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“From the moment I’m awake it’s the
first thing I think about. It’s how are
my guys doing?”
—Skitty
.“I loved playing this character,” Pistol said in the winners circle. “I never got to dive
into somebody so serious and give him a backstory. Like, why is this guy like this?
And he looks … you see him as the villain, but I think he’s just somebody who had to
survive through a rough world.
“And that’s the kind of idea that I had about creating this character. And developing
him with Ricky was amazing. I’ve been waiting 20 years to get a role like this.
“It actually was—besides maybe Pee-Wee Herman that I did for Vivid—this was
definitely the most challenging and the most rewarding one.”
It also was rewarding for superstar performer Riley Reid, a 2025 AVN Hall of Fame
inductee who plays the female lead in Strip in her return to features after an extended
break from studio work since 2022.
“I always loved scripted feature films,” Reid told AVN backstage. “That was the
biggest thing that inspired me and on top of that it was also a company I’ve never
shot for, so that was another thing that was a home run for me.
“Because I love the adult industry so much and I wanted to be able to provide
some content for a company that didn’t have any Riley to make some money off of.
So I was really happy to be part of their company and diversify myself a little.”
The dynamic, U.K.-based star Mama Plugs won the Fan-Voted AVN Award for
Favorite Independent Female Creator for the second straight year. A 12-year industry
veteran from The Midlands, U.K., who now resides in Cornwall, Mama Plugs got into
content creation when she was 18, cultivating one of the most loyal fan-bases in
adult with her flair for comedy and her high-quality, anal-driven content.
A former “emo-scene kid” who took her stage name from her Tumblr persona in
2008, Plugs says “social media is where I kind of thrive” and in the past year since
her first win, that she’s gained a lot more confidence.
“I really enjoy comedy so I do a lot of skits, so a lot of the time personality is on
the forefront and sexy is like 10th,” Plugs said with a laugh. “It’s funny like my lowest
viewed videos are always the sexy ones but the ones where I’m doing weird stuff
everyone loves.”
The veteran cam model known as Skitty on MyFreeCams won the Fan-Voted
Favorite Cam Girl award. Originally from California, Skitty started her live streaming
career in 2014, taking a lot of breaks before going full force in mid-2016 when she
quit her job and got her own place.
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