Julia Fox, Mel Ottenberg, JT and Richie Shazam.
Why be cute or hot when you could be both? In a pair of ruffled UGGs embellishments with bows, American rapper JT tells Editor-in-Chief Mel Ottenberg, “you could be cutesy with the cat.” Starring beside KATSEYE’s Megan Skiendiel , Lunay and Yeat for UGG’s Holiday 2026 Campaign, JT brings that energy to the fur-lined footwear brand this season. Ahead of the collection’s release, UGG teamed up with Interview for an exclusive, star-studded dinner hosted by Ottenberg and JT at the magazine’s favorite British pub, Dean’s . With celebrities like influencer Ashtin Earle , rapper Xaviersobased and writer Mackenzie Thomas in attendance, it’s clear the UGG Renaissance is here. On a celebrity-packed sidewalk outside the event, JT did not twerk on an NYC lamppost for us, but instead revealed her twerk idol, love-hate relationship with Florida, and tells us just how comfy her UGGs really are.
WEDNESDAY 10:20 PM NOVEMBER 4, 2026 NEW YORK CITY
OTTENBERG: Alright JT, what are we talking about?
OTTENBERG: Are your UGGs comfortable? You love pearls?
OTTENBERG: You are very cute. You’re so short. Are you 5’1” or 5′ 2″?
JT: I want to be 5’2”, but I think I’m 5’1” and a half.
OTTENBERG: Lily Allen is also 5’1” and a half.
JT: If somebody asked, I would like to say I’m 5’2”.
OTTENBERG: How can you be 5’2” and still so stylish, and with big boobs?
JT: Because it’s my world. It’s JT world. I make the rules, nobody else makes the rules. People think that style is about height and weight and everything—it’s just about you. Like just do it! I’m that bitch because I said so. Show the UGGs!
OTTENBERG: Oh woah, pop it pop it. Oh, you’re shy now. She got shy.
JT: Because I shake ass and I laugh. That’s what I do.
JT: I feel like every time I shake my ass I bust out laughing. It’s just like a ki to me, because I feel like I’m not really a twerker, but I wish I was. Shoutout to all the twerkers, I love when y’all shake y’all ass, but I suck at shaking my ass.
OTTENBERG: Is there someone that you think is the greatest twerker—dead or alive, famous, not famous—who is the one?
JT: Google Mizz Twerksum. It’s a lot of good twerkers in the world, but I feel like the first person who I ever looked at and was like, “Damn, she knows how to twerk,” is Mizz Twerksum.
OTTENBERG: Babe, I’ve never heard of her in my life. I don’t know.
OTTENBERG: Are you comfortable in your UGGs?
JT: I’m cozy, comfortable, cutesy. When you feel a little breeze, you feel that holiday, you feel like you finna give a gift, it gives UGG. UGG gives holiday. Nobody owns a holiday like UGG.
OTTENBERG: Oh! When you’re really stressed out, what do you do to relax?
Ashtin Earle, Dara and Terrence O’Connor.
JT: No, I live here, but Miami’s my favorite city.
OTTENBERG: Shoutout Miami. Give me these pearls, I just want to see.
OTTENBERG: Oh okay, shoutout August Barron. Who’s the fur?
JT: Ooh um, child I’m so New York, this is Daniel’s I think.
OTTENBERG: Okay, fabulous. Should we go back in? We have to give presents right now.
OTTENBERG: Yeah, oh I also want to say, “Shoutout to America.”
JT: Shoutout to America and shoutout to everybody who voted blue. Florida, y’all need to fucking get it together, for real. I’m so ashamed. Florida is embarrassing because y’all keep polling red. We working on it, but at the same time, why the fuck is we still red Florida?
Cruz Valdez, Ben Barna, Dara and Mackenzie Thomas.
JT: Get with it, for real. Shoutout to Georgia. Congratulations, the fuck.
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