January 08, 2021 |
Up Close With 2021 AVN Awards Hosts Kira Noir & Skyler Lo |
This is the cover story of the January issue of AVN magazine. Click here for the digital edition. LOS ANGELESâWhen Kira Noir and Skyler Lo met on a Zoom call in November, it didnât take them long to get acquainted. âSheâs gorgeous, super chill and down to earth,â Skyler says. âI love her energy.â The feeling is mutual. âSheâs breathtaking,â Kira says. âAnd from what other people have told me she has a goofy side to her as well. Iâm looking forward to being able to get to know her more.â Theyâll have plenty of time for that as they prepare to co-host the 2021 AVN Awards Show presented by MyFreeCams on Saturday, January 23. The 38th annual ceremony for the first time will be an all-digital broadcast on AVN Stars due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Kira tells AVN she was âshockedâ to receive the hosting opportunity this year. âItâs always been a bit of a dream of mine to be able to do this but I thought it was far off,â says Noir, a former stripper at the Hustler Club in East St. Louis, who made her porn debut in early 2015. Born in California and raised in Nashville, the versatile Spiegler Girl landed the cover of the November issue of AVN. She has amassed more than 370 performing credits en route to numerous industry accolades that include winning her first AVN Award in 2019 for her performance in the Best Group Sex Scene for Vixenâs After Dark. Skyler Lo, who was born and raised in L.A. and now resides in Texas, in the past four years has established herself as one of MyFreeCamsâ biggest draws. The personable cam model entertains a loyal crew she refers to as Skylerâs Stars on MFC, where itâs not uncommon for her to dance, flash, crack jokes, do shots and sing along to a pop tuneâall in the span of an hour. An exotic mix of Spanish, Mexican and Salvadorian who was featured on the cover of the November 2019 issue of CAMStar, Skyler says being asked to host the AVN Awards âwas just so unexpected it was surreal.â âI was super honored,â Skyler tells AVN. âI never thought that would happen.â She adds, âIt just means so much to me. ⦠The fact that thereâs so many people in the industry it makes me feel so special that I was selected. It makes me really proud of myself.â Skyler, who is also an avid motorcycle rider, reveals she used to watch the AVN Awards on TV before she was even in adult. She would catch the show when it made its world premiere on premium cable in the springtime. âItâs just a really big deal,â Lo adds. âThis is definitely the biggest thing Iâve ever done in my life.â Noir remembers when she was breaking into porn in early 2015, hearing former performer Rachael Madori talk about the AVNs at the model house where was staying in L.A. âRachael is an amazing girl, an amazing soul, and she was there in the model house when I got there and by the time I walked in she was already in the middle of talking about how fun it was,â Noir recalls. âAnd I was sitting on a couch listening to her talk about her first experience at AVN and I remember being sad that I didnât make itâbecause I didnât start porn in time. âSo I was excited for the rest of the year to be able to go to the 2016 show and meet everybody, and meet the fans and I was excited about dressing up for the first time.â Noir shared the news about hosting the show with her dad before it was announced on the day of the 2021 AVN Awards Nominations Party on Nov. 19. âBecause I tell him everything,â Kira says. âHeâs proud of me. He is really positive about my job and itâs really nice when I get to talk to him about stuff like this.â AVN Media Network CEO Tony Rios is thrilled to have Kira and Skyler take the reins of the historic 2021 affair. âKira and Skyler embody all the qualities that make our industry great,â Rios says. âTheyâre beautiful, professional and incredibly talented entertainers and we couldnât be more happy theyâll be front and center of our first-ever virtual broadcast." Skyler, whose impressive collection of motorcycles ranges from dirt bikes to street bikes, at the time of this interview had been taking advantage of the last few weeks of warmer weather before winter arrives in Texas. âI have been riding,â she says. âItâs been perfectâin the 70s every day.â She also has been creating more sexy videos for her social media accounts âIâm loving it,â Lo admits. âIâve secretly always wanted to be an actress, so I like doing my own little scripts. Thatâs been really cool.â Kira meanwhile recently took a break from performing so she could fully heal from a new boob job, while also spending more time with her new puppyâa Maltese Shih Tzu mix named Bubba. âThatâs been a journey. Iâve never had a dog before,â Noir says. âIâm happy Iâm able to now. ⦠And Iâve always wanted to have a boob job, it was just a matter of choosing the right time.â Noir had intended to travel to Asia in 2020âshe even bought her plane tickets for her tour of Japan, Thailand and Chinaâbefore the pandemic derailed her trip. âI already had the money set aside, so I said if I canât go to Japan then I was going to get tits,â she says, adding that as soon as itâs safe to travel, she will visit the Land of the Rising Sun. âItâs always been a dream of mine. Hopefully Iâll get to go as soon as possible.â Photography by Keith Ryan
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