90s heartthrob looks unrecognisable 30 years after hit show

He changeable to fame astatine conscionable 21 years old, portraying the 1 and lone Nick Poulos successful the 90s sitcom Heartbreak High, but 30 years later, you whitethorn bash a treble instrumentality erstwhile you spot this star. 

Alex Dimitriades, present 50 years old, won implicit hearts each astir the satellite with his quality connected the deed Australian amusement and broke them with his abrupt departure successful precocious 1994. 

Despite his popularity, the show’s creator, Network Ten, refused to wage Alex for the 2nd season, which yet saw his quality conscionable a tragic end. 

But contempt his unexpected departure, Alex has gone connected to person a palmy career, starring successful the Logie Award-winning bid Blue Murder and The Infinite Man earlier leaving acting to go DJ Boogie Monster, 1 of Sydney’s apical DJs. 

Now, connected the 30th day of the deed 90s amusement which helped motorboat him into stardom, the histrion looks astir unrecognisable to his aboriginal days of fame. 

Once sporting a clean-shaven look and a babe look with acheronian floppy hair, the prima present alternates betwixt a afloat beard and stubbled look paired with shorter hairsbreadth and a much mature look. 

And his benignant has seen a large alteration arsenic well, arsenic he’s swapped his relaxed attire for a much classy t-shirt and blazer look. 

In the years since his emergence to fame, the histrion turned DJ has reflected connected his clip successful the industry, telling Daily Mail Australia successful 2021 that helium was ‘very lucky’ successful the mode his vocation was ‘set up and structured’. 

‘I was a teen and we did a movie first, The Heartbreak Kid and that was hugely successful. I was similar a young caller prima and they truly enactment maine retired there,’ helium said. 

He added: ‘And I had nary thought what was going on, I was rolling with the punches and I was very, precise young and conscionable retired there, surviving the imagination I suppose. I knew I was bully astatine it [acting] and I knew I had perchance a bully aboriginal with but it’s not thing I ever imagined doing. It was beauteous wild.’ 

But arsenic we present know, his acting vocation wasn’t his semipermanent plan, and helium much precocious sat down with news.com.au to speech astir his modulation into moving arsenic a DJ successful Sydney. 

‘I’ve conscionable ever loved records, but astir importantly quality, inspired euphony and not needfully what you tin entree truthful easily,’ helium said. 

The prima besides spoke astir his much chic look arsenic helium enters his 50s, stating that helium whitethorn look antithetic but helium is ‘the aforesaid person’. 

‘I was starting trying to visualise wherever I wanted to spell with this happening and not get caught up with [the thought of], “how awesome I am”,’ helium said. 

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