Ten years ago. Jennifer Lopez made a movie called Maid in Manhattan that helped to turn her career around…and jump-started the career of an impossibly cute little kid named Tyler Posey. Today, at 19, Tyler is a werewolf on MTV and the host of the YouthNet’s New Year’s Eve Special, alongside another Latina sensation, Demi Lovato. He even admits he’s done more than a thousand push-ups to get his already legendary body into even more legendary shape, so–if circumstances require–he can take his shirt off at the drop of a New Year’s ball. You can check him out–literally–below, on MTV’s recently released promo:
Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, began performing on stage with his actor/writer dad, John Posey at the age of six. He even worked with him on a number of episodes of Billy Ray Cyrus’ early cable series, Doc. But the most recent big break came with MTV’s Teen Wolf, where the former kid-star is now a bona fide teen dream…and being an MTV host puts him pretty much at the top of this game.
And that, of course, is only the beginning. Next year he’ll be starring in Taco Shop, an independent comedy from director-cowriter Rick Najera, along with Carlos Alazraqui, Eric Roberts, and Felipe Esparza, and shortly after that he’ll appear in the family drama White Frog. You can see an impressive trailer for it right here.
Clearly, this kid is just getting started…even though he’s already been at it for more than ten years.
