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Just17 magazine and Rufus the model

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Gahdammit · 07/05/2025 13:04

Random bored Wednesday afternoon work discussion...

Just17 magazine used to regularly feature a model called Rufus. One person had his picture all over her wall. Another person thought he was odd looking.

We need to settle who was right! 🤣 (From a teenage girl point of view, not an adult woman perving over a topless young model! Otherwise eww!)

Who was Rufus?
Is he still a model?
Was he poster worthy or odd looking?

Personally I had no opinion on him. If he wasn't David Duchovny, I wasn't interested. 😂

YABU - I fancied him
YANBU - Nah, I'd skip those pages

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Arniesaxe · 07/05/2025 14:15

I remember a Rufus although I cannot picture him.

I was rather obsessed with the J17 model Deline Bass, thought she was stunning in an unconventional way and wished I was like her (13-14 year-old me didn't know I was a lesbian then but it was one of the many dead giveaways) and I googled her years later to learn that she'd continued her career, modelling and singing but then become an addict, dated another J17 model and burned her house down accidentally. Of course I have no personal connection to her but it made me feel quite sad!

oldmanandtheangel · 07/05/2025 14:12

Even at the time, I remember thinking Malcolm was NOT the right name for a model! Def remember Vernon appearing a lot

TherapistInATabard · 07/05/2025 14:05

BusterGonad · 07/05/2025 13:22

No, Malcolm is Malcolm Jeffries. I'm still not sure who Rufus is. Vernon Kay was just Vernon, he did model with someone else but I can't remember his name.

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Thank you. Where on earth did I get that from? 😂

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 07/05/2025 14:01

Urgh... tried to upload a pic but it didn't work!

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 07/05/2025 14:01

Are these the models?

LateForMyOwnFuneral · 07/05/2025 13:58

"Just Seventeen magazine" https://www.facebook.com/JustSeventeenMagazine/

I bet you the woman on here has photos...

floppybit · 07/05/2025 13:58

I need to see a picture of Rufus??!!

Katemax82 · 07/05/2025 13:57

TherapistInATabard · 07/05/2025 13:17

Wasn’t Malcom really Vernon Kay?

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No!

Ceska · 07/05/2025 13:49

Gahdammit · 07/05/2025 13:46

I can't find a photo which is why I'm asking.

It matters because it's this or doing real work. 🤣

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OK - I hear you

I'm currently on a training course, and falling asleep

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Gahdammit · 07/05/2025 13:46

Ceska · 07/05/2025 13:45

you'll probably need to put a picture up of 'Rufus' .

Why does it matter?

I can't find a photo which is why I'm asking.

It matters because it's this or doing real work. 🤣

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Ceska · 07/05/2025 13:45

you'll probably need to put a picture up of 'Rufus' .

Why does it matter?

BettyEagleton · 07/05/2025 13:44

My mum worked with Malcolm’s mum. And yet I never got to meet him. Still a bit cross about that.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/05/2025 13:44

Was Rufus very blond? I would have totally overlooked him if so

Waitingfordoggo · 07/05/2025 13:41

Oooh, had completely forgotten Rufus and Cassius until I opened the thread. I can’t picture either of them but I definitely fancied them and probably put their pictures on my wall/on my school exercise books alongside Keanu and EMF.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/05/2025 13:39

ItGhoul · 07/05/2025 13:37

Malcolm also used to model in other magazines under the much hotter name ‘Cassius’ 🤣

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Yes! I was going to say this

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 07/05/2025 13:39

KimberWozRobbed · 07/05/2025 13:14

I remember Rufus! I liked him and my best friend liked Malcolm!

I liked Malcolm! I can still picture Malcolm 😂

ItGhoul · 07/05/2025 13:37

KimberWozRobbed · 07/05/2025 13:14

I remember Rufus! I liked him and my best friend liked Malcolm!

Malcolm also used to model in other magazines under the much hotter name ‘Cassius’ 🤣

stickybear · 07/05/2025 13:30

BusterGonad · 07/05/2025 13:10

I'm sure I remember Rufus, roughly what year? I remember Vernon Kay was a model before he became a presenter back in the late 90s early 2000s.

I'm sure I remember Vernon Kay and Holly Willoughby modelling together in J17, not sure if I've imagined that!

jay55 · 07/05/2025 13:29

I don’t remember him.
i do remember putting up some back and white model cards from Mizz magazine on my wall to try and fit in, even though I found the hairless chests weird loooking.

twilightcafe · 07/05/2025 13:27

And there was a model called Cassius... wasn't there?

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Gahdammit · 07/05/2025 13:24

Oh God I loved dewberry bodyspray!
Although it probably made the school changing rooms smelt like those awful fruit vapes tbh. 🤣

@Doggymummar we can't find a picture which is why I'm asking on here!

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BusterGonad · 07/05/2025 13:22

TherapistInATabard · 07/05/2025 13:17

Wasn’t Malcom really Vernon Kay?

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No, Malcolm is Malcolm Jeffries. I'm still not sure who Rufus is. Vernon Kay was just Vernon, he did model with someone else but I can't remember his name.

TherapistInATabard · 07/05/2025 13:17

KimberWozRobbed · 07/05/2025 13:14

I remember Rufus! I liked him and my best friend liked Malcolm!

Wasn’t Malcom really Vernon Kay?

Unstoppered · 07/05/2025 13:17

Aah! I am straight back in 1994 and everything smells of the Bodyshoo dewberry spray. I remember Rufus, I definitely fancied him. I think he had dark curly hair.. and presumably his top off a lot of the time. Not sure I would recognise him in a picture now though..

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