'Cleo' opts for 'cheese' in Eligible Bachelor choices

What should the criteria be for a dude to make it into Cleo’s Most Eligible Bachelor list? Suave looks? Celebrity potential? Brawn and bravado? Nope. It seems ‘cheesiness’ was the top box needing to be ticked this year. Once you’ve had a good look at the batch of guys who’ve made it in the top 30 for 2014, we’re sure you’ll agree that Cleo’s taste has gone AWOL. Yep, most of the guys that made the grade this year are all smiley-smiley with haircuts as though they’ve been picked out of a 1980s barber’s catalogue, complete with blue denim as their key choice in dress sense. In short, real cheesy with really bad style.

I mean look at the sample above, from a screenshot off the Cleo website. The only dude with potential – in our books – is Richard Strahan, pictured bottom right, who possesses just the right amount of ‘cool dude’ factor. Perhaps not surprisingly, Richard is a Perth-based FIFO worker, employed as an industrial rope access technician up north.

The fact that Cleo has gone and changed his name to ‘Richy’ is a dubious move; indeed, possibly a tactic to bring him down a peg or two amid the cheesy competition.  Antonino Tati