It's not just Rihanna that has fallen under O'Shaughnessy's spell in her new video, we're quite taken with the Hackney-born Irish-Caribbean model too.
BY Ellie Pithers | 27 October 2011
Dudley O?Shaughnessy Photo: Ian Loughran / Next Model Management
Her raunchy antics in a barley field may have been a turn-off for one Irish farmer earlier this month, but for amateur boxer Dudley O'Shaughnessy it was all part of the day job. Handpicked by Bajan megastar Rihanna to play her love interest in the video for We Found Love , O'Shaughnessy is now poised to make it big in the modelling arena after bowing out of the boxing ring.
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The Hackney native was once a prospect for the Olympic GB team, but was overlooked despite winning the Amateur Boxing Associate Championships. Left considering a career as a plumber, the gods of fashion decreed that his razor-sharp cheekbones and piercing blue eyes would not be wasted on installing new water tanks. He was spotted by Next Model Management in Old Street station aged 19, and his beautiful visage was protected from any further battering when he was given a modelling contract.
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Of Irish-Caribbean descent, 22-year-old O'Shaughnessy gets up to some unpalatable tricks with Rihanna in We Found Love , but wasn't fazed by her superstar status during filming, telling the Evening Standard : "She's such a humble, down-to-earth girl and that made it even better for me because I didn't feel intimidated or anything. We just got along. We were just like mates."
In the interest of scientific research (and wholly void of personal obsession, of course) the Telegraph team have conducted a thorough scour of the internet and uncovered a gem of an interview from earlier this year, where O'Shaughnessy tells Boys by Girls that, were he to create his own brand of chocolates, they would be named 'Delicious Dudleys'. The chocolates would be caramel-centred, to match his skin tone. With marketing strategies like this, we're predicting big things for this knock-out.
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