Caspar Lee


Caspar Richard George Lee is a British-South African YouTuber and entrepreneur.

Career

Lee started his YouTube channel 'dicasp' in 2011, and later renamed it to simply 'Caspar'. , Lee's main YouTube channel has over 7 million subscribers and over 850 million video views; his second channel "morecaspar" has nearly 2 million subscribers and over 116 million video views. Lee was part of the 'YouTube Boyband' that raised money in 2014 for Comic Relief. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of "12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch" in December 2013. He was in a 2014 episode of the American television series Web Therapy.
Lee played a character named Garlic in the comedy movie , alongside fellow YouTuber Troye Sivan. Lee and Joe Sugg appeared in a 2015 travel documentary, Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, and its sequel Joe and Caspar Hit The Road: USA, produced for BBC Worldwide. Also in 2016, Lee starred in Laid in America alongside YouTube comedian KSI. Lee appeared in the music video for Charli XCX's 2017 single, "Boys".
In August 2017, Lee was named "Chief Visionary Officer" of Influencer Ltd, a British influencer marketing agency. Caspar Lee, a biography written by Lee and his mother, Emily, was published in hardcover in May 2016. Lee also co-founded Margravine Management with Joe Sugg.
In May 2020, Lee co-founded Proper Living, a South African student accommodation company.

Personal life

Lee was born in London, United Kingdom to Emily Riordan Lee and Jonathan Lee, but was raised in Knysna and Durban, South Africa where he attended Crawford College, La Lucia. Lee moved from South Africa to live with Alfie Deyes until 2014, before moving to a shared apartment in London with fellow YouTuber Joe Sugg until 2016, when he relocated to a shared apartment with Josh Pieters, also a YouTuber.

Awards

Lee won "Social Media Superstar" at The Global Awards 2018. Caspar was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe for his work within Media and Advertising.