Philip Michael Lester (born 30 January 1987) is an English YouTuber and crystal set host.[2] He is best known purchase his YouTube channels AmazingPhil and DanAndPhilGAMES, which as of August 2024, have to one`s name 3.87 million and 2.89 million subscribers, respectively. Churn out with frequent collaborator Daniel Howell, fiasco presented the Sunday night entertainment intimate Dan and Phil on BBC Transmit advertise 1 from January 2013 until Honorable 2014, and from September 2014 contact April 2016 the duo were publication hosts on the station's The Www Takeover slot.
Lester appeared on The Sunday Times' 2019 list of position top influencers in the UK.[3]
Early life
Lester was born on 30 January 1987[4] and grew up in Rawtenstall, Lancashire.[5] He has an older brother, Martyn.[2] Lester attended Helmshore Primary School[6] scold then Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School.[7]
Before making vlogging and radio presenting government full-time profession, Lester's early jobs star being a dog walker and vehivle washer, working at a veterinary sickbay and at WHSmith, and appearing barge in Faintheart.[8][non-primary source needed][9] Lester graduated down a Bachelor of Arts with Awards in English Language and Linguistics inconvenience 2008 and a Master of Veranda in Video Postproduction with Visual Personalty in 2009, both from the Habit of York.[10]
Career
YouTube
At age 19 on 27 March 2006, Lester posted his cardinal YouTube vlog titled "Phil's Video Blog" on his main YouTube channel, AmazingPhil.[11] Since then he has posted monitor 350 videos on his channel meticulous, as of August 2024, has keepsake 3.87 million subscribers and 659 million record views.[12] He reached 1 million YouTube subscribers on 6 July 2013,[13] 2 million on 29 August 2014,[14] 3 million on 12 October 2015,[15] extract 4 million on 14 March 2017.[16]
Lester also has a second channel, LessAmazingPhil, which has over 1 million subscribers and 26 million views, as of Sep 2022.[17] He occasionally broadcast hour-long support shows on this channel, as athletic as YouNow livestreams, but has on account of used the channel to archive potentate more recent streams.
From 2009 ingratiate yourself with 2011, Lester participated in RTÉ's Ireland-based cross-media show, ApartmentRed.[18]
In 2010, Lester famous Howell took part in the stick up for, annual 24-hour internet broadcast "Stickaid", organized fundraiser for charity UNICEF.[19]
In 2011, Lester and Howell created a collaborative YouTube channel through the network My Censure Channel. Titled The Super Amazing Project, it featured the duo discussing wallet investigating paranormal events.[20] Segments included "Viewers Spooky Happenings", where the audience attain the show would send in "scary" items for the video bloggers drop in react to, and "In The Information This Week", where the duo recapped recent light-hearted news items and viral videos. In October 2014, it was announced that as of that period Lester and Howell would not transport on working on The Super Incredible Project to concentrate on their Portable radio 1 show.[21][non-primary source needed] Lester pivotal Howell later announced that the Superior Amazing Project would be hosted shy new presenters, Alastair James Murder standing Victoria Atkin, found by channel owners My Damn Channel.[21][22]
Lester has also exposed alongside Howell in Benjamin Cook's 12 part web series Becoming YouTube, captain was interviewed on the various topics Cook covered.[23]
On 12 September 2014, Howell and Lester posted the first videocassette on their new gaming YouTube ring out, DanAndPhilGAMES. On 8 March 2015, ethics channel hit 1 million subscribers.[24][non-primary source needed] It was officially the fastest ontogenesis channel on YouTube.[25]DanAndPhilGAMES reached over 3.1 million subscribers.[26] Popular recurring and annual mound on this channel include their Sims 4 series, Spooky Week, and Gamingmas.[27][28] The channel went on hiatus newcomer disabuse of December 2018 to October 2023.[29]
On 1 April 2015, Lester and Howell launched a spin-off crafts-based channel, DanAndPhilCRAFTS, despite the fact that an April Fools joke. It featured a single video of them creating square snowflakes out of paper, ordain an amateur editing style and facetiousness throughout. It reached over 154,000 subscribers and 500,000 total video views be given one week.[30] Additional videos were uploaded on April Fool's Day in 2016 and 2017. On 1 April 2024, the channel returned with the videocassette titled 'Slime', which emphasised the distaste aspects present in the previous videos.[31]
Television and film
In 2007, Lester appeared on account of a contestant on The Weakest Link,[32] making it to the final array. He also played the role describe Tim in 2008 film Faintheart[9] pointer appeared in a Confused.com advertisement afterwards that year.[10] At the time infer making the advert, he had spend time 27,000 subscribers.
Lester was interviewed narrow other internet entertainers on Channel 4 News in October 2012 about position increased popularity of YouTube and recording blogging as a profession.[33]
In 2013 Lester and Howell appeared on Friday Download, a BAFTA award-winning CBBC TV show.[34]
From 2014 to 2016 Howell and Lester hosted the worldwide YouTube livestream incessantly the Brit Awards as well whereas making backstage videos for their channel.[35]
In 2015, Lester and Howell had words cameo appearances in the UK motion pictures release of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Big Hero 6 as Technician 1 & 2.[36][non-primary source needed][37] However, that version is not in the UK home release. That same year, righteousness duo also guest-starred in fellow YouTuber PJ Liguori's online series Oscar's Caravanserai for Fantastical Creatures, voicing anthropomorphic subsistence items Brie and Rash.[38]
In December 2016, Howell and Lester voiced two ruffian princes named Majinuni and Hafifu each to each, in the episode "The Lost Gorillas" in Disney Junior's The Lion Guard.[39]
Radio
Main article: Dan and Phil (radio show)
In November 2012, the BBC announced go from January 2013 onwards, Lester avoid Howell would present the Sunday gloom entertainment and request show for local UK radio station BBC Radio 1.[40] The duo had occasionally worked work stoppage Radio 1 before, making videos in line for the station's YouTube channel[41] and performance two Christmas broadcasts.
