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Daniel Howell
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Born
Daniel James Howell

(1991-06-11) 11 June 1991 (age 34)
Wokingham, Berkshire, England
OccupationYouTube personality
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Channel
Years active2009–present
Subscribers6.09 million [1]
Views696 million [1]
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Associated acts Phil Lester
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2011
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2013

Last updated: 28 June 2024

Daniel James Howell (born 11 June 1991) [3] is an English YouTuber, presenter, comedian and author. He gained prominence through his YouTube channels Daniel Howell (formerly known as danisnotonfire), which has over six million subscribers (as of August 2025), and DanAndPhilGAMES. He is known for his frequent collaborations with Phil Lester as part of the entertainment duo Dan and Phil. Together, they presented the Sunday night entertainment show Dan and Phil on BBC Radio 1 from January 2013 until August 2014, and the station's Internet Takeover slot from September 2014 until April 2016.

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Early life

Howell grew up in Winnersh, Berkshire. [4] [5] He has a younger brother, Adrian, who started a YouTube channel of his own in 2018 and works as a photographer and lifestyle coach. [6]

He was initially raised Protestant by his grandmother, but stopped going to church to make time to attend Wokingham Youth Theatre on Sundays. [7] He worked for the retail chain Focus DIY at the age of 16 and later for the supermarket Asda. [8] After graduating from The Forest School in 2009, Howell took a gap year, during which he started posting videos to his channel as a hobby. [9] He enrolled at the University of Manchester in 2010 to study law, but dropped out in 2011 due to a lack of interest in the subject, instead pursuing radio presenting and video blogging as a full-time profession. [4]

Career

YouTube

Lester and Howell at VidCon 2014 Dan & Phil (14539396735).jpg
Lester and Howell at VidCon 2014

Howell uploaded his first YouTube video titled "HELLO INTERNET" on 16 October 2009. [10] He was encouraged by "some friends" including Phil Lester to regularly upload videos to the platform. [4]

He also has a second YouTube channel, danisnotinteresting, which has over 1.6 million subscribers and 57 million views, as of April 2025. Between 2013 and 2018, Howell broadcast weekly hour-long live shows on YouNow, which, from 2017, were also broadcast to danisnotinteresting.

Howell and Lester collaborated on a YouTube channel for digital entertainment company My Damn Channel, entitled The Super Amazing Project, in which they investigated paranormal events. [11] In October 2014, the duo announced they would be ending that project to concentrate on their Radio 1 show. [12] [ non-primary source needed ] [13]

In 2012, Howell won the YouTube competition "SuperNote" run by Rhett and Link. [14] He featured in the weekly video series Becoming YouTube by Benjamin Cook, which explored the phenomenon of internet celebrity. [15] He also wrote a blog for The Huffington Post about the creative process behind his videos. [16]

On 1 May 2017, Howell posted a video on his channel announcing that he had changed the name of his YouTube channel from danisnotonfire to Daniel Howell as he felt the former no longer represented him, particularly in professional contexts. [17]

From 2019 to 2022, Howell took a hiatus from his YouTube channel, making only a handful of public appearances such as announcing he had bought a home with Lester in January 2021. [18] . He explained the break in a May 2022 YouTube video titled "Why I Left YouTube". [19] Alongside his subsequent solo tour We're All Doomed!, Howell began a YouTube series called Dystopia Daily. [20] He later ended this video series after noting it was "too niche".

DanAndPhilGAMES

On 12 September 2014, Howell and Lester posted the first video to their gaming YouTube channel, DanAndPhilGAMES. It was, for a time, the fastest growing channel on YouTube. [21] As of December 2023, it had amassed 2.8 million subscribers. [22]

Popular recurring series on this channel include their Sims 4 series, Golf with Friends, Spooky Week, and Gamingmas. [23] [24] The channel was on hiatus from December 2018 to October 2023.

