Eman Kellam is a London-based content creator, presenter and YouTube personality with a massive online following of 88,000 subscribers. His amusing videos have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, earning him a loyal fanbase that eagerly anticipates his next upload. Kellam shot to fame in 2014 after uploading the viral video “Pranking My African Dad” – a piece of content that has gained over five million views and caught the eye of American hip-hop artist French Montana, who requested that he sample the video for his album MC4.
Kellam has a number of popular series that feature regularly on his channel: the most popular of these, “British Slang”, instructs Hollywood celebrities on British slang terms and London culture for comic effect. Huge stars such as Denzel Washington, Liam Hemsworth, Cara Delevingne, Donald Glover and Dave Franco have appeared in these videos. Kellam is also a popular presenter – he has appeared on the BAFTA-nominated CBBC programme Lifebabble and recently been asked to promote “BBC Own It” a new online learning resource commissioned by the BBC and aimed at 9 – 12 year olds, in addition to being tapped as a presenter for CBBC’s upcoming 2019 series of All Over The Place. 56
