{"id":168637,"date":"2025-09-25T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:14:10","slug":"tv-heartthrob-doesnt-look-like-this-anymore-heartbreak-high-star-dons-very-ratty-ensemble-including-ripped-track-pants-and-filthy-jumper-as-hes-spotted-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168637\/","title":{"rendered":"TV heartthrob doesn’t look like this anymore! Heartbreak High star dons very ratty ensemble including ripped track pants and filthy jumper as he’s spotted in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Dimitriades rose to fame as a heartthrob on Heartbreak High in the ’90s.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the Australian actor is still busy working on his career, having been spotted on a film set in Sydney’s Mona Vale recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old has changed since his days on the teen soap, these days sporting a salt-and-pepper beard and longer hair.<\/p>\n

Alex was very dressed down for his role, donning a casual look consisting of a dirty, worn blue jumper over a white shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added a pair of track pants with holes in them as well as sneakers, and carried a tote bag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what project Alex is working on, but he most recently appeared in the series\u00a0Bay of Fires.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Alex Dimitriades rose to fame as a heartthrob on Heartbreak High in the ’90s. And the Australian actor is still busy working on his career, having been spotted on a film set in Sydney’s Mona Vale recently (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The 51-year-old has changed since his days on the teen soap, these days sporting a salt-and-pepper beard and longer hair.\u00a0Alex was very dressed down for his role, donning a casual look consisting of a dirty, worn blue jumper over a white shirt<\/p>\n

The star rose to fame after playing teenage ‘cool guy’ high school student Nick Poulos in ’90s teen drama Heartbreak High.<\/p>\n

Three decades later, he has branched out from the film and TV industry to pursue his music career, becoming\u00a0one of Sydney<\/a>‘s most in-demand DJs.<\/p>\n

Better known by his stage name, DJ Boogie Monster, Alex is now making a name for himself in the music scene.<\/p>\n

Alex\u00a0was just 20 years old at the time of filming Heartbreak High, with the show being a spin-off of the very successful film based on the same character, The Heartbreak Kid.<\/p>\n

The show was a huge success in Australia and went on to air in over 25 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Alex’s character died in a boxing accident at the end of the first season.<\/p>\n

He continued his acting career in television series Blue Murder, Underbelly, Secret Circle, Tidelands and The Slap, as well as movies such as Head On.<\/p>\n

The ’90s teen drama tackled important issues, including racism, at the fictional Hartley High.<\/p>\n

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The star rose to fame after playing teenage ‘cool guy’ high school student Nick Poulos in ’90s teen drama Heartbreak High (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He added a pair of track pants with holes in them and carried a tote bag. It’s unclear what project Alex is working on, but he most recently appeared in the series Bay of Fires<\/p>\n

The drama, which ran from 1994 to 1999 on Channel 10 and the ABC, launched the careers of Ada Nicodemou and Callan Mulvey, among others.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Daily Mail Australia in 2021,\u00a0Alex said he feels ‘very lucky.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I’m very lucky, in terms of how it was set up and structured,’ he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I was a teenager and we did a movie first, The Heartbreak Kid and that was hugely successful… I was like a young new star and they really put me out there,’ Alex said.<\/p>\n

‘And I had no idea what was going on, I was rolling with the punches and I was very, very young and just out there, living the dream I suppose…\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I knew I was good at it [acting]. I knew it was something that I had potentially a good future with, but it’s not something I ever imagined doing. It was pretty wild.’<\/p>\n

Alex said despite rising to fame at a young age, he always remained humble and grounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I was normal about it all, people were like, “how are you with it all, how’s your life?”‘ he added.<\/p>\n

‘I remained the same person. I started trying to visualise where I wanted to go with this thing and not get caught up with [the idea of] “how awesome I am.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Dimitriades rose to fame as a heartthrob on Heartbreak High in the ’90s.\u00a0 And the Australian actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,100,134,670,2017],"class_list":["post-168637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-sydney","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}