In a TV studio discreetly tucked away in a nondescript corner of LA County, 12 top up-and-coming adult performers and influencers take their places in front of the cameras. Hosts Ricky Johnson and Ryan Pownall sit in the middle of a semicircle, a formation made famous — and often infamous — by numerous reality TV reunion shows.
We are here, naturally, to “watch what happens” as contestants Lily Lou, Emma Magnolia, Kayley Gunner, CJ Miles, Jenna Foxx, Nicole Doshi, Alexis Tae, Victoria Cakes, Kylie Rocket, Abigaiil Morris, Ryan Reid and Blake Blossom, all in splendid cocktail gowns, gather weeks after wrapping the hijinx-filled fourth season of adult’s most notorious reality show, “Brazzers House.” One additional contestant, reigning XBIZ Premium Social Media Star of the Year Kazumi, cannot make the reunion in person due to an unexpected travel delay, but appears remotely.
Contestants on “Brazzers House” vie for two coveted contracts with the popular Aylo-owned studio. With the competition wrapped, hosts Johnson and Pownall now deftly question them while they all watch highlight reels of their most meme-able moments.
Call time for the reunion show was 9 a.m. Each contestant had to work through what the Brazzers staff — all scurrying about in company swag, making sure everything about the production meets the studio’s high standards — calls “the glamming.”
“Every girl took about an hour — especially when curls were involved,” says one of the makeup artists, ready with her kit next to the stage for any needed touch-ups.
“This is ‘Big Brother’ but porn!” adds another of the Brazzerati, reciting the elevator pitch for “Brazzers House,” on which the performers share a mansion and each gets a 15-minute “spotlight” to debut or perfect an act of their choosing with a male performer of their choosing.
“It’s ‘Real Housesluts of the Valley!’” quips someone else. “And ‘they didn’t come here to make friends.’”
That last bit is said with a broad smirk and everyone laughs, because nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike Bravo’s workhorse reality franchises, all carefully designed and orchestrated to highlight “the beef” and “the drama,” “Brazzers House” is a friendly affair in all senses of the word — especially the carnal one. Everyone cheers everyone else on, and everyone is definitely trying to make friends, with a multitude of benefits.
“I am friends with people that have been on other adult reality shows,” says Tae, herself a veteran of “RK House” from Brazzers sibling studio Reality Kings. “And there’s so much drama. Like the girls are clearly not gay, or get mad at each other. I had such a better experience at Brazzers House! There was so much sex! They put together such a great group, and I was so happy that all the girls are most definitely gay. There was no one where I thought, ‘Man, she really does not like pussy.’ No, they all love it.”
Tae describes the group as “cool and friendly,” including all the male talent — Johnson, Mick Blue and Alex Jones — and “Brazzers House” host Phoenix Marie in her assessment.
“Everyone was professionally horny,” Tae laughs. “I would just be sitting, having a conversation with someone, and I would see someone getting fingered, and just keep having my conversation. Like, ‘Okay, all right, anyways…’”
As an “RK House” vet, Tae says, she knew to conserve her energy for the multi-day, multi-sex-act shoot.
“I knew not to just get pounded out all day the first two days because I would be sore, and then we couldn’t do anal,” she notes. “So I paced myself and did really good. The first days I did some cooking, and a lot of watching and appreciating other people having sex. The camera’s not even on and they’re eating pussy, touching each other… It was so. Much. Fun.”
Much of the credit for the on-set camaraderie, everyone concurs, goes to director Lea Lexis, who carefully and deliberately cast the lucky 13 to maximize a fun, drama-free experience.
“This is not ‘just a porn scene,’” says Lexis, after she mandates a break halfway through the reunion show shoot so the performers can recharge batteries and look their TV-ready best. “There are so many cameras in your face, and challenges and sex competitions, and people screaming and energy around you, so we wanted to set up everything to see how they can basically be themselves in this oversexual environment.”
Unlike mainstream reality TV producers, Lexis says, she studiously avoided conflict because she wanted the contestants to be attracted to one other.
“If you introduce any type of conflict, they don’t want to fuck each other anymore,” Lexis explains. “We want them to obsess about each other, feel that genuine chemistry. You can’t have any type of drama.”
Lexis was also careful not to put one performer next to another whom they had never met, or wasn’t necessarily drawn to, for a new or challenging scene.
“But if down the line, they’re attracted to them, they make that effort to go to that person,” she adds. “So it becomes an intention: ‘I like you, I’m going to interact with you, I’m going to kiss you, I’m going to go for you.’ But I won’t put them in an uncomfortable situation. I make sure they’re in a comfortable setting.”
Shooting the reunion show, the comfort and ease among the contestants is refreshing, belying the fact that they are supposedly in competition with one another. They all celebrate one another’s highlight reels, high-fiving and hollering as the videos reveal each extreme act of debauchery.
In between the videos, host Johnson characteristically banters and flirts with his “Brazzers House” housemates — and sexual partners in most if not all cases — interviewing them about their experiences.
Lily Lou on her favorite dick in the house: “I loved them all.” Beat. “I kind of wish there was more dick.”
Abigaiil Morris on her favorite partner: “Alex Jones slapped me harder, so him.”
Kylie Rocket: “There were so many pro talents on set — and everybody was super respectful.”
Blake Blossom, bringing the comedy with a farcical, winking impersonation of a reality TV troublemaker: “Are you bitches here talkin’ shit? You bitches don’t lie to me.”
Meanwhile, Mick Blue can be heard in one of the videos enthusing, “It’s going to be hard for the judges to decide who’s going to win the two contracts. They’re all good!”
