A former senator once voted America's sexiest man has been chosen by Donald Trump as the next United States ambassador to New Zealand.
US Senator Scott Brown, New Zealand's next ambassador Photo: Supplied/Twitter: Cosmopolitan
Scott Brown became a national figure in 1982 when as a student, he posed nude for a Cosmopolitan magazine centrefold.
He entered national politics by winning Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts seat in 2010 and was an early convert to the Trump campaign.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks fleshes out Mr Brown's background.
