He is fully clothed during my audience with him, but conversation does lurch from the sublime to the ridiculous. Rudy pictured with his girlfriend Jade Struck, 23, who he met a couple of years ago. She saved him, she says, by forcing him to ‘confront’ his feelings, even the dark ones Rudy is a startling vision in his pants (in the British - not U.S. Viewers of SAS: Who Dares Wins seem divided as to whether the programme makers have taken leave of their senses, or taken the show in a brave new (oddly camp) direction. Let’s hope he was never this excitable while in charge of a machine gun. I’m Hannibal, an ancient warrior, I’m a throwback, almost Biblical.’ I’m a man of action, not a man of plastic. I am a freakin’ action hero, but a real one. ‘I modelled for (the video game) Call Of Duty. ‘I did do modelling, when I was thin.’ He sucks in his cheeks, which are already quite chiselled. He had also enjoyed a second career as a model, actor (he played himself in the HBO production Generation Kill about Iraq), and all-round, real-life Action Man.īut not a plastic one,’ he points out, in very Rudy style. Parachuted in, so to speak, was Rudy, a former Recon Marine who led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a military record as long as your arm. military machine (he’s ex-Marine special forces, and a war hero) but has since undergone a spin in the Hollywood tumble dryer. Where did the producers find him? Well, the short answer is that Rudy came out of the U.S. Reactions to the show seem equally split between those who wish he’d just put a shirt on, and those thrilled to discover he usually leaves it off. ‘What is it with people in the UK hating on this beautiful hair? Why does it have to be a dye job, just because it is freakin’ fabulous?’Įqually freakin’ fabulous is his body, of which he is also very proud. When he made his debut appearance on the (hitherto very British) Channel 4 reality show earlier this month, Twitter was awash with people decrying this strange American’s ‘terrible dye job’. He stands up and shakes it into the camera, head upside down, during our Zoom interview, and is at pains to show that there are tiny flecks of grey in his beard. Marine Rudy Reyes, 51 (pictured) who starred in Generation Kill is now in SAS: Who Dares Wins
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