After taking over social media, beauty guru, content creator, and YouTube superstar Bretman Rock is bringing his fierce looks and larger than life personality to a brand new reality series, MTV's Following: Bretman Rock.
PRIDE got the chance to interview the 22-year-old (who has amassed over 8 million subscribers on his popular YouTube channel) about the creation of the show, getting to bring queer, Filipino representation to an American reality series, and how a Filipino Drag Race legend — the one and only Manila Luzon — helped inspire him to do what he does now.
"My culture, I think Filipinos are just always just a crazy people, and I feel like I wanted to share that with the world and I feel like I've always been sharing my culture with the world," Bretman told PRIDE. "Filipinos are not really represented that much in media. I didn't see any reality TV stars that looked like me until I started watching Drag Race and I saw Manila (Luzon). And back then, I think Manila was obviously in season three and I was sixth grade at the time, that's really when it clicked in my head that I literally could do it too."
MTV's Following: Bretman Rock starts streaming Monday, February 8 at 4pm ET on MTV's YouTube channel, with new episodes streaming weekly!
