Dieter Brummer’s Post-Underbelly Career Going Great Guns

When I was a whippersnapper gaily spending my precious and limited funds on copies of Dolly Magazine, Dieter Brummer was king of the world. He won Dolly’s Most Dateable Guy competition like, three times. And whenever I think of him, I immediately remember the celebratory photoshoot he did with the magazine where he wore leather pants, something that struck me as not quite right even as a naive youth.

Anyway, point being – growing up, Dieter Brummer was the shit. Sure, we referred to him as Dirty Bummer from time to time, but we appreciated him. But the years went on, he decided he didn’t want to play the role of Shane Parrish on Home & Away a second longer, and his struggle to find much work after giving up his role in the soap meant he soon faded from my mind (although there were a few occasions we saw him sitting with his girlfriend at the time – the chick who played Chloe on H&A – at assorted local pubs and marvelled at his height).

But a role in the recent Underbelly production meant good things for Dieter’s career! Much like fellow Summer Bay alumni Les Hill, Dieter had been plucked from whatever the hell he was doing to earn a buck and placed right back in the public consciousness once more. All was good. A second shot at fame! Glorious!

And, as we now learn from the Daily Telegraph, fleeting…

After returning from a 10-year break to play a copper in Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities, the former Home & Away stud has returned to being a “construction maintenance worker”, aka window-washer.

Luckily Dieter is pretty Zen about the whole thing.

“The good part about it is I don’t have to deal with people too much,” Brummer said.

“If I was pulling beers I would have to put up with guys saying: ‘Oh you’re pulling beers now and you used to be in Underbelly.’”

That first line actually made me feel really sad. God, we’re all horrible, aren’t we?

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