The 2023 revival of DanAndPhilGAMES was introduced with a comedy sketch written by Howell, "Saying Goodbye Forever," which depicted an interrupted funeral for the channel. [25] They were among several YouTubers popular in the earlier days of the platform to return to it that year. [26]

DanAndPhilCRAFTS

On 1 April 2015, Howell and Lester launched a spin-off channel DanAndPhilCRAFTS as an April Fools joke. It featured a single video of them creating square snowflakes out of paper, with an amateur editing style and humour throughout. It reached over 154,000 subscribers and 500,000 total video views in one week. [27] "Don't cry, craft" became a popular Internet meme from that video, described by the Standard-Examiner as "one of the best known YouTube phrases of all time". [28] The channel was awarded the YouTube Silver Play Button at Summer in the City 2015. [29] [30]

On 1 April 2016, Howell and Lester uploaded a second joke tutorial to that channel, featuring the duo making glitter faces. [31] On 1 April 2017, a third video titled "Potato Prints" was uploaded. [32] On 1 April 2024, the channel returned with the video 'Slime', which emphasised the horror aspects present in the previous April Fools tutorials. [33]

Radio

In January 2013, Howell and Lester became the presenters of BBC Radio 1's Sunday evening entertainment and request show. [34] They had occasionally worked with the station before, producing videos for the station's YouTube channel for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and presenting two Christmas broadcasts. The show was designed to be interactive with the audience, featuring amateur music videos from listeners, challenges performed on air by the presenters, and song requests. [35] Four months into the show's run, it won the Sony Golden Headphones award. [36]

Howell and Lester presented online content for the station's Teen Awards in 2013 and 2014. [37]

In August 2014, it was announced that the last Dan and Phil show would be broadcast on 24 August, with the duo moving to a different show on Monday nights also featuring other popular video bloggers. [38] This new show was titled The Internet Takeover , and featured Howell and Lester live on the first Monday of every month, before coming to an end in April 2016. [39]

Television and film

In 2013 Lester and Howell appeared on Friday Download , a BAFTA award-winning CBBC TV show. [40]

From 2014 to 2016, Howell and Lester hosted content for the Brit Awards, including the global YouTube livestream of the ceremonies and backstage videos. [41]

In 2015, Howell and Lester had voice cameo appearances in the UK cinema release of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Big Hero 6 as Technician 1 & 2. [42] That same year, the duo guest-starred in fellow YouTuber PJ Liguori's web series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, voicing anthropomorphic food items Brie and Rash. [43]

On 2 February 2016, Howell's eSports documentary The Supergamers aired on BBC Three. [44]

In December 2016, Howell and Lester voiced gorilla princes named Majinuni and Hafifu respectively, in the episode "The Lost Gorillas" ofDisney Junior's The Lion Guard . [45]

In June 2023, Howell presented a documentary titled The Cost of Being a YouTuber: UNTOLD for Channel 4, in which he interviewed creators such as Dan Rhodes and Vikkstar. [46]

Books and tours

The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire and The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire

On 26 March 2015, Lester and Howell released a trailer on Howell's channel for their co-written book The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire (TABINOF). [47] It was published in the UK on 8 October 2015, and worldwide on 15 October 2015, by Ebury Press and Random House Children's Books. [48] The book topped the General Hardbacks Sunday Times Bestsellers list having sold 26,745 copies in the UK in the first week of its release. [49] It also became a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller on the young adult hardcover list. [50]

In the same trailer the pair announced their theatrical stage show The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire (TATINOF) which toured the UK during October and November 2015, ending with a show at the London Palladium. [51] During the tour, they performed original song "The Internet Is Here", which they later released as a charity single for Stand Up To Cancer. [52]

In 2016, they took the tour to the US and Toronto, starting with a show in Orlando, Florida on 22 April and ending on 24 June with a show at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. [53] It was the largest tour by YouTube creators at the time. [54] They later toured Australia in August 2016, starting in Perth and ending in Brisbane, [55] and finished the tour with a European leg. [56] [ non-primary source needed ] [57]

YouTube Red Originals and Dan and Phil Go Outside

In October 2016, The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire was released as a YouTube Red Original film along with a documentary, Dan and Phil's Story of TATINOF. [58] [59] They were the first British YouTube creators to release content on the YouTube Red platform.

Alongside these films, they released a photo book, Dan and Phil Go Outside , in November 2016, which included candid photos and stories from the tour. [60] The book became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. [61]

Interactive Introverts

In November 2017, Lester and Howell announced their second tour, Interactive Introverts . [62] The tour ran from April to September 2018 and included 80 shows in 18 countries, including but not limited to the UK, Poland, the Philippines, Russia, New Zealand, Finland, and the Netherlands, and India, [63] making it one of the biggest YouTuber tours of all time. [61]

Lester and Howell partnered with BBC Studios' TalentWorks to release a film of Interactive Introverts with bonus features, such as behind the scenes content and director's commentary, on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download in December 2018. [64] [63]

You Will Get Through This Night

In September 2020, Howell announced his first publication without Lester, You Will Get Through This Night . [65] Written in collaboration with psychologist Dr Heather Bolton, the book is a "practical guide to taking control of your mental health for today, tomorrow, and the days after." It was released 18 May 2021, under the HQ and Dey Street Books imprints of HarperCollins, and became a No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.

