After turning heads on Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, Nathan Webb is stepping into a very different kind of reality TV chaos with Perfect Set. The new OFTV competition series blends beach volleyball, strategy, alliances, and creator-fueled mayhem as contestants battle it out for a $50,000 grand prize. Hosted by Kazumi and packed with a cast of creators, athletes, and reality personalities in an intense showdown, the series pushes competitors both physically and socially in ways viewers may not expect.
In our interview, Nathan, who we previously chatted with about OFTV’s cooking competition series This is Fire, opens up about transitioning from dating shows to high-energy competition television, how platforms like OnlyFans have changed the creator landscape, and why Perfect Set may be the wildest project he’s tackled yet.
You first caught audiences’ attention on Too Hot to Handle, and your career has evolved a lot since then. Looking back, how do you feel that your journey has changed over the past few years?
That’s a great question. I think social media is huge. When I first came off Too Hot to Handle and Netflix, it wasn’t paywall social media. It was Instagram, it was TikTok, it was YouTube, Snapchat, that sort of thing. And really, in the last few years with the growth of OFTV, my main platform is really OnlyFans and how they’ve tied that together with all the different shows that OFTV produces. It’s allowed me…I’m in Miami now, so I moved to Miami because it’s more of a hub for OFTV more so than Instagram, than, for other different networks and things. So, if you think about how it’s adapted, I guess it’s sent me coast to coast right now.
Between your reality television appearances, your content creation, your fitness program, and now competition programming, you’ve built a very diverse career. What’s been the biggest lesson in learning how to navigate all those different spaces?
I honestly, I told myself I used to be a big “say yes to everything” person. I would say yes to everything, and for the most part I still do, but it’s allowed me to be a little bit more picky because I was going half in on so many different things as opposed to going all in on one. I’ve taken a step away from the dating show style reality television and I’m having so much fun doing This Is Fire and Perfect Set. We did a pickleball competition show with OFTV (Smash City) and I’m finding it so much more fun just to focus on these competition series and it’s changing the content I produce. A lot of my stuff now is more fitness and gym-related, so it’s adapted in that way.
Since you’ve been on This is Fire, have you continued to experiment in the kitchen? And have you had any notable successes and/or failures?
The answer is yes. I will say that when I moved to Miami, there aren’t really local grocery stores, so I got incredibly lazy and started Door Dashing everything. However, we just filmed another series of This Is Fire and I was forced to cook again. And you know what? I was shocked. I still have it apparently, so you’ll have to wait and see the new season of that but, yeah, I’ve still been cooking and experimenting – not a huge amount, but sticking to what I know and the knowledge is still there.
Perfect Set is the perfect mix of athleticism, strategy, chaos, and reality TV drama. What was your first reaction when you heard the concept of the show?
If you want my genuine reaction… I wasn’t originally cast for it. I happened to be in Miami and they were filming in the Keys, so I got about an hour and a half’s notice to actually appear on the show. I hadn’t played volleyball in a year or so, but I knew that there were four or five of my friends that were actually going to be on the show.
I took a two-hour Uber to the Florida Keys from Miami, and I was just watching refresher videos of volleyball serves. It was a little bit overwhelming to begin with, but once I got there, the competition takes over, so I was very excited to get into it. I obviously wanted to beat a lot of my friends that were there – and with two of my old roommates, there were a lot of head-to-heads. When you say chaos, yeah, it was for sure chaos. I didn’t expect there to be Olympians there. That was a tough one. I thought I could just show up and win this thing, and then we’ve got three or four Olympians that are showing up. I know the guys I’m playing. They’re not exactly the most athletic people, but I thought this was a perfect mix of everything.
Like you said, the show features reality TV personalities, athletes and influencers. What was the dynamic like living and competing together on the show?
It’s funny. When the cameras were rolling, everyone was obviously very locked in and it’s almost like we had two separate relationships between when we were just kind of lounging around or having lunch or going out together at night. But the second we were in competition, we were just at each other’s throats the entire time. Which again, no one took anything too personally. There were times in some of the confessionals that I said some questionable things about Jason, my old roommate and one of my best friends, so I feel like I’m allowed to, because he would know that I was joking. But yeah, it was incredibly intense. It was a real competition. There was money on the line.
Was there a particular challenge or elimination round that really pushed you outside of your comfort zone?
