Page 61 - AVN Magazine February 2025

Some of the night’s big winners included Vince Karter, who won Male Performer
of the Year; Brittney Kade, who claimed Trans Performer of the Year; Casey Calvert,
who captured her first Best Leading Actress award for her performance in Birth
(Adult Time); Chad Alva, who grabbed his first Best Leading Actor trophy for his role
in Alive (Dorcel); and Ariel Demure, who received Best Trans Acting Performance for
“Gorgons & Goddesses” (Ten15Group).
Digital Playground’s Gold Diggers received the Grand Reel award for the best
narrative movie, while the movie’s versatile shot-caller Ricky Greenwood received
Outstanding Directing—Individual Work and Best Directing Portfolio—Varied Range;
Vixen Media Group’s American MILF (MILFY) earned the Mark Stone Award for
Outstanding Comedy and the trophy for Best MILF Movie or Collected Release.
The Best Star Showcase went to Fuck Angela, whichstarred the three-time AVN
Female Performer of the Year Angela White, who also executive produced the instant
classic through her studio AGW Entertainment with distribution by Girlfriends Films.
Meanwhile, the top honor for a new female performer—one of the show’s most
coveted awards—went to British heartbreaker Gal Ritchie.
The former software engineer recruiter and professional dominatrix authored a
breakout year in 2024, working for every major studio in the industry en route to
80-something scene credits and the AVN Best New Starlet title.
Ritchie looked ravishing in a sheer embellished, emerald green dress as she
humbly accepted the gold statuette.
“The fact that I used to sit in my bedroom and watch these incredible women on
stage and my name was just called—it’s fucking wild,” Ritchie told AVN backstage.
“It’s insane because at heart, I’m a porn fan. I was a porn fan before I ever joined
the industry.”
Hailing from a village of only two-thousand people near Brighton, England, the
August 2024 Twistys Treat recounted how she was raised by her single mother who
has always fully supported her career choice.
“She was absolutely just so believing in me and embraced my slightly deviant
sexual nature,” Ritchie said in the winners circle. “She’d take me to burlesque shows.
I never even thought I would move to LA, let alone come to Vegas.”
Holding back tears, Ritchie added, “Even sitting in the crowd last year was surreal
to me. So this is an unbelievable jump-off, I can’t even believe it, to be honest.”
Her agent Mark Spiegler can.
Speaking to AVN on Sunday evening from his home in LA, Spiegler recalled how
Gal contacted him before and then after the pandemic, expressing how interested
she was in coming to America to enter the major leagues of porn.
“She’s always been into the sex-worker stuff, she used to read about it all the time,”
Spiegler told AVN. “It’s kind of what she always wanted to do.”
They devised a game-plan early on and Ritchie executed it.
“We try not to just book scenes, we try to guide a career, especially if you get a
brand new girl like that with potential,” Spiegler said.
French super-stud Vince Karter cruised into Vegas with a whopping 265 credits
in 2024 and an industry-leading 19 individual nominations. He left with the most
prestigious individual award for a male performer and additional trophies for Best
Tag-Team Sex Scene and Best Gangbang Scene.
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