The Eras of Georgia Wood

Sleaze’s Lily Newman sat down with the Queen of Maidstone, Georgia Wood, to discuss all things from Stonehenge to G-A-Y and her millions of eras in between.

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Georgia Wood, 27-year-old Content Creator, Actor and Personality, walks into my office and tells me that she’s “really hungover”- actually, “I think I may still be drunk.” Clad in a full Juicy Couture velour tracksuit, oversized Miu Miu sunglasses (despite the overcast sky), and with icy platinum hair, she looks every bit the off-duty WAG.

“From what?” I ask. Everything she says is immediately funny.

“Mighty Hoopla! I was doing shots 'til 5 AM.” She laughs with an infectious cackle that turns everyone's heads and suddenly all eyes are on her.

Not the typical 9-5, but for Georgia and her fellow digital stars, work can consist of going to a festival, having a laugh with their mates, and posting it on the internet.

TikTok’s self-labelled ‘personality hire’ is known for her hysterical quips, one-liners, and hilarious moments. But how did a normal girl from a small town in Maidstone end up in the world of 5* trips and big campaign brand deals?

Known for viral moments like the time a friend filmed her in Paris, hungover in bed with mascara smudged and hair dishevelled, asking for room service-“Bonjour, do you speak English?”-now viewed over five million times. Or the clip of Georgia (again hungover) driving past UNESCO World Heritage Site: Stonehenge, jaw open in disbelief: “Is that it? I can’t believe it… you’re joking,” viewed now more than 6 million times and actually once used as a question on an American quiz show.

It’s clear that Georgia is hilarious. She has that sort of beloved English humour - part Gavin and Stacey, part Peep Show. Almost everything she says has the potential to become some kind of universal inside joke that ends up on a keychain. She brings a sort of unfiltered authenticity to the polished, perfect world of influencers who fill the social media world with GRWM (‘Get Ready With Me’) videos, matcha latte reviews or slicked-back bun tutorials. An antidote to the clean-girl, Georgia shows up online- usually hungover, or filmed by her friends at 2 AM with a line so funny, so brilliant that it could easily find its way to be the name of your friendship group chat on WhatsApp.

I ask when she first knew she was funny. She tells me she was doing performances on her windowsill at age three. A natural attention-seeker, she says, one who loved to make people laugh but didn’t realise she was funny. It was only when her videos began exploding online that she realised her humour had some bizarre sort of universality. Georgia began as a dance competition child who did everything from musical theatre, tap, to acting, and was even cheer captain for Gillingham’s football team. Performance was natural to her, but school was a slightly different story. Before leaving school at age sixteen to pursue acting, Georgia was asked by her headmaster to instead do all her lessons in the sports hall because her behaviour had become too rowdy for the classroom. “It got to the point where my mum nearly sent me to one of those schools for naughty kids where you’re only allowed two days a week,” she laughs.

Coaxed gently by her agent sitting next to her, who she jokingly refers to as ‘literally my dad’, he notes that she hadn’t always been the naughty kid at school. Georgia opens up about the harder parts of her childhood. Losing her father at thirteen felt like a turning point in her life. When that happened, she felt so much sadness that she decided she just didn’t care about anything anymore. Everything in her world started changing, and she just felt like she had no control. Then the aforementioned PE department, who had taken her in, turned around and told her that if she kept this new attitude up, she would eventually be kicked out of school and become nothing more than a ‘bum’.

But she didn’t end up a bum at all. She’s now one of the ironic it-girls of the post-pandemic digital landscape. Occasionally mobbed on the streets of Soho and a beloved icon to the girls and gays. Indeed, “In Freedom [nightclub] I can’t get a breath of fresh air.” But ultimately, it's “nice to know that what I’m doing is making people laugh and making people feel better.”

In Lockdown (2020), where her now cohort of TikTokers did what we all wish we had done: picked up the camera and, for God’s sake started filming, Georgia was now working (badly, she admits) as a PA for a man called Michael who owned a curtain shop and drove a Ferrari around George Street. It was there that she would post ‘Storytime’ videos- only for her friends- from her office chair, which she called ‘Aladdin’s Cave’, named so because her background was adorned with curtain tie-backs and metal curtain rings. I ask her why she didn’t let the public in on something so hilarious as her Aladdin’s Cave tales, but I’m told that “in drama school it’s drummed into you to never make a tit of yourself online because no one will take you seriously.”

But good friend and now fellow TikToker, Jack Remmington, posted a video of Georgia online with the caption ‘no one should ever look like this hungover’ and immediately 4 million eyes were on her—begging her to create her own page. With the acting world drying up because no one could get any closer than six feet from one another, Georgia decided she had nothing to lose.

