Cameron Daddo was known as the perfect host of Perfect Match, but not all was as it seemed.
He enjoyed fame both at home and in Hollywood and was on the way to even more, but his secrets eventually caught up to him.
Daddo began his career as the host of children's show Off the Dish, which led him on a hosting journey.
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Cameron Daddo and Kerri Friend during their time co-hosting TV show Perfect Match. (Network Ten)Soon enough, he was picked to replace Greg Evans as the host of Perfect Match Australia in 1987 – he was then only 21, the youngest host of an Australian game show.
After one year on Perfect Match, he began to appear in more serious roles, including the telemovie Bony (1992), Golden Fiddles (1991), and Tracks of Glory (1993), with the last two winning him consecutive Logie Awards for Most Popular Actor in a Telemovie or Miniseries in 1992 and 1993.
Among it all, he fell quickly and deeply in love with actress and model Alison Brahe and married her three months after meeting her in 1991.
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Soon after, in 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to launch his Hollywood career, beginning with a role in the spin off of Melrose Place, Models Inc. (1994).
He went on to star in a number of American productions, including F/X: The Series, (1996), Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000), Riverworld (2003), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), and many more.
It was later revealed that during their time in the US, Daddo was unfaithful to his wife Brahe.
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Daddo fell in love with fellow Aussie icon Alison Brahe in the '90s. (Instagram)After a brief separation, however, the two decided to make it work and have now made the conflict a big part of their public personas, even hosting a podcast together on the topic of marriage titled Separate Bedrooms.
He returned down under to start his musical theatre career in 2012, appearing in a number of productions like Legally Blonde (2012), Holding the Man (2014), The Sound of Music (2016), and more.
He also has a singing and radio career, hosting shows on smooth.fm since 2012.
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The couple have been married for 30 years. (Instagram)In 2020, Daddo reversed the usual 'Aussie soap to Hollywood' pipeline by taking up the role of Evan Slater in Home and Away.
In 2022, he co-hosted Luxury Escapes.
He lives with Brahe and their three adult children - daughters Lotus, 28, and Bodhi, 19, and son River, 25 - in the Northern Beaches in Sydney.
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