As Jack magazine's favourite cover boy, Elliott Serjeant was the obvious choice to promote their New Year's Eve event. “A couple of my friends have said, ‘you're a gay icon' - it's a weird thing,” says the gorgeous 19-year-old, who's actually straight, and happily single. The ‘JACK-OFF 2007' party poster shows him in his tiny briefs, riding a huge champagne bottle. Elliott says the shoot took an hour and twenty minutes, with him just in his undies posing in front of the entrance to an outside carpark in Auckland City. “We set up a chair and a big roll of cardboard for me to ‘ride'. We wanted to tilt it, so there was a guy down on the other end, holding it, counterbalancing my weight!” The boy-wonder and his agent, Red11's Amanda Betts, both vividly remember the day he was ‘discovered' in January this year. Friends had suggested Elliot get into modeling, and, strapped for cash, he thought he'd give it a go. Setting off pounding the pavement, he found it was tough-going. One agency wouldn't even let him in: “I just spoke to them through an intercom outside – they said ‘we're not looking for people today'.” Later that day, Amanda was shopping for T-Shirts when she saw him - and she knew at once Elliot had the look she wanted, and quickly introduced herself. “I'm so lucky I found him first,” she enthuses. “Or he might not have been mine! “It was really serendipitous. We were both quite blown away by it.” Photo: Craig Owen / JACK Elliot was soon in front of the camera and then in our local glossies – he's even done shoots in Sydney and is now lined up for more international work. But Amanda knew she'd have to tread carefully when it came to one of the first projects Elliot was required for – a sexy shoot for gay magazine ‘Jack'. “Elliott Matt Akersten - 15th December 2006