- Title: CROATIA: PLAYBOY STARTS LOOKING FOR MODELS FOR MILLENIUM ISSUE OF THEIR MAGAZINE
- Date: 27th September 1998
- Summary: VARIOUS OF HOWAIDA HUSSEIN, ITALY'S PLAYMATE BELLY- DANCING.
- Embargoed: 12th October 1998 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: ROVINJ AND COASTAL REGION, CROATIA.
- Country: Croatia
- Topics: Entertainment,Sports
- Reuters ID: LVA46MAEB8RNNA149KOPLMA6FFI3
- Story Text: Playboy magazine has started a series of parties and
events around the world looking for "playmates" for all
sixteen international editions for their January 2000 issue.
The European search started with a sailing regatta off the
coast of Rovinj, a popular tourist resort in Croatia.
Croatia's picturesque Adriatic city of Rovinj was the
place to be at the weekend to see thirteen Playboy Playmates
posing live, if dressed, enjoying the sun, the sea and a
breath-taking sailing race.
The two-day Playboy Sailing Race 98, sponsored by Playboy
Enterprises Inc, featured sailing boats manned by crews from
thirteen countries, each adorned with its own Playmate.
The girls, dressed in Playboy T-shirts and shorts, did
their best to help their crews brave the waves and overtake
opponents, while keeping their broad trademark smiles on as
numerous phogotraphers furiously snapped.
The girls took the event very seriously and even agreed to
stand in the cold sea water to pose in wet shirts, drawing
curious looks from passers-by.
The race was a sideshow to a conference entitled
"Worldwide Playboy 2000", aiming to find the magazine's
bunnies for year 2000 --- appropriately enough the year of the
rabbit in the Chinese horoscope.
Eventually, the Spanish crew came in first and the event
culminated in a huge party on an island off Rovinj, during
which Italy's Playmate, Egyptian Howaida Hussein, showed
everyone she had fully mastered the art of belly-dancing. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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