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It started off as a joke; when I first got the press release for the Mr Pogi International 2007 in my in box, I emailed Albert back, that if he needed a judge for all those hunky men, I was ready and willing but I never thought he'd take me up on the offer.
He did though and when he did, I was indeed ready and willing!
Well what red-blooded woman wouldn't? Thirteen handsome men parading in front of you, all vying for your attention and points - I mean, really, who's going to complain?
And it had to be easy, right? Watch them walk up and down a few times, enjoy a bit of singing, dancing and a joke or two and hey presto ... pick a winner.
Wrong! This was actually a lot harder than I thought, but even more fun than I hoped.
After catching up with friends I hadn't seen in ages it was time to sit myself down and put my serious face on.
I had to mark these guys according to the percentages allotted for each category - looks and physique, personality, talent and crowd feedback - and I didn't have a clue how I was going to decide who was better than the rest.
Faced with one good looking guy after another, how do you decide which one is better looking than the other, and, even more difficult, how do you mark down someone who isn't quite as good looking or talented without being rude or hurtful?
My mark sheet was beginning to look like a blind spider with Tourette's Syndrome was doing the marking.
I couldn't make hide nor hair of the points I was giving - constantly second guessing myself and changing my mind.
So when my friend Megan (assistant supreme) came up and offered to help me decide I breathed a sigh of relief, we agreed on the points to give and even better agreed that if anyone came at us with a grudge about their marks we'd simply shrug and blame the other!
A perfect system.
As it turned out, my fellow judges were having as hard a time as I was but we all managed to lift the fog from our eyes and agree on who we all thought was the most worthy of the worthy and our pick for the winner was unanimous - Argentinean Hector Brito, who had dazzled us all with his energetic Salsa and tight ...
