Cleo Cruiser Bachelor of the Year

Mount Maunganui’s John Templeton Named Cleo Cruiser Bachelor of the Year

CLEO magazine hosted the biggest party in bachelor history on Friday night, featuring a catwalk fashion show, celebrities, and singer Dane Rumble - and to add to the night’s magic announced 26-year-old John Templeton (JT) as the 2012 CLEO Cruiser Bachelor of the Year!

JT was nominated for the competition by a friend, and appeared as ‘Mr August’ in CLEO’s much-anticipated annual bachelor calendar (free with CLEO February). Eight weeks and over 1600 reader votes later, the Mount Maunganui local is slowly coming to terms with his win. “It feels awesome!” says a very happy JT. “[CLEO Cruiser Bachelor of the Year is] a nice title to have. I had no expectations to make the finals, so winning it is pretty epic.”

CLEO editor Pamela Marker says this year’s hype has really revived the bachelor competition in New Zealand. “To encourage voting, we didn’t stop at just photographing the bachelors, but allowed readers to ‘meet’ the guys via video interviews that can be found on both cleo.co.nz and CLEO magazine on facebook”. And to bring the whole competition to climax (pun intended) we had THE biggest party of the year, then gave the winner a well-deserved spot on the cover of CLEO!”

CLEO April is on sale today, featuring a half-cover winner reveal and much, much more of the 2012 CLEO Cruiser Bachelor of the Year. But the surprises don’t stop there… readers can use their smart phones to scan a QR code featured in the magazine to watch the CLEO cover shoot as it happened.

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