Our favourite heartthrob talks Christmas, hot tubs and starting a fashion line.

A renowned heartthrob for his many acting prowess and modelling gigs, the Name Godfrey Gao is no stranger to most of us &ndash; especially the ladies.

And on the rare occasion where he comes back to visit Malaysia (yes, he is half Malaysian) for the launch of the&nbsp;Swarovski Crystallised Merry Go Round, we had an exclusive meet with the strapping gentleman,&nbsp;where he opens up about his ideal Christmas&nbsp;holiday, coming projects and even, New Year resolutions.

If you need more reasons to love him, one of his answers includes a hot tub, outdoors and snow!

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"My ideal Christmas celebration would be…  spending time in a cabin up on Whistler, where I can go into a hot tub outdoors with snow falling around me."

Growing up in Canada, a typical Christmas celebration would be&hellip;&nbsp; turkey dinner, eggnog, cranberries and a lot of alcohol (laughs).

My first encounter with Swarovski was when&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;I bought&nbsp;my mum her first Swarovski crystal necklace as a gift when I was in high school with my hard-earned money from my part time job. She loved it.

On Swarovski&rsquo;s Merry Go Round CSR campaign&hellip;&nbsp; &nbsp;I hope that everyone will join in to support and help give back to the local community.

The one thing I look forward to most in&nbsp;Christmas is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;exchanging gifts. I&nbsp;started doing that (Secret Santa) when I was&nbsp;in high school. I love that we get to be creative when buying the present to be exchanged.

Right now,&nbsp;my ideal Christmas celebration would be&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;spending time in a cabin up on Whistler, where I can go into a hot tub outdoors with snow falling around me and of course, spending time with family and friends.

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On my Christmas wish list this year is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;one of&nbsp;latest virtual reality game console. Maybe the new HTC Vive or the Playstation VR.

It&rsquo;s the end of the year now.&nbsp;My new year resolution is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;to have more time off from work (sighs). I haven&rsquo;t really had a proper vacation to spend time with my family and friends.

If I do get more time off, I would&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;probably go on a cruise or something.

On my bucket list, I would love to&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;try&nbsp;skydiving, bungee jumping and other extreme sports. I just love that adrenaline rush that I&rsquo;d get.

My best trait is&hellip;&nbsp; I always make sure everyone has a good time when they&rsquo;re with me. I love to cook and entertain. So, whoever you are, I want you to feel welcomed at my house and to enjoy yourselves.

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On personal style and fashion, I believe&hellip;&nbsp; in detailing. I look for the attention to detail put into every garment that I&rsquo;m wearing.

My next exciting project is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;an e-commerce fashion brand named YOYUU that I&rsquo;m working on with a partner&nbsp;and it&rsquo;s launching end of the year.

Our vision for YOYUU is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;utility workwear. So it&rsquo;s soft-to-touch, dry-fit and comfortable fashion, like suits that you can wear even while riding a bike.

On Crazy Rich Asians and countless fan casting, I see myself as&hellip;&nbsp; &nbsp;obviously Nicholas Young (smirks).

I&rsquo;ve read the book and&hellip;&nbsp; it has a very interesting story with a lot of variety in Asian culture. I hope that this will be a hit!

If I were to join the cast&hellip;&nbsp; I&rsquo;d probably need to start working on my English accent first!

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I&rsquo;m not here (Malaysia) as often as I want to be&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;but I did spend a good month in Penang for Chinese New Year. That was great!

My favourite thing about Malaysia is&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;family and the food. It goes from the&nbsp;cendol&nbsp;to Nyonya&nbsp;food and&nbsp;char koay teow. My uncle&rsquo;s club has a great chef that does amazing&nbsp;Xia Ren Dan Chao Fan&nbsp;(shrimp and egg fried rice).

To my Malaysian fans&hellip;&nbsp; I&rsquo;m really sorry I haven&rsquo;t been back in a while but I&rsquo;m so happy to be here this week. I&rsquo;d love to come back to do more work like events and TV shows here.

Finish That Sentence: Godfrey Gao

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