Clavicular walked out of a 60 Minutes Australia interview after being questioned about his connection to Andrew Tate, ending a tense exchange that had turned from self-improvement into confrontation. The 20-year-old social media star, also known online as a so-called looksmaxxer, was being interviewed by Adam Hegarty when he stood up and left.
Hegarty had been asking Braden Eric Peters, the name given for Clavicular in the report, about looksmaxxing theory, self-improvement and his views on women. The interview then shifted to why Peters had spent time with Andrew Tate and other controversial figures, including an appearance earlier this year in videos with Nick Fuentes and Tate in which the three men chanted along to Kanye West’s track Heil Hitler.
Peters pushed back immediately, accusing Hegarty of trying to turn the interview into politics. He pointed to his February interview with Piers Morgan and warned Hegarty not to go down the same line of questioning, adding a remark about Hegarty’s wife before cutting him off: “Too bad I didn’t have time to look into anything about who your wife cheated with, but don’t try and go down that line of questioning with me.” When Hegarty replied, “I’m not married,” Peters answered, “I could teach you about looksmaxxing then,” before adding, “Maybe you could switch that up… thanks for the time… appreciate the interview.”
The confrontation mattered because Peters has built his online profile from TikTok and Instagram clips of him mogging other men and rating other people’s appearances, while repeatedly insisting he is not political. In the interview, he also said he was not linked to incel communities and described looksmaxxing as self-improvement meant to help someone move away from that world, saying it was about “disassociating from being an incel and overcome that.” He also said, when pressed on the issue, that it was “nothing to do with it.”
That leaves a clear answer to the question raised by the walkout: Peters did not want the interview framed around Andrew Tate, and when Hegarty kept pressing on that connection, he ended the exchange rather than address it further. For a figure whose fame rests on image, self-improvement and online provocation, the interview showed how quickly those themes collapse when the conversation turns to who he chooses to stand beside.
