Adam Beales (born 11 October 1999), known as Adam B, is a YouTuber, actor, and television host from

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, Northern Ireland. He is a former co-presenter of the

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shows '' The Dog Ate My Homework'' and ''

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''. Beales has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube and has collaborated with

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Early life

Beales was born on 11 October 1999 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He completed his schooling at

St Columb's College St Columb's College is a Roman Catholic boys' grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. Since 2008, it has been a specialist school in mathematics. It is named after Saint Columba, the missionary monk from County Donegal who founded a monast ...

, where he was Head Boy.

Career

At the age of 12, he started his channel Adam B (which was then called “TheNewAdamb99”) on 29 July 2012. He started by filming all of his videos and editing them from his bedroom in his parents' house. In 2017, he made a partnership with

. In 2019, his YouTube channel reached over 2.7 million subscribers with a total of 300 million views. He has appeared on

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, '' The Ryan Tubridy Show'' and was featured on VidCon London's first conference. In June 2019, he won the Youth 19 Champions Award. From 2019-20, he was the co-presenter in the seventh series of the

show '' The Dog Ate My Homework''. On 1 September 2020, Beales was announced as the 40th ''

'' presenter and would make his debut two days later. He left ''Blue Peter'' in 2022, with his final appearance on 15 July. In 2022 Beales co-hosted '' Bro's in Control'' for the BBC, along with

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and his brother Callum B. A second series with Beales and Tasker was commissioned in September 2023. Beale has published two books, ''Adam Wins The Internet'' and ''Adam Destroys The Internet''.

Personal life

Beales is gay. He came out in a video he uploaded on his YouTube channel titled "I'M GAY..." on 22 July 2022. In the next video, titled "MEET MY BOYFRIEND", he showed the audience his partner Dominic. He works with his mother Edelle and father Paul as video partners. Beales' younger brother Callum also has his own YouTube channel, Callum B. The family collectively share a YouTube channel, Family 4.

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