OH BOY... these men are hot

DESPITE the promise of eye candy for the girls, a lot more men than women turned up at the Men's Health 'Are You Men's Health Enough?' finale.

ALPHA MALE: (Above) Dental surgeon Clement Ong gets emotional and kneels down after he is named the winner. (Below) The women whooping it up. --TNP PICTURES: KELVIN CHNG

The event, held at Zouk, attracted a big crowd on Friday evening.

Backstage, the 10 finalists were fooling around and teasing each other as they were interviewed by RazorTV's Sara Ann K.

However, one could sense that a few contestants were trying to control their nerves despite the light-hearted banter.

Mr Ryan Reuben, deputy editor of Men's Health, revealed that he was also feeling nervous before the event.

'I'm feeling a bit jittery as I have to make a short speech later.'

What about the contestants then?

Mr Reuben confidently replied: 'I'm sure they can take care of themselves.'

The competition began with a muay thai demonstration and an introduction of each contestant by hosts Cheryl Miles and Jeremy Ratnam from 91.3FM.

It was clear that finalist Clement Ong was a crowd favourite.

When Jeremy mistakenly introduced another contestant as Clement, he was greeted with a chorus of indignant cries of 'That's not Clement!'.

When the 38-year-old dental surgeon finally stepped on stage, he seemed slightly embarrassed at the cheers and wolf whistles that greeted him.

Among those who cheered wildly for him was his friend, Mrs Pauline Appleyard, the women's team captain of the Canadian dragon boat team of Singapore.

Some 20 members of the 'Canadian Dragons' had turned up to support Mr Ong, who is one of their paddlers.

Mrs Appleyard said: 'He's a very understated guy who's gone through and accomplished a lot. He's modest so he doesn't talk a lot about it.'

With such glowing reviews, it was no surprise that Mr Ong was crowned the overall winner. This was in addition to nabbing the 'Most Charismatic' title.

Looking tense before the results were announced, the avid dragon boater broke down and knelt in front of the crowd when he was announced the winner.

His girlfriend of seven years, 32-year-old Eva Fernandez, went on stage to give him a peck on the lips before he was ushered backstage.

Besides the free flow of Tiger beer, there was plenty of six packs of the other kind to be seen.

BEEFCAKES: (From left) Finalists Fifi Faris, Kim Khan Zaki and Noor Azam Kasiri posing shirtless with host Cheryl Miles.

Cheryl inspected some of the finalists' washboard abs before announcing the winner for the 'Fittest Guy' title.

The award went to 25-year-old personal trainer James Tan.

At one point, she gave a scream when feeling up a finalist's stomach, which she declared as 'hairy'.

She eventually got three of the finalists to take off their shirts.

A woman in the audience was heard saying to a friend: 'She's so lucky lah! Get to choose and pose with hot guys!'