Zoe Sugg

Zoe Sugg
Zoe Sugg at Vidcon 2014
YouTube channel
language	English
founding	February 22, 2007
channels	Zoella (main channel) MoreZoella (second channel)
Subscribers	over 11,700,000 (main channel) over 4,800,000 (second channel)
Calls	over 1,100,000,000 (main channel) over 800,000,000 (second channel)
Videos	over 370 videos (main channel) over 510 videos (second channel)

Zoe Elizabeth Sugg (born March 28, 1990 in Lacock , Wiltshire , England ) is a British fashion and beauty vlogger , web video producer , blogger and author . She is known to her fans on YouTube as Zoella . Her debut novel, Girl Online , came out in November 2014, breaking the record for first-time novelist sales in the first weekend since Nielsen BookScan began recording it in 1998.

Private life

Zoe Sugg is the older sister of Joe Sugg, who is also an internet personality and vlogger. He is known as ThatcherJoe on YouTube . She grew up in Lacock, Wiltshire, where she attended The Corsham School , and currently lives in Brighton .

Zoe Sugg has been in a relationship with fellow YouTuber Alfie Deyes, who runs the PointlessBlog channel , since 2012 .

Career

Zoe Sugg was working as a trainee in an interior design company when she started her blog Zoella in February 2009. By the end of the year it had a thousand followers and in September 2015 a total of over 550 million visits. The fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog expanded into a YouTube channel in 2009 when Sugg was working for the British fashion chain New Look .

In 2013, Sugg was appointed an ambassador for the UK Volunteer Social Program NCS to promote the newly launched youth welfare service. The following year she became a digital ambassador for Mind , a mental health charity.

YouTube

On Sugg's main channel Zoella , which was first called "zoella280390" after her date of birth, you can find mostly beauty hauls , fashion videos and so-called "favorites" videos in which she shows her favorite products from the past month. Her second channel MoreZoella mainly contains vlogs in which she shows her viewers what she does during the day. She is a member of the multi-channel network Style Haul and is represented by Dominic Smales from Gleam Futures. Zoe Sugg appeared alongside a few other YouTubers on the DailyMix channel , which is managed by Gleam. Sugg has uploaded many collaborations with other YouTubers on her channel Zoella , including Louise Pentland , Tanya Burr , Alfie Deyes, Tyler Oakley , Troye Sivan and Grace Helbig .

Zoe Sugg is very active on social media . The British newspaper The Telegraph mentioned her in 2013 as one of “Britain's Most Influential Tweeters ”. As of December 2015, Sugg's main channel had 9.8 million subscribers and over 606 million video views. This makes it the 50th most subscribed channel on YouTube; its second channel MoreZoella has over 3.4 million subscribers and over 290 million video clicks. She also has over 3 million followers on Twitter and over 11 million on Instagram .

In December 2014, Sugg was criticized for filming herself while driving. A member of the Metropolitan Police said, “She could have killed someone. How can someone who takes his eyes off the road for so long have full control of the vehicle? ”Sugg's spokesman said,“ At the moment of filming, she was in stationary traffic. ”

On January 30, 2016, Sugg became the first British YouTuber to reach 10 million subscribers.

music

Zoe Sugg appeared in the single " Do They Know It's Christmas? " From 2014 as a member of the band Aid 30 " charity supergroup "to raise money for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Zoella Beauty

In September 2014, Sugg launched a line of cosmetics under the brand name Zoella Beauty . According to the British newspaper Metro, the launch of the “Bath and Beauty Series” was the “biggest beauty product launch of the year”.

Books

Girl online

In 2014, Zoe Sugg's first novel "Girl Online" was published by Penguin Books . Sugg broke the book sales record among debut novels, as more than 78,109 copies were sold in the first seven days. A total of almost 350,000 copies were sold within the first year. After the book was published, doubts arose that the book was written by Zoe Sugg. The publisher Penguin Books admitted that Zoe Sugg was a ghostwriter with Siobhan Curham. The starting point of speculation, a formulation Suggs on the thank-you and greeting side of her debut novel, with which it everyone at Penguin - especially Amy Alward and Siobhan Durham City, "which at every step there for them were" - in the implementation of her first book (thanked english "I want to thank everyone at Penguin for helping me put together my first novel, especially Amy Alward and Siobhan Curham, who were with me every step of the way." ). While Alward has a comparatively clear job as an editor, Curham's role was initially unclear. In a blog post in the summer of 2014, which was later deleted, Curham outlined the requirements for a ghostwriting task (a novel of around 80,000 words within six weeks) that, according to the media, roughly correlates with the announcement of the book. Due to the reactions online and in the media, Sugg withdrew from the Internet for a few days after the collaboration with Curham became known.

Girl Online: On Tour

Her second novel "Girl Online: On Tour" was published in October 2015. Based on the negative experiences with her first work, she wrote the sequel without the help of a ghostwriter. The publication was accompanied by a sold out reading tour.

Girl Online: Going Solo

In November 2016 her third novel "Girl Online: Going Solo" was published.

Television appearances

In June 2014, Sugg was a guest on the British talk show Loose Women . She also appeared on the morning show This Morning with Philipp and Holly a month later to talk about her panic attacks . Sugg took part in the second Comic-Relief edition of the British cooking show The Great British Bake Off on February 18, 2015 .

Awards

In 2011 Sugg won the Cosmopolitan Blog Award in the “Best Established Beauty Blog” category and in the following years the award for “Best Beauty Vlogger”. In 2013 and 2014 she was named "Best British Vlogger" at the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards. She also received the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for “UK Favorite Vlogger” in 2014 , and the Teen Choice Award for “Choice Web Star: Fashion / Beauty”.

Zoe Sugg was named one of The Daily Telegraph's “40 Best Beauty Bloggers” in September 2014 and “Queen of the Haul” by British Vogue in November . Her channel was the fourth most popular YouTube channel in the UK in 2014 . In 2014 Zoella was one of the artists who, together with Bob Geldof, implemented a new edition of Band Aid and released a single on the occasion of the 30th anniversary .

In 2015 she was named in Debrett's 500 , which lists the most influential people in the UK in the New Media category. In 2015 she was named “Most Inspirational Women of the Decade” in the field of technology by Grazia magazine and the 34th sexiest woman in the world by For Him Magazine . In the late summer of 2015, Zoe Suggs and her partner Alfie Deyes (aka Pointless Blog ) unveiled wax figures at Madame Tussauds .

criticism

Except for the negative reactions in the context of the "ghostwriting affair" around her debut novel, Zoe Suggs had comparatively few negative reactions that could damage her career as a YouTube vlogger. That all changed at the end of 2017 when she launched an Advent calendar priced at GBP 50, which at first found little favor with parents due to the quality of the content and was then reduced by 50% in price by the drugstore chain Boots so as not to collapse completely allow. In addition, in the context of this process, some of their old Twitter posts from 2010 to 2012 were unearthed. a. comments on homosexual men and obese women that commentators perceive as "offensive".

Web links

Commons : Zoe Sugg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zoe Sugg's channel on YouTube
• Official website
• Zoe Sugg in theInternet Movie Database(English)

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