William Spetz (born 4 April 1996 in

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, U ...

) is a

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comedian and television personality. He became known after posting comedic videos on YouTube, he then got to do the two comedic kids shows ''Williams lista'' and ''Scener ur ett tonårsliv'' which was aired on

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. Spetz started blogging at the age of 12 at the blog portal

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, but because of lack of interest he asked the paper ''

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'' if he could start a youth blog at their blog portal. In May 2010, Spetz started to do videoblogs at the YouTube channel "Lilla bloggen". In 2014, Spetz was a travelling reporter for ''

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'' and travelled to

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. Spetz has also been a panellist at '' Intresseklubben'' on SVT. In November 2015, it was announced by SVT, that Spetz was one of the co-hosts alongside

Gina Dirawi Gina Dirawi ( ar, غنا ديراوي; born 11 December 1990) is a Swedish television presenter, singer-songwriter, radio personality, blogger, comedian and actress. While she is best known as the first woman ever to host Melodifestivalen on thre ...

for the final of

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Filmography

*2019 - ''

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'' ( Netflix Series) as Samir Said *2020 - ''Dag för Dag'' as Simon

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Living people 1996 births People from Umeå Swedish comedians Swedish male bloggers Swedish male actors Video bloggers Comedy YouTubers Swedish YouTubers YouTube channels launched in 2010 Swedish people of Pakistani descent {{Sweden-bio-stub