Saturday, March 25, 2017

Cosmo Centrefold Hall of Fame

From: Cosmo UK
Jay Lyon
Guitarist and Singer in the Band Tamarama, also Stared in MTV's The City

Jay Lyon (born Brent Tuhtan on 14 June 1984) is an Australian model and musician in the band Tamarama, and is also a reality TV star who appeared in The Hills and The City, television series.

Jay Lyon started off his career as a model and is a member of the band Tamarama, which take their name from the well-known beach side Sydney Eastern Suburbs area of Tamarama, New South Wales, in Australia. They get their influences from beach side folk-pop artists such as Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce, along with fellow member Nicolas Pottsy Potts the band released their first Album/EP, Wonderland City on the 7 May 2008, named after the Wonderland City amusement park in Sydney, and on 1 June 2010 they released their first full album titled Tamarama on label Universal/Motown.

In 2008 Lyon appeared in the American MTV teen series, The Hills, and shortly afterwards followed that up by appearing in the MTV spin-off series, The City, playing the part of Whitney Port's boyfriend, with whom he was having a relationship with in real life.

In 2014 Lyon co-founded the Original Meatball Company with Dominic Lopresti, a restaurant specializing in meatballs inspired by Lyon's experiences in New York.

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