DNA Magazine # 264

LYLE ANTHONY Did someone turn the heat all the way up to sizzling?

Lyle Anthony is a talented musician, strikingly hot, gloriously half-naked in his videos, and here to make history. He won South Africa’s Popstars and now, with The Love Project EP, he’s all fired up to be 2022’s breakout international gay pop star!

Story by Marc Andrews.

DNA: Your track Love Wins is such a great song and message. What’s the story?

Lyle Anthony: Love Wins was birthed at the onset of covid when I saw the need for a fun-loving, happy song that allowed people to sing, smile and dance again.

With the political climate at the time, and the LGBTQIA+ community being further marginalized in many ways, it was my love song to my community and the world.

The video, directed by Assaad Yacoub, is one of the sexiest we’ve seen in ages!

It celebrates self-love, my life, inclusion and diversity, which I always want to represent. So many people have been inspired by the video and love what it represents.

Who’s the shirtless and pants-less hottie you get to wake up with?

Matt Palmer, my co-star, is one of my closest friends in Los Angeles.

There’s lots of flesh on display in the video.

You aren’t shy.

[Laughs] I’ve worked hard for my body and love being naked, so it’s just me having fun with it. We’re young only once and while we have it, flaunt it.

How do you look after those fab abs?

I honestly don’t work out my abs that much, it’s just genetics. I wanna take the gym a bit more seriously though. I enjoy doing a full body workout most days. The stepper is my bestie in the gym – it maintains the derrière [laughs].

You won the TV talent show Popstars in South Africa in 2010. How do you view that now?

The best part was I realised I’m good enough for the industry and it was also when I started figuring myself out and learnt to love myself for who I was. The part I didn’t enjoy as much was that I couldn’t be who I really was to appease my cute, adoring fans. Not so much anymore – I am gay and so proud! >> 32 DNA