Not so much out of my comfort zone, but when we were playing the big beer pong with the volleyball, that was a rough one. It was my team versus Trent’s team versus Jason’s team, that was a tough one because Jason was really going in on the trash talk on that one. The game, the elimination game against Jason’s team, that was a big one. I wish we won that. Looking back, that was something that he’s held onto now for almost, what, seven months. He keeps bringing that up. That was a little bit rough. I wish we did better at that, but yeah, there’s not really any regrets.
You had worked with Kazumi before on This Is Fire. What was it like working with her and the professional coaches throughout the season?
I loved it. It doesn’t matter where she is or what she’s doing. It can be 5:00 AM or 12:00 PM at night, she is the same. She’s always so bubbly. We stay in contact a lot and we were lucky to meet on This Is Fire. I’ve been to some of her Thanksgiving parties and her Christmas parties. It’s just a familiar face. I love seeing her. She was just here in Miami actually, so I saw her again very recently and I just played volleyball with the coaches in April. We just played volleyball in Miami and three of the coaches – Avery, Elena, and Hagan – were here. Fallon didn’t come down. So that was nice. We’ve all kept in touch.
Alliances and strategy are a huge part of the competition. How intense did the social side become behind the scenes?
Quite intense, especially one of the rounds where we were trying to band together with Trent’s team to eliminate Jason’s team and then when I know it came to Trent going into the final, he didn’t pick Jason to be his partner. Honestly, we were texting in a group chat outside of the cast and they were honestly annoyed at each other. They were genuinely annoyed at each other, which it’s funny, because we’re all friends, but as soon as it’s a competition, everyone was just very, very intense and at each other’s throats.
Perfect Set is on OnlyFans TV, and OnlyFans itself has evolved, especially, with the development of the original programming. How do you think the platform is changing the relationship between creators and their audiences?
That’s a great question. I think going back to 2020, 2021 when I first launched on OnlyFans, it was still taboo. It was still… ooh, OnlyFans. You couldn’t really have it in your bio or anything on social media. And again, people would view it in a negative light. But I know a lot of athletes that are popping up on OnlyFans. There are ex-UFC fighters that are on there and there’s wrestlers and there’s obviously the guys that are volleyball players. There are so many professional athletes now on the platform because we have OFTV, which is essentially similar to YouTube, but with much cooler productions. We have full shows now that we get to participate in. Nick Kyrgios from (Smash City), he’s on OnlyFans. That’s a huge signing that you’ve got this global tennis star who is now on OnlyFans. I think now if someone asked me the question, “What do you do?” and you say, “OnlyFans”, there’s no longer that, “Ooh.” That just doesn’t exist anymore. It really doesn’t. It’s become a lot more mainstream, and that’s purely down to OFTV and how things have adapted. It’s no longer just sex workers; it’s also professional athletes.
You have built a strong fan base over the years. How has OnlyFans allowed you personally to connect with your audience differently compared to traditional social media?
I go live on my OnlyFans at least once a week, and there are people that have followed me now for four or five years, and I know a lot about these people. We speak every single day. I know a lot about them. I know where they’re from, what they do, who they’re with – like Owen, for example, a guy that I quite like. He lives in Australia. This is a guy that I never would’ve met. Jake, another guy, lives in Perth. He’s a lawyer. I met them all through different channels, met them through coaching, then met them through OnlyFans, and it’s cool.
I used to think it was odd. I remember being in West Hollywood and I was at a tanning place, this was back in 2021, and someone walked in, I can’t remember his name, and was like, “Hey, I follow you on OnlyFans.” And at the time I thought “Oof, shit, this is a little strange”. This isn’t the content I was making. But now with the shows, people are genuinely interested in seeing This is Fire and Perfect Set, and I’ll meet people now on the street in whatever city. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have to be your home city. I’ve met people in Split in Croatia that said they saw me on This is Fire, which blew my mind. It’s crazy. It just allows me to meet and actually develop a relationship with so many people that I think other social media platforms don’t offer.
Reality TV fans know you well from Too Hot to Handle, but what side of you do you think viewers will see on Perfect Set that they haven’t seen before?
They’ll see more of an athletic side of me. I played rugby for many years. I’m very athletic myself. Being on dating shows, that’s more strategic. That’s not necessarily athletic. So, when it comes to Perfect Set, I think you’ll get to see the strategic side mixed in with my athleticism, which is something that I haven’t got to show yet on reality TV.
What surprised you the most about filming this series compared to other reality projects that you’ve done?
