The Rakish Gent Paper Issue Six - KYLE THOMAS
Editor - Tajinder Hayer
Design - Josh Bristow
Photography - David Reiss
Photography Assistance - Raphaëlle Orphelin
Creative Direction & Grooming - Michael Gray
Styling - Gareth Scourfield at One Represents
Hair - Ryan Forsythe
At the young age of 19, Kyle Thomas is one of the most influential men in Britain. One of the most followed TikTok influencers in the UK, Kyle has over 1.6 billion likes across his TikTok clips and an incredible 35.3 million followers. Now the highest-earning TikTok teenager in the UK, his content ranges from lip sync, comedy clips and dancing videos to adorable and funny snippets of his home life that he shares with 25 pets, including Mylo the meerkat, two marmosets called Freddie and Trish, tree frogs, parrots, cats, dogs, scorpions, a fox and giant land snails.
Residing in Belfast, he hopes to be able to turn his love for wildlife and social media fame into a television career. Kyle has already shown that his love for animals reaches across the globe, and has shared videos of himself setting birds free at a market in Bali and releasing baby sea turtles into the sea.