Madeleine Davies later recalled on Jezebel, “If you saw it you’d definitely recall seeing as it might have been one of the grimmest things to have ever appeared on television. By then, Fabio had faded, as had the brand with which he had long been identified. In 2006, Fabio, his long mane still blond, guest-starred on the reality show “America’s Next Top Model,” posing with the contestants in a photo shoot for fake Harlequin covers. Our favorite featured an improbably Scottish Fabio who spoke in a brogue-we knew what was under his kilt. When I was in high school, my friends and I used to hunt down these Harlequins from used-book stores. In the eighties and nineties, the model Fabio Lanzoni popularized “the clinch”-the image on Harlequin paperback covers of a muscled man clutching an enraptured woman against his bare pecs.
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