Who Was the First Cleo Centrefold?
The First Edition of Cleo in 1972 Featured a Naked Jack Thompson as the Centrefold, Which Ms Buttrose Also Thought Was to Be the Last Centrefold. "Thinking It...
The first edition of Cleo in 1972 featured a naked Jack Thompson as the centrefold, which Ms Buttrose also thought was to be the last centrefold. "Thinking it was only a one off, the team and I were sitting around working out our next issue when Kerry [Packer] walks in saying who's the centrefold this issue?" she said.
Who was the first male centrefold?
Meet the guy who passed up the first nude male Cleo spread: How film-maker Phil Avalon lost out on global fame to Jack Thompson because he wouldn't pose in the buff for just $400. It might have been so different had Phil Avalon decided to take up the offer to be Cleo magazine's first naked centrefold in 1972.
Who started Cleo magazine?
In early 1972, 30-year-old journalist and editor, Ita Buttrose and 35-year old Kerry Packer, heir to what was then Australia's most ruthlessly powerful and influential publishing family, got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history.
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