Adam Beales (born 11 October 1999), known as Adam B, is a YouTuber, actor, and television host from

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...

, Northern Ireland. He is the former co-presenter of the

CBBC CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...

shows ''

The Dog Ate My Homework "The dog ate my homework" (or "My dog ate my homework") is an English expression which carries the suggestion of being a common, poorly fabricated excuse made by schoolchildren to explain their failure to turn in an assignment on time. The phras ...

'' and ''

Blue Peter ''Blue Peter'' is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Tel ...

''. Beales has over 3 million subscribers on YouTube and has collaborated with

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

Early life

Beales was born on 11 October 1999 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He completed his schooling at

St Columb's College St Columb's College ( ga, Coláiste Naomh Colum Cille) is a Roman Catholic boys' grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland and, since 2008, a specialist school in mathematics. It is named after Saint Columba, the missionary monk from County Don ...

Career

At the age of 12, he started his channel Adam B (formerly known as TheNewAdamb99) on 29 July 2012. He started by filming all of his videos and editing them from his bedroom in his parents' house. In 2017, he made a partnership with

. In 2019, his channel reached over 2.7 million subscribers with a total of 300 million views. He has appeared on

BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering th ...

, ''

The Ryan Tubridy Show ''The Ryan Tubridy Show'' is a talk radio show, presented by Ryan Tubridy each weekday morning on RTÉ Radio 1 from 9am to 10am, from September 2015 to present. Ryan rejoined the station after five years with RTÉ 2fm presenting '' Tubridy''; he ...

'' and was featured on

VidCon VidCon is an annual convention for fans, creators, executives, and online brands. The event primarily features prominent video stars from across the internet. In October 2020, VidCon Now relaunched as an ongoing, free digital offering. Vetera ...

London's first conference. In June 2019, he won the Youth 19 Champions Award. From 2019-20, he was the co-presenter in the seventh series of the

show ''

''. On 1 September 2020, Beales was announced as the 40th ''

'' presenter and would make his debut two days later. On 17 June 2022, Beales announced that he would be leaving ''Blue Peter'', with his last appearance on 15 July 2022. On 13 October 2022, Adam published his first booked titled "Adam Wins The Internet" - it is a fictional story, about a young man called Adam who dreams of becoming a YouTuber, even though it looks like he will never achieve it. However one day he accepts a challenge to get one million subscribers in one year by the mysterious "Popularis Incrementum website" which leads to Adam getting to start his own YouTube career with very exciting adventures and results.

Personal life

Beales is gay. He

came out Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ...

in a video he uploaded on his YouTube channel titled "I'M GAY" on July 22 2022. He began dating his boyfriend Dominic in November 2021. He works with his mother Edelle and father Paul as video partners. Beales' younger brother Callum also has his own YouTube channel, Callum B. The family collectively share a YouTube channel, Family 4.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam B YouTubers from Northern Ireland 21st-century male actors from Northern Ireland People educated at St Columb's College Male television actors from Northern Ireland Prank YouTubers Mass media people from Derry (city) YouTube vloggers Gaming YouTubers DIY YouTubers 1999 births Living people Blue Peter presenters Television presenters from Northern Ireland Male actors from County Londonderry LGBT YouTubers 21st-century LGBT people