Bondi vet Chris Brown's cold, hard dash in Japan Bondi Vet Chris Brown fully clothed ... ... and almost naked for the Hadaka Matsuri festival (aka the Naked Man), which he shot for The Living Room Source: Supplied Nicole Livingstone Source: The Sunday Telegraph BONDI vet Chris Brown has revealed he was seriously out of his comfort zone when he took part in a near-naked race in sub-zero temperatures in Japan. wearing nothing other than a fundoshi, a traditional male undergarment not dissimilar to a sheet, he was part of a 15,000 strong sprint around the city of Okayama, for the Hadaka Matsuri festival (aka the Naked Man). Brown says his life literally flashed before him as he dodged icy cold water and the threat of being squashed by the crowd at the event in February. It was the most confronting, most bizarre but at the same time the funniest night of my life. It was just extraordinary. There was a clash of cultures where the only thing in common was the lack of clothing," he said. About one person dies a year taking part in the festival and it is usually as a result of being crushed as everyone tries to get into a Buddhist temple to catch a lucky stick. "You run the streets for three hours barefoot, and people line the streets to cheer and throw cold water over you," Brown said. It's meant to cleanse the spirit and soul and rid you of all your badness for the last year. The climax is everyone going into the temple. People just disappear below the crowd and you don't know where they go. It gets pretty scary in there. You have no control over where you go or what happens to you. Brown, who will be seen participating in the race on Friday in The Living Room on Channel 10 at 7.30pm, says there is also an exciting competition for viewers. "In two months we are heading off to South Africa," he said. We are giving someone the chance to be part of the crew and experience what we do, they will get to see some amazing things. Moore's life on new show IT WAS a case of life imitating art for Jonathan Patrick Moore, the star of the new MTV drama The LA Complex. The Adelaide-born actor plays the part of Connor Lake in the show, which lifts the lid on the showbiz industry in Los Angeles. I was speaking with an actor who said his agent in New York advised him to watch the show and said: 'It's what you are going to be getting into in LA'. I just thought that was brilliant. That really is what it is like the day-to-day hustle and bustle of making it here. Moore's face may be familiar to some viewers he cut his acting teeth on shows such as McLeod's Daughters and Neighbours. But he was forced to change his surname, originally Wood, to Moore because of US Screen Actors Guild rules. I was pretty annoyed at the idea of changing my name. I felt the only name I could carry was a version of my mum's name Patricia Moore. She died 10 years ago and I felt I could carry her name and bring her with me on this journey," he says. The actor gets to use his Aussie and American accents in the show his character has just landed a lead role in a medical drama. For (Connor) everything looks great on the surface but he starts falling to pieces it's exciting and painful to watch. Moore says the show, which starts tomorrow at 9.30pm on MTV, demonstrates the superficiality of the acting business: "I have lost out on a lot of jobs simply because they are going with a different look or I didn't fit with the right girl. It comes down to aesthetics to a certain degree. They are saying 'you are not right'. You just have to pick yourself up and think 'it's not that I am not right, I'm not right for that one'. First look at swim squad FORMER Olympian Nicole Livingstone is expecting all eyes to be on Network 10's coverage of the Australian swimming championships. Broadcast on One from Friday over eight nights, it will be the first time the national swimming squad have taken to the water since they were hauled over the coals for their behaviour at the London Olympic Games. "I think Australian swimming has made some moves to instil a better culture and attitude in the team and when the swimmers all get together for the championships it will be our first insight into how they are with each other," Livingstone says. Having been in the hothouse of an Olympic village three times, Livingstone says she understands the pressure on the team. There is a lot that happens at the Olympic village and during the Olympic Games that you really have to be on your game to remember what you are there for. There are times to let your hair down and times to focus, and sometimes when you are in the land of temptation at the village it's hard to keep your mind focused. Fast track to global fame NO ONE was more shocked than journalist Michael J. Mosley when his documentary Eat, Fast, Live Longer turned into a worldwide diet phenomenon. The program, which airs tomorrow night at 8.30pm on SBSOne, reveals how, by following the two-day alternate fasting diet, the physician lost nearly 9kg of fat and reduced his cholesterol. "I thought it would die and a lot of people wouldn't notice it," he said. But it's the show that triggered the whole furore. It spawned a diet book which has been a worldwide phenomenon, but Mosley is modest in his success, saying the diet itself has been around for 2000 years or so. "The prophet Mohammed, as well as urging his followers to fast in Ramadan, also suggested they restrict their calories two days a week Monday and Thursday," he said. Now the science has caught up with different ideas there have been a lot of studies. That's what makes it different.