Michelle Khare (born August 10, 1992) is an American

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and a former professional

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. She is best known for her YouTube show Challenge Accepted and HBO Max's ''

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''.

Career

Khare attended

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in a mixed subject study in Digital Media and Technology. During her studies, she interned at a variety of high-profile companies including

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, and

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Road Cycling

While living in Los Angeles for her internships, Khare began road and mountain cycling recreationally. She went on to join the Dartmouth Cycling Team and win US U23 Criterium nationals in 2014. She joined the BMW Women's Professional Team where she trained and raced professionally for the 2014–2015 season.

YouTube and Buzzfeed

Khare credits her younger sister with inspiring her to start a

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channel. As she describes her sister's words: "If you want to do entertainment, you should make a YouTube channel. And you should do it about something that nobody else can do: cycling comedy." After graduation in 2014, Khare applied for an opening to be a full-time content producer at

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. She considers her YouTube channel and early videos to have helped in getting the position at BuzzFeed Video. While working at Buzzfeed there were heavy restrictions on content creators on their own channels because of potential conflict of interest, so her own channel remained dormant. While working at Buzzfeed she continued her cycling career and incorporated it into her content, focusing on exploring health and wellness. After she stopped cycling professionally she was able to begin partaking in extreme physical challenges. When she left Buzzfeed in 2016, she began focusing on her own channel again. Her most popular series is ''Challenge Accepted'', where she tries out grueling training regimens for various professions. Her channel has 3.01 million subscribers as of September 2022. On December 12, 2020, Khare released her own version of the ''

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'' videos, but it was taken down after fans criticized the video for including a portrayal of

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, who left the platform that year after she was involved in several controversies.

Television

She is a host of the children's competition program

that was released on the

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streaming platform on June 18, 2020.

Personal life

Khare grew up in

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. Her father is

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and her mother is of European-Irish descent. She has one sister, Madeline, born in 1996. She married her longtime boyfriend, Garrett Kennell on October 17, 2022.

Awards and nominations

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khare, Michelle 1992 births Living people Entertainment-related YouTube channels People from Shreveport, Louisiana Dartmouth College alumni American YouTubers American people of Indian descent BuzzFeed people