Daniel James Howell was born on 11th June 1991, in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and is a video blogger and former radio host, now best known for his YouTube channel, which has more than six million subscribers. Together with his friend Phil Lester, he presented the evening Sunday entertainment show “Dan and Phil” on BBC Radio 1.
How much is the net worth of Daniel Howell? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $2 million, as of the data given at the end of 2017, accumulated during his short but diverse career, which has been active since 2009.
Daniel Howell Net Worth $2 Million
To begin with, Howell grew up in Wokingham with his younger brother. As a teenager he worked part-time at retailers Focus DIY and Asda. After matriculating from Forest School he started to study Law at the University of Manchester in 2010, but soon dropped out to take-up blogging as a career.
Concerning the professional career, Howell uploaded his first video on 16th October 2009 under the title “Hello Internet”. He was part of the Fantastic Foursome group, which consisted of Daniel, Phil Lester, Chris Kendall and PJ Liguori. In 2010 and 2011, Howell was part of the annual 24-hour live Internet show “Stickaid”, which invited its viewers to donate money to the organization UNICEF, and the next year took part in “Becoming YouTube”, a video series created by journalist Benjamin Cook, followed in the same year by winning the YouTube competition SuperNote. He also writes a blog for The Huffington Post, in which he describes the process behind creating his videos.
Howell and Lester also worked together on the YouTube channel My Damn Channel, developing and launching the video series “The Super Amazing Project”, exposing paranormal phenomena, which by the end of 2013 had more than 490,000 subscribers. In the autumn of 2014, the first video was uploaded on the channel DanAndPhilGAMES, operated together with Phil Lester, and by the following March his YouTube channel danisnotonfire had more than 4.5 million subscribers and had accumulated more than 324 million views.
With his Twitter account he cracked the 1 million followers mark at the beginning of 2014.
Since early 2017, his channel has been renamed Daniel Howell and has over six million subscribers. Among his most famous videos are “The Photo Booth Challenge”, “How To Speak the Internet”, and “I’ll Go Down With This Ship”, among others.
Regarding his career on radio, in 2013, Howell and Lester began working as presenters of a show for BBC Radio 1, which became known simply as “Dan and Phil”. Since 2014, the show has been relocated to Mondays and shortened by one hour. Howell and Lester are moderating the radio show only on every first Monday of the month. In addition, Howell and Lester regularly perform live challenges against each other.
Talking about awards and nominations, for their radio show on BBC Radio 1, Howell and Lester were voted the UK’s most popular radio hosts, and winners of the Sony Golden Headphones Award. In 2014, the two friends were nominated for the Teen Choice Award for their collaborative video “The Photo Booth Challenge” on Howell’s Channel, and in 2016, Dan and Phil won the Radio 1 Teen Award as the Best Vlogger. Also in 2016, Dan Howell and Phil Lester won two BONCA Awards in the categories Best Film and the Collaboration of the Year.
Finally, in the personal life of Daniel Howell, he is still single. His sexual orientation is straight, but he shares the apartment in London with his best friend Phil Lester. There aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons, yet!
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