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Philip Michael "Phil" Lester (born 30 January 1987) is an English YouTube vlogger and radio personality from Rawtenstall, Lancashire. He is known for presenting a Sunday night entertainment show for BBC Radio 1 with Dan Howell, from January 2013 until August 2014, and since September 2014 has been one of the presenters on the station's Internet Takeover slot.
Biography
Lester currently lives with friend and fellow video blogger Dan Howell in London. He completed a degree in English Language and Linguistics and then a post graduate in the Department of Theatre, Film and television, going on to obtain a Master of Arts in Video Postproduction with Specialisation in Visual Effects at the University of York.[2]
In 2011, Lester won a Guinness World Record for fastest coin stacking, placing 25 coins on top of each other in 31.617 seconds.[3]
Career
YouTube
Lester with friend Howell, meeting fans
At age 19, Lester posted his first YouTube video blog. Since then he has posted over 150 videos on his channel and as of August 2014 has over 2 million subscribers with over 131 million video views,[4] reaching 1 million YouTube subscribers on 6 July 2013, and 2 million on 29 August 2014.[5]
Lester also has a second channel, LessAmazingPhil, which has over half a million subscribers and almost 10 million views, as of October 2014. On September 12th 2014, Phil Lester and Dan Howell posted the first video on their new gaming YouTube channel, DanandPhilGAMES. On March 8th 2015 the channel hit 1 million subscribers.[6]
Lester has also appeared alongside Howell in Benjamin Cook's twelve part web series Becoming YouTube, being interviewed on the various topics Cook covered.[7]
The Super Amazing Project
Lester and Howell created a collaborative YouTube channel through network My Damn Channel, entitled The Super Amazing Project, in which the duo discussed and investigated paranormal events.[8] Segments included "Viewers Spooky Happenings" where the audience of the show would send in "scary" items for the video bloggers to react to. In October 2014, Lester, together with his co-presenter Dan Howell, announced that the Super Amazing Project would be hosted by new presenters, found by channel owners My Damn Channel.
It was announced that as of October 2014 Lester and Howell would not carry on working on The Super Amazing Project to concentrate on their Radio 1 show.
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