Right first things first, go and select your favourite McLeods man from the poll on the right – and just thinking about them makes me feel generous, so you can select up to 3 of your favourites.

I mean, it’s just so hard to choose!

As promised, today, I’m bringing you the goods on Aaron Jeffery.

Oh boy am I bringing it.

Hands up those of you that miss your fix of Alex Ryan every week?

Alex riding a horse.

Alex chopping wood.

Alex fixing a fence.

Alex requiring any reason whatsoever to remove his shirt.

Alex doing anything whatsoever in front of the camera.

Aaah yes. Those were good days.

Did you know that Aaron Jeffery played a short role in the beginning of X-Men Origins: Wolverine? It’s true! In fact you can spot Myles Pollard in there too if you look *really* quickly.

So not many people know that this fine specimen of a man is actually a kiwi.

As in New Zealander, not bird.

However he made the move ‘over the ditch’ as they call it to Australia, and pursued an acting career. He was actually working in the country on a farm, when he auditioned for the part of Alex Ryan! 

He liked the area that McLeods Daughters was filmed in so much, that he bought a 130yr old stone cottage near to the set (which was located near Gawler, South Australia – about an hour north of Adelaide).

Like Matt Passmore (Marcus Turner) whom we featured last week, Aaron is also a graduate of NIDA, class of 1993.

The most recent acting that I’ve seen him do (other than XMen Origins) is in a TV series set on the Gold Coast, called “The Strip” where he plays a tough, but complicated cop, but I’m hoping he cracks the ‘super big time’ so that we get to see him more regularly on the big screen (but I will take what I can get).

Lawsy knows I could do with just a scoache more of this…

Okay, clearly this was taken a while ago, but still, still nice to look at it occasionally though eh?

So if you are a diehard McLeods Daughers fan, have you bought your copy of your favourite season yet? Check out the sidebar for some special deals.

When did you start watching the series?

Did you see The Original Movie: McLeods Daughters, and if you did, what did you think of it?

If you haven’t seen any of it, or have no idea what I am talking about, then it’s probably a good place to start if you’re interested in the whole saga. At the time it was released, it quickly became the highest rated Australian ‘made for television’ movie, and it has just been released on DVD. It was written by the same writer as the creator of the television series, so well worth a look if you haven’t seen it yet.

If you are lamenting the end of the series (sniff, sniff, aren’t we all?) and are wondering what else is out there to see and enjoy, I’ve been hearing great things about Heartland, and although I haven’t seen it yet myself I am looking forward to it.

It has a couple of the ingredients that I liked about McLeods, namely great cast of real characters, horses, and wide open spaces.

The only one major difference is that it is filmed in the Canadian rockies, so no unique and beautiful Australian bushland.  I’ve been blessed enough to visit the Canadian rockies, so no insult intended, they have a very big impact on you when you are in them for the first time. Very special.  So it will be on that backdrop that the series ‘Heartland’ is either made or cancelled.

Anyway, back to the reason you’re really here!

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Thus endeth our time with Aaron for today.
I have an idea for who I’m going to feature next, but I thought I’d throw it out to you guys and ask you who you want me to feature next?

Which McLeod Daughters male cast member (that sounds naughtier than it is supposed to) do you want me to show case next?

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