IN JUST a few months, Gold Coast teenager Kurt Jay Coleman has become Australia’s most well-known 17-year-old.

The high school dropout, who refers to himself as the Australian Paris Hilton, has amassed an impressive 89,000 Instagram followers and more than 177,000 Facebook fans.

The spray tan “obsessed” teen updates his social media sites daily with a steady supply of selfies and insightful one-liners, such as, “Have you ever looked in the mirror and you can’t actually believe it’s you because you just look so amazing that it can’t be true?”

His internet fame has led to recent appearances on TV shows such as Studio 10 and radio programs like Kyle and Jackie O and Fitzy and Wippa.

News.com.au caught up with the tan-riffic teen to find out what life’s really life for Australia’s most fabulous man:

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On finding fame: “I didn’t really plan it or anything. I just be who I am and everyone seems to be fascinated by that. People come up to me all day, people that don’t like me, people that love me, and they follow me around. They stalk me, and it’s kind of a bit creepy but it’s funny.”

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On death threats: “They come up to me and say, ‘I hate you or I’m gonna kill you.’ And I’m like, ‘OK then’. They have mental issues obviously and they need to get them sorted out because it’s just embarrassing. They’re just dumb. There’s something wrong with them in the head if they say that to someone. I’ve never even thought I’m going to kill someone because I’m not messed up in the head.”

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On dropping out of high school last year: “I don’t even care about school. Like, I don’t want to learn about stuff that I don’t care about. I’d rather just learn about myself. If someone teaches you something, unless you’re really passionate about it you’re not going to really take it in.

“I know how to speak, how to write, I know how to like add up stuff. But school never taught me how to read a clock ever. The whole time I went to school I still can’t read a clock properly because I never got taught it. That just shows how stupid schools are. They teach you the things that don’t even matter. These days obviously I can just use my phone if I want to know the time.”

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On how he makes a living: “In the last couple of months, I get paid to go to like people’s birthday parties and stuff. I just rock up there for half an hour, and like I got paid $200 to go to a birthday party once and I’m like, ‘OK’. I also got paid to go to a yoghurt shop three weeks ago and I got $100 to go there and eat a yoghurt and take a photo. I just get paid to go to heaps of places.”

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On the biggest problem with other 17-year-olds: “All they care about is fitting in and being like everyone else. Like, I don’t care about that because I’ve never fitted in so I don’t care. They just care about, you know, being pretty or whatever but they don’t care about who they are.

If you’re confident and you love who you are, it shows through you. If I didn’t love myself people wouldn’t even notice. But because I love who I am, I think I’m amazing, it shows through your personality and makes you a better person. Most people think you have to look a certain way to be perfect, but, like, it’s all in your head honestly.”

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On how his 15-year-old brother is embarrassed by his fame: “He’s like scared of it or something. I don’t know what’s wrong with him because I don’t live with him, he lives with my grandparents, because he always has, he likes it there. He’s a bit weird about it.

“He goes, like, ‘I don’t want people to know me’ and I say, ‘Well if you’re gonna be my brother you’re gonna be known. You can’t control it.’ And he’s just like, ‘No, I don’t want to be known, I want a normal job, and I can’t if people keep saying stuff about me.’ And I’m like, ‘Who Cares? You don’t even know them, get over it.’”

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On dating: “I’m not interested in anyone or seeing anyone because I’m interested in myself and in my career at the moment. I don’t care about that.”

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On his plans to make a TV show this year: “I’m just thinking about it and what I’m going to make it about and all that.” (Note: he hasn’t been approached by any networks or production companies yet).