What, you may wonder, ever happened to former soap hunks such as, er ... Coronation Street's Curly Watts, Brookside's Ron Dixon and Emmerdale's Butch Dingle? No, well neither did Monkey until the cheeky chappies at Pot Noodle decided that what soap-loving mums need is a calendar of "real men" as an antidote to the ridiculous Hollyoaks Hunks. Cue Curly, real name Kevin Kennedy, as Mr October the bin man, and dressed as James Bond for August. Ron, real name Vince Earl, as the "fireman" to cool down that hot summer, and Butch, or Paul Loughran in the real world, as the "shirtless mechanic holding two tyres" for November and the "mercenary" for April. Pot Noodle, which argues that in these "troubled times" women want real men of substance, says that the calendar, available here, of yesteryear hunks "contains no artificial colours or preservatives".
