'It Made Me Feel Like A Rock Star!'

The former E Street heartthrob reckons his second chance at fame is like winning lotto!

Bruce Samazan bursts out laughing when asked how he explains to his two beautiful young daughters just how crazy his life was 20 years ago – when he was being mobbed in the street and featured on the cover of teen magazines.

“They know Dad was on TV but that’s about it,” says Bruce, 49, flashing his famous dimples and megawatt smile.

What Leala, 13, and Zoe, 10, may find difficult to understand is just how adored their dad was at the height of his fame in the early 1990s.

When he arrived for an event at Sydney’s Darling Harbour onboard a ferry in the early ’90s, there were 15,000 screaming teenage girls wanting to meet Bruce, and he caused mini-riots when he appeared at shopping centres around the nation.

“It made me feel like a rock star,” he laughs.

“I was only 19 years old and I was living large and hitting the town.

I didn’t have to queue or pay a cover charge at any nightclubs. I remember some of the shopping centre appearances, where girls would be hanging over the balcony trying to get an autograph.

“My star was shining really bright and it was a crazy time.”

BREAKTHROUGH ROLE

This former brickie’s labourer from Wollongong, south of Sydney, hit the big time by accident in 1989, after he accompanied his then-girlfriend to a casting for a soapie called E Street.