The "Rush" singer takes Vanity Fair's infamous lie detector test. Who does Troye currently have a crush on? Has he ever been catfished before? Does Troye like Drake's house? Does Troye think he's a better actor than Lady Gaga?
Director: Funmi Sunmonu
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Sammy Cortino
Producer: Juliet Lopez
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Emebeit Beyene
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi and Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Kariesha Kidd
Director, Video Talent : Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Sound: Gary Thomas-Sowers
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas and Brock Spitaels
Set Designer: Sage Griffin
Post Production Supervisor: Edward Taylor
Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Assistant Editor: Lauren Worona
Director: Funmi Sunmonu
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Sammy Cortino
Producer: Juliet Lopez
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Emebeit Beyene
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi and Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Kariesha Kidd
Director, Video Talent : Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Sound: Gary Thomas-Sowers
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas and Brock Spitaels
Set Designer: Sage Griffin
Post Production Supervisor: Edward Taylor
Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Assistant Editor: Lauren Worona
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00:00 I'm trying to be like extra friendly to you guys
00:01 'cause this is really scary,
00:03 but it's not working on anyone, so.
00:05 - Troy.
00:07 - Yeah.
00:08 - We've brought you here today to take a lie detector test.
00:11 - Uh-huh.
00:11 - You will be hooked up to the lie detector
00:14 and asked questions.
00:16 - Okay.
00:17 - Are you ready?
00:18 - I think so.
00:19 I feel like everything is gonna seem like a lie
00:25 just 'cause I'm nervous.
00:28 This reminds me of doing, to fill in.
00:30 - I'm going to start by asking you questions
00:34 to calibrate the machine.
00:35 - Okay.
00:36 - Is your real name Troy Savan Mellet?
00:42 - Mellet, yeah, Troy Savan Mellet.
00:44 - Are you from Johannesburg, South Africa?
00:46 - I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, yeah.
00:50 - Are you ready to take this lie detector test?
00:54 - I'm ready.
00:55 - Let's start with your life.
00:58 You are the middle child of four siblings, correct?
01:01 - Correct, yeah, there's two middle children.
01:04 - Would you say you're considered the favorite?
01:06 - I don't actually think so.
01:08 Yeah, I think my sister's the favorite
01:11 'cause she's the only girl.
01:12 - Does that bother you?
01:13 - No, she's my favorite.
01:16 - As the middle child, are you the drama?
01:20 - I'm definitely the drama.
01:23 I mean, I'm like, I'm low drama.
01:26 I'm low drama in like a real way,
01:29 but I bring some pizzazz to the family for sure.
01:33 - So you never intentionally started drama for attention?
01:35 - No.
01:37 - You told a story on TikTok about how you found out
01:42 that your celebrity crush is dating one of your friends.
01:45 - Yeah.
01:45 - Will you tell us who your crush is?
01:48 - I haven't actually spoken to my friend that he's dating.
01:56 So, sure.
01:59 His name is Pierce Abernathy.
02:01 He's a chef.
02:03 I think he knows that.
02:06 - How would you feel if he reciprocated your crush?
02:09 - Well, I would feel bad for my friend who is dating.
02:12 - Have you ever dated someone a friend of yours has dated?
02:16 - Yeah, but I dated them first.
02:20 - Would you call that upcycling?
02:23 - They weren't my friend at the time.
02:24 We became friends through dating the same person.
02:26 My heart's racing.
02:30 - You've said your favorite food
02:34 is mac and cheese with ketchup.
02:36 - One of my favorite foods.
02:39 - Would you say that is less questionable
02:42 than this person's ramen and hot Cheetos combo?
02:45 - Ramen and hot Cheetos?
02:47 You put the hot Cheetos in the ramen?
02:49 Yeah, mine's way better than that.
02:51 Like that's disgusting.
02:53 - What about this person's love of popcorn and pickle juice?
02:56 - Popcorn and pickle juice?
02:58 That one I actually kind of get
02:59 'cause have you ever had the almonds
03:02 that are pickle flavored?
03:03 They're really good.
03:05 So I kind of feel like it's similar.
03:08 I get that.
03:08 I respect that.
03:10 - So you respect Selena's food combo over Sweetie's?
03:13 - Yeah, I respect that.
03:14 - Do you think having a weird favorite food
03:17 is asking for attention?
03:19 - Yeah, but I don't like go around being like,
03:22 I like mac and cheese with ketchup.
03:24 Also, I really genuinely don't think that's that weird.
03:27 Like it kind of makes it like a pink sauce.
03:30 Spicy vodka pasta, but like much worse.
