjoying it yeah! So
I came back to London and
you're penciled in for Dolce
and armani
go back out there!
So I was like, "Okay" I'm happy to go for the week
I went out there and
like you know, there's tons and tons of boys out there, young boys
so I felt a bit old but
all these young boys walking about and I'm like,
so erm
so we had the... I got confirmed for Dolce and Armani and
we had the fitting on the day
I sort of heard from
they said you might be opening the show
I thought "me?"
ah don't be silly!
So then we turned up and then
Yeah it was... opening the show, and I was like "Ooo lovely!"
How was that?
You're downplaying it! But people! This is huge!
It was great! I enjoyed ever minute of it!
You looked amazing!
The clothes were amazing, the boys were great, everyone behind the scenes were fantastic
it was a good day!
What do you think it is about that brand that is so strong?
All you've got to do is look at the clothes
thats the main thing
Theres not many things in the whole collection
we had 80 boys
and I don't think I looked at any of the 80 boys and thought...
You know
Dodgy
You know, every single piece looked amazing
and even their ready-to-wear stuff
you know
Id love to wear that daily
Their branding is great
they are so strong and yeah everything about them is great.