A chemistry student has become a TikTok sensation with nearly 4.5million followers and one billion views after creating amazing illusionist food sculptures from homemade modelling putty. Since joining the website in 2020, Giovanni Telese, 19, has seen his profile explode.
He is now spending £400 a month on supplies to make his ‘clay’ and earned £4,000 last year from “having fun and making videos”, which show him flaunting his ‘food’ and smashing it up. Devoting up to 35 hours a week to making ultra-realistic food models, ranging from burgers to cakes, using the gloopy putty he calls “slime” – which he creates from glue and bicarbonate of soda – his TikTok is in the top 10 most followed accounts in Italy, where he lives.
Giovanni, of Salerno, said: “Getting TikTok was a life-changing moment. It’s been so crazy. I’m just a guy who loves to mix science with art and cuisine and I never expected everything to blow up in the way that it has.
