BREAKING NEWS: Chris Hemsworth is our new face of Australia. We’re even redesigning the flag to include a rendering of that dick-heavy scene from ‘Vacation’, as per our feature image.
Not really – he’s the newest Aussie to be the global ambassador for a Tourism Australia campaign.
Sitting smack-bang in the middle of very strange spectrum between previous ambassadors Lara Bingle <———-> Paul Hogan, Hemsworth will be fronting a campaign to promote Australia’s scenic coasts and our relationship with ~the beach~.
Hemsworth just moved back to Australia, along with wife Elsa Pataky and his three kidlets India Rose, Tristan and Sasha – so he seems pretty stoked with his new appointment:
“In Australia you’re surrounded by the most incredible natural beauty. Being in the water or near to it is a way of life for us.It wasn’t a hard decision to move back to Australia because this part of the world is such a special place. This is the place I want my kids to grow up – that’s the world I want them to be part of.”
And Tourism Australia seem very proud of their new ambassador, as they should be:
Chris Hemsworth announced as Tourism Australia’s new global ambassador https://t.co/Ou8kOcClWw #seeaustralia
— Tourism Australia (@TourismAus) January 14, 2016
It is quite ironic that this campaign is beach-focussed when our government practically supports gutting the aquatic life outta the Great Barrier Reef, but we digress: Chris Hemsworth. At the beach. Surely that means… shirtless, right?
We’re pretty much imagining that the 30 second advert will just be this gif, played on repeat 20 times:
Does anyone feel like going to the beach?
Source: Tourism Australia.
