When Daniel Clarke locked eyes with Nick Pelomis, there was an immediate spark. As their time together started to run out, he put pen to paper to express how he was feeling
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In 2006 I was working as a theatre producer in the UK, and I was presenting a show at Adelaide fringe festival called The Bogus Woman starring British actor Sarah Niles. I was standing outside the theatre in Adelaide when I first spotted Nick. He was with a mutual friend, Eliza, who introduced us.
We made eye contact and I was immediately drawn to him. I thought Nick was extremely handsome; I remember his beautiful hands and his gorgeous thick hair. It turned out we shared a lot of mutual friends, as Nick was an actor. Eliza later told me she had a premonition that me and Nick were going to fall in love and get married – this was before gay marriage was even legalised in the UK.
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