Sam Pepper
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Pepper at VidCon 2014 in Anaheim, California
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Samuel Pepper 26 March 1989 Ashford, Kent, England |
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| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||
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| Channel | OFFICIALsampepper | ||||||||
| Years active | 2010–present | ||||||||
| Subscribers | 2+ million | ||||||||
| Total views | 70+ million | ||||||||
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Samuel "Sam" Pepper (born 26 March 1989) is a British YouTube personality, video blogger, comedian, and prankster. Since creating his YouTube channel in 2010, Pepper holds over 2 million subscribers and 70 million video views as of February 2017.
Pepper was born on 26 March 1989 in Ashford, Kent. He is of half Greek descent. He attended Pent Valley Technology College.
In 2010, Pepper was a housemate on the eleventh season of the British reality television series Big Brother. He entered the house on Day 52 as Laura's replacement as part of the "Ignore the Obvious" task. He was evicted on Day 73 with 14.6% of the public vote.
On 8 September 2010, Pepper created his YouTube channel and began uploading videos, mainly consisting of pranks. From late-2013 to mid-2014, Pepper, alongside friend and fellow YouTube personality Marius "Maz" Listhrop, began their worldwide comedy tour, "WDGAF Tour".
In 2014, Pepper faced controversy after uploading a video titled "Fake Hand Ass Pinch Prank". This caused Pepper to face sexual harassment allegations by many women after the video was published. In 2015, Pepper uploaded a video titled "Killing Best Friend Prank", which includes a masked Pepper "shooting" Colby Brock in front of his friend Sam Golbach, causing further backlash from social media.
"I'm really asking you guys, please give me a second chance and I can make content that represents me as a person, that inspires... that's why I've deleted every video on this channel and I'm only going to put up the ones that represent me.".
On 21 February 2016, Pepper made all of his YouTube videos private and deleted all of his tweets except for one stating "I give up". He uploaded a 20-minute video on 24 February called "i'm sorry". In the video, Pepper confessed that many of his pranks, including his controversial "Killing Best Friend Prank", were staged. He also denied all allegations of sexual harassment and rape towards him. He apologised for his fake videos, calling himself an "idiot" and stated that he would continue uploading on YouTube and "make content that [he] really believe[s] in". After the video was published, Pepper stopped uploading prank videos and began uploading vlogs, subsequently receiving a more positive response. In April 2016, Pepper made several of his videos public again.
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