Strip Search Australia: Finally, a Show We Can Sink Our Teeth Into

Strip Search Australia: Finally, a Show We Can Sink Our Teeth Into by Roxanne McDonald

Strip Search Australia goes into re-run every couple of months or so, having been acquired by FOX REALITY TV long after the first eight-episode series ran, so if you have any interest in the making of a sexy troupe of dancers, you’ll have to wait for the next run.

But if you are a healthy hetero woman or gay man, you will be more than glad you waited. The boys and men are deeelishus.

In the first episode, Billy Cross, of The Thunder Down Under and MANPOWER, travels across the country auditioning men for Body Shop Boys, the exotic dance troupe which will tour Australia delighting the ladies (and some of the men). In episode two, after having watched tens of auditions, Billy and his associate, Lea McCloud, call the twenty who have been selected.

The twenty are Scott; Keith and Liam (who auditioned together); Michael W.; Jeremy; Fabian; Jake; Darren; Mim (a shortlister); Shane (who will become a “mascot” or “apprentice” dancer); Luke; David; Kevin (a former boxer); Andre (the oldest and arguably hottest of the twenty, if you ask me); Jonothan; Ashley (the one who auditioned on a rooftop in front of male friends, even); Ashley; Ken (a massage therapist); Ben; and Michael C..

But Ashley regrettably pulls Lea aside to tell her of the alternate

opportunity he has to take a lucrative IT job offer. Billy Cross tells him he is right to be challenged by the choices, but insists he choose the best for him. Ashley leaves, leaving nineteen to vie for the few final spots.

After physicals with the “cute” doctor, whom many of the boys flirt with, Jake, Michael W., and Mim are pulled aside and re-schecked, as they tested with high bp (blood pressure). Billy suspects it was due to excitement and nerves, and keeps all three this round anyway.

Then the boys take a trip on a yacht, whereupon a psychologist gets to know the men, testing their stability, willingness, and true desire for the role of strip dancer. All are okay, save one, Matt. The psychologist confides in Cross that she feels Matt has “questionable energy”.

So at the last minute, Billy takes Matt aside and challenges his 110% desire to be there, to work toward the group goals. Matt somehow indicates that his “heart is not really in it”,

though just minutes before he was seen talking to cameras about feeling insecure about the stiff competition – which this viewer surmises makes Matt appear less than gung-ho. My inferences are confirmed with the beautiful and gentle beast is dismissed and he goes to the others and makes a humble, dignified, but choked-up speech, wishing them the best and leaving before he bursts into tears in front of them.

Down to eighteen contenders and the end of the episode, the boys are, we are told, soon to go through the rigors of intensive evaluation of their mental and physical stamina … in a special boot camp just for them. That, however, is in episode three, which you will have to seek out and find for yourself, waiting for a recap until I get to see it [again] myself. Suffice it to say that while some will drop out or be dropped because they are not team players, many will stay, pounding bodies against nature’s other resources, showing more ruggedness and flesh, and cooling off with their canteens like demi-gods in their own version of Flash Dance. Makes ya wanna take big bites. Drool.

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