Ryan Kwanten has come a long way since his Australian TV origins, where he spent most of his time in a speedo down at the beach in Home And Away.

I had the pleasure of seeing Ryan perform as a gay angel - wings, leather bicep band, tighty-whities and nothing else - when he trod the boards at the Darlinghurst Theatre in Sydney in the mid 1990s.

We nearly share a birthday too - he’s November 28, I’m November 29. Sigh.

He’s since moved to Hollywood, where he had a successful run in “Summerland” before moving across to vampire series “True Blood”.

The pics of him sweaty in a tank top then shirtless and triumphant in the new season of “True Blood” were quite exciting but nowhere near as blood-boiling as his repeated shirtless and nude appearances in the vampire TV show’s first season, where he copped juicy blowjobs, angrily fucked chicks doggie style, and spent a lot of time tied to bed posts and just generally showing off his strawberry blond pits (my kinda guy!) and you can see all that after the jump.