‘America’s Got Talent’ on NBC: Who is Shenay Kloss? Insect handler specializes in handling scorpions

Shenay Kloss will show off her skills handling exotic insects like tarantulas, scorpions, and mantises
Shenay Kloss is all set to wow judges and audiences in upcoming episode with her novelty bugs (Scott Casey Durkin/NBC)
Shenay Kloss is all set to wow judges and audiences in upcoming episode with her novelty bugs (Scott Casey Durkin/NBC)

When an aspiring artist gets a televised platform to showcase their talent, global recognition is sure to follow. On 'America's Got Talent', they also earn the opportunity to win a million dollars. But the cherry on top, and long-standing dream of its contestants, is to secure a chance to perform for their fans as a headlining main act in Las Vegas. That kind of showcase is a total game-changer for any performer and that is exactly what NBC’s popular and iconic talent hunt reality show is here to provide.

But with each succeeding year, the bar gets set a little higher. The show now has high expectations to be deemed worthy by the studio audience, judges and viewers at home. Each artist and act has to give in their thousand percent so that they all have a fair and real chance to win Season 17 of ‘America’s Got Talent’. Judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Sofia Vergara are not opposed to giving some career-grounding advice so the contestants had better be prepared, But contestant Shenay Kloss may be less worried than most because she boasts of a skill very few have — dealing with novelty insects and bugs that are usually seen as prime fodder for nightmares.

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‘America’s Got Talent’ has made its comeback to screens and also raised the bar. One of the much awaited audition performances is that of the San Diego based hoop artist and insects’ handler Shenay Kloss. This act has not been revealed in any sort by the preview clip, which has audiences more excited to watch it in the upcoming episode.

Who is Shenay Kloss?

Shenay Kloss owns and works with exotic animals and bugs like tarantulas, cockroaches, mantises, scorpions and so on. Besides being an insect’s handler, she is an actress and dancer as well. She also loves doing cooking. She has appeared in a short film named ‘Stop Bugging Me’ as Alice Kingsley.

Whilst Shenay Kloss is not active on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, she is an active YouTuber. Her YouTube channel has almost more than 5.7K followers.

Her YouTube channel's description says, “Welcome to my life as a crazy bug lady! I collect tarantulas, true spiders, praying mantis, scorpions!.” She joined Youtube back in August 2020. Even though her followers are on the lower side, her novelty insect- handling audition in the upcoming episode is sure to attract new followers.

A quick look at her videos show her deal with a variety of insect species like a variety of spiders and scorpions, praying mantis, orchid mantis, isopods, centipede, aquatic bugs, giant toe biter water bugs, mauths, weevils, leeches, and even cockroaches!
 
Her most watched video on Youtube is “How to handle a Scorpion! with demonstrations!.” In the video she starts of by explaining about the way and tactics used to handle a scorpion in a safe way ensuring both the animal and the person’s safety. Talking about same, she says, “The best thing could be to not handle scorpion but you have to go into it understanding that if we’re holding a scorpion it’s for our own benefit. Scorpions don’t play and enjoy being handled and if anything happens where they pinch or sting us, it is our fault as we picked it up and not the animal’s fault.”



 

Shenay Kloss on ‘America’s Got Talent’ Season 17

At present, the makers haven’t revealed or dropped any early performance preview or short clip related to Shenay Kloss’s anticipated 'novelty animals' act for her audition performance. The fans are really thrilled to witness her mind-blowing techniques while handling such dangerous insects.

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America's Got Talent’ Season 17 airs every Tuesday at 8 pm ET on NBC. For viewers who want to watch the reality show without cable, they can use any of these streaming services like Sling TV, fuboTV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T TV or YouTube TV as well.

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