Tom Gorrie is more famous than our last three Prime Ministers, Acropolis Now and Powderfinger combined, statistically speaking.
Last month, the 26-year-old ex-Melburnian became one of thousands of suitable bachelors who have appeared on China’s favourite squeaky-clean dating show, Fei Cheng Wu Rao (literally “If not sincere then do not disturb”, or Anglicised as If You Are the One on SBS 2). The show gets an estimated 50 million viewers per episode, who all watched in judgement as the bean poley Tom subtly twisted Cupid’s arm. You’d need to live in an Australia with threefold the population and seven times the tabloid current affairs programs to experience that level of scrutiny.
Read the interview at Junkee here.