Austin Armacost

Did You Know?

• He married Jake Lees in July 2010 while filming The A-List: New York, traveling to England for the legal ceremony.
• Armacost was runner-up on Celebrity Big Brother series 16 in 2015, losing to James Hill.

Early life

Austin Armacost entered the world on March 28, 1988, in Muncie, Indiana, and grew up in Franklin, a suburb of Indianapolis. He realized his homosexuality early in life, stating he never encountered negativity or discrimination about it, and came out at age 14. His older brother, Tyler, born in 1985 and who passed away in 2013, was a supportive figure. Armacost attended Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis, where he participated in track and pole vaulting.

Career

At age 16, Armacost sought a career as a model in high school, traveling to Chicago from Indianapolis two to three times a month. He eventually moved to Chicago a day after graduating high school to pursue his career. In 2010, Armacost was cast on the Logo LGBT reality series The A-List: New York, after seeing a casting for a show. The series followed Armacost, as well as five other gay and bisexual men living in New York City.

He appeared in the show's two seasons before its cancellation in June 2012. On August 27, 2015, Armacost entered the Celebrity Big Brother house as a housemate in the sixteenth series competing for 'Team USA.' On September 24, Armacost was deemed the runner-up, losing out to James Hill. Following their appearance in the series, both Armacost and Hill were awarded the 'TV Moment of the Year' at the 2015 Attitude Awards.

In 2017, Armacost returned to Celebrity Big Brother for the All-Star nineteenth series. He was evicted in a series twist where fellow housemates voted him as the 'dullest housemate,' finishing fifteenth overall.