Georgia McCann has brought a new man into the orbit of Next Gen NYC, introducing Prez Thomas as her boyfriend and calling him a completely different ballgame from her ex. On Next Gen NYC Season 2, she said she knows what he is doing this time around, but she also made clear that he is not in crypto. He is crypto-adjacent.
That label matters because Thomas is not being presented as a vague off-screen boyfriend. He is part of the story now, and the show gave viewers enough to place him: he works as the chief marketing officer for FactMachine, a company that bills itself as an opinion market where users wager not on what will happen, but on what people believe. McCann also said he and Thomas are one week apart in age, were born in the same year, and that he is a New Yorker, which she described as important to her.
The reveal landed on July 2, when Episode 2 began streaming on Peacock, and it followed a trail that had already started turning heads. In October 2025, McCann posted a blurry Instagram photo of the two kissing. Thomas later said they met at a dinner party around six months ago, and he described what followed as a beautiful, fiery romance in its beginnings. By the time he appeared on camera, the relationship was no longer a rumor. It was a storyline.
The work behind that storyline is what makes Thomas stand out. McCann said he is building a betting platform that runs a poll every day, where the wager is based on opinion rather than a concrete outcome. Her example was blunt: a question such as whether Is Mamdani is hot. That is the friction in the setup. McCann is saying she understands his world, but the world itself is built on the unstable business of guessing what people think. It is a far cry from the cleaner image of crypto, even if she says the company drew funding from crypto places because he used to kind of be in crypto.
There was a smaller, stranger detail on the side of all that. During a date over high tea on July 1, McCann asked Thomas if he had gone to manners school while growing up. He answered by saying being a little bit of a slob is kind of cool, and she replied that it made them perfect because neither of them washes their hands. Thomas later said he does not wash his hands as much as he used to, and McCann finished the thought for him. It is the kind of throwaway exchange reality TV lives on, but it also fits the larger picture she is trying to sell: she is not guessing who he is. She says she already knows.
What viewers do not yet know is how far that certainty goes. McCann has shown enough to identify Thomas as her boyfriend, his job, and the odd economics of his work, but not enough to make the relationship feel settled. For now, the Next Gen NYC cast has a new couple, a new industry hook and a new question hanging over both: whether this romance stays a fling-sized plot point or becomes one of the season’s main threads.
