Beauty and the Geek TV Show

Steve Muller is a self confessed geek.

If his passion for Tranformers doesn’t give him away, maybe his dream of taking a starring role in the new TV show Beauty and the Geek will.

But the Sunshine Coast 25 year old isn’t planning on exposing his inner feelings to the nation for nothing – he hopes there might be a job in it for him.

Steve was one of many locals who headed to Brisbane last week to try scoring a part on the upcoming Channel Seven reality series which features beautiful women trying to makeover geeks who, at the same time, endeavour to make the girls smarter.

He wants to be selected for the show in the hope it will open doors in his chosen profession as a journalist.

“Hopefully … and (they.people will see me as the guy from Beauty and the Geek will think) we will get that guy to do entertainment or that guy to do the geek stuff,” he said.

Before he even considers that, he has to make it through the screening process to be selected on the show. But if there is a bigger geek out there, let him stand up.

Steve’s body is covered with geeky markings like a Transformer’s tattoo, an X men tattoo, a Pacman belt buckle and a Watchmen backpack but it is perhaps his trip to Bot Con (a Transformers convention) earlier this year that puts him in the “biggest geek” category.

“I spent two and a half hours in line just to get Peter Cullen’s autograph,” he said. “His autograph signing was at 10.30 in the morning and I lined up for two and a half hours before that.”

Apparently, Peter Cullen is the original voice of Optimus Prime.

Steve’s Transformers’ obsession began from an early age and he finds explaining the reason for it very difficult.

“I think about that every day and I can’t honestly say,” he said. “There is something about just knowing you could be walking down the street and a car driving past could transform into a robot.”

Also at the auditions was Fiona Lewis – a 30 year old teacher’s aid from Sunshine Beach who said geeks were people too “even though sometimes they only have one eyebrow”.

But Fiona admitted she was a bit vague about what appearing on the show would entail.

“My friends only just told me they try to hook you up with nerds on the show,” the wannabe beauty said. “And the girl sitting next to me said you have to kiss them.”

Fellow Sunshine Coast auditioner, 21 year old Brooke Devries from Marcoola, also has some concerns about that element of the show.

… ew(sic),” she said..“I just saw some of the geeks walking past and they were pretty

The retail assistant manager who also runs her own spray tanning business said she didn’t put a lot of thought into why she was auditioning but thought it would be a good experience.

“I wouldn’t mind getting some modelling work out of it,” she said.

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