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Zoella
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Zoella
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Sugg at VidCon 2014
Personal information
Born Zoe Elizabeth Sugg
28 March 1990 (age 26)
Lacock, Wiltshire, England[1]
Nationality British
Occupation
YouTuber vlogger author
Website www.zoella.co.uk
YouTube information
Pseudonym Zoella
Channel name zoella280390
Years active 2009–present
Subscribers 10 million
Total views 664.4 million
Associated acts
Joe Sugg Alfie Deyes Louise Pentland
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Subscriber and view counts updated as of 30 January 2016.
Zoe Elizabeth Sugg (born 28 March 1990)[2] is an English fashion and beauty vlogger, YouTuber, and author. She is best known by her YouTube username Zoella. Her debut novel, Girl Online, was released in November 2014 and broke the record for highest first-week sales of a first-time novelist since Nielsen BookScan began compiling such records in 1998.[3]

Contents [hide]
1 Personal life
2 Career
2.1 YouTube
2.2 Published works
2.3 Music
2.4 Television appearances
2.5 Zoella Beauty
3 Awards and nominations
4 References
5 External links
Personal life
Sugg is the older sister of Joe Sugg, who is also a vlogger and internet personality known on YouTube as ThatcherJoe.[4] She grew up in Lacock, Wiltshire, where she attended The Corsham School secondary school and arts college, and currently lives in Brighton.[1][4][5][6]

Sugg is in a relationship with fellow YouTube personality Alfie Deyes, known on YouTube as PointlessBlog.[6][7][8]

Career
Sugg was working as an apprentice at an interior design company when she created her blog, "Zoella", in February 2009.[1][6] By the end of the year it had a thousand followers and as of September 2015 it has received over 540 million total visits.[1][6][9] The fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog expanded into a YouTube channel in 2009, while Sugg was working for British clothing retailer New Look.[6][10]

In 2013, Sugg was named as one of the National Citizen Service's ambassadors, helping to promote the newly launched youth service.[11][12] The following year she was named as the first "Digital Ambassador" for Mind, the mental health charity.[13][14]

YouTube
Sugg's main channel, Zoella, first named "zoella280390" after her birth date, is mostly fashion, beauty hauls, and "favourites" videos (showing her favourite products of the previous month).[15][16] Her second channel, MoreZoella, contains mostly vlogs where she shows her viewers what she does in her day.[4] She is a member of the Style Haul network and is represented by Dominic Smales at Gleam Futures.[1][15][16][17] Sugg also appears alongside many other YouTubers on the channel Daily Mix, which is managed by Gleam.[15] Sugg has done many collaborations on her channel Zoella with other YouTubers, including: Louise Pentland, Tanya Burr, Alfie Deyes, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Grace Helbig, and many others.