Jay Lyon (born Brent Tuhtan on 14 June 1984) is an Australian model and musician in the band Tamarama, and

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star who appeared in '' The Hills'' and '' The City'' television series.

Career

Jay Lyon started off his career as a model and is a member of the band ''Tamarama'', which took its name from the suburb of

Tamarama Tamarama is a beachside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tamarama is 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council. Tamarama has a small ocean b ...

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, Australia. They get their influences from beachside folk-pop artists such as Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce, along with fellow member Nicolas ''Pottsy'' Potts the band released their first

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/ EP, ''Wonderland City'' on 7 May 2008, named after the Wonderland City amusement park in

, and on 1 June 2010 they released their first full album titled ''Tamarama'' on label Universal/Motown. In 2008 Lyon appeared in the American

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teen series, '' The Hills'', and shortly afterwards followed that up by appearing in the MTV spin-off series, '' The City'', playing the part of

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's boyfriend, with whom he was having a relationship in real life. In 2014 Lyon co-founded the Original Meatball Company with Dominic Lopresti, a restaurant specializing in meatballs inspired by Lyon's experiences in

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. From February 2015 to February 2017 Lyon operated a recruitment business, Lyon Recruitment. Lyon Recruitment provided Labour Market Testing services to immigrants to Australia to obtain skilled work visas. Lyon also worked as a paralegal at Perez Varela Lawyers during these years. In 2016 to present, Lyon is a partner in a production company with long time friend and artist and photographer Nick Leary. The company named The Aesthetic create visual assets for luxury brands and property developments. Their most recent work being for Australia's most prestigious residential property development One

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Personal life

In 2003 Jay Lyon dated Australian supermodel

Miranda Kerr Miranda May Kerr (; born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australian department store c ...

. The couple were together for four years before ending their relationship in 2007. In 2008, he started a relationship with American reality TV star

, and starred on the TV series '' The Hills'' and '' The City'' alongside her, before he cheated on her and subsequently ditched her to go tour with his band in 2009. Growing up he was a student at the exclusive St Aloysius' College in

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, Sydney.

Discography

* ''Wonderland City'' (2008) * ''Tamarama'' (2010)

Filmography

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyons, Jay 1983 births Singers from Sydney Australian male models Models from Sydney Living people Male actors from Sydney Participants in American reality television series Australian male singer-songwriters People from the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) 21st-century Australian singers 21st-century Australian singer-songwriters