19 Facts About Alfie Deyes

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Alfred Sidney Deyes was born on 17 September 1993 and is an English YouTuber, vlogger and businessman.

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Alfie Deyes's vlogging channel has 3.6 million subscribers and over 1 billion views, while his gaming channel has over 1.5 million subscribers and over 216 million views.

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Alfie Deyes has a following of 4.8 million followers on Twitter and 3.7 million followers on Instagram.

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Alfie Deyes has collaborated with a number of other YouTubers, including Tanya Burr, Louis Cole, Louise Pentland, Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Miranda Sings, Joe Sugg, Zoe Sugg and Jim Chapman.

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Alfie Deyes created a couple of videos with Ariana Grande for the You Generation network on YouTube.

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Alfie Deyes was included in the 2015 Debrett's 500, listing the most influential people in Britain, under the New Media category.

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Alfie Deyes signed a book deal with Blink Publishing in 2014, with his debut book The Pointless Book due for release in September of the same year.

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Alfie Deyes released a standalone autobiography, The Scrapbook Of My Life, on 24 March 2016.

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In 2017, Alfie Deyes announced a third and final book in the Pointless Book series titled The Pointless Book 3.

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Alfie Deyes was part of the 'YouTube Boyband' that raised money for Comic Relief.

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Alfie Deyes is director of PointlessBlog Ltd and Pointless Holdings Ltd, alongside Dominic Smales.

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Alfie Deyes received criticism from viewers and the media who claimed that Deyes was making a mockery of poverty, both in his language used and the fact he did things such as going shopping for clothes during the video, continuing to use luxury items such as his car, and was given free food after being recognised.

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Alfie Deyes's family relocated to Brighton, East Sussex when he was four years old.

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Alfie Deyes was educated at Varndean School in Brighton and then attended Varndean College, achieving the grades he needed to go to university.

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From age 11 to 14, Alfie Deyes participated in competitive gymnastics.

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Alfie Deyes has been in a relationship with fellow YouTube star Zoe Sugg, known publicly as Zoella, since October 2012.

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In early 2013, Alfie Deyes moved into a flat in London, with YouTuber Caspar Lee.

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Alfie Deyes moved back to Brighton in autumn 2013, eventually moving into a house with Sugg in October 2014.

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Sugg and Alfie Deyes have one child, born in August 2021.