Influencer Clavicular Shuts Down ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Over Andrew Tate Question
A 60 Minutes Australia segment on the looksmaxxing community came to an abrupt end on April 12 when the interview’s subject, 20-year-old influencer Braden Peters, walked off the set after correspondent Adam Hegarty asked him about his association with controversial online figure Andrew Tate.
Peters, known online as Clavicular, is widely viewed as a leading figure in the looksmaxxing community — an online movement of young men pursuing methods to maximize their physical attractiveness.
The interview came two days before Peters was hospitalized over a suspected overdose, according to Us Weekly.
Clavicular Pressed About Associations With Andrew Tate
The interview had already grown tense by the time Hegarty raised the subject of Tate. After a back-and-forth over the incel origins of the term “looksmaxxing,” Hegarty asked Peters why he spends time with controversial figures like Tate.
“I guess you watched the Piers interview,” Peters said, referring to his interview with Piers Morgan in February.
During that interview, Peters was pressed about his associations with controversial figures like Tate and Nick Fuentes. Peters, who felt the interview was getting too political, responded by insulting Morgan’s wife.
Peters then used that same tactic against Hegarty when asked about Tate.
“Too bad I didn’t have time to look into anything about, potentially, who your wife cheated with,” Peters told Hegarty. “But don’t try to go down that line of questioning with me, alright? Because I’m not doing any political jestering.”
Hegarty clarified that he wasn’t married, to which Peters offered a sarcastic parting line before leaving the set.
“So I could teach you about looksmaxxing, and then maybe you could switch that up. Thanks for the time, appreciate the interview,” Peters said before having his microphone removed.
Clavicular Was Already Fed Up With the Questions
The Tate question came at the end of a sequence that had already put Peters on the defensive.
Earlier in the interview, Hegarty had asked Peters whether he identifies as an incel — a question Peters initially criticized for its placement after questions about his relationships with women.
“How could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me about my relationships to women? I mean, that’s quite literally the worst sequence of questions I think I’ve ever heard,” Peters said.
The Anti-Defamation League defines incels as “heterosexual men who blame women and society for their lack of romantic success.” Hegarty rephrased the question to focus on the word’s origins in incel communities online.
Peters denied any link and described looksmaxxing as a form of self-improvement aimed at moving beyond that category.
“I’m not linked to that group in any way,” Peters said. “Looksmaxxing is self improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense.”
Clinical psychologist Dr. Rachel Needle described the practice to NBC Miami earlier this month.
“Looksmaxxing is basically trying to maximize physical attractiveness. There’s the less extreme, and then it goes to extreme. I call it soft maxxing and hard maxxing,” she said.
It was immediately after this exchange that Hegarty pivoted to the Tate question, and the interview ended shortly after.
How Did Clavicular’s Team Respond?
A spokesperson for Peters told People that the influencer had ended the interview deliberately, describing the exit as a response to questioning he considered outside his expertise.
“When the journalist pressed him on a topic that isn’t of his expertise, Clavicular shut him down. Clavicular is young, but he understands the media, and he can spot a dishonest reporter when he sees one,” the spokesperson told People.
The spokesperson said Clavicular is an expert on looksmaxxing, not politics, and shut the interview down when pressed outside that expertise.
Tate, who has a large online following of his own, has become a frequent reference point in coverage of online masculinity movements, and his name surfacing in the interview appeared to be the point at which Peters decided the conversation was over.
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