...I'm loving Sophie more and more each day I tells ya!... from this website below... on the link is a nice video where she's making fun of herself yet again too lol!... cheers.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/en...n/news-story/6acd136bbda93091115bc15c3fa693a8
Bachelorette Sophie Monk and her love-life history take new direction
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September 23, 2017 12:00am
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SOPHIE Monk wants to put the record straight. She might glide through The Bachelorette mansion in designer ball gowns, her platinum blonde locks pinned into glamorous updos, but if anyone thinks that’s how she always gets around, tell ’em they’re dreamin’.
“I’m so not that — you should see me in the mornings!” laughs Monk, revealing a candour that is instantly endearing.
“I wake up most days and I haven’t even washed my make-up off. I’ve got one (fake) eyelash on the pillow and one on my face. I’m such a bogan,” she tells BW Magazine.
This Maid Marion appears to have servants.
Indeed, despite close to 20 years in the spotlight as a popstar, TV presenter and model Monk is disarmingly down-to-earth.
She also confesses to having little romantic game.
“I had to learn how to flirt,” she says. “The production company had to organise a workshop for me because I was just giving off all the wrong vibes. Janine, one of the producers, came over one night and taught me how to touch someone’s arm and look them in the eye.”
However, even with her new-found flirting skills under her belt, the outrageous shooting requirements of The Bachelorette still left the usually mouthy Monk lost for words.
One such instance was the steamy Adam and Eve photo shoot which saw Monk and cocky entrepreneur Blake stripped nude and given modesty leaves to cover their genitalia.
“I’ve never been properly in love. This is the first time since high school.”
“It’s not often that I go quiet, but that shoot was the hottest thing ever. It was very easy to just get lost in the moment,” Monk reveals.
Monk became a household name in 1999 with the Channel 7 reality TV show Popstars.
Long before shows such as Australian Idol, The Voice and The X Factor were an established part of our TV vocab, the talent quest format of Popstars became a phenomenal success.
Her girl group Bardot, a product of the show, reached number one with their first single Poison. However, the group — which included Belinda Chapple, Sally Polihronas, Katie Underwood and Tiffany Wood — never repeated that chart-topping success and eventually disbanded.
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But Monk remained in the spotlight. She launched a solo singing career, and made her acting debut in 2004 as Marilyn Monroe in the tele-movie The Mystery of Natalie Wood.
In 2005, she relocated to LA to pursue the bright lights of Hollywood and began collecting a dance card of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors.
The Bachelorette has dated actor Jason Statham and been engaged to Good Charlotte muso Benji Madden and French businessman Jimmy Esebag.
She has romanced Kevin Connolly from Entourage and Australian actor Sam Worthington — just before his pairing with his now wife Lara Bingle. Most recently, she was linked to ex-NRL player Eric Grothe Jr, who she admitted to dating “on and off” for a couple of years.
“It feels like you’ve been dating for six months.”
But none truly won her heart — at least, not in retrospect.
“I’ve never been properly in love. This is the first time since high school,” Monk says, confirming she has fallen head-over-heels for her suitor.
“In the past I’ve been in relationships and it’s felt like we’re in competition. And I would think: ‘What are we doing? It doesn’t even feel like we’re friends.’
“There was always jealousy, especially with my job. (For example) if they come on set and I’m doing a role where I have to pretend to be in love with someone.
“Or I’m doing a photo shoot in a bikini — and I get it, I wouldn’t want my girlfriend doing that if I was a guy.”
This time, though, there’s no red carpets or flashy VIP parties. She’s dating a regular Aussie guy. And it’s working.
“It feels different. It feels like I’ve got a friend and someone who will support me,” Monk says.
“Whatever they do (on The Bachelorette), it works.
“It’s such an intense environment. There’s no phones, and you’re just so focused on these people — it’s quite bizarre. It feels like you’ve been dating for six months (when it might have been only a few of weeks) … I thought I’d get to know someone and then I might fall in love with them later, but it was like, no, I love him already.”
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Monk in a bold PETA poster.
After moving back from the US in 2014, Monk has no plans to return. In April, 2016, she purchased a $1.1 million mansion on the Gold Coast, where she now lives with her parents Andrew and Sandi, relishing the physical closeness with her family after years living overseas.
She also intends to start her own family but refutes claims in women’s magazines she is planning to have a baby within the year. Instead, she wants to spend time getting to know her new man.
Although nearing the end of her baby-making years, Monk long ago accepted her path would be different to the other women in her family.
Arriving at a bar for a Tinder promotion. Picture: Attila Szilvasi
Monk joins Joel and Benji Madden after a Good Charlotte gig.
“I used to think I wanted to be like my mum and sister — my sister’s had three children, Mum’s had four … but I realised that’s not my lifestyle.
“I’ll never be a housewife. I’ve always wanted to be independent,” she says.
She confesses to having several TV projects in the works for after The Bachelorette but declines to reveal specifics until contracts are signed. And she says a return to singing may be on the cards, as country singer Kasey Chambers has written a few tracks for her.
Monk in her Bardot days in April 2000.
Monk’s career has had its ups and downs but she’s always remained on the radar. Sure, she may not reach the heights of Meryl Streep or Adele but she’s unlikely to disappear anytime soon, particularly as The Bachelorette heads into full flight this month.
Perhaps the secret to Monk’s stardom can be put down to her self-deprecating sense of humour. When asked to explain the longevity of a career that has spanned music, TV and radio, Monk isn’t one bit the diva.
“Well, I knew I had to go into the arts because I failed every year at school, including Year 10 — and I repeated that!” she exclaims.
“I don’t really have any special skills or talents. But I can play two recorders through my nose, in harmony, so that’s pretty good.”