Exactly 30 years ago, a little boy came into this world, who had not the slightest clue of anything that was going to happen in the following years. And neither had anybody else. He was just a cute, cheerful baby boy from Northern England.
19½ years later this exact same boy, now a slightly awkward teenager, decided to film a video blog on a webcam he got from a cereal giveaway. He uploaded this video blog onto a Youtube channel called “AmazingPhil“ and one day later, he had his first subscriber. Still, neither the boy nor the subscriber knew that this was gonna be the start of something incredible.
And now we’re here, 30th January 2017, to celebrate the 30th birthday of this exact boy. By now, he’s everything but a slightly awkward teenager. He’s had over ten years to become the person he is today. To become this kind, adorable, intelligent and wonderfully unique and one-of-a-kind man that so many people love and look up to. He has almost four million subscribers, has been a radio DJ, a writer, an entertainer on stage and on camera, live and pre-recorded, toured the world with a stage show and is known all over the world. But, more importantly, he has a loving family, a best friend, flat- and soulmate and a community that loves him dearly for always making them smile, for showing them that it is fine to be weird, that life is worth enjoying and for being there for them when no one else was.
Even though I’ve only been a part of this community for four months, I’ve genuinely enjoyed every single second of it and I’m more than thankful that people like him exist. So, I mean 1000% of it when I say:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHIL LESTER!
