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Angel Youngs juggled service jobs—from Smoothie King to IHOP—before she tried
stripping in her home state of Texas.
It was early 2020—and the pandemic had yet to shut down the country.
“I was always kind of a huge slut and I would joke in school, like maybe I could just be a
stripper or do porn,” she tells me. “It kind of manifested itself.”
Youngs seemed born ready for primetime upon her move into the adult industry that
unfolded at a gradual pace during that initial COVID year. And once the country began
returning to a semblance of normalcy, it didn’t take long for word to get around about her
world-class performing skills.
Fast forward to 2025 and Youngs entered the annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo as
a contract star for Vixen Media Group and Fleshlight Girl to go with her second straight
nomination for Female Performer of the Year at the AVN Awards.
And she just turned 23 in January.
“It’s insane,” Angel says. “It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, that’s for sure.”
Elsewhere in this issue, we recapped what happened on stage at the 42nd annual AVN
Awards Show on Jan. 25 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas with an exclusive report from the
Winners Circle.
Director Ricky Greenwood, who helmed the Grand Reel-winning western Gold Diggers
for Digital Playground, revealed that one of the hardest parts of shooting the movie was
dealing with the horses.
“They wanted to do a western and I was like, OK, we need horses, we need guns,”
Greenwood said backstage at The Theater. “And it’s like oh my God, it’s a lot of things. And
it was so hard to work with horses, you have no idea. They were supposed to ride with
horses and everything and after one day it was like, OK, too dangerous...”
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