Turns Out Tommy Little Has A Good Reason For Suddenly Getting Naked All Over Instagram

Comedian Tommy Little is reinventing himself as an Instagram model. Well, sort of. For the past ten days, he’s been posting some out-of-character and very revealing photos of himself on social media, much to the confusion of his followers. But on Tuesday Little revealed that the snaps are actually part of a campaign to draw attention to youth homelessness and the organisations trying to fight it.

Little explained the situation on last night’s episode of The Project, telling the panel that recent census data shows that around 116,000 Australians are homeless, and that a third of that number are under the age of 25.

“When I was young, the biggest stress I had was whether or not I’d run out of LYNX Africa, so I can only imagine how awful homelessness must be,” Little joked.

The comedian also drew attention to the “bullshit” of “hostile architecture” — the practice of designing cities to make them less accommodating to rough sleepers through methods such as putting armrests in the middle of public benches and limiting access to public toilets.

So what does any of this have to do with Little flexing his abs on the internet? Well it turns out that the clothes he was modelling in his Insta photos were purchased from HoMie, a Melbourne-based charity that uses 100 percent of its profits to help homeless Australians.

Not only that, but each image was taken in a location where “instead of being met with hostility, Aussies affected by homelessness instead find kindness.” One was taken outside Launch Housing, which provides housing and support to homeless people, while another was taken inside HoMie’s Melbourne store.

Little has since gone back and added captions to the photos encouraging his followers to support homeless charities.

Photo 6 of 10. Swipe to have a look at Launch Housing. Launch Housing are one of Victoria’s largest providers of housing and homelessness support services. They provide crisis accommodation and are constantly at capacity, under resourced and bursting at the seams. The day of this shoot there was a young woman crying outside and so I went over and spoke to her. She was trying to get away from an abusive partner and if Launch couldn’t help her then she would be sleeping on the street or returning to that same violent house. I gave her enough money for accommodation for the night in case she couldn’t get in and a big hug, I was covered in fake tan and so I think maybe we both regretted the hug. The housing situation is so fucked for so many, so if you’d like to donate to launch you can do so by heading to launchhousing.org.au For the purposes of transparency I donated 1000 dollars to Launch. #beamodel

A post shared by Tommy Little (@mrstommylittle) on Apr 17, 2018 at 1:51am PDT

Photo 7 of 10. This shoot that made me and you wet was at the @lighthousefoundation, swipe to see the glamour of their bins and alleyway (I’m so wet you can nearly see my alleyway too). The @lighthousefoundation provides homeless young people from backgrounds of long-term neglect and abuse, with a home, a sense of family, and around-the-clock therapeutic care that is individually tailored, trauma informed and proven to work. These guys do amazing work so if you want to find out more or donate head to lighthousefoundation.org.au For the purposes of you thinking I’m a legend I donated 1000 dollars to the Lighthouse foundation. #beamodel

A post shared by Tommy Little (@mrstommylittle) on Apr 17, 2018 at 1:52am PDT

You can find out more about the causes Little has been supporting by visiting his Instagram, and you can watch his appearance on The Project below.

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Feature image by Stu Morley via Tommy Little/Instagram