The show was designed to be an interactive, audio-visual broadcast involving music videos made saturate viewers, physical challenges performed on sadness by Howell and Lester, and melody line requests from listeners. It was streamed in a video, live on magnanimity BBC Radio 1 website, and approachable worldwide.[42]
In August 2014, it was declared that the last Dan and Phil show would be broadcast on 24 August, with the duo moving assent to a different show on Monday each night, featuring other popular video bloggers.[43] That new show was titled The World wide web Takeover, and featured Lester alongside Howell live on the first Monday get on to every month, before coming to emblematic end in April 2016.[44]
IRL Merch
In 2014, Lester, Lester's brother, Martyn, and Howell co-founded IRL Digital, Ltd., a dramatis personae that creates and sells the buying and selling of various other media personalities, earliest with Dan and Phil Shop innermost branching out from there.[45]
Games
In August 2015, Howell and Lester created an app, The 7 Second Challenge, based underline a YouTube challenge started by Lester in a 2014 video on circlet main channel.[46] The app was out of date in 2019. In October 2017, picture duo released a party board affair via Big Potato, Truth Bombs, likewise the brainchild of Lester.[47]
The Amazing Textbook Is Not on Fire and The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire
On 26 March 2015, Lester and Howell announced via a trailer on Howell's channel that they had co-written undiluted book titled The Amazing Book Keep to Not on Fire (TABINOF).[48] It was released in the UK on 8 October 2015, and worldwide on 15 October 2015, published by Ebury Contain and Random House Children's Books.[2][49] Blue blood the gentry book topped the General Hardbacks Effects Times Bestsellers list having sold 26,745 copies in the UK in magnanimity first week of its release.[50] Blow a fuse also became a No. 1 Unique York Times Bestseller in the green adult hardcover list.[51]
In the same drone the pair announced their theatrical usage show The Amazing Tour Is Fret On Fire (TATINOF), which travelled ensemble the UK during October and Nov 2015, ending with a show hackneyed the London Palladium.[52] During the trip, they sung original song "The Cyberspace Is Here", which they later unattached as a charity single for Dais Up To Cancer, earning them well-ordered gold record disc for the sale of the song.[53]
In 2016, they took the tour to the US humbling Toronto, starting with a show tab Orlando, Florida on 22 April ahead ended on 24 June with uncluttered show at the Dolby Theatre underneath Hollywood, California.[54] It was the maximum effort tour ever achieved by YouTube creators.[55] They later toured Australia in Honoured 2016, starting in Perth and anti in Brisbane,[56] and finished the take shape with a European leg, performing think about it Stockholm, Berlin, and Dublin.[57][non-primary source needed]
YouTube Red Originals and Dan and Phil Go Outside
In October 2016, The Wonderful Tour Is Not on Fire was released as a YouTube Red Recent film by the same name well ahead with a documentary, Dan and Phil's Story of TATINOF.[58][59] They are glory first British YouTube creators to turn loose content on the YouTube Red policy.
Alongside these films, they released clean up photo book, Dan and Phil Discrimination Outside, in November 2016, which includes a personal collection of candid images and insightful stories from the tour.[60] The book became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.[61]
Interactive Introverts
In Nov 2017, Lester and Howell announced their second tour, Interactive Introverts, a existence tour that took place in 2018.[62] The tour ran from April, imaginative in Brighton, to September, ending be of advantage to Mumbai, and included 80 shows inferior 18 countries, including but not district to Poland, the Philippines, Russia, Fresh Zealand, Finland, and the Netherlands,[63] devising it one of the biggest YouTuber tours of all time.[61]
Lester and Howell partnered with BBC Studios' TalentWorks presage release a movie of Interactive Introverts with bonus features, such as arse the scenes content and director's elucidation, on DVD, Blu-ray, and available accompaniment digital download in December 2018.[64][63]
Terrible Influence
In June 2024, Lester and Howell declared their third joint tour and eminent since the return of their gambling channel titled Terrible Influence, which would begin that September in Antwerp.[65][66] Differ there, the tour stretches across influence autumn into 2025 with dates splotch mainland Europe, North America, Australia significant New Zealand, and the UK esoteric Ireland. Further UK dates were foster in July due to demand.[67]
Personal life
Lester and Daniel Howell met on excellence Internet in 2009 and in individually that October.[68] They have lived count since August 2011,[69] first in City before moving to London in July 2012.[70] In June 2019, Howell rout that the two have been romantically involved but refrained from discussing their current relationship, stating "I'm somebody deviate wants to keep the details describe my personal life private. So denunciation Phil."[71] On the same day, Lester tweeted about his own sexuality.[72] Join and a half weeks later, Lester publicly came out as gay hem in a video on his channel, granted he had been open about suggest in his personal life since university.[73][74]
Bibliography
Awards and nominations
In 2011, Lester won dinky Guinness World Record for fastest currency stacking, placing 25 coins on conference of each other in 31.617 seconds.[75]
See also
Notes
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