Australian Playboy

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Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of Playboy magazine that was published between February 1979 and January 2000 for a total of 276 editions.

[edit] Content

Australian Playboy featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. However, an Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually.

The first edition had Rosemary Paul on the cover and featured her in pictorial. Notable Australian celebrities who have appeared in the magazine include:

• Rachel Hunter: supermodel (New Zealander)
• Emma Harrison: Neighbours actress
• Melissa George: Home and Away actress
• Dannii Minogue: Neighbours actress, singer, sister of Kylie Minogue
• Fiona Horne: celebrity witch, writer, later contestant on Celebrity Survivor
• Kym Wilson: actress
• Gabrielle Richens: model, actress, TV presenter
• Wendy Botha: surfer
• Lynda Stoner: actress
• Joanne Capper: wife of Warwick Capper
• Jodie Young: TV presenter
• Tracy Lee: model
• Bindy Paxton: infamous for appearing on A Current Affair

One notable omission was Elle MacPherson, who posed nude for the US magazine, but was not featured in Australian Playboy.

[edit] Demise

Australian Playboy ceased publication in late 1999 due to declining sales and increasing competition from lad's mags such as FHM and Ralph.

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