Stars Of Outrageous Fortune Strip Off For Metro

Press Release: 28 August, 2009

Outrageous! Stars Of The Hit TV Show Strip Off For New-Look Metro

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Metro magazine hits newsstands on Monday with a new look and a gatefold cover featuring the stars of Outrageous Fortune… naked.

The cover promotes a unique photographic series inside the magazine — a tribute to a selection of iconic New Zealand movies.

Actors from Outrageous Fortune portray characters from films including The Piano, Once Were Warriors and Goodbye Pork Pie in scenes captured by some of the country’s leading photographers.

Metro editor Bevan Rapson says the magazine wanted to try something very different for the issue that launches a new reader-friendly format. “The film tribute was an ambitious project but we’re delighted with the results.

“The cover shoot in particular was a left-field idea that was turned into reality thanks to an inspired creative team and, importantly, to the actors who generously embraced the project, trusted Metro to produce something memorable and were brave enough to bare all.”

Along with the glamour, Metro is stepping up its gritty journalism. The new issue includes an exclusive Donna Chisholm story in which Auckland engineer Paul Ellis describes the night he killed his father. Ellis (who was found not guilty of by reason of insanity of his father’s murder) tells of his descent into madness and years of recovery.

Emphasising Metro’s standing as Auckland’s only in-depth current affairs magazine, the issue also contains not one, but two investigations into the power-brokers of Auckland politics. We look at the apparent motorway obsession of Transport Minister Steven Joyce, and the bull-at-a-gate behaviour of North Shore mayor Andrew Williams.

On a lighter note, there’s Metro’s annual Best and Worst Dressed lists and a guide to 20 of Auckland’s best Asian restaurants.

And yes, Felicity Ferret is back. “Auckland’s original gossip diva has been thrilled to throw herself back into the hurly-burly of the city’s social scene,” says Rapson. “Her first column shows she’s lost none of her bite.”

The Ferret, in disguise, was among the party-goers at Metro’s new-look launch celebration in the historic Union Fish Building at Britomart last night.

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