Alexander Hawkins

 is a contestant from Australian Survivor: Taroko - Joint Ventures.

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Name: Alexander “Hawkey” Hawkins

Age: 18

Current Residence: Whittlesea, VIC

Occupation: Bricklayer

Hawkey loves one thing and one thing only, his mullet. He describes it as an “expertly-crafted masterpiece, both excellent in length and overall style”. He knows that all of “the bois” at his local cricket club are undeniably jealous of it, and he proudly flies it in the wind out the window of his 1992 Subaru Brumby. The only concern he has with going on Survivor is that he won’t be able to maintain quite the level of maintenance such a perfect and illustrious mane requires.

As both a bricklayer and the winner of best-and-fairest at his local footy club, Hawkey knows that his strengths will lie in the physical game, and as one to never back down from a challenge, he certainly isn’t afraid to get his hands - and the rest of his body - dirty.

Even though he may be young, Hawkey doesn’t worry in the slightest about that putting a target on his back, claiming that “he’s an old bastard at heart”. Having dropped out of high school to get an apprenticeship and now working full-time all by the age of eighteen, Hawkey is used to hard-work and needing a mature outlook on life, and feels like he’s “wise beyond his years”.

If there’s one thing that rivals the love Hawkey has for his mullet, it would be the love he has for his boyfriend of three years, Dante. The two both met on a chance encounter, as Hawkey was with his mates, playing cricket across the road from the bookstore Dante works in, when a stray hook shot of a yorker Hawkey was facing resulted in a broken window in the storefront and a very livid Dante. Hawkey is glad it happened, however, as he wouldn’t have met Dante otherwise, stating that he “wouldn’t be caught dead in a bloody bookstore”. To this day, Hawkey still protests that the shot was given six and out.