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Eldorado’s hot German toyboy Dieter actor unrecognisable 32 years since soap flop with incredible new career
Eldorado might have launched Kai Maurer's career, but the actor looks completely different now from his early days on the doomed soap where he played a German heartthrob
Eldorado might have gone down in TV history as one of soap's biggest flops, but it did launch the careers of some of its cast - including Kai Maurer, who played hot German windsurfing instructor Dieter Schultz. Dieter was the much younger on-off lover of Trish Valentine, played by Polly Perkins, and when he wasn't romancing the veteran cabaret singer he spent his days on the beach giving windsurfing lessons. He trains people to fly the futuristic-looking planes in a new career that is worlds away from his younger days as a soap star - and while very keen Eldorado fans might recognise his name, they'd be hard pressed to connect his look now as a pilot trainer to his beach babe surf instructor image.
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