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Pons (right) in July 2014
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Born |
Eleonora Pons June 25, 1999 Caracas, Venezuela |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Internet personality,Actress |
Years active | 2013–present |
Eleonora "Lele" Pons (born June 25, 1996) is an American internet personality most notable for her six-second video loops on the video-sharing service Vine. As of June 13, 2016, Pons has hit 8.4 billion loops on Vine which makes her the most looped person on Vine, including 14.2 million followers on Instagram. She is also the most followed female star on Vine.
Many of Pons' videos consist of practical jokes on herself, her friends, classmates and her family. She mostly uses physical comedy, which she says are her favorite types of comedy. Pons is managed by Shots Studios, a company that also produces her YouTube content.
Pons was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to the U.S. at age five. She lived in Miami, Florida. Pons finished school from Miami Country Day High School in 2015 and moved from Miami to Los Angeles. At school, she was bullied by her classmates for her accent, nose, etc.
Pons appeared in the first 7 minutes of the second season of the American horror TV show Scream in 2016.
She was invited to Join Joey Graceffa's YouTube Red series Escape the Night. She joined and played a hustler.
On August 28, 2016, Pons appeared in a Youtube video with fellow internet star Diego from Awkward Puppets.
Pons has partnered with Shots Studios to create videos and launched her YouTube channel in 2016.
She would then go on to being one of the main roles in Marshmello's "Summer" as his skate date.
Her book Surviving High School, co-written with New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, was released in April 2016.
Pons received her first phone at age 15, and was soon introduced to Vine by one of her friends, stating, "I started with my friends, and I started becoming good. At first it was just being really creative—it wasn't even funny stuff." Pons would become one of the app's most prominent users, becoming the first user to surpass 1 billion video loops. As of September 1, 2015, Pons' account remains the most looped of all time with over 16.7 billion loops. In addition, Pons' account ranks within the top five in terms of followers, with over 10.6 million as of March 14, 2016. Pons is credited as being a creator of the phrase "Do It For The Vine".