5 Of Peyton Royce's Best Instagram Posts (& 5 Of Billie Kay's)

May 2024 · 5 minute read

The IIconics are Peyton Royce and Billie Kay, two incredibly shrill Australian women whose job it is to be as obnoxious as possible on WWE television. They were a legitimate threat on NXT, and did pretty well on the main roster as well, managing to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 35.

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They’re also both pretty active on Instagram, where their respective accounts @peytonroycewwe and @billiekaywwe together boast over 1500 posts and 2.5 million followers. Since they’re such an iconic duo, we thought we’d share with you their 10 bests posts -- five each. Come to think of it, we’re kind of bummed that they don’t have a joint account. That’d be ridiculously in-character.

10 Peyton Royce: Tag Champs

As much as we love the Boss ‘n’ Hug Connection, it was a real transcendent moment to see The IIconics capture tag team gold at WrestleMania 35. In their NXT run, they were frequent contenders for the Women’s Championship, but had the misfortune of being there at the same time as Asuka. As such fun heels, we never expected WWE to put the belts on them, but Peyton’s post from a year after their win commemorates a landmark moment.

9 Billie Kay: Throwback With Emma

Throwbacks posts for wrestlers are always great, because you get to see your favorites look young and less experienced, and often wearing ring gear they wouldn’t be caught in today. This one from Billie Kay is a two-fer but not in the way you’d expect from one of The IIconics -- it’s Emma, fellow Australian and one of NXT’s first successful female characters, from way back in their days wrestling for SHIMMER. Emma is currently signed to Impact Wrestling under her real name, Tenille Dashwood.

8 Peyton Royce: Working Out With Shawn Spears

Did you know Peyton Royce is married to AEW Shawn Spears (formerly known in WWE as Tye Dillinger)? It’s a cute pairing, especially whenever Spears shows up on her ‘Gram, such as this post where he’s obviously been convinced to do flush exercises with Royce.

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We like how they both make weird faces at the camera at the beginning of this. So if you like to watch wrestler couples work out, this is certainly the post for you!

7 Billie Kay: Maleficent

We can’t get enough of awesome entrance gear, and here Billie Kay posts a close-up of her outfit inspired by the Disney Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent. She supplements the cool visual with the caption “Never let your wings be stolen from you,” which, after a thorough Googling, we’re not sure if it’s an actual quote from the live-action Maleficent or if it’s just a misremembered line fans like to put on T-shirts.

6 Peyton Royce: Wrestleversary Throwback

Peyton Royce’s personal throwback celebrates her “Wrestleversary” and is a perfect example of that thing we were talking about earlier, when you get to see a wrestler before they’re fully formed as a performer. This one’s back from Royce’s days in the Australian indie scene, wrestling for Professional Wrestling Alliance (now known as PWA Black Label) as KC Cassidy. During her time in that promotion, she’d regularly wrestle Jessie McKay, a.k.a. Billie Kay.

5 Billie Kay: Iiiconic License Plate

This one caught our eye because Billie Kay was being a goon in it, which stuck out in a feed with lots of glamour shots in it. This post promotes their episode of Ride Along, that show where WWE mounts a camera in a rental car and makes wrestlers bantering on the road into light entertainment, because wrestlers interacting socially is one of the most fun things to watch outside of the ring. That’s the car they were in when they didn’t know what Benghazi was!

4 Peyton Royce: Australia Charity Tee

As Australian expats, the devastating Australian brush fires that ravaged the country from late 2019 to early 2020 certainly hit close to home for Billie Kay and Peyton Royce. To help out with the ongoing relief and recovery efforts for the natural disaster, Peyton and Billie collaborated on a quick video to promote the Fire Fight Australia T-Shirt.

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All of the proceeds of which would go toward the effort, and considering the number of followers they have, it’s a great way to get the word out.

3 Billie Kay: IIconic With Matthew McConaughey

We’re not sure why Matthew McConaughey (or Lance Armstrong, for that matter) were at a random Raw in June of 2019, but WWE got a shot of him in the crowd and he spent some time hanging out backstage. Billie and Peyton were lucky enough to get a pic with the Oscar winner attempting their “Iiiiconic!” pose and looking like a big ol’ dork. We hope he had a good time.

2 Peyton Royce: Besties

As far as being interested in the private affairs of strangers goes, we have an emotional investment in onscreen wrestling buddies being best friends in real life. Bayley and Sasha Banks being IRL besties is ridiculously heartwarming, and it looks like the same is true of Billie Kay and Peyton Royce. Posts like Peyton’s here shows that the pair’s onscreen chemistry isn’t just acting or kismet, but that the pair actually genuinely like one another. We love that.

1 Billie Kay: IIconic Evolution

This post -- made on the cusp of their big Women’s Tag Title victory at WrestleMania 35 -- shows Billie Kay and Peyton Royce throughout the years, from their time on the indies, to their early days as NXT jobbers, to their time as the best part of NXT, all the way to their modern iteration. It’s a great way to see how far they’ve come, and it’s even greater to see that they did it all together.

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