Comically FIT
SO, IT’S HARD to miss ED KAVALEE when I arrive for our scheduled chat at a cafe in Sydney’s Newtown. I’m early but Kavalee is already there, dressed in a blue Nike hoodie that clashes rather violently with a green sweatshirt buttoned up to the collar, fluro yellow socks, a fluro orange bag and garish runners. It looks like the wardrobe of a man who either gets dressed in the dark, works in radio, is intentionally attempting to look like a 90s era drug dealer or regards himself as a delinquent youth about to go on a tagging rampage.
Kavalee answers to ‘all of the above’. “I wear this every day, ” says the lanky 42-year-old, unselfconsciously looking himself up and down.
“I got a look in Bondi Junction when I was 14 and I’ve stuck with it, even if I go out somewhere. I’ve only worn a suit in public once at the Big Day Out. People ask me, ‘What’s your look?’ I say, ‘I’m trying to look like I could deal speed’.”
Truth be told, if you had a rig like Kavalee’s you might be tempted to ditch the clothes altogether. Dave Hughes, his breakfast radio colleague on 2Day FM’s Hughsey, Ed and Erin, says if he was in as good nick as Kavalee he’d be, “Walking down George Street in a G-String”.
But that’s not Kavalee’s style. He says he had to be talked into this cover by his wife, trainer Tiff Hall (who appears on the cover of this month’s issue of Women’s Health), and has always felt self-conscious about flaunting his rippled physique for reasons he struggles to explain.
“I’m always
