Roman Atwood
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Roman Bernard Atwood May 28, 1983 Millersport, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||
| Occupation | YouTube personality, Comedian, Vlogger | ||||||||||
| Partner(s) | Brittney Smith | ||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Shanna Riley (m. 2001–08) | ||||||||||
| Website | romanatwood |
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| Channel | RomanAtwoodVlogs, RomanAtwood | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2009–present | ||||||||||
| Genre | Comedy | ||||||||||
| Subscribers | 21.4 million | ||||||||||
| Total views | 4.53 billion | ||||||||||
| Network | Studio71 | ||||||||||
| Associated acts | Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, Dennis Roady | ||||||||||
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| Subscriber and view counts updated as of 20 January 2017. | |||||||||||
Roman Bernard Atwood (born May 28, 1983) is an American YouTube personality, comedian and vlogger. He is best known for his Vlogs, where he posts updates about his life on a daily basis. His blogs have gained a considerable number of views and his Vlogging channel has a total of 10.2 million subscribers.
He also has a second YouTube channel called "RomanAtwood", where he used to post prank videos. As of February 2017, It has been 10 months since he has posted on that channel. His prank videos have gained over 1.44 billion views and a total of 10.3 million subscribers. In all, he has a total subscriber count of 21.9 million subscribers.
Born in Millersport, Ohio, Atwood has been filming and producing videos since high school. He was Born to Curt Dale Atwood and Susan Atwood. He and his younger brother, Dale Atwood have faced extreme poverty during their childhood days. He began his independent career by producing a series of DVDs called "The Nerd Herd" which he sold at the Warped Tour in 2006. Atwood has also worked on various film projects and commercials in Columbus, Ohio until 2010, when he decided to focus on his passion of comedy and created the YouTube channel "Sketch Empire".
Prior to his YouTube career, he worked at his family's rope factory called "Atwood Rope". In 2001, he married Shanna Riley, who gave birth to Atwood's first son, Noah Vaughn Atwood. In 2008, after his wife cheated on him with a friend while on vacation, he filed for divorce.
He currently resides in his hometown with his girlfriend, Brittney Smith, with whom he had a second child, Kane Alexander Atwood. He met Brittney at the wedding of his best friend, Chase Gilroy, where Roman was best man. Brittney was the sister of Chase's wife, Veronica and the two started dating from there.
In 2013, Atwood founded his own merchandise line called "Smile More", in which he sells T-shirts, hoodies, bracelets and other items.
In November 2016, Atwood announced he was expecting a third child.
Atwood filled his house with plastic balls 2.5 ft high, turning it into a massive ball pit. As of August 2016, this video has over 77.89 million views. This video was noticed by Nissan, who gave him a 2015 Nissan GTR in exchange to use his video in the "WithDad" campaign during their half-time advert at Super Bowl XLIX. This was awarded the best "Brand Campaign" for the 5th Streamy Awards.
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