Austin Armacost

{{short description|American reality television personality|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Austin Armacost is an American reality television personality who rose to fame in 2010 as a cast member in the Logo reality television series The A-List: New York which followed the lives of six gay and bisexual men in New York City.

In 2015, he competed in the sixteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, where he became runner-up. He re-entered the house in 2017 during the nineteenth series as an "All Star" in which he was the fourth to leave the house, placing fifteenth.

Personal life

Armacost started dating fashion designer Marc Jacobs in March 2008; the couple split the following year.

Armacost was married to a British man named Jake Lees{{cite web|url=http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/austin-armacost-ive-split-husband/|title=Austin Armacost: Why I've split from my husband|date=26 July 2016|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://attitude.co.uk/austin-armacost-talks-cbb-finding-love-and-why-he-has-a-thing-for-british-boys/|title=Austin Armacost talks CBB, finding love, and why he has a thing for British boys|date=25 August 2016|publisher=}} for eight years.{{cite web|url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/03/who-is-austin-armacost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-celebrity-big-brother-2017-housemate-6357052/|title=Everything you need to know about Celebrity Big Brother's Austin Armacost|first=Emily Hewett for|last=Metro.co.uk|date=3 January 2017|publisher=}} They separated in 2016.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

Austin celebrated his one-year anniversary with new boyfriend, IT Business Architect Darren Banks in September 2017.{{Cn|date=July 2022}}

''Celebrity Big Brother''

On 27 August 2015, Armacost entered the Celebrity Big Brother house as a housemate in the sixteenth series competing for "Team USA" and finished as runner up to James Hill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/celebrity-big-brother-2015-lineup-chloe-jasmine-jenna-jameson-gail-porter-10475838.html|title=Celebrity Big Brother 2015: This year's line up revealed|website=Independent.co.uk |date=28 August 2015}} Following their appearance in the series, both Austin and James won "TV Moment of the Year" at The Attitude Awards 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.reveal.co.uk/showbiz-celeb-gossip/news/a673879/cbbs-james-hill-austin-armacost-look-so-dapper-at-attitude-awards.html|title = Digital Spy - Showbiz news, showbiz pictures, showbiz interviews}}

He returned again as an All-Star for Celebrity Big Brother 19 and was evicted in a twist, which saw him voted as the "dullest housemate". He finished in fifteenth place.

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
2010–11 \| The A-List: New York \| rowspan="2"\| Himself \| Main cast
2015, 2017 \| Celebrity Big Brother \| Season 16: Runner-up Season 19: 15th place

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Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

2010–11

| The A-List: New York

| rowspan="2"| Himself

| Main cast

2015, 2017

| Celebrity Big Brother

| Season 16: Runner-up
Season 19: 15th place