03:36 - You've said that you were once catfished
03:39 by Russian hackers pretending to be this person.
03:42 - Yep.
03:45 Greta Thunberg.
03:47 - Do they still reach out to you?
03:51 - No, I still have the number saved,
03:53 but I don't reach out to her 'cause I know it's not her.
03:57 It's Russian hackers instead.
03:58 - Have you ever actually met Greta?
04:03 - No, no.
04:05 If I did, I'd probably tell her about it.
04:08 I think it's funny.
04:09 - Have you ever catfished anyone?
04:11 - No, people think that I'm catfishing them sometimes,
04:14 but I'm not.
04:15 - Would you?
04:16 - No, I would like, you know,
04:19 I've definitely like filled in my eyebrows on Facetune,
04:24 but that's like the extent of it, I would say.
04:29 - Is being catfished a fear of yours?
04:31 - I feel like it's pretty easy to validate
04:35 whether someone's real.
04:35 Like I'm not gonna, I was about to lie.
04:39 I was gonna say, I'm not gonna go on like a date
04:41 with a complete stranger.
04:42 I would do that, but I feel like I would at the very least
04:46 like get them to send me a video or something before
04:49 I can check that they're really who they said they are.
04:53 - Let's talk about pop culture.
04:55 You thought this person was calling you out
05:01 in her song "Mine",
05:02 but you actually misunderstood the lyrics.
05:05 - Yep.
05:06 - Did you secretly know that she didn't say your name
05:10 in the song?
05:11 - I did know that, yeah.
05:13 I did know that.
05:14 I just thought it was funny.
05:15 - Does that make you a troll?
05:17 - I guess, yeah.
05:20 - That's true.
05:21 - Do you enjoy trolling people on the internet?
05:24 - I do, yeah.
05:25 I do.
05:26 That's one place where I really like to lie.
05:29 - You're a Gemini.
05:30 And you've once said that you don't care about astrology.
05:34 - I don't, yeah.
05:35 - Is that still true?
05:36 - Yeah.
05:37 Sorry.
05:40 - Do people who obsess over astrology give you the ick?
05:44 - A little bit.
05:49 A little bit.
05:50 Yeah.
05:51 Yeah.
05:53 Sorry.
05:54 - Have you ever stopped talking to someone because of it?
05:58 - No, but like, there's people that I know,
06:00 if I see them, it's gonna be,
06:02 they're gonna bring it up.
06:03 And I'm just like, I just don't believe in it.
06:06 So, you know, it's a little like,
06:08 maybe like boring or something.
06:12 - You love interior design.
06:13 - I do.
06:14 - Do you have a better eye for decor than this person?
06:18 (paper rustling)
06:21 - Better eye.
06:24 I prefer my eye.
06:28 - It's a yes or no question.
06:31 - Yeah.
06:36 Yeah.
06:38 - What about this person?
06:45 - I think she has a really functional eye,
06:47 which is cool.
06:50 So no, not better, just different.
06:52 - Do you judge people by how they decorate their homes?
06:55 - Probably a little bit, like unintentionally,
06:59 not in a snobby way, but like, you know,
07:01 you're just taking in your surroundings.
07:04 - Do you like this person's house?
07:05 - No.
07:09 No.
07:11 I like him.
07:12 I don't like his house.
07:13 I'm sorry.
07:15 Sorry to this man.
07:16 - Is it true that you're launching your own lifestyle brand?
07:22 - Yeah.
07:23 - Do you think Drake can benefit from your help?
07:26 - Well,
07:29 a lot of the stuff that we do is scent,
07:33 and I'm sure his house smells great,
07:34 even if I don't like the way it looks necessarily.
07:40 But sure, yeah.
07:41 Yeah, I'll put him on the P.I. list.
07:44 - You've collaborated with a lot of female pop stars
07:46 in your career.
07:47 Would you say you have a favorite?
07:51 - I probably have a favorite.
07:57 - Is it this woman?
07:58 - She's up there for sure.
08:02 She might be the favorite.
08:05 Yeah, I love her.
08:06 - What about this woman?
08:08 - Oh, I love her.
08:13 Yeah, I didn't think about,
08:14 I was thinking about singers,
08:16 but I really, I love this girl.
08:19 - Moving on to your career.
08:21 One of your first acting roles
08:25 was as the titular role in the musical "Oliver."
08:28 The character is famously known for stealing.
08:31 Have you ever stolen something?
08:35 - Yep.
08:36 I have stolen, stolen, stolen.
08:38 I've stolen socks from sets and shoots and stuff.
