Words Tim Heap Photography Leigh Keily Styling Joseph Kocharian
Billy Eichner
When Attitude meets Billy Eichner for his photoshoot in LA, it’s his 40th birthday and the morning after this year’s Emmy Awards — a combination that perhaps accounts for him not quite being the loud and larger-than-life character we’re more used to seeing on his sketch-come-gameshow, Billy on the Street. Part of his act since his live show in the early to mid-noughties, BoTS sees the US comic frantically running around the streets of New York — his home town — with mega A-listers in tow, asking unsuspecting members of the public questions such as: “Do gay people care about John Oliver?” or “Who is most famous on Sean Hayes’ phone?” and “For a dollar, would you have sex with Paul Rudd?”