The Nugget: Steve Devine

Steve Devine is a man who loves to give things a crack. Fact is he always has, leaving his native Australia, (born in Boggabri, New South Wales for pub-quiz tragics) to play footy here, and ending up as All Black number 1018. A tough, tenacious player, he gave everything to the cause - including; (take a deep breath) three broken fingers, broken toe, nose, collarbone, ribs, twelve ankle operations, an ACL reconstruction, a few teeth knocked out and somewhere between 30-40 concussions, which finally forced him to retire.

These days he gets his footy fix by chucking on his Red Bands and coaching his boy’s club footy team, specialising in “maze-like backline moves designed to confuse the opposition” - although rumour has it, his own team is often left scratching their heads too.

Footy is also on his mind in his day job as a fireman, where it’s all about teamwork and trusting your mates to do the job in tough situations. Mind you, some of those mates said that his smoking-hot semi-nude appearance in the 2014 NZ Firefighters’ charity calendar was a potential fire risk in itself.

Clearly Steve thrives on the tough stuff, which is why he loves 3 Wise Men’s hard-working but stylish kit, including this super-fine merino suit (The Donald $700, including two sets of trou).

In his spare time, he’s into fishing. His son recently tagged a 75kg marlin, although Steve was reasonably quick to add that his own record is a 120kg ‘Stripey” - not that he’s competitive or anything. Speaking of which, he’s predicting the All Blacks to win 3-0 against the Lions. Put your money on Steve’s pick. After all, with him, where there’s smoke there’s usually fire.