Chris Egan

"I was called things like 'hottie' and 'babe of the year' after I was cast in the nighttime soap Home and Away. The show is a huge hit in the U.K., and here I was, this fifteen-year-old surfer kid from Sydney, and all of a sudden I'm on the cover of all these magazines. It was overwhelming at first, but I'm a major attention seeker and I've always wanted to be a movie star, so I handled it okay.

I was offered three times my salary to stay on the show, but I decided to follow my heart and move to Los Angeles last year. I just got my first gig, a lead role in Empire, an armor and swords miniseries epic that I will be filming in Italy for four months. I've missed seeing my family since I made my move, so the first thing I want to do is fly them over to Italy and show them how much I love them."

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