Dan Howell

Daniel James " Dan " Howell (born 11 June 1991 Wokingham ) is a professional British blogger. He became known danisnotonfire through his Youtube channel, which surpassed the 3- million - subscriber mark on December 29, 2013. Together with his friend Phil Lester he showcased since January 2013, the radio show, Dan and Phil for the BBC Radio 1

Private

Howell was born in Wokingham, Berkshire and grew up there. He has a younger brother. Before he began to upload videos on Youtube, he had small jobs in the retail chain Focus DIY and Asda. He attended Forest School before he started in 2010 to study at the University of Manchester Jura. After one semester, he abandoned his studies in order to make blogging into a profession can. Meanwhile, he has transferred his residence to London and lives there with Phil Lester, who is also a Youtuber and presenter of Dan and Phil.

Career

YouTube

Howell started making Youtube videos because he had long videos of other Youtuber saw and was encouraged by some friends to including Phil Lester, who uploads videos on his own channel Amazing Phil. He is part of the grouping Fantastic Foursome, consisting him from the British YouTubers Phil Lester (Amazing Phil ), Chris Kendall ( crabstickz ), PJ Liguori ( KickthePj ) and themselves.

Howell 2010 and 2011 was part of the annual 24 -hour live Internet show Stickaid, collects the money by the audience will be asked to donate money to the organization UNICEF.

2012 Howell won the Youtube Competition super touch and sat down with his team clearly from the competition. Currently Howell taking part in the weekly video series Becoming Youtube, which was developed by Benjamin Cook, a British journalist and how busy you can be an internet celebrity. He also writes a blog for The Huffington Post, in which he talks about the creative process that is behind his videos, writes.

Howell and Lester also work together on Youtube Channel My Damn Channel, what it the video series The Super Amazing Project developed and launched, in which they discover paranormal phenomena. In December 2013 The Super Amazing Project had more than 490,000 subscribers. In December 2012, both the third season of the show had finished and posted on the Internet. The consequences they do not produce more regularly now, but only on special occasions. But they have the idea in the Internet news segment their radio show integrated.

In December 2013 his YouTube channel had danisnotonfire more than 3 million subscribers and his videos have been clicked more than 160 million times. With his Twitter account he cracked the one - million -follower mark on 24 January 2014.

BBC Radio 1

In January 2013, Howell and Lester started to work as moderators of a radio show on BBC Radio 1. The show under the name of Dan and Phil is known Youtuber The two had previously collaborated with the radio station and produces videos for the youtube channel and two Christmas shows. With Dan and Phil Howell and Lester moderate an interactive two-hour radio show that can be watched simultaneously on the BBC website live on camera. There will be fulfilled song requests and shown itself filmed music videos of the listeners and viewers. In addition, Howell and Lester meet regularly live in challenges against each other.

Awards and nominations

2012 Howell was chosen by the readers of the online magazine Sugarscape the Hottest guy of the year.

For her radio show for BBC Radio 1 Howell and Lester were elected to the most popular radio hosts Britain and winners of the Sony Headphones Golden Award.