“It clicked for me and I thought I could actually do this as a full-time job, that maybe this is something that I could be good at.”

“So when did you first notice your life change?”

“It was right after I did ‘Alexa play a feel good tune’.” This was a now infamous video of Georgia on a balcony on holiday chatting with her friends. Her friend Cameron had told her to stop and please let him film her repeating what she had just said. She thought, really?

The quality was so bad it looked like it had been filmed on a “pebble,” but they uploaded it anyway and suddenly it was everywhere. Pukka Pies even used it in one of their ads, but Georgia didn’t see a penny from it.

But it was hardly plain sailing from there, Georgia, who had been once again sacked from her then-job as a gym receptionist, was trying to make ‘this TikTok thing work’. That was arguably the hardest part, she tells me - trying to make it as a content creator. When you first pick up the camera, I’m told, you’re the most organic version of yourself. But as a creator, you have to hold back a bit because you have so many people watching you. It’s also hard to establish where you fit in the industry- “during that time, I was well depressed.”

Making TikToks hadn’t quite been a ‘job’ before. Unlike platforms like YouTube, TikTok thrives on the short form-it’s just one line that can catapult someone to fame, rather than an hour-long ‘Day in the Life’ video or a curated grid of aesthetic photos.

“Making TikToks sort of went hand in hand with what my personality was like anyway- it’s like presenting.”

Friends would tell Georgia, “you just need someone to film you exactly how you are and post it.”

Now, Georgia has millions of eyes on her, and she’s pretty much made it in the glitzy world of high-end makeup-sponsored ski trips, gifted products, and living a life of chaotic fun with her posse of influencer friends-as long as she films it, edits, and uploads it online.

“It’s good that I’m my own boss because I kept getting sacked. Like at Mighty Hoopla, I was dancing in a crowd with my friends and I thought, I cannot believe this is my life.”

But a lifestyle with its pros must also come with its cons. She doesn’t have any sort of schedule and never knows what her next week, or next month, could look like. Work consists of either constantly socialising or constantly being funny. Her job is her phone, so she can never really not be on her phone.

At the end of the day, I can tell it brings Georgia joy to know that her page can provide light relief for those who seek it. She tells me that when people stop her in the street with bracelets of “bonjour do you speak English” hilariously gifted to them by their friends, or those who flag her down to tell her they love her, it makes all the burnout and chaos worth it.

She’s also aware that she embodies a type of femme queer representation that isn’t often shown online or even broadly in the world of entertainment.

“When I was in the closet in 2020, I was scrolling through TikTok looking at #lesbian and no one looked like me. And now I get messages from people who say, ‘I’m a femme girly like you I like wearing an Oh Polly dress and a heel, but I’m also gay.’”

“Now I know,” she says, “you don’t need to look a certain way to be gay, but I had to figure that out myself too. Because when I first came out, I went to Claire’s Accessories and bought a set of fake tattoos and a nose ring and did myself a full sleeve, and everyone went, ‘what the fuck is going on?’”

Georgia came out at age 23 but tells me she had no idea she was gay until she was twenty-two. Which was apparently a shock, to say the least - she literally had no clue, and her first thought was just how did I not know this about myself?

Growing up in the ’90s in Maidstone, there was apparently just one known lesbian in the whole town. It simply wasn’t something she was really exposed to until moving to London at age twenty-one, and standing in the queue for G-A-Y where she looked at a girl and thought, OMG I think I might fancy her. What followed were moments of oh, this is what everything should feel like, and after not feeling ready to talk about this part of herself, one day it suddenly ‘vomited’ out of her. Georgia texted her mum to say, “hi, just to let you know I’m seeing girls now,” who then responded, “ok x.”

My afternoon with Georgia Wood is nearly over, but I ask her if there are any moments when she suddenly becomes hyper-aware of just how many eyes are on her. My thoughts go to all the viral moments with views that make my head hurt to even try to conceptualise—was it after the Stonehenge video?

“Babe, my first thought after that was all the witches hate me, I’ve offended the witches. But yeah, it's true-I did think Christ, there are so many people who have seen that video and I’ve just come off a three-day bender and I look mental.”

Georgia Wood for Sleaze Magazine, Summer Issue 2025

Creative Direction by Kitty Gilbey and Lily Newman

Produced by Arthur Laidlaw at Sleaze Studios

Photographed by Oliver Bell, assisted by Stuart Nimmo

Styled by Arielle Gold

Hair by Kornelija Cecetaite

Makeup by Aoife Cullen

Agent – Stan Gordon