What surprised me the most? Honestly, even with This is Fire, there was obviously prize money, but it didn’t really feel like a cutthroat competition because everyone’s having fun. It’s fun to be in the kitchen. The chef is very fun. But this one, I think because it was also my friends, there was so much that went into the competition aspect. I was very locked in. Usually when I would show up to OFTV for filming, I knew all of the production guys. Everyone has a laugh and a joke, and we make it fun, which it should be. It should be fun to film television. But this one, everyone was just locked in. No one was really talking to each other. It was very serious. And it was nice. It was a nice change. It felt like a real gritty competition show.
I saw the behind-the-scenes video that Kazumi showed around the set. What was it like filming down in the Keys?
It was beautiful. It was the first time I’ve ever been to the Keys and it’s absolutely stunning. I was lucky enough, I say lucky enough, to be added last minute, so I hadn’t planned to see it at all, so honestly, for me, my experience was probably different to the other guys. This was a shock and a really nice surprise. The Keys were stunning. We got to go and see a lot of the local bars and restaurants at night when we weren’t filming. We had our own little mini-island that we had the volleyball court set up on. We saw the sunrise every morning and were lucky enough to see the sunset too. It was beautiful. And Joey, a friend of mine down here, and I have planned to go back to the Keys because we’re going to do a little fishing trip because we both miss it.
The beaches here are so much nicer than California. The Keys are gorgeous and when you cross over to Miami Beach it just feels like you’re on vacation. It doesn’t feel like Miami. You leave Brickell or Downtown Miami, and you hit Miami Beach and it just feels like the Caribbean. It’s so nice. I’ve been here a month, and I should’ve done it two years ago.
If Perfect Set would return for another season, would you want to do it again, or was once enough?
Yes. That is an easy yes. I was very lucky to play in a volleyball tournament down here in Miami Beach called Model Volleyball that we filmed and played last month. Would I practice for the next year? Absolutely. I didn’t know the level of competition would be as high as it was. Knowing a couple of my friends were competing, I was like, “All right, those guys are idiots. They’re not going to be great.” But then we had some collegiate volleyball players. We had the pros. We had some guys that were really good. I would love to go back but, for my own ego, I would like to practice for a year before I went back.
The last time we talked we talked about your fitness venture, Reach New Heights. Any updates?
I slowed it down. The issue I was having is I always told myself that I didn’t want to make fitness a job, because it was my hobby. When I started making it a job, I started to fall out of love with it, and I really didn’t want to do that. I didn’t think that I could give my clients all of me because I wasn’t loving it myself. So, I kind of transitioned out of it not because it was failing, not because I was failing, just because I kind of lost the passion for it that I wanted to get back.
I went back to training myself. I started training in different ways. I’ve enjoyed the little gym they have on Miami Beach, which is really cool. It’s very different. I’ve started training in different ways, running again, and I kind of fell back in love with it because I started to just despise it. Sitting on the laptop for eight or nine hours was just too much.
Looking ahead, what kind of projects or creative ventures are you most excited to explore next?
I’m going to Europe for seven weeks starting on July 15 or 16, and that’s going to be a full out production. There’s four of us that are filming the entire trip. We’ve got probably 10 different areas that we’re going and we’re going to produce a big YouTube series and a long format series of us traveling around and we’re all OnlyFans creators. The four of us are really going to disappear from the United States, show how much freedom OF and social media can give you, and we’re really going to give an insider look into our lives and what we do and where we go and just how much fun it can be.
There are obviously OF creators that you see driving Ferraris and doing whatever, but we’ve always just enjoyed traveling, and I think that’s the beauty of OnlyFans is that it’s time freedom, but it depends on who you ask when you use the word work. Do I think it’s work? No, it isn’t work, but you can definitely make it a job. And that’s what we want to show people, that you can have so much fun. My friends and I make a joke out of it. We’ll make content together. We’ll do different sets, and we’re going to Amsterdam to make OnlyFans content, which is hilarious. For any guy, that’s the funniest job in the world. We kind of just want to showcase that OnlyFans can really change your life. You don’t have to be in one place for too long or spend eight hours at a desk. We get to go and shoot content everywhere – in Greece, in Brussels, in Amsterdam, in London – s o that’s kind of the angle we’re going for.
Check out season one of Perfect Set (with new episodes dropping each week until the finale on August 7), along with other original content encompassing fitness, cooking, music, comedy, and more on OFTV. Keep up with Nathan on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and, of course, OnlyFans.
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