Dan Howell
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Howell in 2014
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Daniel James Howell 11 June 1991 Wokingham, England, United Kingdom |
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||
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London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Channel | danisnotonfire | ||||||||
| Years active | 2009–present | ||||||||
| Subscribers | 6+ million | ||||||||
| Total views | 632+ million | ||||||||
| Associated acts | Phil Lester | ||||||||
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Daniel James "Dan" Howell (born 11 June 1991) is a British video blogger and radio personality. He is best known for his YouTube channel danisnotonfire, which has reached over six million subscribers. Together with frequent collaborator Phil Lester, Howell presented Sunday night entertainment show Dan and Phil on BBC Radio 1 from January 2013 until August 2014, and presented the station's Internet Takeover slot from September 2014 until April 2016.
Howell was born and raised in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. He has a younger brother named Adrian.
Before starting his YouTube channel, he worked in retail chains Focus DIY at the age of 16, and later at the supermarket Asda. After attending The Forest School, Howell went to the University of Manchester in 2010 to study law, but dropped out in order to pursue video blogging as a profession.
Howell has lived with best friend and fellow YouTuber Phil Lester since August 2011, and the pair moved to London together in July 2012.
Howell uploaded his first YouTube video titled "HELLO INTERNET" on 16 October 2009. He was encouraged by "some friends" including Phil Lester to continually upload videos to the site.
He also has a second channel, danisnotinteresting, which has over 1.5 million subscribers and 39.5 million views, as of August 2016.
In 2012, he won the YouTube competition "SuperNote" run by Rhett and Link. He also featured in the weekly video series Becoming YouTube created by Benjamin Cook which looked at the different aspects to becoming an internet celebrity. He also wrote a blog for The Huffington Post, in which he wrote about the creative process behind making his videos.
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