Elle Mills

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Elle Mills
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Mills in 2022
Personal information
Born
Elle Janette Mills

(1998-07-17) July 17, 1998 (age 25)
Manila, Philippines
NationalityCanadian
Spouse
Mitch Azevedo
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(m. 2017;ann. 2018)​
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012–2022
Subscribers1.75 million [1]
Total views155 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2017
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018
Last updated: November 25, 2022

Elle Janette Mills [2] (born July 17, 1998), [3] also known by her YouTube username ElleOfTheMills, is a former Canadian YouTube vlogger. She won the "Breakout YouTuber" category at the 10th Shorty Awards in 2018. [4] Her videos have been compared to the films of John Hughes. [5] [6] In 2023, she announced in her New York Times essay that she has taken a step back from YouTube and is now pursuing writing and directing full-time.

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Family and early life

Mills was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the Ottawa, Ontario area. [7] She began making home videos when she was eight years old. [8] In high school, she was inspired to become a YouTuber by watching the YouTube videos of Grace Helbig and Casey Neistat. [9] Her family appears in many of her videos, her mother's name is Janette Prejola and her younger brother Jay Mills.

YouTube career

At the beginning of 2017, she had about 15,000 subscribers on YouTube. Her channel gained subscribers very quickly after her coming-of-age videos went viral later that year. In particular, her November 2017 coming out video, in which she came out as bisexual, pushed her over the million-subscriber mark. [5] [8]

Mills signed with Fullscreen in June 2017, [10] and they produced her first ever tour in the spring of 2018. [7] By the end of 2017, her channel had over 915,000 subscribers, [4] and she surpassed 1 million subscribers in February 2018. [11] That May, she had a mental breakdown and posted a video announcing that she would take a break from making new videos. She returned to YouTube a month later. [12] [13] She signed with United Talent Agency in December 2018. [8]

But in 2023, Mills announced in her New York Times essay that she has taken a step back from YouTube and is now pursuing writing and directing full-time.

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  1. 1 2 "About ElleOfTheMills". YouTube.
  2. ↑ Birth name:
  3. ↑ "Elle Mills (@millselle)". Twitter. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Elle Mills". The Shorty Awards. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Ohlheiser, Abby (October 23, 2018). "Elle Mills is the celebrity every YouTuber wants to be. But her fame came at a price". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ "'It's addicting': Elle Mills on YouTube and the pressure to get views". CBC Radio. October 2, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Spangler, Todd (March 15, 2018). "YouTube Rising Star Elle Mills Sets First Live Tour With Fullscreen". Variety. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 Sun, Rebecca (December 14, 2018). "UTA Signs YouTube Breakout Elle Mills (Exclusive)". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ Lanning, Carly (March 27, 2018). "The cinematic storytelling of Elle Mills' vlogs". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  10. ↑ Lorenz, Taylor (February 1, 2018). "The Teen Taking Back Practical Jokes From YouTube's Bros". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  11. ↑ Gutelle, Sam (May 21, 2018). "In New Video, Elle Mills Talks Mental Health, A Break From Social Media, And Being "Burnt Out At 19"". Tubefilter. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  12. ↑ "YouTube sensation Elle Mills opens up about suffering a breakdown due to pressure". Women in the World. October 25, 2018. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  13. ↑ Sydell, Laura (August 13, 2018). "The Relentless Pace Of Satisfying Fans Is Burning Out Some YouTube Stars". NPR. Retrieved December 28, 2018.


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