Owen Thiele On ‘Girl Room, ‘Adults,’ & Taylor Swift

When I was told I’d be meeting Owen Thiele at his apartment to chat about becoming the host of Girl Room, an online home makeover series from Amazon Prime, I didn’t expect him to be moving into a new place of his own. As I walk into the 29-year-old actor's Spanish-style, two-story home on the east side of Los Angeles, Thiele is quick to point out the packed boxes in the corner with random items like trophies and tennis rackets. “I need somebody to come in and Girl Room me, but it needs to be the opposite,” he says. “They need to just buy me stuff and fix my room up.”

The blank canvas abode feels on-brand for Thiele and his current gig. In each episode of Girl Room, which airs every Tuesday on Instagram and TikTok, the California native helps one messy girl with a complete room transformation, and the things he’s seen in these spaces have been “shocking,” according to his analysis. “The first room I thought was the grossest thing I've ever seen in my life, and then, I saw the second room.” While sitting on his massive white couch, the only real ...