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Andrei Claude was born on September 10, 1979 and was raised on an island situated just off the coast of Italy. He attended private school from the age of 4 and carried on his studies until graduate level in accountancy. At the age of 16 Andrei was already involved in fitness and amateur bodybuilding contests. He was a national champion in his country at 18 and because of his charisma and presence onstage he quickly attracted interest from nutrition and gym equipment companies. In 2001 he drew the attention of a sports modeling agency in California who within weeks had him fly over and work for various international health and fitness magazines. In the early months of 2005, Andrei was introduced to the world of romance novels and in his first attempt at the international contest was crowned Mr.Romance in St. Louis, Missouri that same year. He was the youngest and only European to ever win this title since 1993 when the very first contest took place in San Diego, California. Soon after he was getting contracts to shoot various genres for romance novel book covers in the United States as well as in Germany, and within a year had became a popular face in the industry. One of Andrei's most recent romance novel covers is "taken and seduced" by Julia Latham, published by HarperCollins. His versatility as a book cover model was later brought to the attention of film makers who soon began casting Andrei in shorts, independent films, as well as television shows and commercials. In 2006 Andrei was a guest on the 100th episode of the popular television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, later that year he was cast as the bartender in The following year he also worked on the Turkish feature film Pars: Kiraz operasyonu In November 2008 Andrei launched his own romance blog called It's All About Romance which became very popular amongst romance novel authors and readers.
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