The WILD bunch
TV & Satellite Week|September 28, 2024
How social-media star Kyle Thomas created a sanctuary for exotic pets
JUDY EWENS, SEAN MARLAND, RICHARD MCCLURE, ELAINE REILLY
The WILD bunch

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At the age of 12, Kyle Thomas started making online videos for fun, amassing a legion of followers and going on to become the UK's highest-earning teenage TikToker.

Yet when he started posting videos of his menagerie of exotic pets - including meerkats, marmosets and rescue foxes - he faced a public backlash as animal lovers protested that his home in County Antrim was not a suitable place to keep wild creatures.

This story is from the September 28, 2024 edition of TV & Satellite Week.

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