* He was born on the 8th of May 1972 in Brisbane, Australia

* He’s got black hair (his natrual hair is middle brown) and grey eyes

* Used to be married to ex-wife Colby Hayes (cool name, huh?)He said she's his idol on a chat and that she's his dreamwoman (you believe it as you want, that positive after a divorce? maybe they're special)

* Is the youngest of three children

* He is 1.78 m tall

* He has a pierced ear

* He doesn’t drink (go Darren, you’re the coolest!) and used to be a vegetarian but eats white meat now

* He started singing at 11 apparently

* His fave foods are skim milk and yogurt (um... that’s a bit um, unconventional...hehehe)

* When he grew up he listened to a lot of mowtown, now he’s really into U2

* He was studying to become a teacher when he dropped it to become a musician, good move! But how cool to have him as your teacher, I could learn to like school if that was the case...hehehe

* His fave school subject was biology, it was one of my faves when I had it too

* He likes open space (one of the things he likes about Oz-land), so do I!!!

* There are two things he doesn’t like about Australia: the fact that people want to be like Brits and Americans so much and the fact that there is a racist politician in Ausrailia and some people like her

* He used to have 2 baby kangaroos as pets, WOW! cool!

* He was what you would call a nerd at school and according to himself he was good at school and got everybody shocked when he decided to quit the university to start a ‘popstar’ life

* ”I didn’t fit in at all and I didn’t want to. My classmates had no intellegence - they’d smoke and get drunk, and get pregnant and I had no interest in that. Then all the morons left and I got into music lessons and drama” that is one of the coolest quotes made by his COOL highness Mr Darren Hayes

* He can mime along to the lines of ”In bed with Madonna” coz he’s seen it soooo many time (um, okey)

* He is mad about "Star Wars" and has lotsa Star Wars toys...haha

* The first time his dad saw him perform he cried (his dad, not him...hihi), aaawww, how cute

* He is responsible for the sound of ”To the moon and back” and ”Universe” (aswell as the whole album I guess coz all of the songs are written by D.Jones & D.Hayes). Before he got his hand on them they sounded differently

* He’s not interested in cars or as he and Daniel said in a chat ”cars suck”

* He’s mad about New York city

* His nickname is ”doze” coz he was such a fat baby that people thought he looked like a bulldozer, aaaahhh, how cute is that? hehe

* His fave author is Anne Rice who’s written ”Interview with a vampire”

* That’s where they got the name Savage Garden, it’s from one of her novels. She talks about the world as a savage garden, externally beautiful but internally savage

* He believes in fate and destiny and stuff

* He met his wife at school where they were both studying to become teachers

* His fave Savage Garden songs are ”Carry on dancing” and ”Santa Monica”, he thinks Carry on dancing kinda represents their sound

* He thinks his job is better than sex, chocolate and his own life (?). In other words, he LOVES his job

* Darren has a habit of throwing showbiz tantrums...haha

Why he's cool:

- Because of his black PVC pants...aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh...you’ve missed a great deal if you haven’t seen that

- His hair,is it cool or wot?!

- His clothes, this man has a dress sence

- The way he moves his hands and arms when he’s singing

- His smile which he doesn’t expose too often, at least not in promotional photos

- He’s got such an amazing and beautiful voice (everybody I know agrees)

- He is pretty smart

- If you write songs like he and Dan do then you’re GREAT!!!

- The way he looks sooooo classy!!! people who have dyed black hair usually look gothy (I should know, there are a few in my school) but Darren just looks soooooo classy

- The way he says all the conjuctions when he sings like 'yeah' and 'oooh'