New.com.au – The former Neighbours star who is currently pregnant with her stepbrother’s baby has revealed she earns $200,000-a-month on OnlyFans – but insists she’s “not a porn star”.
Scarlet Vas, who had a brief stint on the popular soap opera before leaving in 2018, has opened up about her marriage to singer Tayo Ricci.
The pair met as teenagers while growing up in Melbourne, and later became “family” when their parents got together.
But despite becoming stepsiblings, Vas and Ricci found themselves falling in love, eventually going on to get married in Mykonos, Greece, in September last year.
Now the 29-year-old is expecting their first child, a little girl, but while they are excitedly preparing for her arrival – the bundle of joy has attracted criticism from some online.
But Vas said, despite some calling their relationship “weird” and “gross,” they never let the critics get to them.
“Honestly, it doesn’t affect us because we have each other,” she told news.com.au.
“I don’t really read our comments section, but if I do, I actually laugh. We find trolls very entertaining.
“If something’s really negative, we might comment back, we find it is quite a good disarming tactic.”
The pair first went viral in 2021 after revealing their romance in a video titled, “I fell in love with my bf’s best friend… who happens to be my step bro”.
But while she claims the clip, which showed shows Vas and Ricci being dared to kiss each other as Vas’ former boyfriend of 7 years — allegedly Ricci’s best friend — watches on, was a “skit”, she insists their relationship is the real deal.
“We’ve been together for 10 years and have just moved back to Australia after living in the US for the last five of those,” she explained.
“We were about 13 years old when we first met through mutual friends, our families knew each other and they introduced us I guess you could say. So we’ve known each other for a very long time.”
The definition of a stepfamily is the “blend” formed when two people come together and bring a child or children from previous relationships.
Vas stressed she and Ricci are “definitely not blood-related”, but added they prefer to keep the specific details of their family connection private out of respect for their parents.
Instead, she said that whenever they are quizzed about their “stepsibling” claims, they will refer people to the song Strawberry on Ice, which Ricci penned about their romance and performed to her at their wedding.
The song contains lyrics such as, “I just had belief in something, Don’t tell me my vision was wrong, Coz you and me belong,” but as far as news.com.au can tell, no clear description of what two relatives came together to make them stepbrother and stepsister.
But it hasn’t stopped the actress and musician from leveraging it on their social media accounts, which collectively have over 35 million followers.
“We didn’t set out to become influencers, it was never on our radar or ever something we ever wanted to do,” she explained.
“When I finished up on Neighbours we moved to America so I could pursue acting, but then Covid hit which affected the industry and it was really difficult.
