Afrikaans news reader and South African television stalwart, Riaan Cruywagen, has gone viral on social media this week.
A new television advert for the upcoming Loerie Awards features Cruywagen in his iconic suit and timeless hairdo, in a Jacuzzi surrounded by bikini-clad girls.
The advert was conceptualised by DRAFTFCB in Johannesburg and produced by Bioscope Films, and already has close to 14 000 views on YouTube.
Cruywagen has also been trending nationally on Twitter, and many have pegged him as the “new Chuck Norris”.
In a blog post dedicated to Cruywagen, it is said: “Riaan Cruywagen is fluent in 27 of the 11 official languages.”
“If Riaan Cruywagen does not read it out on the 8 o'clock news, it never happened.”
Here is the new advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9eWBc2Cqc&feature=player_embedded
SABC2 has also created this mash-up of clips turned into a techno remix of Cruywagen reading the news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w33kO76aBts&NR=1
We also found this off-beat clip from 2008, featuring Cruywagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grGK97XAHdE
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