Addison Rae’s newest single, “Times Like These,” from her recently released debut album Addison, has dropped along with a music video to accompany it. The video features Addison along with her lover on the Staten Island Ferry. Soon enough, TikTok began noticing something peculiar about who was cast to play Addison’s partner.
Being none other than Giovanni, who runs the TikTok account Giovanni’s Kitchen, where he makes TikTok’s about his job as a line cook in New York. After many users spotted this and began asking if it was “the really hot line cook from NYC”, Giovanni took to the comments on TikTok, confirming that it is him.
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Subsequently, he also made a TikTok reacting to the video in which he asks, “Do you think this guy cooks?”
Gio is a transgender man who has almost 200k followers on TikTok and shares videos of his day-to-day life as a line cook and reflecting on his transition journey.
It’s no doubt his content has quite a following, and after starting to watch FX’s The Bear, I understand the appeal.
On Instagram, Gio shared a still of himself and Rae from the music video, writing: “Big day to be on the Staten Island ferry.”
Gio also took time to congratulate his co-star on her critically acclaimed debut record and thanked her for letting him be a part of her world, as well as the video crew, including director Ethan James Green.
Addison has recently been considered one of the best albums of 2025 by both critics and the LGBTQ+ music scene. Rae is noted for incorporating LGBTQ+ people within her music projects, with trans popstar Arca releasing a remixed version of the song “Aquamarine” in collaboration with Rae.
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