Logan Alexander Paul is an American YouTuber, entrepreneur, internet personality, social media influencer, boxer, and actor. In addition to posting videos on YouTube, he also hosts a podcast ‘Impaulsive’ since Nov 2018. The podcast has nearly 2.7 million followers.
In December 2020, it was announced that Floyd Mayweather, the former boxing world champion, would fight Paul in a ‘special exhibition’ bout in February 2021. The fight is slated to occur on Feb 20.
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Logan Paul – Age and Background
Logan was born on April 1, 1995 in Westlake, Ohio, US, to Gregory Allan Paul and Pamela Ann Stepnick. He has a brother named Jake Paul who is also an internet personality and YouTuber.
He went to Westlake High School. In 2012, he became an All-Star linebacker of The Plain Dealer on the football team at school. He also qualified for the 2013 Ohio High School Athletic Association state-level Division I Individual Wrestling Championships. After graduating high school, he enrolled at Ohio University with a major in Industrial Engineering.
Career
When he was 10 years old, Logan had started making for his YouTube channel named Zoosh. Later he started posting videos on Vine, and by 2013 had gathered a following on the video sharing platform. So in October 2013, he launched his new YouTube channel called ‘TheOfficialLoganPaul’. After the shutdown of the Vine app, he began to regularly post videos on his YouTube Channel.
In 2014, he dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a social media entertainer. In August 2015, he created the channel ‘Logan Paul Vlogs which has now become his YouTube channel with the most subscribers. As of late 2020, Paul’s channel has a following of more than 22 million with nearly 5 billion views. In the US, his channel is the 54th most subscribed and he features in the top 150 most subscribed channels on YouTube.
Logan’s credits as an actor include film roles in movies like The Thinning and The Thinning: New World Order and appearances in TV shows like Bizaardvark, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Weird Loners, Stitchers, and Valley Girl. He was also the screenplay writer for an adult comedy film ‘Airplane Mode’ which released in 2019.
He also had a digital TV series called Logan Paul VS that Comcast purchased in 2016. It has been halted since 2018.
As a singer, he has released a few singles like “2016”, “Help Me Help You”, “Outta My Hair”, “Santa Diss Track”, “The Number Song”, and “Going Broke”. His 2017 single “No Handlebars” met with intense criticism due to its portrayal of women as sexual objects. Since then, Logan has deleted that video from YouTube.
Logan has been involved in several advertising campaigns for varied brands such as PepsiCo, Hanes, and HBO.
In 2018, Paul fought British YouTuber KSI in a white-collar amateur boxing match. The result was a majority draw. The two fought again, in a professional match, and the result was a win for KSI via split decision.
Logan Paul – Net Worth
It has been reported that Paul’s annual earnings are around $10 million. As of 2020, his net worth is estimated to be $19 million
Controversies
Logan has been in the midst of many controversies, the most notable of which was his video of a corpse hanging in the “suicide forest” in Japan. The video had over 6 million views within 24 hours, but there was severe backlash as well. He was severely criticized for being insensitive to victims of suicide. Subsequently, Paul deleted the video and tendered an apology on Twitter.
YouTube also removed him from Google Preferred, his role in YouTube Red’s ‘Foursome’ series was axed, and telecast of Logan Paul VS was stopped. YouTube did not ban his channel because he had not crossed the threshold of three strikes rule of the platform.
Logan Paul – Girlfriend and Relationships
- Paul dated actress Chloe Bennet from 2017 to 2018. They met on the sets of Valley Girl.
- He dated model Josie Canseco from April 2020 to Nov 2020. Josie is daughter of former baseball player Jose Canseco.
- He is red-green colorblind. He injured his right testicle in 2017 while filming a stunt for his vine.
Trivia
- Paul won 2017 Teen Choice Awards for Comedy Web Star and the Best Podcast award for Impaulsive in 2019.
- His boxing nickname is The Maverick. He is 6 ft 2 in tall and fights in the cruiserweight category.
Logan Paul – House (Price, Location)
- After moving to LA, Logan lived in a Hollywood and Vine apartment complex in Hollywood which was home to other social media celebrities.
- In 2017, he purchased a mansion in the LA suburb of Encino for $6.55 million. The house has 14 rooms and is spread across 30,000 square feet.
