Page 55 - AVN Magazine April 2025

“It still feels a bit like a dream, which I think is a testament to
how much it meant to me.”
Gal Ritchie likes the structure that professional porn provides her.
“I’m someone who really needs routine in my life,” she says.
“Some days are longer than others, especially with features, but most of the time it’s kind of
like a 9-to-5—a sexual 9-to-5.”
No matter what shift Ritchie worked during her first year-and-a-half in Porn Valley she did it
with a smile—and it’s safe to say she earned a promotion.
The 23-year-old British flirt took home the most coveted award for a new performer in adult
entertainment in January, winning the 2025 AVN Best New Starlet crown at the 42nd annual
AVN Awards Show in Las Vegas.
Even seven weeks later, Gal says everything that happened that weekend feels a bit foreign
to her.
“I’m going to be honest, it still feels really surreal,” she tells me. “I wish I could sit here and
say I processed it, and it feels like this and this, but it still feels a bit like a dream, which I think
is a testament to how much it meant to me.
“I know the more cool thing to do is act very nonchalant and act like it was easy. But I worked
very hard for that and I wanted it, I wanted it so bad.
“And I know that’s not the cool thing to say, but it’s true.”
Ritchie looks casually chic in her dark leather jacket, grey t-shirt and blue jeans as she enjoys
an early lunch of Yellowfin tuna salad at a busy Woodland Hills restaurant.
As down-to-earth and funny as anyone in the industry, Ritchie broke into adult in the summer
of 2023 armed with smoldering looks, a passion for sex work, big ambitions and an engaging
personality to match. The former dominatrix and software engineer recruiter remembers
watching the AVN Awards on cable TV in her hometown—a village of about 2000 residents
near Brighton, England.
“And I’d see these beautiful women standing on stage, accepting those awards and I was
just thinking how proud they are of expressing their sexuality, and what a feat that is, and how
amazing it looks,” Gal recalls. “So it was always a dream of mine, but I never thought it would
become a reality at all.”
All of that changed on Saturday, January 25th at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas,
where Ritchie not only won the top award for a new female performer, she also picked up a
trophy for Best Foursome/Orgy Scene for her efforts in Brazzers’ epic “20 for 20” throwdown.
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