Hannah Witton

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Hannah Witton
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Witton in 2019
Personal information
Born
Hannah Lisa Witton

Manchester, England
Education University of Birmingham (BA)
Occupations
Spouse
Daniel Leadley
​
(m. 2020)​
Children1
Website hannahwitton.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
Genres
Subscribers>734,000 [1]
Total views>112 million [1]
Associated acts Calum McSwiggan
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2015
Last updated: 22 December 2023

Hannah Lisa Witton is an English YouTuber, broadcaster, and author. She creates video blogs and informational content which is mostly based around relationships, sex and sexual health; liberation and welfare issues; literature; and travel. [2] [3]

Contents

Witton's debut book, Doing It, concentrating on sex and relationships, was released for European readers on 6 April 2017 and in the US on 3 July 2018. [4] [5] Her second book, The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods, was released in June 2019.

Early life and education

Though she grew up in England, Witton lived in Austin, Texas for one year as a child. She is Jewish. [6] Her godfather is the actor Toby Jones. [7] She attended Loreto Sixth Form College in Hulme, Manchester, and then the University of Birmingham where she studied a degree in History and was especially interested in sexual history. Witton's video History of Homosexuality was a 2013 finalist in The Guardian and Oxford University Press Very Short Film competition. [2]

Career

In 2017 Witton won a UK Blog Award, [8] and in 2018 a Blogosphere Award as Vlogger of the Year. [9] Witton is the sole director of Snake People Media Ltd incorporated on 18 March 2016. [10]

YouTube

Witton began creating YouTube videos on 17 April 2011 as Hannah "Girasol". [11] She is known for her videos helping young women with sexual health and relationships. She moderated the Gender panel at Summer in the City 2014. [12] Witton was named one of eight Girls' Champions as part of the BBC's 100 Women campaign in November 2016. [13]

Hannah Witton is one of the three members of the internet-based reading club, known as "Banging Book Club". She and two colleagues, fellow YouTubers Lucy Moon and Leena Norms, read one book every month and then discuss the book together on a podcast published on iTunes, SoundCloud, and (partially) Witton's YouTube channel. They sometimes invite guests to their podcast. The books often include themes related to sex, relationships, and feminism. [14]

Witton started her second YouTube channel, "More Hannah", at the end of 2019 to post lifestyle and productivity content. Her main channel has featured series like The Hormone Diaries where she documented her fertility journey in trying to conceive.

Writing

Pornography Addiction 101

Witton's first book, Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex, was released on 6 April 2017 in Europe and in America on 3 July 2018. The book concentrates on sex and relationships including personal experiences, [4] and won a SitC 2017 award. [15] In 2019, Untendrumherumreden, the German translation, was published. [16]

Her second book, The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods, covering experiences of menstruation and education around it, was released in June 2019. [17]

Podcast

In May 2019, Witton launched a podcast Doing It with Hannah Witton focusing on sex, relationships, taboos and our bodies. [18] The podcast follows an interview format where Witton invites a guest to talk about a topic where they have expertise, in conversation. The podcast is distributed by Global, and was nominated in the podcast category in the 2020 Global Awards.

TV and radio

Witton presented the ITV2 sex and relationships show Love Fix in February 2016. [19]

Witton was a guest presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live on issues to do with sex and relationships, [20] and has been a guest on various BBC radio talk segments on many occasions. Witton had a weekly radio show The Hannah Witton Show and co-presented an episode of The Calum McSwiggan Show on internet radio station Fubar Radio, [21] [22] and has presented the BBC Radio 1 segment The Internet Takeover . [23]

Personal life

After a bad flare of ulcerative colitis, Witton underwent ileostomy in January 2018. [24] [25] In December she was a panelist in the "Sex and Science" discussion for the Yogscast Jingle Jam charity. [26]

Witton married Daniel Leadley, older brother of fellow YouTuber and singer-songwriter Bethan Leadley, in September 2020. [27] Witton gave birth to their son on 30 April 2022. [28]

In 2022, Witton became a German citizen, in addition to her British citizenship. [29]

Bibliography

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  3. ↑ Huynh, Jasmin (5 July 2018). "Hannah Witton Is All About Healthy Sex and Body Positivity". EntityMag.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 Witton, Hannah (2017). "Books". HannahWitton.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  5. ↑ Smith, Carl (22 March 2017). "Who is Hannah Witton? Meet YouTube's unashamed sex and relationships expert". heatworld . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Witton, Hannah (15 July 2014).How Jewish are you? (feat. ElloSteph) on YouTube.
  7. ↑ Witton, Hannah (27 Nov 2015).My Favourite Female Childhood Authors | Hannah Witton | AD on YouTube.
  8. ↑ UK Blog Awards (24 March 2018). "Where are there now? Hannah Witton – UK Blog Awards 2017 WINNER!". blogawardsuk.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  9. ↑ "blogosphere – previous winners – 2018 winners". blogosphere.biz. 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  10. ↑ "SNAKE PEOPLE MEDIA LTD – Overview (free company information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  11. ↑ @hannahwitton (1 November 2012). "How would you feel if I started going by 'Hannah Witton' instead of 'hannahgirasol'...?" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 May 2020– via Twitter.
  12. ↑ SitC (12 September 2014). Gender Panel on YouTube.
  13. ↑ "100 Women: Meet our Girls' Champions". BBC News . 25 November 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  14. ↑ Moon, Lucy; Witton, Hannah; Norms, Leena (2017). "Banging Book Club" (podcast). SoundCloud . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  15. ↑ "Congratulations to SitC 2017 Award winners!". SitC . 15 August 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  16. ↑ "Untendrumherumreden". Rheinischer-Spiegel.de (in German). 29 January 2019. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
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  20. ↑ "Why Doesn't Anyone Wear Condoms on TV". BBC News . Retrieved 11 April 2018.
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  22. ↑ "Calum McSwiggan || Hannah Witton". FubarRadio.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  23. ↑ "The Internet Takeover With Hannah Witton". BBC Radio 1 . Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  24. ↑ Witton, Hannah (4 February 2018). I spent 4 weeks in hospital on YouTube.
  25. ↑ Lorraine (21 August 2018). Vlogger Hannah Witton Is Raising Awareness About Living With a Stoma Bag on YouTube.
  26. ↑ Greene, Jasmine (24 December 2018). "Hannah Witton Joins The Jingle Jam". TenEightyMagazine.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2018.
  27. ↑ Lewis, Anna (22 August 2019). "YouTuber Hannah Witton proposed to her boyfriend with a keyring". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  28. ↑ @hannahwitton (2 May 2022). "Meet baby Rowan! Born 30th April by unplanned but calm c-section at a whopping 9lb 1! So tired, so in love 🥰🥰 we're..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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