Who is Leah Halton? Australian influencer set to break records on TikTok

Leah Halton is on her way to breaking several records for the most-liked video on TikTok, but who is she, and what’s her story?

23-year-old Leah Halton is an Australian influencer known primarily for her fitness and lifestyle content. Much of her videos on both TikTok and YouTube focus on her career as a model, as well as her daily life with her boyfriend, Adrian.

At time of writing, Leah currently has 1.23 million subscribers on YouTube, as well as 6.8 million followers on TikTok. Her videos there frequently get view figures in the tens of millions, and one of her most successful videos is set to break TikTok’s record for the most-liked video ever.

Currently, the most-liked video on TikTok is Bella Poarch’s lip-sync to “M to the B”, which has garnered 64.4 million likes.

However, Leah Halton is well on her way to beating that number, with videos that consistently get likes in the tens of millions. One video in particular, also a lip-sync, currently sits at 43 million likes.

The video shows Halton lip-syncing to the song ‘Praise Jah in the Moonlight’ by YG Marley as she sits in a car. The simple 12-second clip has garnered a swath of comments, with most users posting the date of their comment and the amount of likes the video had received at that time.

Aside from her lifestyle videos, Halton has garnered quite a reputation for using TikTok’s inverted filter on videos similar to her current most-liked upload. Viewers constantly compare the influencer to other high-profile names like singer Madison Beer and even model Adriana Lima.

Halton has even honored these comparisons by creating an Adriana Lima-inspired makeup look on her YouTube channel, which currently boasts a quarter-million views.

Halton has also collaborated with a couple of other major influencers such as makeup artist James Charles and RiceGum. She’s gained over 1 million followers on Instagram since starting her account back in 2014, considering she had less than half that amount at the beginning of 2023.

It’s clear that Halton is on the come-up as the internet’s next “it girl” as her followers eagerly await her to take over Bella Poarch’s TikTok record.