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Meerkat-loving TikTok sensation Kyle Thomas, whose mother was fined for illegally keeping a capybara, opens up about his incredible journey to animal rights ambassador - but admits building his own zoo is not so Simples…


Teenage TikTok sensation Kyle Thomas thought it was a bit of harmless fun when he started posting videos of his growing exotic pet collection alongside food reviews and comedy sketches.

Teenage TikTok sensation Kyle Thomas thought it was a bit of harmless fun when he started posting videos of his growing exotic pet collection alongside food reviews and comedy sketches. He was in his mid-teens when his meerkats Mylo and Dorothy, marmosets Trisha and Freddie, and three rescue foxes started appearing on his platform, but it was when Kyle posted images of his pet capybara (a South American rodent) called Queen Elizabeth in a pumpkin hat and costume one Halloween that the backlash from animal rights protestors began. ‘There is no easy way to say this,’ explains Kyle, who’s now one of Britain’s highest-earning TikTokkers with 35 million followers at the age of just 19 (he posts up to 60 videos a week) and has just been named in Forbes magazine’s annual 30 Under 30 list of young entrepreneurs.

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