Morris says that she cherishes the whole experience but is not overly invested in the competition aspect. She adds that she will promote “Brazzers House” to her fans as another way they can get to know her, and see her from another perspective.
“If you want to vote for me, that’s fucking awesome,” Morris says. “If not, I know that there are two girls that absolutely fucking deserve it: it’s definitely Ryan Reid and Lily Lou. They really came out of their shell, did things that they’ve never done before and really opened up as talent. I can only imagine what else they can bring to the table if they’re contracted to Brazzers.”
When Reid comes over to share her experience, it is clear she is still on a high from the personal sexual milestones that “Brazzers House” facilitated for her.
“Season Four was fucking insane!” she screams, flashing the biggest smile. “I never thought I was going to do anal when I came in, but I really wanted to secure that contract. So I ended up doing anal with two dicks, one in my mouth and one in my ass!”
And then they switched?
“Yes! A lot of times.”
Asked whether she remembers how many times, Reid explodes in laughter.
“I lost track!” she admits. “I think I got a little bit intoxicated from how many times I came from my ass. I actually haven’t even really done anal in my personal life, so it was like a first first first. I knew that my Brazzers family was going to make sure I was comfortable, and that it was going to be amazing. And that’s exactly what they did for me.
“I hope when the voting starts that my fans crash Twitter — or X or whatever — and that it stops working because Ryan Reid finally used her asshole!” she adds.
According to director Lexis, the competition did breed a little bit of one-upmanship among the performers.
“Some girls started with a plan and wanted to do one type of scene, but then seeing what everybody else did, they changed,” Lexis explains. “Ryan came to me the night before she had her scene and told me, ‘I want to do something special. I want to do something I’ve never done.’”
Kayley Gunner says the show helped her bring out a side of herself that no one has ever seen before.
“The nastiest, horniest, sluttiest side of me,” she proudly announces. “I usually like to keep my brand pretty classy — I’m ‘a classy whore’ — but I wanted to really come out and just make everyone horny.”
What did she do? Or should we ask, what didn’t she do?
“I did a boy-boy-girl,” Gunner says. “I usually don’t have multiple guys in a scene, so that was new for me. And I also did an orgy with a bunch of people. I did a lot of ‘sneaky sex.’ I was horny 24/7. I chose someone and just hid and had sex. I did one in the confessional with Ricky Johnson. And I did one with Hollywood Cash in the bedroom. The cameramen caught me — but I’m glad they did.”
Gunner says she was shocked by how much being with women and men at the same time turned her on.
“The orgy really surprised me,” she recalls. “I feel like something came out of me that I’m not used to. I just went for every part that was in front of me, whether it was a vagina or a cock. I just dove in.”
“Orgies? In a house with this many sexual people?” Lexis asks sardonically. “It’s inevitable. Sometimes you almost had to stop them. There is also what we call ‘sneaky sex,’ when they go around having sex all over the place — just because they’re sexual people. But we cannot shoot sex for four hours! At some point we have to stop them, but sometimes they go ‘No, mooooore!’ and they will grab somebody and go into another room.”
The group sex scenes had to be recorded properly in order to make everybody look good, Lexis explains.
“We were shooting with three cameras and we had properly staged areas that were cleaned and disinfected and lit properly. So everybody looks beautiful — because when you have this many bodies on top of each other, it could look messy.”
Throughout, Brazzers was mindful of its consent protocols, which require each performer to go over their boundaries with the studio’s talent assistants.
“We couldn’t really let people run around and have all kinds of sex without knowing who’s comfortable with what,” Lexis explains. “There were times when they could do group scenes, because we went through everybody’s consent list. Other times, we didn’t let them have sex because we didn’t do the boundary checklist.
“They were very frustrated!” she laughs. “The sexual energy was at level 1,000! But we do have our process that we’re proud of, and it’s working for us.”
“I only wish there was more sex!” Lou says, barging in with shockingly pink anime hair — a color that, as she proudly shows the entire room, she also displays “down there.”
“I feel like I’m now best friends with everybody involved and I fucking love it,” Lou adds. “This was like reality TV, but better, because I like peace and when people are friends with each other — but that doesn’t make for good TV most of the time. I’m really glad there wasn’t drama here. I feel like I got to know everybody’s genuine selves, or at least attempted to. I really appreciated that time to be able to do that.”
A former performer with over 15 years of experience in the industry, Lexis praises Lou as part of a new breed of highly self-conscious brand creators.
“These young performers are coming more into their own,” she says. “They get it. They figure out a way to cater their brand to their fans. Lily told me she did ‘regular’ porn first, but at some point she felt like she wanted to do something closer and truer to herself — and once she did that, the fans just poured in. Or Victoria Cakes, with her ‘cake smash’: that’s her fan base, and she knows she’s got it going on. All these women really understand how to market themselves. That’s something that takes brands years to learn, but these girls just get it.
“Every single one of these girls loves her job,” Lexis adds. “That’s what makes this project so much fun for me to shoot.”
After the reunion show wraps with promo-ready, toothy group photos, Magnolia says she’s blown away by how spot-on everyone was with their improvised replies and authentic reactions, all in one take with no do-overs needed. If not for the epic fucking, this “Brazzers House” special could easily be on TV.
“I feel like part of it is because everybody is so sweet and supportive to each other,” Magnolia shares. “It’s just a really nice group of people. I could trip and fall on my face and everyone would just be cool to me, so I don’t feel afraid to be cringey or say anything that people are not going to like.
“I know I’m in good company,” she adds.