08:43 And then actually quite recently,
08:46 I was styled in a T-shirt that I really liked
08:51 and I packed it in my suitcase,
08:53 thinking that they wouldn't ask for it back and they did.
08:57 It was the only one.
08:59 So I had to send it back.
09:01 - So it was easy for you to get into character?
09:03 - Yeah.
09:04 - Were you upset you got caught?
09:08 - Yeah, I was upset because I loved that T-shirt.
09:11 - That's all you've stolen?
09:12 - I think so, yeah.
09:13 I don't steal.
09:15 - It's not true.
09:16 - You just said you did.
09:19 - I guess, yeah, I guess I did.
09:21 I tried to.
09:23 - You were in this person's campaign
09:26 for her Ivy Park collection with Adidas.
09:28 - Yep.
09:32 - Did the queen call you herself to ask you to do it?
09:35 - Apparently, but I don't know.
09:40 Sometimes things like, it'll come through like management
09:42 and everything and it's like,
09:44 "Bee would love you to be in the thing."
09:46 And I'm like, "Really?"
09:47 But sure, I'll do it, 100%.
09:50 - Is it safe to say you two are besties now?
09:54 - I don't think I could say that we're besties
09:56 without the machine going off.
09:57 - Are you going to her Renaissance tour?
10:01 - I would love to go to her Renaissance tour.
10:03 I'm trying.
10:05 Her birthday show is in LA, so I want to go to that.
10:08 - What do you do when she sings the line,
10:12 "Look around, everybody on mute"?
10:14 - You go quiet.
10:15 The whole audience has to go quiet.
10:18 - Are you frustrated with everyone online getting it wrong?
10:22 - Yeah, yeah.
10:24 'Cause people go quiet and then they clap
10:27 that everyone went quiet and you ruined it.
10:30 - Your new single "Rush" is high
10:33 on the music charts right now.
10:35 Have you ever pulled a publicity stunt to promote your work?
10:38 - A stunt, I feel like implies that it's not genuine.
10:48 And I think I have always done,
10:52 everything's been genuine.
10:54 Maybe I knew that it was going to be something
10:57 that got attention, but it was always real.
11:00 I've never faked anything.
11:03 - Have you ever paid for bot streams?
11:05 - No.
11:07 - What about followers?
11:08 - No.
11:09 Why would I do that?
11:13 - That's true.
11:14 Have you ever dated someone as a publicity stunt?
11:18 - No, I've thought about it.
11:19 Like I think it'd be kind of fun, but no.
11:22 - TikTok took your teaser down
11:25 for violating community guidelines.
11:27 What community guidelines did you violate?
11:31 - I think it was a bum.
11:35 It was like nudity.
11:38 Like why not keep it up?
11:39 It's just a bum.
11:40 It wasn't even a whole bum, it was like half.
11:43 - Do you think TikTok should be thanking you
11:46 for being on their app?
11:47 - Not really.
11:50 No, yeah, I don't think so.
11:55 - Not true.
11:57 Is it true you've never had any formal training
12:00 as an actor?
12:01 - I've had like two acting lessons maybe.
12:04 - Do you think you're a better actor
12:07 than some other musicians who also act?
12:09 - Some of them, maybe.
12:13 - Do you think you're a better actor than this person?
12:17 - Don't be who I want.
12:19 If this, oh no, no, it's Lady Gaga.
12:24 I think she's better than me, for sure.
12:26 She's awesome.
12:29 - What about this person?
12:31 - I have never actually seen,
12:33 uh, was she in "Mamma Mia?"
12:35 I don't think I've ever seen a movie with Cher in it.
12:41 Yeah, I've seen like two movies, just in general.
12:44 - You walked in this person's "Savage X Fenty" show
12:50 and said it made you feel empowered.
12:53 Did you rock the show better than this person?
12:58 - Did you rock the show better than this person?
13:01 - I didn't see his performance or, what did he do?
13:07 - He performed.
13:08 - He performed?
13:09 I didn't see it.
13:10 Sorry.
13:12 - What about this person?
13:13 - Oh, I don't remember seeing Gottmik in the show,
13:21 but she probably ate me up.
13:23 - Would you rather win an Oscar or a Grammy?
13:27 - Grammy.
13:28 - Is it because you think music is the superior art form?
13:33 - I don't think it's superior,
13:35 it's superior to me, for myself.
13:37 - Final question.
13:40 Did you lie at any point during this lie detector test
13:43 and we didn't catch you?
13:44 - I don't think I did.
13:45 No, I don't think I lied.
13:46 - That's true.
13:51 - See?
13:52 Thank you.
13:56 well.
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