David Suzuki swaps fig leaf for maple leaf in latest Nature of Things promo

TORONTO (CP) - David Suzuki, CBC-TV's resident science star and host of The Nature of Things, has done it again. To help launch the record 47th season of the much-honoured current affairs series next month, Suzuki has agreed once more to pose mostly nude. And why not? For a 70-year-old he displays a remarkably buff physique. In two shots released by the CBC, Suzuki poses like Atlas, with the world on his shoulders and wearing nothing but a brown maple leaf. In the other, he's Superman in a red cape and blue undershorts.

It was back in 1999 that Suzuki posed wearing a fig leaf in a similar promotional stunt.

"It's just a 63-year-old carcass," he said with modesty at the time. "It's the real me."

But as one newspaper reader wrote at the time: "Just think, Suzuki, up until now I was only interested in your mind!"

The Nature of Things returns to the air Sunday, June 18, with an episode entitled Everyday Einstein.

© The Canadian Press, 2006