Keith Urban is taking a trip down memory lane while recalling the time he posed for a Playgirl spread over two decades ago. “It was a guy at my record company who was like, ‘Hey, you know, we can do this article in Playgirl , and they’ll do a big, long, nice piece on the record,’ and I was like, ‘Great,’ and then [he said], ‘We’ll go do a photoshoot too,’” Urban, 56, explained during the Thursday, September 26, episode of Rob Lowe ’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe” podcast. “I was like, ‘Oh, OK.
’ Luckily, I play guitar and not harmonica.” Urban joked that he was “apparently willing to do anything to get going” early on in his career. When it came to Playgirl , Urban claimed that he “didn’t know there was a such a thing,” prompting the Parks and Recreation alum, 60, to reply, “Hang on now, Mr.
Urban. I know you’re from Australia and things are different there.” Urban clarified that he knew about Playboy , but didn’t know about the magazine’s counterpart.
“Equal titillation,” Lowe quipped. Back in 2002, Urban posed nearly naked, save a thong, for Playgirl, with his guitar discreetly positioned. During an appearance on The Tonight Show in 2013, then-host Jay Leno dug into the archives and found the spicy photos from Urban’s shoot.
“That falls into the ‘What the Hell was I thinking’ category,” Urban said at the time, per Huffpost . Since then, Urban’s career and personal life has continued to make headlines. In 2006.