Hot slice of Stokes off the old block
PS, SMH
1920 May 2007
Ryan Stokes appears to be following in his dad's footsteps when it comes to ladies of the small screen.
Just as his media baron father Kerry Stokes - owner of the Seven Network - has romanced leading ladies of the day, including the actress Peta Toppano, the former Today Tonight presenter Jill Singer and the television presenter Christine Simpson, young Ryan has struck up a cosy relationship with the Home & Away starlet Jodi Gordon (yes, Stokes is her boss).
On Monday, as the rest of the TV industry nursed hangovers from the previous night's Logies, Stokes and Gordon were canoodling at the pizza counter in the David Jones Foodhall on Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall.
While not the most likely place the heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune would go to impress the lady in his life, the pair seemed blissfully unaware of their surroundings as they ordered their pizza slices and proceeded to lock lips for an extended period as their lunch was being reheated. PS can report it was quite a display for the hungry masses, none of whom had a clue who they were. Well, almost none (PS enjoyed a front row seat).
Stokes has been coy about his relationship status for months, while Gordon lost her previous boyfriend Chris Burkhardt to leukaemia in March. Their harrowing ordeal was documented in the pages of New Idea, which, coincidentally, is also owned by the Stokeses.