"Inappropriate video" Russian too hot for Australia's dream job

Mar 19, 2009, 12:12 GMT

Sydney - The top Russian candidate for the dream job of caretaker on a paradise island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef was Thursday disqualified because she featured in an 'inappropriate video.'

The judging panel said last week that it was investigating claims that Julia Yalovitsyna had worked as a porn star.

Yalovitsyna was among the 50 candidates to go through to the second round in the selection process, having beaten more than 34,000 other applicants.

The Top 50 - from Britain, the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, Greece, India, China, Russian and 13 other countries - were selected on the creativity of the 60-second video-clip applications they submitted.

Like many of the women who applied, Yalovitsyna was bikini-clad in her pitch for the six-month posting.

What organizers dubbed the Top 50 has now become the Top 49 because Yalovitsyna will not be replaced on the short list.

The successful candidate will be required to clean a swimming pool, feed fish and produce a blog to relay to the world her impressions of Hamilton Island as a holiday destination.

The job, though real, is essentially a tourism promotion campaign. What's now the Top 49 can be viewed on the islandreefjob website.