Lynne Austin (born April 15, 1961, in
Plant City, Florida
Plant City is an incorporated city in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, approximately midway between Brandon and Lakeland along Interstate 4. The population was 39,764 at the 2020 census.
Despite many thinking it was named for flora ...
) is an American
model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure.
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and actress. She was chosen as ''
Playboy's''
Playmate
A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...
of the Month in July, 1986 and has appeared in numerous
''Playboy'' videos. Austin was also selected as the 1987 Playmate of the Year for the Dutch edition of ''Playboy''.
Career
Austin came to the attention of ''
Playboy's'' magazine after featuring in an ad campaign for
Hooters
Hooters is the registered trademark used by two American restaurant chains: Hooters, Inc., based in Clearwater, Florida, and Hooters of America, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by the private investment firm Nord Bay Capital (with ...
restaurant as the original "Hooters girl".
[Cooper, Pat. "Lynne Austin: The Original Hooters Girl", ''HOOTERS Magazine''. February/ March 2008. pp. 86-88.] She was the first waitress hired by one of the chain founders after he had spotted her at a bikini contest.
Austin continues to represent Hooters and eventually became a "Hooters Icon."
[ In 1989 she appeared in "Her Cups Runneth Over", a third-season episode of '' Married... with Children''.
Following her Hooters and modeling career, Austin became a radio personality in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, ]Florida
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area, appearing daily on the Hooters Nation Morning Show on 1010Sports AM.
In 2008, she was named among the Top Hooters Girls of all time as part of the restaurant chain's 25th anniversary.
Personal life
She was married to Phillies
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catcher Darren Daulton
Darren Arthur Daulton (January 3, 1962 – August 6, 2017), nicknamed "Dutch", was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (, –) and Florida Marlins (1997). While with ...
from 1989 to 1995, with whom she has one child,
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Living people
1961 births
People from Plant City, Florida
Actresses from Florida
1980s Playboy Playmates
Hooters people
Restaurant staff
People in food and agriculture occupations
21st-century American women
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