Dance moves reign in Best Butt contest
A Mount Isa doctor and teacher have taken out Australia’s Best Butt competition, dominating the female and male categories thanks to their talents as dance machines.
Female winner Mollie Graham said a lot of training went into the win.
“Lots of squats on the dance floor,” Ms Graham said.
“I shook my butt as best as I could... what is my mother going to think?!”
Her dilemmas paled in comparison to the male best butt winner who didn’t expect to make it into the finals, let alone win it all.
Viddy Pahnee is currently working in Mount Isa as a junior medical officer, on the path to become a rural GP.
“But I’m a doctor,” Mr Pahnee grappled with what he’d achieved through the power of dance.
“I don’t want anyone I know seeing this. My lecturers, what are they going to be thinking?”
Mr Pahnee was in denial his butt had gotten him this far.
“I know I don’t have the best butt,” he said.
“I only went up there to
encourage someone else. I wanted him to win.”
Mr Pahnee will have to take it up with the Julia Creek crowd who loved him to the point of vocal chord fry.
After the grand finals, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) by ABBA was played at top volume, the crowd was dancing to their breaking point, and the best butts of 2023 emerged from behind the bright lights and smoke for one celebratory shake, arm in arm.
There are only three rules to Australia’s Best Butt competition, judged at Julia Creek’s Dirtndust Festival every year.
1. Don’t be drunk (not followed)
2. Keep the jeans on (frequently broken)
3. Be over 18 (so far, so good)