Cable guy: Hottest Tradie state finalist Scott Abbott is pictured plying his trade.
ERIN PEARSON
GEELONG builder Scott Abbott had reached the state final of a competition to find 2011’s “Hottest Tradie”.
The 26-year-old Waurn Ponds tradesman scored over 200 votes on the website of competition organiser RSVP to earn a place among the five finalists for Victoria and Tasmania.
RSVP spokesperson Lija Jarvis said more than 570 tradesmen from around Australia had entered the competition this year, with 290 from Victoria.
The third annual competition was scouring the country to uncover “the hottest tradesmen Australia has to offer”, she said.
Scott will vye for the title against two plumbers, an 18-year-old carpenter and a landscaper for a place in the national final, scheduled for Sydney in April.
Mr Abbott told the website he should win because he was a “hard-working, fun-loving Aussie bloke”.
A recent survey of more than 650 women on the RSVP dating site found that 80 per cent were interested in dating a tradesman, with about a third believing the “sexiest” men worked in trades.
