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February 2007 FREE<br />
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GAY LIFE MAGAZINE<br />
THE<br />
FRESH<br />
ISSUE<br />
We kick off our fourth<br />
year with a little nip/tuck<br />
ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...<br />
<strong>KATHY</strong><br />
<strong>GRIFFIN</strong><br />
D-List diva dishes on outing gays,<br />
Donald v Rosie and her brush with death<br />
+<br />
JANICE DICKINSON MOUTHS OFF<br />
COP’S INSPIRING ROAD TO RECOVERY<br />
RATING 2007’S HOTTEST TECH TOYS
athletics<br />
Flex Appeal<br />
Four years after becoming the World Aerobics Champion<br />
NICK BEYELER has been flexing his versatility around the<br />
globe, modeling, acting and inspiring men’s (and women’s)<br />
desires. DUANE BOOTH recently went one-on-one with the<br />
Swiss stunner for a verbal workout.<br />
I just watched the routine that nailed you the<br />
World Aerobics Championship (bless you,<br />
YouTube), and I must say “Wow!” How do<br />
you get so flexible?<br />
I've always been quite flexible, but I had to<br />
work hard to get to this extreme. My friends<br />
call me Bendable Ben. Yoga helped. I actually<br />
very much enjoy stretching in the mornings<br />
or after a great workout. It makes me feel<br />
very refreshed. It's like being aware of<br />
every cell in your body.<br />
Competitive aerobics is something I’m sure<br />
many would be surprised even existed. How<br />
did you get into it?<br />
Yeah, it's a bizarre thing isn't it? I was doing<br />
an exchange year in Australia, watched a<br />
competition on TV and those athletes looked<br />
like they were having loads of fun. So I started<br />
right there and then. In the living room. It<br />
never looked the same after that. Little did I<br />
know that one-arm, one-leg pushups can be<br />
so damn hard. However, I've stopped with<br />
competitions after winning the Worlds and<br />
became a full professional prince of movement<br />
and leisure.<br />
Back to the flexibility for a moment, that must<br />
come in useful in “other pursuits?”<br />
You bet! I can very gracefully split-jump over<br />
a gaping abyss of death, Matrix Style.<br />
This past year especially, you’ve been seen<br />
all over in very hot pictures with very little<br />
clothing (bless you). Is that something you’re<br />
comfortable with and enjoy?<br />
If it's for a cause and of value to the picture,<br />
no problem. I don't know what it is, but sooner<br />
or later I end up without clothes in photo<br />
shoots. I suffered a slight cold the other<br />
month and my mom simply mentioned: "no<br />
wonder if you lie around naked in all those<br />
magazines!"<br />
You are quite coy when it comes to your sexuality,<br />
even though there are reports that<br />
you are openly bisexual. So … umm …<br />
would many abOUT readers have a chance<br />
with you?<br />
I believe that everyone deserves a chance!<br />
What’s it like knowing you are the object of<br />
many men’s (and women’s) fantasies?<br />
It's something that I'm not aware of in daily<br />
life. I'm aware however of the whole irony of<br />
things related to modeling and fashion. It<br />
would be rather hard to walk around with<br />
flexed abs the whole day. I'm quite happy that<br />
I can look at a photograph of myself with<br />
some kind of a healthy distance.<br />
So … what turns you on?<br />
Everything made by Apple (laughs). I'm a<br />
confessed gadget freak and a bit of a technical<br />
geek. I simply can't wait to get my hands<br />
on the recently announced iPhone. On a<br />
more romantic side I get turned on by love<br />
bites in my neck, unexpected surprises and<br />
rough and passionate kissing.<br />
FLIP >>
“ I don't know what it is, but sooner<br />
or later I end up without clothes in<br />
photo shoots. I suffered a slight cold<br />
the other month and my mom simply<br />
mentioned: ‘no wonder if you lie around<br />
naked in all those magazines!’”<br />
Oh my! Perhaps before things get too hot in<br />
here, perhaps we should get to know you a<br />
bit better. You’ve been described as not only<br />
sexy, but a genuinely nice guy and quite<br />
intelligent. Who is Nick Beyeler, really?<br />
Thanks for that! I'm a double-twisting, high<br />
leg-kicking, coffee drinking, Mac enthusiast<br />
with an interest in everything related to Zen<br />
and Mental training who loves to travel and<br />
who can turn any clean hotel room in a big<br />
mess in just five minutes. I'm a strict carry<br />
on luggage person, my bags simply got lost<br />
one too many times while traveling. I perform<br />
for events and shows and after 10 years, I'm<br />
still loving it.<br />
Apparently you cook, too?<br />
I can turn into this kitchen god every now and<br />
then. Love big and sharp knifes. There's<br />
something sexy about smoothly cutting<br />
through colourful vegetables. I rely hard on<br />
my improvisational skills while cooking. I<br />
don't believe in recipes.<br />
And you like it spicy?<br />
The spicier the better. I guess my spice taste<br />
buds got killed off eating that devilishly hot<br />
glass noodle beef salad during a recent trip<br />
through Thailand.<br />
What things do you have on the go these<br />
days professionally?<br />
I just got back from an audition for Cirque du<br />
Soleil that went well, but my whole body still<br />
hurts. However I'm unsure if I truly want to be<br />
stuck for two years in a tiny trailer full of<br />
Korean contortionists. So I figured it's time<br />
for something all new. To expand my own<br />
performance into a fully grown multimedia<br />
spectacle, less fairytale, more remixed urban<br />
acrobatic extravaganza. Oooh, I'm getting<br />
hot.<br />
We’re into 2007 and, as usual, millions have<br />
made resolutions to hit the gym, get a sixpack,<br />
yada, yada, yada. How did you get<br />
that incredible body?<br />
I believe I was always blessed with a constant<br />
desire to move, which resulted in<br />
quite a fit body. Even though I'm<br />
not working out half as much as<br />
people believe I do. The trick is<br />
to find pleasure in how you work<br />
out, to fully enjoy yourself and to<br />
identify yourself with a fit lifestyle.<br />
And how do you keep it?<br />
I spend a lot of my time traveling,<br />
away from home. Which is a<br />
challenge in terms of keeping up<br />
a strict workout and diet program.<br />
Therefore I believe in short<br />
and explosive training sessions<br />
that don't require equipment and<br />
can easily be done in a tiny hotel<br />
room. Basic gymnastic exercises like<br />
pushups, some short Martial Arts routines,<br />
and I'm heavy into yoga and Tai<br />
Chi.<br />
What’s the best piece of advice you<br />
could give those who want to shape up?<br />
Try out something new. Make your workout<br />
a pleasurable experience. There are so<br />
many activities out there, don't limit yourself<br />
to a gym lifting weights. Weightlifting just to<br />
build big muscles and burning no fat?<br />
Pointless. Make it your personal goal to try<br />
out a completely new activity this spring.<br />
Oh, and put your workout bag into your<br />
car. Without the need to pass by your home<br />
after work before your workout it's harder to<br />
fall into the trap of staying on your couch for<br />
the evening. Start cooking for yourself. No<br />
matter if you are living on your own or with<br />
a partner, it's a very rewarding experience.<br />
Lastly, is there anything people would be surprised<br />
to know about you?<br />
I can perform in front of thousands of people<br />
without getting nervous, but shrink the audience<br />
to three or four close friends or fellow<br />
athletes and I turn into a nervous wreck! �<br />
CLICK >> www.nickbeyeler.com<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY:<br />
OPENING PAGE: ROGER REIST<br />
LEFT: JAMES DEMITRI FOR DNA<br />
ABOVE: ROGER REIST<br />
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