We're All Doomed!

Upon his return to YouTube in May 2022, Howell announced he would embark on his first solo tour titled We're All Doomed!, beginning on 10 September 2022, at the Regent Theatre, Ipswich and wrapping up at Belfast's Waterfront Hall on 3 March 2023, traveling around the UK, Europe, US, Australia and New Zealand in between. [66] In January 2024, Howell announced two extra dates for the tour would take place in February 2024, at Alexandra Palace Theatre, to record the film version of the show. [67] [68] A ticketed live premiere of the recording was streamed via Kiswe on 15 February 2024, with a pre-show event hosted by Lester and an after-show Q&A session with Howell. [69] [70] The full comedy show was subsequently uploaded to his YouTube channel. [71]

Terrible Influence

In June 2024, Lester and Howell announced their third joint tour and first since the return of their gaming channel, titled Terrible Influence, which began that September in Antwerp. [72] [73] From there, the tour stretched from the remainder of 2024 into early 2025 with dates in mainland Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and the UK and Ireland. Further UK dates were added in July 2024 due to demand. [74]

Other

IRL Merch

In 2014, Howell co-founded IRL Digital, Ltd. with Lester's brother Martyn. The company creates and sells merchandise of various other media personalities. [75]

Games

In August 2015, Howell and Lester created an app, The 7 Second Challenge, based on a YouTube challenge started by Lester in a 2014 video on his main channel. [76] The app was discontinued in 2019. In October 2017, the duo released a party board game via Big Potato, Truth Bombs. [77]

Personal life

Howell and Phil Lester met through the Internet in 2009. [78] They have lived together since August 2011, [79] [80] first in Manchester before moving to London in July 2012. [81] [82] [ non-primary source needed ] In 2019, Howell revealed that he and Lester had previously been romantically involved, but did not share the current nature of their relationship. [80]

In October 2017, Howell posted a video, "Daniel and Depression", in which he revealed that he had suffered from clinical depression. [83] He also spoke of his journey to recovery, which involved taking antidepressants, seeing a therapist, and focusing on "basic self-care". [84] [85] Howell uploaded the video the day after World Mental Health Day, through which he and Lester supported #HelloYellow, [83] [86] [87] [88] a mental health campaign by YoungMinds, prompting the UK-based charity to name Howell an ambassador. [89] Also in 2017, Howell supported and became involved in Stop, Speak, Support, an anti-cyberbullying campaign launched by Prince William. [90] [91]

Following a hiatus from YouTube, Howell came out as queer and gay in a video uploaded on his channel in June 2019; he also said that he does not "feel the need to use labels." He disclosed experiences of both external and internalised homophobia and their influence on a suicide attempt during his teenage years. He had come out to his family earlier that month over email. [92] [93]

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

YearShowAwardNomineeResultRef.
2013 Shorty Awards Best YouTube StarDan HowellNominated [94]
2013 Sony AwardsGolden Headphones AwardDan and Phil on BBC Radio 1Won [95]
2014 Teen Choice Awards Web CollaborationThe Photo Booth ChallengeNominated [96]
Lovie Awards Internet Video Person of the YearDan HowellWon [97]
2016 Shorty Awards Best YouTube EnsembleDan and PhilNominated [98]
Summer in the City Awards YouTuber Book of the Year(with Phil Lester) The Amazing Book is Not on FireWon [99]
British Online Creator AwardsFilm of the Year(with Phil Lester) The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire - Official MovieWon [100]
(With Phil Lester) Dan & Phil's Story of TATINOFNominated [101]
Collaboration of the Year(with Phil Lester) Phil is not on fire 7Won [100]
(with Louise Pentland) Our Awkward Fancy MealNominated [102]
Series of the YearInternet Support GroupNominated [103]
Best Use of Tech in a VideoThe Dan and Phil 3D AUDIO EXPERIENCENominated [104]
Creator of the YearDan HowellNominated [105]
2017 Summer in the City Awards Creator Book of the Year(with Phil Lester) Dan and Phil Go OutsideNominated [106]

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