Zac Klavs from Whangarei was dressed up to be extra geeky on the reality television show in Australia. Photo/Michael Cunningham
For a so-called geek, Zac Klavs is brimming with confidence.
The 18-year-old who attended Pompallier Catholic College is a star of Beauty and the Geek Australia, which is currently airing on New Zealand screens.
The young man is back in Whangarei to visit friends before he gets back into his
law and history studies at Victoria University in Wellington.
Zac said a night drinking with mates changed his life when they all agreed to submit an entry for the reality television programme and he was selected to go further in the process. After an interview in Auckland the next thing he knew he was flying to Coral Coast, Fiji, to begin shooting.
"They made me the 'young historian' which I was fine with because history is something I'm interested in. They told me not to cut my hair for three months before filming and I wasn't allowed to wear my normal glasses, instead they gave me these big 70s kind of glasses," Mr Klavs said. He wasn't happy that the producers dressed him to make him extra geeky. "When the so-called 'makeover' part of the programme came they just handed me back the clothes that I had packed and I had to look so happy to be wearing my own clothes again," he said.
