Hannah Witton
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Born | Manchester, England[1] | 19 February 1992||||||
Education | University of Birmingham (BA) | ||||||
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Partner | Daniel Leadley (engaged) | ||||||
Website | hannahwitton | ||||||
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Years active | 2011–present | ||||||
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Subscribers | 533,000[2][3] | ||||||
Total views | 66 million[2][3] | ||||||
Associated acts | Calum McSwiggan | ||||||
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Last updated: 16 May 2019 |
Hannah Witton (born 19 February 1992) is an English YouTuber, broadcaster, and author. Witton creates video blogs and informational content which is mostly based around relationships, sex and sexual health; liberation and welfare issues; literature; and travel.[4][5]
Witton's debut book, Doing It, concentrating on sex and relationships, was released for European readers on 6 April 2017 and in America on 3 July 2018.[6][7]
Personal life
Witton was born in Manchester. Though she grew up in England, Witton lived in Austin, Texas for one year as a child. She attended Loreto Sixth Form College in Hulme, Manchester, and then the University of Birmingham where she studied a degree in History and was especially interested in sexual history. Witton's video History of Homosexuality was a 2013 finalist in The Guardian and Oxford University Press Very Short Film competition.[4] She is Jewish.[8]
After a bad flare of ulcerative colitis, she underwent ileostomy in January 2018.[9][10] In December she was a panelist in the "Sex and Science" discussion for the Yogscast Jingle Jam charity.[11]
Witton is engaged to Daniel Leadley, Bethan Leadley's older brother. Witton proposed in August 2019.[12]
Career
In 2017 Witton won a UK Blog Award,[13] and in 2018 a Blogosphere Award as Vlogger of the Year.[14] Witton is the sole director of Snake People Media Ltd[15] Incorporated on 18th March 2016.
YouTube
Witton began creating YouTube videos on 17 April 2011 as Hannah "Girasol".[citation needed] She is known for her videos helping young women with sexual health and relationships. She moderated the Gender panel at Summer in the City 2014.[16] Witton was named one of eight Girls' Champions as part of the BBC's 100 Women campaign in November 2016.[17]
Hannah Witton is one of the three members of the internet-based reading club, known as "Banging Book Club". She and two colleagues read one book every month and then discuss the book together on a podcast published on iTunes, SoundCloud, and (partially) Witton's YouTube channel. They sometimes invite guests to their podcast. The books often include themes related to sex, relationships, and feminism.[18]
Writing
Witton's first book, Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex, was released on 6 April 2017 in Europe and in America on 3 July 2018. The book concentrates on sex and relationships including personal experiences,[6] and won a SitC 2017 award.[19] In 2019, Untendrumherumreden, the German translation, was published.[20]
Her second book, The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods, covering experiences of menstruation and education around it, was released in June 2019.[21]
TV and Radio
Witton presented the ITV2 sex and relationships show Love Fix in February 2016.[22]
Witton was a guest presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live on issues to do with sex and relationships,[23] and has been a guest on various BBC radio talk segments on many occasions. Witton had a weekly radio show The Hannah Witton Show and co-presented an episode of The Calum McSwiggan Show on internet radio station Fubar Radio,[24][25] and has presented the BBC Radio 1 segment The Internet Takeover.[26]
Bibliography
- Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex... (Wren & Rook 2017, ISBN 978-1526360038)
- The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods (Wren & Rook 2019, ISBN 978-1526361462)
See also
References
- ^ Witton, Hannah [@hannahwitton]. "Hannah Witton" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 May 2019 – via Twitter. {{Cite tweet}}: Invalid |number= (help)
- ^ a b Hannah Witton's channel on YouTube, 16 May 2019.
- ^ a b "About hannahwitton". YouTube.
- ^ a b Witton, Hannah (2014). "About". HannahWitton.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ Huynh, Jasmin (5 July 2018). "Hannah Witton Is All About Healthy Sex and Body Positivity". EntityMag.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ a b Witton, Hannah (2017). "Books". HannahWitton.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ Smith, Carl (22 March 2017). "Who is Hannah Witton? Meet YouTube's unashamed sex and relationships expert". heatworld. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ Witton, Hannah (15 July 2014).How Jewish are you? (feat. ElloSteph) on YouTube.
- ^ Witton, Hannah (4 February 2018). I spent 4 weeks in hospital on YouTube.
- ^ Lorraine (21 August 2018). Vlogger Hannah Witton Is Raising Awareness About Living With a Stoma Bag on YouTube.
- ^ Greene, Jasmine (24 December 2018). "Hannah Witton Joins The Jingle Jam". TenEightyMagazine.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2018.
- ^ Lewis, Anna (22 August 2019). "YouTuber Hannah Witton proposed to her boyfriend with a keyring". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ UK Blog Awards (24 March 2018). "Where are there now? Hannah Witton – UK Blog Awards 2017 WINNER!". blogawardsuk.co.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ "blogosphere – previous winners – 2018 winners". blogosphere.biz. 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ "SNAKE PEOPLE MEDIA LTD - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ SitC (12 September 2014). Gender Panel on YouTube.
- ^ "100 Women: Meet our Girls' Champions". BBC News. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ Moon, Lucy; Witton, Hannah; Norms, Leena (2017). "Banging Book Club" (podcast). SoundCloud. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- ^ "Congratulations to SitC 2017 Award winners!". SitC. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "Untendrumherumreden". Rheinischer-Spiegel.de (in German). 29 January 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ Witton, Hannah [@hannahwitton] (5 December 2018). "An Honest, Funny And Feminst Take On Living With Your Period" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 May 2019 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Hannah Witton To Present ITV's Love Fix". TenEightyMagazine.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ "Why Doesn't Anyone Wear Condoms on TV". BBC News. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "The Hannah Witton Show". FubarRadio.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ "Calum McSwiggan || Hannah Witton". FubarRadio.com. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
- ^ "The Internet Takeover With Hannah Witton". BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 7 January 2017.