Archie Manners

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Archie Manners
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Manners introduces The Royal World in 2018
Born
Archie Thomas Manners

(1993-05-19) 19 May 1993 (age 30)
Alma mater University of Bristol
Occupation(s)Comedian, magician, television host
Relatives Manners family
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015–present
Genre(s)Pranks, comedy
Subscribers1.43 million [1]
Total views141.69 million [1]
Associated acts Josh Pieters
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 19 June 2020

Archie Thomas Manners (born 19 May 1993) is a British comedian, magician, and television host. He hosted The Royal World , a reality television series on MTV International which aired in 2018. He and Josh Pieters host an eponymous channel on YouTube with more than 1 million subscribers.

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Biography

A great-grandson of Francis Henry Manners, 4th Baron Manners, he is fifteenth in the line of succession to the Manners Barony and, as a descendant of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, twenty-fifth in the line of succession to the Dukedom of Rutland. He grew up in Hampshire. [2] He earned a degree in political studies from University of Bristol. [3]

As a Conservative Party activist, he wrote for the right-wing blog Conservative Home [4] and attended the party's conferences in 2010 and 2011. [5] He worked as an intern for Conservative politician Anne-Marie Trevelyan during the 2010 general election. [6]

Manners hosts the reality television series The Royal World on MTV International and starred in Comedy Central's Trickheads. [7] [8] He also hosts British television show Look into My Eyes on E4. [9] [10] Manners has an online series for The Hook called Archie Asks. He also writes a satirical column for the Gentleman's Journal. [9]

YouTube

In September 2019, Manners and YouTuber Josh Pieters created a fake restaurant through Deliveroo. It was called The Italian Stallion, and it was said to deliver microwavable meals as an experiment. They returned all of the profit from the venture. [11] In November 2019, they followed this up with a prank at the KSI vs. Logan Paul II boxing match, where they managed to convince several attendees that an Ed Sheeran lookalike was the actual Ed Sheeran. [12]

In January 2020, English far-right political commentator Katie Hopkins was pranked by Manners and Pieters into accepting a fake award, titled the "Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy". [13] Pieters flew Hopkins to Prague where she accepted the award and gave a speech, while the initials of the fictitious award were prominently displayed in the background, forming the swear word "cunt". The pair uploaded the prank to their YouTube channel on the same day that Hopkins was suspended from Twitter for breaking their anti-hate rules. [14]

In May 2020, Manners and Pieters pranked Big Cat Rescue CEO, Carole Baskin, into believing she was giving an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . [15]

In July 2023, Manners and Pieters disrupted an event held by environmental activist group Just Stop Oil. [16] In December of that year, Manners and Pieters pranked Conservative MP Suella Braverman into accepting Channel 4 comedy show The Last Leg's "Dick Of The Year Award", after viewers of the show voted for her to be that year's recipient. [17]

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  2. ↑ Richard Moss (6 October 2010). "Moss Missives: The amazing adventures of young Archie Manners". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Emma Hughes (20 December 2017). "The life of a modern magician: Razor blades, ballet shoes and bumping into the Obamas". Countrylife.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Manners, Archie (30 October 2010). "Archie Manners: A look at the official list of gifts and hospitality received by David Cameron and the Cabinet". Conservative Home.
  5. ↑ "Conservative Party Conference 2011: Have David Cameron's Tories lost touch with the party faithful?". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  6. ↑ Moss, Richard. "BBC - Moss Missives: The amazing adventures of young Archie Manners". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
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  12. ↑ "A YouTuber used an ed Sheeran lookalike to trick influencers and tabloids into believing that the real singer was at the KSI vs Logan Paul fight". Insider.com .
  13. ↑ "YouTuber Josh Pieters tricks Katie Hopkins into accepting fake 'C**T' award". NME Music News. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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  15. ↑ France, Lisa Respers (4 May 2020). "Carole Baskin responds to YouTube pranksters tricking her". CNN. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
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