Dan and Phil

Howell and Lester met on the internet in 2009 and in person that October. They have lived together since August 2011, first in Manchester before moving to London in July 2012. At the end of 2020, they announced they bought a home together, where they currently reside. Personal relationship In June 2019, Howell came out as gay via a YouTube video on his channel. Lester followed suit by posting a coming-out video to his own channel later that month. In Howell's video, he shared that the pair had been romantically involved at the beginning of their relationship, but refrained from clarifying its status at the time out of respect for his and Lester's privacy. Prior to coming out, the nature of their relationship was the subject of speculation for many years. == YouTube ==

Lester uploaded his first video on his channel, AmazingPhil, in March 2006. Howell initially found Lester through YouTube and was a fan of his videos. After messaging with Lester online, Howell posted his first video to his YouTube channel, at the time called danisnotonfire, in October 2009. Later that month, Dan and Phil met in person and created their first collaboration, a Q&A video titled "phil is not on fire", posted to Lester's channel. The video sparked what would become a ten-part series, with one installment uploaded a year until the last one in 2018. Since 2009, Dan and Phil have frequently appeared in videos on each other's channels. Dan and Phil (formerly DanAndPhilGAMES) On 12 September 2014, Dan and Phil posted the first video on their joint gaming YouTube channel, DanAndPhilGAMES. On 8 March 2015 the channel hit 1 million subscribers. At the time, it was the fastest growing channel on YouTube. The channel reached over 3.1 million subscribers. The channel features Dan and Phil playing a variety of games. Some of the most popular series on the channel include the pair's Sims 4 Let's Play and "Gamingmas", an annual series where the duo uploaded videos to the channel every day in December until Christmas. In December 2018, the channel went on an indefinite hiatus. On 15 October 2023, Dan and Phil announced that they would both return to making videos on the channel in a video titled "Saying Goodbye Forever", directed by PJ Liguori and guest starring Jacksepticeye. In February 2024, they commissioned Lowave Records for a custom lo-fi and synthwave-inspired soundtrack for the channel, released as an album titled All or Nothing under the artist name DanAndPhilBEATS. In continued partnership with Lowave Records, they released four additional albums in 2024. For Lester's birthday in January 2024, the pair hosted a two-hour charity livestream on the channel, through which they raised over $100,000 for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. They hosted another livestream for Howell's birthday in June 2024 for the same charity, which also raised over $100,000. On 13 October 2025, the DanAndPhilGAMES channel was rebranded to Dan and Phil. Other YouTube projects The Super Amazing Project In October 2011, Dan and Phil were invited to create a collaborative YouTube channel by the network My Damn Channel. Titled The Super Amazing Project, it featured the duo discussing and investigating paranormal events. Segments included "Viewers Spooky Happenings", where the audience of the show would send in "scary" items for the video bloggers to react to, and "In The News This Week", where the duo recapped recent light-hearted news items and viral videos. Dan and Phil hosted three seasons of The Super Amazing Project through December 2012. DanAndPhilCRAFTS On 1 April 2015, Dan and Phil launched a spin-off crafts-based channel, DanAndPhilCRAFTS, as an April Fools joke. It featured a single video of them creating square snowflakes out of paper, with an amateur editing style and humour throughout. It reached over 154,000 subscribers and 500,000 total video views in one week. Additional videos were uploaded on April Fools' Day in 2016, 2017, and 2024. == Radio ==

In November 2012, the BBC announced that from January 2013 onwards, Dan and Phil would present the Sunday night entertainment and request show for national UK radio station BBC Radio 1. The duo had occasionally worked with Radio 1 before, making videos for the station's YouTube channel and presenting two Christmas broadcasts. The eponymous show was designed to be an interactive, audio-visual broadcast involving music videos made by viewers, physical challenges performed on air by Dan and Phil, and song requests from listeners. It was streamed in a video, live on the BBC Radio 1 website, and accessible worldwide. In August 2014, it was announced that the last Dan and Phil show would be broadcast at the end of the month, with the duo moving to a new show on Monday nights. The show, The Internet Takeover, featured Dan and Phil once a month, with other popular video bloggers presenting the rest of the time. The show ended in April 2016. == Podcast ==

Following the rebrand of their shared YouTube channel in October 2025, Howell and Lester began hosting a weekly comedy podcast called Hard Launch with Dan and Phil. The first episode premiered on 20 October 2025. == Business ventures ==

IRL Merch In 2014, Dan and Phil founded IRL Digital, Ltd, along with Lester's brother, Martyn. The company creates and sells the merchandise of various media personalities. Games In August 2015, Dan and Phil created an app, The 7 Second Challenge, based on a YouTube challenge of the same name started by Lester in a 2014 video posted to AmazingPhil. The app was discontinued in 2019. In October 2017, the duo released a party board game, Truth Bombs, via game company Big Potato. The board game was based on an icebreaker that Lester had invented. Big Potato later released a Mean Girls-themed version of Truth Bombs titled Mean Girls: The Party Game. == Books and tours ==

The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire and The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire On 26 March 2015, Dan and Phil announced via a trailer on Howell's channel that they had co-written a book titled The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire (TABINOF). It was released in the UK on 8 October 2015 and worldwide on 15 October 2015, published by Ebury Press and Random House Children's Books. The book topped the General Hardbacks Sunday Times Bestsellers list having sold 26,745 copies in the UK in the first week of its release. It also became a #1 New York Times Bestseller in the young adult hardcover list. In the same trailer the pair announced their theatrical stage show The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire (TATINOF), which travelled around the UK during October and November 2015, ending with a show at the London Palladium. During the show, they sung an original song "The Internet Is Here", which they later released as a charity single for Stand Up To Cancer, earning them a gold record disc for the sales of the song. In 2016, they took the tour to the US and Toronto, starting with a show in Orlando, Florida on 22 April and ending on 24 June with a show at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was the largest tour ever achieved by YouTube creators. They later toured Australia in August 2016, starting in Perth and ending in Brisbane, and finished the tour with a European leg, performing in Stockholm, Berlin, and Dublin. YouTube Red Originals and Dan and Phil Go Outside In October 2016, a recording of The Amazing Tour Is Not on Fire was released as a YouTube Red original film along with a documentary, ''Dan and Phil's Story of TATINOF''. They were the first British YouTube creators to release content on the YouTube Red platform. Alongside these films, they released a photo book, Dan and Phil Go Outside, in November 2016, which includes a personal collection of candid photos and insightful stories from the tour. The book became a #1 New York Times bestseller. The tour ran from April, starting in Brighton, to September, ending in Mumbai, and included 80 shows in 18 countries, making it one of the biggest YouTuber tours of all time. Dan and Phil partnered with BBC Studios' TalentWorks to release a movie of Interactive Introverts with bonus features, such as behind the scenes content and directors' commentary, on DVD, Blu-ray, and available for digital download in December 2018. From there, the tour stretched from the remainder of 2024 into early 2025 with dates in mainland Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and the UK and Ireland. Further UK dates were added in July 2024 due to demand. In total, the show had over 70 performances. Howell described the show as "rising from the ashes." == Filmography ==

In 2016, Dan and Phil were ranked amongst Britain's 500 most influential people by The Sunday Times. Awards and nominations == References ==