NOT many bars have a Hollywood actor on the payroll (Mel Gibson might’ve kept a few afloat), so Newcastle’s Dockyard may turn a few heads with Zachary Garred on the taps.
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Garred, regular readers will know, is a Novocastrian based in Los Angeles who’s starred in the cult daytime soap General Hospital. His onscreen character Levi turned out to be a gun-toting extortionist, so people yell at him in traffic. It’s all part of being a star.
Anyway, he’s in town for a few weeks with actor-partner Allison Boyd – from Alabama, who’s been in Two Broke Girls – and both are pulling beers at Dockyard, run by Garred’s aunty and uncle.
He has been spotted in his beloved Newcastle Jets shirt, which Boyd must be sick of seeing.
“I’m slowly winning her over,” insists Garred, with conviction.
He recently finished filming the Hallmark telemovie Presumed – in which he plays a brash young detective – and says his labour of love, a film version of The Ballad of Les Darcy, is inching closer to being made.
“Ever since the trailer went live in May, the interest has been building,” says Garred.
“My manager has been pushing really hard with an influential executive producer.”
Garred had to get himself ridiculously fit to play Maitland’s favourite son, and will be smashing himself while in Newcastle under the relentless tutelage of trainer Adam Clarke.