Pressure off as Ruffo finds a girl
Balancing music and acting careers isn’t enough to get Perth heart- throb Johnny Ruffo’s blood pressure up.
The Home and Away star flew home yesterday to host Australia’s Biggest Blood Pressure Check in the Murray Street Mall with the National Stroke Foundation, crossing live to the Morning Show several times throughout the event.
Joined by other Seven personalities including My Kitchen Rules’ Eva Lean, Debra Ch’ng, Kat Donald-Hill and Andre Pagano, the 27-year-old was one of 15,000 Australians the foundation hoped to check yesterday to increase awareness about the link between high blood pressure and stroke.
“My blood pressure was spot on — 130 over 88 — so I’m in the green zone,” Ruffo toldAAA proudly.
It’s the second visit home in as many weeks for Ruffo, who recently attended the polo with co-star Nic Westaway, and will return again by the end of the month to perform at Italian Day at Belmont Racecourse.
Ruffo will soon chalk up two years on Home and Away and said while he had signed with an agent in the US to look for acting parts, he was still happy working on the soap.
“I’m blessed, I have the best job in the world,” he said.
The former X Factor finalist also has a new single, She Got That O, in the works.
“My new single comes out next Friday, I filmed the music video a couple of weeks ago,” he said. “It’s kinda like this cool underground poker game and the character I play gets in a bit of trouble. It’s a fun clip.”
While he was tight-lipped on the details, the actor revealed that he has finally landed a girlfriend after being single since finding fame in 2011.
“I’m sorta seeing someone, a Sydney girl, that’s going well,” Ruffo said.
“(We) met through friends of friends.”
Ruffo admitted dating had been hard at times.
“Dating can be tough in the sense that you’re always wary if people want to know you for you or if it’s something else,” he said. “But you learn to read people and sometimes you’ve got to take the good with the bad.”
